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Re: Huygens to plunge onto Titan
« on: January 10, 2005, 12:08:36 PM »
There was talk about building an eventual probe on ISS, to minimize the risk of contamintating it.
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Re: Huygens to plunge onto Titan
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2005, 02:56:32 PM »
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we have a duty to ensure that what will one day becomes space junk won't contaminate other worlds

Quite the contrary; It's our duty to contaminate as many worlds as possible. We cannot live on such worlds, but some Earth-organisms would thrive there.
It's all about evolution; survival of the fittest and all of that.
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Re: Huygens to plunge onto Titan
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2005, 03:55:32 PM »
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Statistically speaking, that fittest isn't likely to be us when you take the whole galaxy into account. ;-)

No, but some primitive bacteria might be. :-D
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