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C'mon guys, I love each and every one of your comments, but frankly, I think it's taking the easy road to do the ol' "we suck, we should mind our own business" route.
What if life, by its nature, is indistinguishable from humanity?
Originally posted by platipus
reply to post by hhcore
i agree. we need to improve ourselves as a species and the planet we are taking for granted first before trying to screw with other worlds.
Besides, who are these paragons of wisdom who sit in judgement on humanity and condemn it? Guess what, they're human too. Ask them whether they suck, whether they should mind their own business, and let's see how many of them say yes. It's always other people who are the wrongdoers. How convenient... Surely, if humanity is a plague, then individual humans must be its carriers. All of humanity. All of us.
Originally posted by Faiol
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
I agree with the part of the united planet, you are very correct about that, the only way for our society to evolve to the next lvl is to unite everyone, but that only happens in the brink of extinction
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Originally posted by Exuberant1
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
Humanity does not need to "accept the R.F.I.D." in order to send some lifeforms to another planet.....
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Originally posted by Hadrian
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
note, skl, that this is not a matter of when we have the technology ... we already do. sending out "the seeds-of-life" kit(s) is something that we currently have the capacity to do regardless of the factor of time that it may take to reach (desired or not) destinations. does this matter?
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Originally posted by Hadrian
but what about in a somewhat theoretical framework where our attempts to spark life on other worlds would manifest far beyond our lives, perhaps our existence, and then would require, we imagine, millions of years to develop into some sort of sentience?
is it necessary (or is it egocentric) for our house to be in order before we would attempt to spread life? what is the connection?
Should we not try and create at least a few more opportunities (for life)? what if we were to successfully spark life elsewhere and beings evolved that were much better than us and radically changed the universe for the better or just lived in hempy, granola-happiness with it?
is it playing god and is playing god something we feel in our core is wrong? or, at the least, not advisable?