(August 7, 2012 at 1:17 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: If they find life on Mars would that automatically be a bar to terraforming it?
No. What do you think this is, the Federation? We don't need no stinking Prime Directive.
In all seriousness, if there is life on Mars, it would almost certainly be microbial, and I would think an evolutionary dead end (with respect to achieving sentience). So my thought would be that it would be afforded the same consideration that we give similar life forms here on Earth, which is to say none at all, if we wished to terraform Mars.
