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The difficult part about that would be undispensing the specialized bacteria once we figured out that it backfired and contaminated a whole planet.
by alpaca128 4y ago
The difficult part about that would be undispensing the specialized bacteria once we figured out that it backfired and contaminated a whole planet.
- baruch 4y agoOne you send humans that you can't sterilize before flight you will inevitably introduce bacteria into the environment anyway, and you will not be preselecting them either.
- peddling-brink 4y agoThat's the point. Eventually we'll get to the point where we'll be able to mass manufacture at the molecular or atomic level. Until then the best we can do is coax living things into doing our bidding. But as you point out, it's not a solved problem. The point of the parent comment was that we're not there yet.