Discovering that Mars once had life would be bad for NASA. It would mean that human exploration of Mars might not be allowed as it could contaminate the evidence.
And it would be terrible for humanity, according to Kurzgesagt, because it would indicate that we may soon go extinct.
Humanity is doing a fine-enough job causing problems for itself without dead aliens. They probably wouldn’t even make the top 5 extinction-level issues we could have.
Contrarian opinion:
Discovering that Mars once had life would be bad for NASA. It would mean that human exploration of Mars might not be allowed as it could contaminate the evidence.
And it would be terrible for humanity, according to Kurzgesagt, because it would indicate that we may soon go extinct.
I mean it’s not like Human exploration of Mars is even viewed as remotely doable right now.
And I think there are more glaring signs here on earth that we may not be around much longer.
More glaring than a million alien species that should exist, simply not existing?
That’s a lot of life to discount.
Humanity is doing a fine-enough job causing problems for itself without dead aliens. They probably wouldn’t even make the top 5 extinction-level issues we could have.
It’s okay, they also say we might be ahead of the great filter. We’re more than just life, we’re physically super complex.