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Re:Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Not... by felixge on Sunday January 10, 2010 @02:34PM (#1043513)
Maybe I'm missing something, but finding live on Mars would just be a single data point. It would in no way provide a meaningful forecast to our own fate.
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Re:Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Not... by Androsynth on Sunday January 10, 2010 @03:25PM (#1043588)
It would be a second data point. If we the Earth was our only data point, we couldn't say whether life was a common trend or an anomaly. But if Mars had life, then we would at least have proof of the former.
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