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Originally Posted by Redhead  Ok, I agree with you on your basic principal. Here on Earth it's sink or swim and I would, of course, take antibiotics. Those bacteria are attacking me personally, so they get nuked with no remorse.
But, and this is a really big "but", any life on Mars, any, is a totally independent evolutionary process. It occurred spontaneously without any influence either by us or on us.
It deserves to have it's own chance to go where it might. It's a precious, independent thing in the Universe. Destroying it would be like destroying a unique piece of art here on Earth just because we thought another artist's work is better.
It's a treasure and should be treated as such. |
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Id contend this point.
I'm a big fan of the idea of panspermia, and
this little rock os still the subject of some debate
I'm of the opinion that any genetic materiel in this solar system has been cross fertilised with any existant genetic material in the solar system.
And I think we all come from cometary material.