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Originally Posted by Surreal Farber  So where is this money for terraforming and transport to Mars coming from and why can't we spend it developing completely renewable energy sources and clean up the Pacific trash patch instead?
(I support space exploration for science, but let's clean up our own fucking planet before we use another one as a strip mine or trash dump) |
Just for the sake of argument I was disregarding this point. I have gone on record in the past saying fix Earth first before venturing to other worlds.
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Originally Posted by Lucifer Baphomet See...
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. |
This is a fine theory and I can even see some logic to it. However, we shouldn't just assume that it's a fact. Before we exterminate another world's life forms we need to be 100% sure that they are the same as us.