Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space
Conversations with Tyler
Do You Believe in the Panspermia Hypothesis?
Do you believe in the panspermia hypothesis? And if you do, does this imply we should actually subsidize sending non-sterilized life forms to Mars? Because there's always some chance that you would create some kind of long-term panspermia scenario on other planets. If it is a value to us to go to Mars, then we should go to Mars. But I don't think we have some strange, manifest destiny, moral imperative to infect the solar system.
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