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> Many, if not most, folks I've met in the scientific community are intensely opposed to this sort of open ended experimentation. NASA has a whole team that ins
by WalterBright 1y ago
> Many, if not most, folks I've met in the scientific community are intensely opposed to this sort of open ended experimentation. NASA has a whole team that insures things we send to other bodies are not carrying any organisms (single cell or otherwise) for this very reason.
Their self-loathing of terran life, possibly the most fantastic thing that ever happened in the universe, is sad to see.
What is the point of a universe if there is no life to appreciate it?
- bayindirh 1y ago> What is the point of a universe if there is no life to appreciate it? How can you know? The absence of evidence is not an evidence of absence.
- WalterBright 1y ago> How can you know? The same way we know that ghosts don't exist and you have not been abducted by aliens and Superman is a fictitious figure.