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Still waiting for a sample return mission
by NegativeLatency 3y ago
Still waiting for a sample return mission
- inciampati 3y agoIt's true. What a challenge!
- andix 3y ago[flagged]
- seanw444 3y agoFor good reason.
- chargingmarmot 3y agoPlease. We live on a planet that has been bombarded by space rocks for billions of years and that's home to all sorts of viruses and bacteria that have been evolving to kill us for as long as we've been around. If Mars were covered in gray goo we would have noticed by now.
- Calavar 3y agoSo did the indigenous people of the Americas, and yet it's estimated that as many as 90% of them died within the span of about 150 years.
- chargingmarmot 3y agoThis just reinforces my point. The germs that killed the native Americans grew up in an environment where humans were living in close proximity to a variety of animals (cows, chickens, rats) for thousands of years. (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel)
- tyg13 3y agoNot that your point is invalid, but I wouldn't be linking Guns, Germs, and Steel. Quite a few historians have heavily criticized the claims in that book for being overly reductive pop history.
- sixstringtheory 3y agoThis is argumentum ad verecundiam in a debate that is theoretical back-and-forth. I think it's at least worthy of examination, especially if you want to understand the points being made by those historians to which you allude. By all means link to their counterarguments, but don't chill the sharing of other work like that.
- l33t7332273 3y agoEvery critique I’ve seen hasn’t really attacked the core thesis of the work, mostly dismantling ancillary supporting examples. I’ve certainly not seen a refutation of the fact that the natural attributes of living in one place provide advantages over other places. I haven’t looked into this in a while though, so if you’re aware of some more comprehensive rebuttals, I’d like to see them.
- hutzlibu 3y agoWell, I actually think it would make sense, to test it somewhere in space first, see how it reacts with earth life. (it likeley would just die, I think and not become parasitic) But I rather think it won't happen soon, because it is not a priority to most funding parties.
- ceejayoz 3y agoA sample return mission is already planned; the Perserverance rover is collecting samples (20 so far) for it to take back. https://mars.nasa.gov/msr/ https://mars.nasa.gov/msr/ https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-rock-samples/ https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-rock-samples/
- dehrmann 3y agoThe US brought back moon rocks.
- asdff 3y agoThe handling of which inspires zero confidence.
- gizmo686 3y ago2033 (planned launches in 2027 and 2028). Samples have already been collected. We have brought extraterrestrial samples to Earth before. https://mars.nasa.gov/msr/#Facts https://mars.nasa.gov/msr/#Facts
- andix 3y ago[flagged]
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoPlease take the divisive interjections to some other site. I know they might seem funny or insightful to you, but they're not adding anything to this discussion.
- andix 3y agoThis was the whole point of my initial comment. That it could create a lot of blowback from people who have a „critical“ opinion about science.
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoI think you're too confident in this assumption, then, and there are way less nutjobs that would be freaked out by a Mars sample return mission than you are concerned about.
- MaxHoppersGhost 3y ago[flagged]
- andix 3y agoYou were not allowed to go to restaurants, hotels, cinemas or theatres. Or work in sensitive areas like hospitals (in my country this was even only true for new hires, not for people who were already on the job).
- 1234554321a 3y ago[flagged]
- MaxHoppersGhost 3y agoAll those things are involved in living a normal life.
- soupfordummies 3y agoIn most situations you could also just show proof you had a negative test in the past week.
- WeylandYutani 3y agoThe world is bigger than anti science America. EU, Japan and China have plans for Mars and they're not worried about religion.
- wolverine876 3y ago> Still waiting ... That's why we don't have one.