Colonising Mars is unlikely and a bad idea

Re:Colonising Mars is unlikely and a bad idea by eljimmy on Thursday August 02, 2018 @05:37PM (#17675682)

Article mentions nothing about why it's a bad idea...

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Re:Colonising Mars is unlikely and a bad idea by EvilMonkeyMat on Thursday August 02, 2018 @05:48PM (#17675742)

I didn't even realize that. I guess that with hopes of finding new life at their highest ever, we wouldn't want to contaminate that (if that's the right way to say it).

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Re:Colonising Mars is unlikely and a bad idea by superbaconman on Thursday August 02, 2018 @06:13PM (#17675929)

I'm not sure that is the right way to see it. If we did find life on Mars would that mean humans could never travel there? I don't so. More than likely we need to transplant Earth life to Mars for large scale terraforming.

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Re:Colonising Mars is unlikely and a bad idea by User23 on Thursday August 02, 2018 @05:46PM (#17675726)

It mentions harming a native biosphere that may exist.

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Re:Colonising Mars is unlikely and a bad idea by prepend on Thursday August 02, 2018 @05:51PM (#17675762)

So it may be a bad idea? Seems a little premature to make an absolute statement without any support.

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