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Mars Terraforming Debate

Posted by michael on from the getting-ahead-of-ourselves dept.

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'."

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  1. Have not yet found life on Mars...so ... by Stradenko · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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 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 ... that way people can have a guarantee that they'll go to heaven when they die.

    I would be the new Saviour...

  2. Re:Isn't cheaper to encourage population control? by phoenix.bam! · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.