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> try to prevent contamination of Mars by humans landing there. Considering the fantastically great job we did running our own planet, methinks that's probably
by DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
> try to prevent contamination of Mars by humans landing there.
Considering the fantastically great job we did running our own planet, methinks that's probably a good idea.
Humans are an STD: Spaceship Transmitted Disease.
- jodrellblank 6y agoThis comment meme is a cancer, in the Dawkinsian sense. Lumps of rock are not “more healthy” than “lumps of rock with life on”, nor are they “more happy”. And if you want to claim they are capable of experience and that you understand what they are thinking, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoCorrect. It was a low-effort shitpost and I'm surprised people upvoted it - I was planning on deleting it in the morning. Unfortunately because you replied, now I can’t delete it.
- mlindner 6y agoThe idea that Humans are a disease is a much discredited one (notably popularized in The Matrix where the villain used it to describe humanity). First off planets are not alive, they are bodies of rock and metal and liquids. They cannot be infected and our presence has little impact on Earth itself. Our presence has only affected other life. And as the Moon and Mars are lifeless, there's nothing to damage. And we're not "running" our planet.