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minus-squareAimherelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·10 months agoAt first, the title of the post made me think that we killed all (possible) life on Mars, not just in the samples taken, just by having landed there and contaminated the planet. Now that would have been a true tragedy.
minus-squareAllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down3·edit-210 months agoI mean, to be fair, it would be quintessentially human if we did. It’s kind of our thing to fuck up thriving ecosystems for no good reason. We’ve even managed to turn our once vacant exosphere into a high velocity garbage dump, now that’s commitment to pollution.
At first, the title of the post made me think that we killed all (possible) life on Mars, not just in the samples taken, just by having landed there and contaminated the planet. Now that would have been a true tragedy.
I mean, to be fair, it would be quintessentially human if we did.
It’s kind of our thing to fuck up thriving ecosystems for no good reason.
We’ve even managed to turn our once vacant exosphere into a high velocity garbage dump, now that’s commitment to pollution.
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