There can never be life on Mars that humans can discover because humans would be the stronger of the species and would hence colonise the other species.If say the other species turns out to be stronger they would colonise humans.
With past experiences of colonisation, every nation threatened has fought eventually for their freedom which most have attained. If life was discovered on Mars and it turned out to be the weaker species,humans would eventually take over Mars entirely,making martians their slaves or inferiors.
I go as far as to say there is no life that will ever be discovered by humans or by any other being in the solar system,in terms of one species discovering the other due to the fact that it would mean eradication of the weaker species.
Positives say what if the species were the same in stature,then there would be war between planets not harmony.
2007-09-04 06:17:17 · 14 answers · asked by Cube 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There is definitely life in the other realms,there's no denying.Humans will never discover this life because it will either desroy us or we will destroy it. Depending on the stronger or weaker species. Regardless of how the other species reasons instinct tends to eradicate weakness.
2007-09-04 06:38:22 · update #1
This has absolutely nothing to do with American Indians or the spanish. I'm looking at humanity as a whole.Not the good people like the ones answering these questions that have absolutely no power regarding the state of space exploration. People that make major decisions for the everyday man. The people that decide to start and end wars. Obviously the everyday man would not harm the forieign species but the powers that be...don't think like the everyday man.
2007-09-04 06:53:03 · update #2
You sound very intelligent. :)
2007-09-04 07:19:00 · answer #1 · answered by quizqueen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Isn't that like saying, there is no life (Native Americans) that will ever be discovered by humans (European explorers) in terms of one species (culture) discovering the other due to the fact that it would mean eradication of the weaker species (culture)?
Just because there are weaker or stronger groups, doesn't eliminate the possibility that there is another group of beings somewhere out there.
Additional comments:
You're right, it doesn't have anything to do with Native Americans - it's called an analogy, look it up.
Are you saying that something exists but that we are incapable of finding it? We are looking for life on Mars and elsewhere. To say that the possibility of future destruction prevents us from discovering something that is there doesn't sound logical.
2007-09-04 06:29:57 · answer #2 · answered by Michelle M 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Your cause and effect are not mutually exclusive, and therefore your question is a non-sequitor. What you are in effect saying is that the Spanish resolved that there can be no American indians in south america, because if there were the Spanish would defeat them. It doesn't follow.
The probability of life on mars is low, because Mars hasn't got a magnetic field to deflect cosmic radiation from the surface. The surface is therefore sterile.
There may be microbial life elsewhere in the solar system.
You arrived at a correct conclusion through seriously flawed reasoning. Get a book on logic, or just take some time to solve some sudoku puzzles to learn how to identify cause and effect and how to make inferences
Then read "Rare Earth" by Ward & Brownlee If you really want a primer in extraterrestrial life.
2007-09-04 06:40:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, one does have to be on the look out for the stronger civilization.
However Mars is a fridged little hell hole with really thin air.
Not the place I'd fight for, even if Martians were a bunch of vegetarian pacifists. It'd be to much like attacking Switzerland.
Also, you're overstating our penchant for genocide. Few, if any, of us do not have an ancestor from a group that was conquered at some time.
2007-09-04 12:22:10 · answer #4 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From a scientific view point, we will never meet a species on another planet due to the volatile nature of space itself. Advanced organisms would have a hard time surviving a journey of 10s of thousands of millennia, not to mention all the forces that would snuff us out in an instant.
Such "civilizations" actually make contact interstellar, then it will be due to one sides machines landing on the others planet. Which opens an entirely new slew of problems.
2007-09-04 07:14:48 · answer #5 · answered by msuetonius 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would not know about that. I think we as a species have a way to go yet before we are ready to meet other life forms on distant worlds. You may be correct in saying that human colonization would over power a weaker species, and it may be done in a more subtle form; our diseases could kill them off. However, I would not personally assume anything about another life form, they may not be what they seem.
2007-09-04 06:36:57 · answer #6 · answered by Steller Jaynefandom 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you say humans would take over whatever other species they find, then they indeed will find life on other planets if there is a species to take over. This is going in circles.
2007-09-04 06:24:50 · answer #7 · answered by jmiller 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Good argument. There could actually be viable arguments for either side of your posting. I think that it would be conceited of us to think that we are the only ones in the universe, however, your idea is a dismal one, also. I would hope that we wouldn't destroy that which is different from us, but such things have played out in history, unfortunately.
2007-09-04 06:38:28 · answer #8 · answered by Paula 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I say you have a good argument here and sound. However, I do believe that humans can find and will find life outside our solar system. And we may wish we never did.
2007-09-04 06:25:17 · answer #9 · answered by kickinupfunf 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are saying the we will never "discover" or find, another species because we will destroy it? How will we destroy it if we never find it? That makes no sense.
2007-09-04 06:27:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Martians are short and midget-like, but they have extremely large heads that look like giant brains.
And when they speak, it sounds like ak ak ak ak ak ak!
Beware of them; they are armed and very dangerous.
Your only weapon is a recording of Indian Love Song...
2007-09-04 06:44:15 · answer #11 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋