Ground Control banned from mailing Word attachments to Space Station

AN EAGLE-EARED INQUIRER reader said he had to giggle whilst listening to a live stream of the latest Space Shuttle mission.

For it seems that there is an embargo on Ground Control sending Word attachments up to the International Space Station due to concerns about embedded viruses.

Brendan wonders how Jeff and Will in the film Independence Day knew the aliens menacing planet Oith would be running running Windows when they delivered that dodgy payload to the alien LAN.

Still, that was fiction, of course. More worrying could be that fact that aliens reading this may cotton on to a way of dealing a mortal blow to our electronic civilisation as we know it.

We bet all those little microbes swimming about in Mars' underground might-be waters are running Open Orifice and are therefore safe from our viruses.

We'd better send up a pot of the common cold before colonising, after we've completely trashed our own little Eden, natch.

Thanks Brendan. µ