Re 5

Wrong bucko

Life in general is amazingly resilient and adaptable. I expect it has even made it off planet by now possibly out by Jupiter or Saturn. Or perhaps it's not even from here originally. That would be something.

Life has proved incredibly resilient, and simple organisms have been found everywhere from Antarctica to the bottom of mines; even the so-called Dead Sea supports 'salt-loving' haloarchaea microorganisms and extremophiles in Yellowstone volcanic pools. There are very few places on earth where life does not thrive. If there is water there is life.

As for humans. The jury is still out. I suspect the earth will shrug us off her back like a bunch of annoying fleas if we continue to harm her with our ignorance and hate and selfishness.

which will wreck human biology.

#11 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

The human body will eventually adapt to its environment. Martians will probably be taller and skinny with big fat heads. A bit like the grays. And if they adapt they will not want to come back. They may eventually evolve into an entirely new species.

As for the space station.. there are humans living eating and pooping in there so I am pretty sure it doesn't always smell "clean".

And humans have lots of creatures living in and on them. So unless they sterilize the place once a week or so then there has got to be microorganisms and debris from all the bodies in there.

If micro diversity is really a problem then maybe they do need a garden module like in the 1972 Sci Fi movie Silent Running.

Meaning countless generations of humans will need to be born and die on mars til there's finally a beneficial mutation that allows us to live there.

#14 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Exactly. It would take hundreds of thousands of years. And at least that long to terraform the place.

Of course for humans to evolve into another species humans would actually have to go and live there and not come back for hundreds of thousands of years.

I am not sure that will ever really happen. We will probably go there and come right back and never go back. Kinda like we did with the moon. That's also assuming the mission is successful. That will be one heck of a journey. So unless we find Life or a rock made of diamonds or something very valuable out there then there is no incentive to go out there other than to prove we can.

Personally I would never give up the Green Hills of Earth for a life on an airless barren hellhole of a dead planet. Assuming it IS dead. And if it's not dead it's pretty damn close. And WE certainly aren't going to save it. We can't even save earth.

And we still haven't gone where any life could still be there if it was ever there. It's deep down in the Big Rip or at the poles.

Humans have never survived any of that. More primative and durable life forms have.

#19 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Hiroshima? Fukushima? Chernobyl? Over 500 nuclear bombs set off in our atmosphere? 928 nuclear tests right here in our own country (Nevada) - 100 of which were atmospheric, and 828 were underground.