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We might have accidentally killed the only life we ever found on Mars nearly 50 years ago (bigthink.com)

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yes i can believe that at some point in the future we might look at burning rocket fuel to take water and dump it on Mars as not having been a good use of earth's resources.

[–] Pipoca 21 points 1 year ago

Mars rovers are literally a rounding error in terms of our uses of earth's resources. Any honest accounting in the future is probably going to be way more critical of wasteful practices that actually account for large percentages of resource usage.

[–] ashok36 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Once methalox engines are the norm, we will be able to make fuel from CO2 and H2O, both of which we have more than enough of.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I've heard this one before!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

But we can already do this with regular meth.