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Re:Common yeast can survive Martian conditions by WalterBright on Thursday October 23, 2025 @01:45AM (#45678536)
> Many, if not most, folks I've met in the scientific community are intensely opposed to this sort of open ended experimentation. NASA has a whole team that insures things we send to other bodies are not carrying any organisms (single cell or otherwise) for this very reason.

Their self-loathing of terran life, possibly the most fantastic thing that ever happened in the universe, is sad to see.

What is the point of a universe if there is no life to appreciate it?

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Re:Common yeast can survive Martian conditions by bayindirh on Thursday October 23, 2025 @03:42AM (#45679273)
> What is the point of a universe if there is no life to appreciate it?

How can you know? The absence of evidence is not an evidence of absence.

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Re:Common yeast can survive Martian conditions by WalterBright on Thursday October 23, 2025 @01:56PM (#45684791)
> How can you know?

The same way we know that ghosts don't exist and you have not been abducted by aliens and Superman is a fictitious figure.

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