Re:Dormant Earth germs could spring to life in a Martian puddle
by krschultz on Monday August 08, 2016 @10:47AM
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The implicit argument you are making is that off world colonization or mining is more valuable to our species than finding alien microbes.
Space mining is fun in sci-fi movies, but it makes very little economic sense. More so when you are talking about lifting resources out of a planet's gravity well.
Colonization is interesting, but in the early years it will primarily be focused on science and not building a second place for us to live. Destroying the exact thing we came to study seems dumb.
Space mining is fun in sci-fi movies, but it makes very little economic sense. More so when you are talking about lifting resources out of a planet's gravity well.
Colonization is interesting, but in the early years it will primarily be focused on science and not building a second place for us to live. Destroying the exact thing we came to study seems dumb.