Comment on Space colonization would create so many jobs for everyone. Not great jobs but jobs.

shawn1122@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most of the solid bodies in the solar system are literally a bunch of airless, irradiated, toxic rocks, with either no life at all or potentially some rare bacteria-like stuff hidden somewhere we haven’t been able to conclusively examine yet. They already are in a more “fucked up” state than even the most polluted wasteland we’ve created on earth. What could we possibly do to them to mess them up further?

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Life… uhh… finds a way

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  • shawn1122@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its current fucked up state is also its natural state, relatively uninfluenced by humans for the entirety of its existence.

    I don’t doubt our ability to fuck something up to the point of impacting life back here on Earth or screwing things up for others out there in the cosmos.

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are several places that could have actual life. Candidates are Mars, Titan, Europa and Enceladus.

    NASA actually have protocols to try to avoid cross contamination to those possible environments.

    I imagine there would not be a bigger tragedy that completely destroy an alien ecosystem.

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