- pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Progress for humanity. Colonization was deeply ingrained with the fact that Europeans were coming into areas that already had humans living there. And even indigenous people caused the extinction of species with overhunting. Space has no such problem. There are no humans or other species to kill off on life-barren rocks.
There are no humans or other species to kill off on life-barren rocks.
Has it been confirmed that no other species exist in the entire universe? FYI, everything that is sent to the space and vice versa passes through a process of disinfection to reduce the chances of infecting alien ecosystems with Earth bacteria which may be invasive. There are areas (with potential life) on Mars that are still intact by human machinery due to this exact fear. Space isn’t exactly life-barren, there’s bacterial organisms and maybe flora at the very least.
- pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Okay, that’s fair. But in general, there are lots of areas in space that have a near-zero chance of containing life. We could easily enough verify that, say, an Earth-like planet lacked life as part of a probe and terriform process.