Mars Terraforming Debate

blackhelicopter writes "This Guardian article describes the implications of terraforming Mars - the subject of NASA's forthcoming debate. Quote from Dr Lisa Pratt, a Nasa astrobiologist, concerning life probably already on Mars: 'We simply cannot risk starting a global experiment that would wipe out the precious sensitive evidence we are seeking'."

Comments

Re:Isn't cheaper to encourage population control?

[Lucius Septimius Sev]

Remember that 1.9 could go to thru the roof when all the new muslems from North Africa start having 3.0 children per year. Spend some time in Europe's working class neighborhoods and you will see what I mean. We need a good plague in some nations to keep these numbers down.

Human hating at it's finest

[TheNarrator]

'The idea of terraforming Mars is extreme, but it is not cranky - that is the truly horrible thing about it,' said Paul Murdin, of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. 'If it was just a silly science-fiction notion, you could laugh it off. But the idea is terribly real. That is why it is dreadful. We are mucking up this world at an incredible pace at the same time that we are talking about screwing up another planet.'

This is the kind of human hating enviromentalism that is turning into something really dreadful. These people can't find any human endeavor that is beyond criticism, whether it be medicine or science or space exploration. To them, there is a horrible fault in anything that humans do to improve their existence. All values have some hidden flaw. The only thing above reproach is self hatred and the non-human. It's really a form of nihilism. These are the people who say things like "world population estimate were higher but thanks to AIDS it looks like they are going to be lower than exepected."

Re:Can We Even Do It?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ahem.
Areoformed, you cocksmoking teabagger.