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Arsenic isn't biologically compatible with us, either. Nor is a crystal that grows in water. Both could kill us.The point is though, we're not. We're completely imcompatible. Moreover, this is simply moot, as any attempt to be in the same biome as mars would quickly lead to the death of either them or us.Yes, even if that's the case, there's something like a 3 billion year period for divergence to happen. And something like 2.5 billion of those years life existed as simple forms. Plenty of time for biochemistry to differentiate.It doesn't need to be adapted to us to screw us up.
Think of us as Australia or any Pacific island, and the micro-organisms as cane toads, rats, or whatever.
I fail to see how the timescales matter, the entire point was saying that it doesn't need to be evolved to attack humans to endanger us.That analogy kind of falls apart as there's a massive difference in the timescales involved.Yes, even if that's the case, there's something like a 3 billion year period for divergence to happen. And something like 2.5 billion of those years life existed as simple forms. Plenty of time for biochemistry to differentiate.It doesn't need to be adapted to us to screw us up.
Think of us as Australia or any Pacific island, and the micro-organisms as cane toads, rats, or whatever.
Yes, even if that's the case, there's something like a 3 billion year period for divergence to happen. And something like 2.5 billion of those years life existed as simple forms. Plenty of time for biochemistry to differentiate.It doesn't need to be adapted to us to screw us up.
Replace -proof with ish, and that statement is accurate.Agreed.
Let me first imagine that I am a trained goblin soldier who grew up in a world like Medieval Europe, but more war-torn and full of monsters, specifically in tundras, caverns, and/or evil areas, the deadliest areas in the world.They're gigantic for dogs, which still makes them much smaller than goblins. Also, the goblin probably had military skills. Size+skills>numbers when the numbers side only has one more.
I don't know what breed the game represents (poodles judging by their performance), but imagine stripping naked and fistfighting two "gigantic" Rottweilers!
I vote all buildings be made from either clay bricks or raw clay. Because why we didn't think of that last time makes me feel stupid.Agreed.
Actually, clay itself is firesafe isn't it? A clay oven for firing bricks makes sense, since we're going sumerian here.Yes, but does Captain have any clay?
That doesn't mean they won't have an effect on us, especially given the good probability that life on Earth came from Martian rocks or vise versa.It's pretty unlikely that bacteria are going to have evolved to infect humans in a place where no humans exist.But since when do they need to be accounted for in moral decisions.And since when are bacteria not important.Just get some extremofiles.Every survey and probe and robot has shown that there is no life on Mars bigger than a bacterium. Currently.
Another problem might be if it is ethical to deploy these lifeforms on Mars. We might be destroying an entire ecosystem. We might kill the first extraterrestial live we ever meet.
Besides, they could well infect us with something.
