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Scientists find desert moss ‘that can survive on Mars’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

We won’t have the ability to terraform Mars until we try to terraform Mars.

Perhaps Mars’s greatest contribution to our civilization wont be that it hosts cities or future life, but rather simply that it gave us a place to experiment so we could test things once before implementing them here.