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We Might Have Accidentally Killed the Only Life We Ever Found on Mars Nearly 50 Years Ago - JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AllonzeeLV 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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