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Is anyone else concerned about the prime directive? I worry that our interference could inhibit the natural evolution process to the point that it doesn't happe
by SCNP 6y ago
Is anyone else concerned about the prime directive? I worry that our interference could inhibit the natural evolution process to the point that it doesn't happen. I guess that's not to say that some Prometheus-style, ancient alien civilization intervention didn't happen in our history; I don't think we'd ever know. But it seems to me that the genesis of mitochondria is an extremely rare and unlikely event and our interference on these extra-terrestrial bodies may put it all astray. Again, we'd never know... At least not for a few hundred million years.
- notsuoh 6y agoThe same Prime Directive from the fictional show Star Trek? No, I am not concerned.
- RhodesianHunter 6y agoI would be much more concerned about the 200-2000 species that we knowingly cause to go extinct right here on earth every year than I would be about the vanishingly remote possibility that we may be interfering with an evolutionary leap in a microorganism which may or may not exist.