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Re:Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped by Alupis on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:24PM (#33240290)
These sorts of things really give me pause when thinking about colonizing Mars and all of the hand-waiving that gets tossed around.

We still do not know a lot about our own planet. What makes us so confident we won't just screw up another planet with our lack of understanding...

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Re:Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped by lazide on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:28PM (#33240334)
With our current understanding and technical abilities - no need to worry, they’d all die shortly or bankrupt the host country.
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Re:Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped by hinkley on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:56PM (#33240591)
Miracle Max: Look, I'm retired. And besides, why would you want someone the King's stinking son fired? I might kill whoever you wanted me to miracle.

Inigo: He's already dead.

Miracle Max: He is, huh? I'll take a look. Bring him in.

We screw up everything. The question is, can we leave places alone and screw up others instead? Screwing up the moon is probably better than screwing up Yosemite, or the Great Barrier Reef.

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Re:Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped by Alupis on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:53PM (#33241174)
Screwing it up today prevents us from doing something useful tomorrow with a more complete understanding.

Patience is a virtue, as they say. I fear the current raft of would-be planet colonizers are not very patient...

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Re:Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped by BurningFrog on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:17PM (#33242572)
There isn't much to screw up on a dead planet.
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Re:Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped by louky on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @03:41AM (#33244184)
I'll bite. You know it's dead how? Mind you I grew up reading Heinlein juveniles like Red Planet.
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Re:Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped by BurningFrog on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:26AM (#33247702)
You're right, there may well be some sub surface microbial life on Mars, and we should figure that out before doing anything too drastic.
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Re:Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped by mseepgood on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:51AM (#33243097)
Mars is already screwed up. It would be hard to screw it up even more.
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