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I feel like sending earth worms to Mars is like sending pigs to South America. Perhaps there is nothing living there... I don't know. But do we need to have s
by cjhanks 9y ago
I feel like sending earth worms to Mars is like sending pigs to South America. Perhaps there is nothing living there... I don't know. But do we need to have such an imperialist attitude with planets too?
- randyrand 9y agoImperialism is not a bad thing. Successful species spread and thrive. Failed species are extinct -- and we will be too if we don't get off this rock.
- cjhanks 9y agoThat sounds like the mantra of an anthropomorphised virus. But my down-votes seem to suggest it's popular opinion here. I'm just saying there was more to learn from America than "potatoes and corn are good".
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- stanfordkid 9y agoSome things live in a realm "beyond good and evil" and are just pure creation. I think Mars terraforming is one of those things. We are creating an entirely new system within which new goods and new evils might subsist. The entire notion of "Imperialism is bad" is a banal historical platitude in this context.
- posterboy 9y agoI wouldn't judge it that bad. "it" is not a popular opinion, and the downvotes are due to a sensitive topic and a biased crowd if you consider the time of your posting. "it" seems popular because, ironically, everyone else just does not care enough to spread their seeds of wisdom.
- NegativeLatency 9y agoWho knows, we might even manage to make ourselves extinct.
- vadimberman 9y agoIt's a barren rock. You're not displacing native lifeforms, because there are no lifeforms. It's as imperialist as shouting "I'm the king of the world" in Antarctica.
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