The last words typed by Brandon Veda, a young man who committed suicide by drug and medication overdose, live on webcam while he conversed with people on IRC who encouraged him.

The safeguarding of Earth and other worlds from biological cross-contamination (i.e. billionaires with too much time on their hands).

Also known as “planetary protection.” Planetary protection / quarantine “reflects both the unknown nature of the space environment and the desire of the scientific community to preserve the pristine nature of celestial bodies until they can be studied in detail.”

There are two types of interplanetary contamination. Forward contamination is the transfer of viable organisms from Earth to another celestial body. Back contamination is the transfer of extraterrestrial organisms, if such exist, back to the Earth's biosphere.

"I told you I was hardcore" was one of the last things an irc user by the name of Ripper said before he overdosed. He was webcamming this whole event, including the injestion of multiple drugs, and the foaming at the mouth that sealed the deal. Ripper should never be forgotten. Not for the person that he was, but for the person he wanted to be, and failed to be. There is a great moral in what Ripper did infront of an irc channel that the majority of the people did not give two shits about him while the entire event, right in front of their eyes, unvaled.

When your friends do not believe that you have done something crazy. When you prove them wrong, you have to say, I told you I was hardcore.