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Academic language is a poison to precise communication, because so called educated people believe, that the mere fact you used a longer word means it has the same meaning to both parties. :blobcatnerd:

@nerdman @fm
I am not talking about terraforming.

That would be ridiculously hard. What I am talking about is identifying one or more organizms that could prosper on other planets and just send it there to spread.

That way, even if every single cell on earth died off for "any reason", the life itself could evolve again in a few million years.

Terraforming would be nice of course, but it's pointless to talk about that with our current technologies.

@fm
Is it better to infest other planets and risking destruction of few alien cells, or to keep Mars clean, but risk the Life itself?

@LukeAlmighty So the idea is not to not infest other planets with our life, although I am sure for some delusional maniacs this is there, but that supposing life exists there and we have not found it, it would be a loss to science and destruction of a habitat if we contaminate it without discovering it.

Also plants cannot grow on Mars, not outside, not in the soil.

@fm
About the plants not being able to grow on mars:
Not all of them, obviously. But I am sure we know at least of some that could.

And that leads me to my main point. We have not yet discovered a single cell on another planet. And while we can speculate all we want, until we find life on another planet, there is a HUGE posibility that life is truly something unique for reasons we do not yet grasp.

That being said, we can change that. A single rocket to Mars or Europa could ensure, that if Senile Joe presses a button tomorow, and we manage to scoarch the entire planet to the last cell, the life itself will continue. And I am pissed that we refuse to ensure something that important.

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