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Every probe sent has already broken this treaty. For all the clean rooms and assurances our rovers and probes are completely covered with bacteria.

I believe we have a civic duty to spread extremophiles across the solar system.

If there is life on Mars it's very likely much the same as our own and distantly related.

Gambling on the future of the only known life in the universe to satiate scientific curiosity is not worth it whatsoever.




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