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by WalterBright 6 days ago
There's always going to be one more place to search.

We should be spreading Terran life everywhere in the solar system, not pretending we are some sort of contagion.

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That isn't even remotely what I said though. Indeed I'm in favor of that in the end. But you're trying to invoke "just one more" when realistically we haven't even started for real yet. So it seems more like you just want to entirely skip the sterile part of exploration where we're careful not to cross contaminate. Which is certainly a valid position (though I disagree with it) but I think you should be up front about that.