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So, polluting 2 worlds instead of one? Nobody will stop exploiting Earth even once new worlds become accessible.
by wavesandwind 9y ago
So, polluting 2 worlds instead of one? Nobody will stop exploiting Earth even once new worlds become accessible.
- ekianjo 9y ago> polluting 2 worlds How are you polluting another world if there is no life there in the first place?
- wavesandwind 9y agoGood question. Perhaps. However, my point still remains that it will not stop the pollution on Earth - which will remain much cheaper to do.
- WalterBright 9y agoI'd much rather pollute Mars, a dead rock, than the Earth.
- wavesandwind 9y agoAgree, yet it's not an either Mars or Earth question. Judging by priorities of corporations (making money, of course) it will certainly be both Mars and Earth.
- WalterBright 9y agoIn fact, the whole concept of "pollution" on Mars makes little sense. We could convert it to radioactive slag and plaster it with "Eat at Joe's" billboards, and it wouldn't hurt anyone or anything. What we ought to be doing with Mars is terraforming it. I'd start by collecting extremophile bacteria from Earth and letting it loose on Mars and see if any of it takes hold.