Re:Momentum is building to explore Venus
by bluGill on Thursday June 06, 2019 @02:16PM
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Particularly when we don't even know have reason to believe there are samples. If/when we detect life elsewhere we can talk about leaving it alone, but there are plenty of rocks in the universe with no life that we can work with.
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Re:Momentum is building to explore Venus
by ianstallings on Thursday June 06, 2019 @06:30PM
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We can still explore them. It's the contamination of them that is at question.
Why is contamination a question? there are millions of rocks scattered around that are not contaminated or explored. There is more to learn by contaminating a few and seeing what happens than to leave them all uncontaminated.