A nice middle class town just about 20 mins. north of boston in middlesex county where everybody knows everybody and people are way to obsessed with school sports. 90% of the neighborhoods in the town are nice with the exception of the apartment complex on main street and shit near the train depot. Kids usually drive around on a friday night in their dads bmw or merecedes looking for something to do. cops in reading are complete ass holes and will pull you over for anything. cops in reading are also hooked on cocaine and hitting on all of the females in the town. Reading has 2 highschools - RMHS which is the public school of the town and then you got Austin Prep : where rich parents send their kids to get a 'better education' and to prepare them for college. All in all, Reading is a cool place to grow up, full of cool people except the coke head cops, but thats besides the point.

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.

The most boring, shit town in all of Massachusetts. An utter joke and complete fail of a suburb.