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NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Sending humans to Mars is morally wrong.
There is a small chance that there is some other independent origin of life. Sending humans there with our clouds of microbes would make it impossible to discover.
We should wait until we’ve properly inspected it with sterilized robots. I figure this might take a few hundred years, but there’s no hurry. It’s not like Mars is going away.
Mars isn’t going anywhere, but people are. If you want to experience seeing humans make it to mars, it has to happen in your lifetime.
That said, I do think you have a valid point. I do think we have some responsibility to carefully research potential signs of life on other planets before we potentially contaminate it or risk bringing anything back with us.
I think is a popular amongst progressive
We also learned that we’re really good at fucking up perfectly fine planets.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 week ago
I dont even understand the appeal of populating mars. Like its a big red dust bowl. Like shittier than the shittiest desert. Realistically, without some seriously sci fi shit to terraform the place, why would you want to live there? Unless you like being inside for the rest of your life.
Pyro@pawb.social 1 week ago
I think it’s part of our monkey brain, want to expand. Add in the “everything here sucks I could do it better” and you want to go somewhere else. We are out of places to set up on “free land” on earth so to the stars we look
VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You don’t know what you don’t know
Get out there, do something new, see what you learn
Really long term, Earth is doomed. Not Climate Change, the sun will literally die one day. If humanity is to survive, we need to leave Earth and eventually our solar system
Waiting until the sun is expanding to start working on this problem is a lot like the issues we have with climate change. “Not my problem” type of attitude.
In your defense, the time length between climate change and the death of the sun is beyond massive, but still, it’s the same kind of thinking. You don’t need to leave Earth today and while people in the future probably will for any number of reasons, so what, let them figure it out, right?
We’re humans, this is what we do… we explore. Lets go