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Old 07-04-2009, 05:06 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Lucifer Baphomet View Post
No..

we have extreme environments on Earth too...

look at black smokers
look at the bacteria that live in the lithosphere itself
bacteria within glaciers


But the thing is, in less than optimum situations... life indeed thrives, but....

It tends towards extremely simple organisms
And that gives us the right to exterminate it and replace it with life that we think is more "worthy"?

You know what that sounds like to me Luc? That sounds like the say kind of thing that the Europeans said in the 1500's when they were raping the New World.

To be honest, I'm shocked to hear that kind of thing from you.
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