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> most useful thing ever ... seed life on another planet I don't intend to change your mind on this point, but I'll just say I disagree (: Why not pave over n
by interroboink 3y ago
> most useful thing ever ... seed life on another planet
I don't intend to change your mind on this point, but I'll just say I disagree (:
Why not pave over national parks and build more cities? Seems "useful"...
This is very much a "Red Mars / Green Mars" sort of debate (see the books by Kim Stanley Robinson; not that I'm a huge fan, but it's very topical).
You'll always have some people who want to forcibly mold the world/universe into something else, and some people who want to preserve what's there, and a whole spectrum in between.
If nothing else, once you do contaminate/bless Mars with life, there is no going back. So, it seems reasonable to take advantage of the unique opportunity to study it before crossing that line.
Just my 2¢
- bcoates 3y agoIf my childhood experiments with anything amenable to a screwdriver are anything to learn from, you'll learn more from breaking it than looking at it. We can always use all those pointless atomic bombs we spent billions on to sterilize it from a safe distance if things get out of hand.
- Wojtkie 3y agoI don't see how you can think nuking something just "resets" it. The whole point of sanitizing probes and not introducing foreign microbes to Mars is specifically so that we keep it separate from human intervention. Once you introduce a microbe, there's no coming back. Nuking it isn't a solution and "move fast and break things" is extremely irresponsible and ignorant when it comes to things like ecology and geography.