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Actually, NASA goes through pretty great lengths to make sure we don't contaminate Mars with bacteria.
by yan 17y ago
Actually, NASA goes through pretty great lengths to make sure we don't contaminate Mars with bacteria.
- anigbrowl 17y agoUnderstood and agreed - I don't really want to contaminate a planet-sized experimental sample before we have wrung as much knowledge out of it as possible. At the same time, though, I think we should balance the possibilities of knowledge acquisition with those of resource exploitation. For example, if we successfully conduct 5 exobiologically-oriented missions over the next 25 years without making any breakthroughs, then maybe we should just Try Something Else. Ditto for Venus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observations_and_explorations_of_Venus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observations_and_explorations_o...