Comment by tomxor | Hacker News Reader

Comment by tomxor | Hacker News Reader

> What you are doing is showing excitement at the long history of forcing OUR values, systems, and in this case, living beings on another world. That is not our right, and it is not our job. If we carry on with that mentality, even if we took away the ‘colonization’ word the premise is the same. It’s colonialism. It’s imperialism.

hmm, defending the rights of non existent beings from colonialism on a barren inhospitable moon? cmon it's a frickin postage stamp load of water bears... Let get real, if they manage to populate a single crater it will be a miracle, and no Moon creatures are likely to be harmed since they are so elusive.

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So, it seems this person has a bit of an anti planetary colonization, anti planetary contamination... anti planetary pretty much anything that comes in physical contact with it agenda:

http://astrobiology.com/2019/07/absolute-prioritization-of-p...

Elon Musk is not going to like this person.

If it were up to that person, we should all backmigrate to Africa and depopulate Eurasia, The Americans, Australia and Oceania because we’re not native to them and have colonized them over tens of millennia. Wonder if they themselves followed through with their own advice.

Where did they say that?

Reductio ad absurdum

Not trying to be combative, but I find it interesting that you specifically note that you think "Elon Musk is not going to like this person".

Is there a specific reason that you feel like that and wanted to note it? I know he's usually known for being rather outspoken about his chosen method in a given field of space exploration.

> I find it interesting that you specifically note that you think "Elon Musk is not going to like this person". Is there a specific reason that you feel like that and wanted to note it?

He wants to colonize Mars, he has stated this desire in great detail publicly on multiple occasions.

Being so fanatical about "contaminating" the Moon with tardigrades doesn't bode well for the person's opinion of "contaminating" Mars with human presence.

Let's say that we're talking about Earth, and the prospect of contamination by some invasive life form from wherever. Would you be OK with that?

But even if we set aside morality, contaminating stuff makes it harder to know whether there was life there already.

It's different. Earth already has intelligent life. Mars and the moon do not.

The “astrobiologist” who claims sending tardigrades to the Moon is imperialism and colonialism is a counter-example to your claim that Earth already has intelligent life.

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