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byonic · 1492 days ago · link · · parent · post: 12:30 p.m.—Perseverance Mars Rover landing day livestream for all students
As Perseverance is seeking signs of (ancient) microbial life, how would you all react if such a discovery actually came through? I'm personally a bit of a doubter that life will ever be found elsewhere, so such a finding would floor me. In my mind, if we find signs of life beyond Earth, we're doomed. That's when all the implications of the Fermi paradox become real to me - it might actually be the scariest news I could hear up there with imminent nuclear war.