When I first saw “Scientists say small organisms could survive on Mars” I thought, hah, that’s my idea, glad they’ve finally thought of it. That is, I’ve always thought it would be a good idea for NASA to take a rocket up to the moon, or Mars, whatever, filled up with garbage, mostly organic garbage. It would be filled with cockroaches, which can survive damned near everything, and all sorts of other bug life.
Don’t worry, it will take a few million years before they get like that
Never mind that this could clean up the home planet a bit, and since there’s no native population on lifeless planets (which is why they call them lifeless planets), there’s nobody to complain, we can do whatever the hell we like. In fact, that’s sort of the cool thing about space. Until we meet up with some other intelligent species, we’ve got free reign and nobody can stop us. Ha! The main advantage, though, to introducing some small, disgusting life form to a barren environment far from Earth is simply to prove it could be done.
It goes beyond looking for life in space. It’s saying “There WILL be life throughout the universe, even if we have to put it there.” I like that attitude.
Anyway, the real article was about something a lot less visibly cool but, to be fair, this project is actually designed by people who know what they are doing, of whom I am not one. They’re going to take stinky little micro-methane-monsters up to Mars, because they reckon they can live there. Which is awesome. If they can make it there, they’ll make it anywhere.
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