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<blockquote data-quote="Jdvn1" data-source="post: 6115208" data-attributes="member: 26424">Do you advocate destroying dolphins, then? What about martian dolphins?The fact is you can't factually say we'd have a much easier time to understand dolphins than any lifeform from Mars. You can't know that until you try. And history tells us we would try and continue trying even after initial failures.And I disagree with Umbran that we need to know that we're not in conflict over some resource - just like with oil, we would just create a market for that resource or find alternatives to it.Thank goodness we have a ability to study the surfaces of other planets. We've been doing that for decades. If we've been studying martian linguistics at the same time, we'd probably be further along than we are now.Crossing plant life with other plant life is likely enough. We don't have to be able to do everything we just have to be able to do initial things, and then we'll eventually grow into the more complicated things. Science is done in baby steps. NASA wasn't built in a day.Further, crossing earth and martian DNAs isn't necessary. Chemical processes that occur in martian plants can be duplicated on earth, regardless, outside of a plant. We can put together protons, neutrons, and electrons to create elements to create any molecule... initial tests could be expensive, but just about anything can be done.If we can create temporary black holes and pass the speed of light, we can do a lot. We're only bound by our imaginations - which is part of the benefit of observing life different from our own.I already mentioned biological and chemical things we could learn by studing the plant life.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jdvn1, post: 6115208, member: 26424"] Do you advocate destroying dolphins, then? What about martian dolphins? The fact is you can't factually say we'd have a much easier time to understand dolphins than any lifeform from Mars. You can't know that until you try. And history tells us we would try and continue trying even after initial failures. And I disagree with Umbran that we need to know that we're not in conflict over some resource - just like with oil, we would just create a market for that resource or find alternatives to it. Thank goodness we have a ability to study the surfaces of other planets. We've been doing that for decades. If we've been studying martian linguistics at the same time, we'd probably be further along than we are now. Crossing plant life with other plant life is likely enough. We don't have to be able to do [i]everything[/i] we just have to be able to do initial things, and then we'll eventually grow into the more complicated things. Science is done in baby steps. NASA wasn't built in a day. Further, crossing earth and martian DNAs isn't necessary. Chemical processes that occur in martian plants can be duplicated on earth, regardless, outside of a plant. We can put together protons, neutrons, and electrons to create elements to create any molecule... initial tests could be expensive, but just about anything can be done. If we can create temporary black holes and pass the speed of light, we can do a lot. We're only bound by our imaginations - which is part of the benefit of observing life different from our own. I already mentioned biological and chemical things we could learn by studing the plant life. [/QUOTE]

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