NASA directive might increase the odds of contaminating Mars

142 points by scientificamerican 6 hours ago on reddit | 2 comments

AlwaysUpvotesScience | 3 hours ago

If we can't confirm life on mars, i see no reason to protect it from life from earth.

This may not be a popular opinion but I think a multi-planet human expansion is a good ideal if we can accomplish it.

thursday712 | 51 minutes ago

Good!

It is absolute stupid to have a consideration for the dirt and rocks on another planet, such that it has any impact on any decisions.

To think otherwise is a misunderstooding and blind reproduction of rulesets for our planet, which indicates a lack of core understand on principles outside of, "tHe rULeS sAid nO!!"...

This much should be obvious.