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afraid we are going to mess up a lifeless rock
by 2AF3 10y ago
afraid we are going to mess up a lifeless rock
- more_corn 10y agoIt doesn't need to be alive to be beautiful. There is great peace and beauty in empty places. Mars has grand and majestic vistas: canyons and plains, dunes and mountains. Reducing it in your mind to a lifeless rock obscures the awe and wonder. It is the opposite of appreciation, it makes the idea small in you, worthless and not deserving of respect.
- friendlygrammar 10y agoThere are infinite similarly dead rocks in the universe.
- drdeca 10y agoSimilar [dead rocks], or [similarly dead] rocks ? Also, I think there are only finitely many eventually observable planets in the universe?
- kobeya 10y agoAll of that requires an observer there to appreciate it. Messing up the scenery of Mars with industry is a champagne problem.
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- noobermin 10y agoThat is your perspective that it is beautiful. What if my perspective is that it is more beautiful inhabited, alive, and sustaining an ecosystem it probably hasn't for millions of years? Beauty is really subjective.
- krisroadruck 10y agoYou three sound like the argument between Sax Russell and Ann Clayborne in the Mars trilogy. If you haven't read them, I recommend them.