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Scientists Propose Deliberately Infecting Another World With Life To See What Happens
A new paper proposes a peculiar experiment on Enceladus (and warns why we probably shouldn't do it).
“This situation would exist on any young planet just after an origin of life, but prior to the establishment of a planetary-scale biota, an example being Hadean or early Archean Earth,” the researchers wrote in the paper. Beyond understanding life on Earth, this might teach how to settle new worlds, and an inhabited Enceladus might become a source of material for the exploration of the outer Solar System. A discussion about this potential biological frontier and the ethical questions it raises is timely,” the authors concluded.
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