How Cassini Will Begin Its Date with Death on Saturn

Re:How Cassini Will Begin Its Date with Death on Saturn by noelwelsh on Sunday November 27, 2016 @03:51AM (#13048360)

The days of colonialism, when Europeans showed up on foreign shores, killed the natives, and claimed the land as their own, are over.

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Re:How Cassini Will Begin Its Date with Death on Saturn by myowncrapulence on Monday November 28, 2016 @01:57PM (#13057536)

  are over

You mean like in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Israel?

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Re:How Cassini Will Begin Its Date with Death on Saturn by noelwelsh on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @09:53AM (#13063335)

Those are proxy wars and/or puppet governments, which is a different thing to colonisation. There is somewhat more regard for the rights of the native inhabitants than in the past.

If we ever find alien life, the Outer Space Treaty prohibits colonisation in the sense we're using here. Of course this is a very easy treaty to sign up to at this point in our development of space travel. If space travel ever becomes cheap enough to enable exploitation of resource on distant planets I imagine those laws will see some amendments.

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Re:How Cassini Will Begin Its Date with Death on Saturn by myowncrapulence on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:32PM (#13073298)

So, why is it a goal to send humans there? Humans breathe out bacteria constantly and will guarantee contamination of Mars.

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Re:How Cassini Will Begin Its Date with Death on Saturn by Thane on Sunday November 27, 2016 @04:01AM (#13048390)

*barfs

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