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There is more than one body to play with, but Mars is among the better chances that we have (and I'd say certainly the easiest chance. Europa is the best chanc
by Crito 13y ago
There is more than one body to play with, but Mars is among the better chances that we have (and I'd say certainly the easiest chance. Europa is the best chance, but it is not exactly easy to get out there).
Of course we need some sort of cutoff for how cautious we need to be, even if we do embrace caution. Slapping a McMurdo style base down on Mars so that biologists could work more efficiently would risk contaminating the planet, but I think that is a risk we should take (once we have confirmed that there is life there, it would probably be reasonable to loosen controls).
- anigbrowl 13y agoSeems we're ont he same page. In discussions like this my comments are partly tinged with frustration about how much more we could be doing at relatively modest cost, though activities int he private sector and from countries like China and India are greatly encouraging. I want the space colonies I was promised, dammit.
- PavlovsCat 13y agoI wish humanity could fix its memory leaks before it goes out to buy more sticks of RAM.
- mryan 13y agoRegardless of whether we fix the memory leak or buy more RAM we are still running our production service on a single server, and could do with a high-availability setup.
- bovermyer 13y agoEither way, our deployment process to new servers leaves something to be desired.
- techdragon 13y agoWe keep trying to automate it but the PHBs keep on shutting down project after project.