[thanatos519]

I think we should stop looking and start sending extremophiles to everywhere life could possibly take hold.

[sph]

We inadvertently did something similar when we discovered the New World. Didn't work out so well for the natives.

That time was an honest mistake, but maybe we should stop trying to play God for a while. At least until we are advanced enough to create our own universe to experiment with.

[bryanrasmussen]

>That time was an honest mistake,

yeah, but once people worked out how it was killing the natives they went a more systematic route.

[bufferoverflow]

Might be illegal, against some interstellar law.