RE: Terrestrial sanitation.....
July 13, 2020 at 9:43 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2020 at 9:59 pm by Brian37.)
(July 13, 2020 at 9:30 pm)Eleven Wrote: The purest form of sanitation is fire.
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Meh, pretty sure neither you or I will be alive in 5 billion years when scientists say our sun's fuel is estimated to run out.
(July 13, 2020 at 9:42 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: I don't think the issue would be us mistaking life as extraterrestrial when it originated from earth. We have sufficient knowledge about our own microbes, that I doubt we would mistake it for anything else.
Perhaps the issue is that our microbes would be invasive in space, and potentially prey on whatever could be found there.
Yea but we are already an invasive species.
If the point of science is to prove life can exist elsewhere, pretty sure sticking a tardigrade on the poles of Mars isn't going t lead to humans invading another galaxy.
(July 13, 2020 at 9:42 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(July 13, 2020 at 9:39 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Um no, if our cockroaches could survive on Mars, that would prove to me life is possible elsewhere.
That's right; it would prove that.
If your goal is to discover whether there is or isn't already life on Mars, however, then you shouldn't bring some with you and then think it's native.
UGGGGGG!
Way to miss the point.
Just the opposite. If you can put your own life on another body, that would prove that life is possible in more of the universe. And considering that atoms exist all over the universe, it would confirm that life has potential and abundance all over the universe.
Most scientists would agree that it is far more likely than not that life exists throughout the universe. What better way to prove that than to send our own microbes out to a local body to prove that is possible.
