newscientist.com
This question, like so many ethical quandaries, comes down to rights: does life on other worlds have the same rights as Earth life? What if it’s just microbes? And what if there is no life at all? Do humans have the right to leave muddy bootprints on pristine planets, potentially stamping out future civilisations before they arise?
"Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill."
>does life on other worlds have the same rights as Earth life?
No.
>Do humans have the right to leave muddy bootprints on pristine planets, potentially stamping out future civilisations before they arise?
Yes. Don't think we do? Better kill yourself then, because a non-human civilization might someday arise right here on Earth.
>wanting to cuck your entire species
People like this faggot that wants advanced life to be contained to Earth may be the reason for the Great Filter.
rights are allotted through birth. all life forms have a right to the pursuit of continued existence. all sentient life forms have the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. all life forms in a society have all the rights that the society allots.
take the meme flag off
Another idiot idea by leftist.
It's there, thus we can have it.
>Do humans have the right to leave muddy bootprints on pristine planets, potentially stamping out future civilisations before they arise?
yeah
ethics has been wholly subverted to hamstring scientific and economic progress. you would not believe the retarded hoops we have to jump through and the administrative committees' dicks we have to suck to get approval to do relatively simple and powerful studies using mice. god help you if you want to use higher animals like sheep, pig, etc.
it takes years and millions of $ to do studies in pigs, for example; meanwhile, in China, researchers can just go to a local slop farm, buy a few pigs, and implant their device/treatment/whatever in an afternoon. it's fucking bullshit. bull. shit.
it's also another way for the administration to bloat itself and to soak up more grant monies
A right is anything you can do without harming other people.
no. you have a right to self defence
Man Alpha Centauri was the best back in the day, but the Morganites sucked
Planets, stars? Really? Okey dokie!
>stars are not balls of fire
nobody said they were
What an incredibly stupid article. Aside from it being unlikely there is anything intelligent within our neighborhood, seeing as radio signals from other species aren't common, at all. Then it is likely, they're at most multi-cellular life comparable to animals we butcher and eat every day. I don't see the issue?
They're balls of hydrogen, you spastic. So of course they'd mimic a similar behavior.
If we can reach it. Its ours. If there is intelligent life such as us, we should consider simply making them our puppets.
If its animals like on our planet, we just treat them as such.
Also, future civilizations? So we should not colonize planets because in 1 billion years SOMETHING might rise from that planet. Nah, fuck that. Its ours.
I'd bet $100 that article was written by a fucking jewish vegan.
"Animals have rights too goy!"
It wouldn't be too surprised. As, at some point, we'll need to become interplanetary as an insurance policy against a natural disaster (or a regular disaster) from BTFOing us. So she is LITERALLY arguing against the existence of the human race, on "ethical grounds."
Is that from Alpha centauri
Fermi Paradox leads us to believe we are the only life in our super cluster.
HOLY FUCK ARE YOU EVER A RETARD
I suggest a large oak root, well weathered, fully stiff, I'm sure your fellow gaia gays have a name for it - TAKE A BIG ONE AND RAM IT UP YOUR ASS TILL YOU BLEED OUT.
There, a "natural death", purity in it's finest form, your disturbance of "pristine" is over, you god damned c u c k i n g IDIOT.
Makes me so happy people still remember Alpha Centauri. I'm working on a spiritual successor as we speak and reading through the novels again.
Yes, we should colonize other planets. It is the only step progresses towards securing the species from extinction at this point - it'll buy us time to work towards something less basic and more transcendent.
PETA notified
prepare for penetration
Yes we should colonize other planets, too bad it's impossible tho. Also the so called "great filter" is no less than space travel itself.
They are balls of nuclear reactions, dummy.
This is why we'll never leave this fucking rock. We let these people make our decisions now
>What an incredibly stupid article.
>year 3035
>mankind has traveled to over 77,000 other galaxies
>no other life has yet been found
>signals are dead for even with light travel signal drops to several million other galaxies
>liberal ass wipe protocol has been followed
>no life, not even a bacteria have escaped to populate the barren planets and galaxies
>a mutated space virus escaped from a forward leaning crisper lab wipes out humanities space and earth populations
>all human life in the universe is gone
>the end
BRILLIANT ! A PRISTINE UNIVERSE !
No. You fat fucks will ruin it. I'm sure the first thing built will be a fucking McDonald's.
You'll end up just building a planetary sized Orlando.
Of course she is. But only for the goys. You can bet jews would be allowed to colonize because "muh 6 gorillion"
We need to at least establish a permanent colony on Mars ASAP. I suspect that once we get boots on Mars we will spread our legs a little and grab the Trojans around earth and Mars and likely Ceres as a stepping stone towards the Jovian system
The liberal dream.
>inb4 Mars is renamed to: New Israel
Your genetics shouldn't.
I'M GONNA FUCKIN' NUKE YOU, LAL
>should we
Our nature push us to.
It's no matter of choice.