Re:Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues ...
by jula432vdf on Monday September 28, 2020 @11:49PM
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Indeed, if alien species are so environmental constrained, the competition to thrive could be almost non-existant, and Terran life could have the winning hand in that case.
We should be careful about what we send to Mars. Something like candidas aureous could just wipe out the life on the planet.
Re:Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues ...
by jula432vdf on Monday September 28, 2020 @08:07PM
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This.
we know quite a lot about this, most life-forms on Earth almost continously try to kill humans or at least to mine its biological resources for its use.
Alternatively, it is probably far more likely that life from Earth would rapidly evolve to kill or replace any extant life on other worlds, especially microscopic life. We know that Terran life is tenacious. It readily thrives in hostile environments and has evolved under extreme adversarial pressures on Earth. It’s not a stretch to imagine that it could become the apex predator in an ecosystem devoid of such extreme evolutionary pressure.