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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'."
I don't see a problem in *creating* the life ourselves. Terraform the planet, destroy the existing life, and put some new junk there.
... that way people can have a guarantee that they'll go to heaven when they die.
That will also solve the problem of who "god" is (at least for the newly created martians). And it would make earth a sort of heaven from their perspective.
One day we will all move to mars, and use Earth as a big garbage dump...
I'll start a company that sends the remains of the dead back to Earth for burial
I would be the new Saviour...
Seems like a great way for us to shoot our nukes. Sure if there is life, it might die, unless they are cockroaches. What else would live on mars?
Ya know, I just about had my fill of Whitey on the moon.
I think I'll send these doctor bills
airmail special....
to Whitey on the moon.
I'm pretty attached to my testicles. But if it is for the good of humanity, i guess i could stand a little seperation from them.
It's that we need to crush any possible adversary. It's like killing a baby hitler... sooo easy...
Quick! The sun may bloat up and destroy us in a couple billion years! Somebody do something!
--- Ban humanity.
Where can see aliens?
Only in Sedna.
Going to Sedna we've got aliens.
Where can see spacemen?
Only in Sedna.
Got aliens and spacemen only in Sedna.
Forget Mars!
[Mars?
Population: 'fossil'
No. Of aliens = 0
No. Of spacemen = 0
Main Export : Rock
Rock < Alien = Sedna wins
More like Schmars! ]
Sedna,
oh Sedna,
[If Sedna was to physically urinate all over Mars(*) as well as metaphorically then the orange dotted line on the right would indicate the most probable trajectory to ensure a good coverage. (*)This is a fairly rare ocurance though.]
where the Grey's are,
and the Green's are.
Sedna, Sedna Sedna Sedna.
Sedna, we're going to Sedna.
Can you believe it?
[free space-suit with every visit.]
Exactly.
And if you thought that was boring you obviously havn't read my Journal ;-)
japanese etc. what would those engineers be doing under an emperor other than producing a better people controlling army?
Isn't that what America does, more or less?
Hey and i thought that Governor Arnie did that ages ago....
Roses are red, violets are blue, most poems rhyme, but this one doesn't...
you're grammar aint perfect either, I dont particularly care about that though, its a hominem attack. further, i dont need to justify why the world owes the US. clearly the US has had several options to conquor and rule other countries. Vietnam, Korea, Germany, Yugoslavia, Iraq, etc. We instead take the much harder path of trying to build an independent country that has full freedom to disagree with us who gave them their free speech. There is no such thing as natural morality. The world is truly governed by power. We have it, and we don't use it to our advantage, we instead have given Japan, Germany, etc. the most vibrant and free societies out there. I also didn't waffle about anything, I never changed my mind, and I didn't assert any favor owed, merely a debt that exists. The united states owes every single culture out there becuase every innovation we have came from immigrants from everywhere. I dont really care that there is antiamerican sentiment, that's just typical childishness, as is your completely hominem approach to logic. Try telling me what America gained through spending so much money on Yugoslavia or Germany to give them real social organizations. It would have been easier to simply use their resources by force. Certainly we have the power, but relent. I don't mean to troll, but frankly if people have problems with america becuase of the opinion of one person, well, I don't choose to respond directly, that's just bigotry. The great thing about america is that we are very open about our mistakes (many) and very pointed about disagreed solutions. When I think about where innovation comes from, it is pretty much always from either the US, or some other country that we spent a great deal to civilize and then left with no profit beyond peace. We always could have plundered. Think a little bit for yourself. I dont need to tell you everything. I understand that many younger countries are jealous or America's old age and success, and that's ok, it doesn't bother me. I'm not going to turn around and then teach them what they should be decent enough to learn themselves.