[meteorite-list] pollution

From: Pete Pete <rsvp321_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Jul 18 18:45:11 2005
Message-ID: <BAY104-F410F0BAFBE9F89EA1D650DF8D50_at_phx.gbl>

I KNOW I can't be the only one here with a vision of colonizing the moon
and Mars!
Why should only a handful of sterilized visitors a few times a decade have
all the fun, - and prevent any contamination to what end?

Terraforming is one of those ideas just out of science-fiction into a
conceivable reality (for Mars), and I'm all for it.
Start the seeding! ;]

I don't think this is too off topic, considering there are theories that
life on Earth could have started with the goodies brought inside
carbonaceous Chondrite meteorites!

Cheers,
Pete



From: "Dave Harris" <entropydave_at_ntlworld.com>
To: <cynapse_at_charter.net>
CC: acculabs_at_hotmail.com,metlist <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] pollution
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:51:20 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)

...I see your point, but Mars is hardly a "dead rock" for certain!


-------Original Message-------

From: Darren Garrison
Date: 07/18/05 20:55:52
To: Dave Harris
Cc: acculabs_at_hotmail.com; metlist
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] pollution

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:45:38 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time), "Dave Harris"
<entropydave_at_ntlworld.com>
wrote:

>
>We have a responsibility to protect our own planet before we have the
right
>to mess with another one!

Personally, I think that the "not mess around" part only really applies to
worlds that have life
(like Earth, for instance). Any dead rocks (like probably everything else
in the solar system) I
think are fair game. Do I care if someone turns, say, the Florida
Everglades into a toxic waste
dump? Very much so! Do I care if someone dumps toxic waste on some
desolate part of some other
rock orbiting the sun? Nope. There's plenty of space out there for both
our exploration and
science and for our junk. If it doesn't hurt anything, it doesn't hurt
anything.

To me, this is almost on the level of the people upset over our smacking
into a Tempel 1, thinking
that it is wrong to "damage" a comet. They are just common, dead rocks!
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