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New Poll – Terraforming Mars

By Billon

Voynich Manuscript

Who was is the author of the mysterious Voynich Manuscript? Most readers of TDG believe that the source was Antediluvian, but
John Dee and Edward Kelley are strong contenders. Roger Bacon and Wilfrid Voynich showed as third place. I was a little disappointed that no one provided a translation.

Terraforming Mars

Should we terraform Mars? We recently ran a link to a 7-part Great Terraforming Debate from Astrobiology Magazine. The question in this poll concerns the morality of terraforming another planet. Terraforming a planet is to change the existing environment, making it livable for humans. Do we have an obligation to expand human habitat to insure our survival? Should we destroy other life forms in the process including bacteria or viruses? Can we be certain that there are no other life forms?

Be the first in your neighborhood to vote in the survey and leave your comments.

Bill

4 Comments

  1. Terraforming Mars
    Yes! If we can we should terraform Mars for possible future human habitation. To argue it is wrong is to condemn human civilization to eventual extinction. All species have a survival instinct and use their abilities to that end. Humans have greater abilities than most and therefore the greater opportunity for survival. To condemn humans for their superior intellect and utility is a self-loathing philosphy that leads only to regression and dead-end technology. All living organisms survive by consuming other living organisms. To argue humans cannot progress beyond or expand their boundries for survival at the expense of other organisms, when reasonable and responsible and necessary, defies the basic laws of existence – i.e. the survival instict and the consumption of biological organisms to support the processes required for life’s continuum. Paol Anderson is an excellent science fiction writer with a prolific body of books dealing with humans’ eventual settling of other planets.

    1. If we are to survive, we will
      If we are to survive, we will have to terraform other worlds. No question about that. Should we?
      In my opinion, we are currently destroying this planet as fast and carelessly as our tech allows. Until we can learn to take care of our home planet, we should not be altering other planets.
      There is no reason to worry about this anyway. We are consumers. We take and destroy. Thats all the human race has ever been good at. We are nothing more than an insignificant virual infection occuping one cell in a vast host. Contemplate greatness we do, but thats where we stop. Contemplation.
      and remember…

      –dd “The bag that breaks is the one with the eggs.“

  2. Terraforming – who’s choice is it?
    Whether one is pro or against terraforming Mars great care should be given in arranging a process by which the corresponding action (or lack thereof) will take the ‘OK GO!’.
    Who should take the decision, NASA? The UN? The ESA? The Western World? Everyone? How wiil we vote? Will our goverments make the decision for us? This is the great question.

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