> the author of that quote has serious points about contamination, following protocol, the looming danger of corporatization of space, respect for nature in its

> the author of that quote has serious points about contamination, following protocol, the looming danger of corporatization of space, respect for nature in its stark glory. No they don't, they have an ulterior SJW motive founded in science fiction - if anything they are doing a disservice by making decontaminating spacecraft into a joke. NASA cared about decontaminating spacecraft long before this person arrived, this has historically been driven by the concern of invalidating any discovery of life. The secondary concern is of disturbing an ecosystem in the extremely unlikely case that it exists at the destination AND is active AND the life being carried from Earth survives the journey and re-entry AND it miraculously manages to thrive in such an incredibly different (and commonly extremely harsh environment devoid of nutrients and atmosphere) AND competes better than the native organisms - note how both of these are scientific concerns, and the later (to which this person attached their insane argument) has an extremely small chance of happening. She is literally talking about colonialism and imperialism in space, as if these are real concerns and we might just charter a boat over there and rape the natives. If our little experiments are to fit the definition colonialism, then so is the evolution of different ecologies as new species migrate and invade others over time.