If you’re gonna go places, you’re gonna contaminate them. No way around it.
So how about we send a batch of oxygen-producing microbes there and begin terra-forming?
Of course.
Look at the way alien germs colonized earth and evolved into humans duh.
Probably, already in the works at multiple sites.
You mean Democrats and Liberals and Muslims are going to fly to Mars? Spiffy.
I would run a test with some democrats first.
Obviously they were not perfectly adapted to a high oxygen high pressue atmosphere!
And so the propaganda campaign to halt exploration and colonization begins.
Not if Nanny Bloomberg has anything to say about it.
Another good question: Did Mars germs colonize Earth?
"..I'll bring the little snots eyeballs with me and let ya know"
If possible, I reckon that would be a start. BTW, see very cold places at high elevations on our own planet: relatively sterile. —Mr. Cold
Turnabout is fair play.
“From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man’s weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet’s infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain.”
I’m sure that Martian women and minorities were disproportionately effected.
Of course, the only condition they could not mimic - whatever that means in their reality - is Mars’ lower gravity, which, according to still other scientists’ claims, greatly influences an organism's survivability.
Yes, we do not want to contaminate or inadvertently terraform Mars. Why, what would our children think of us, ruining it for them and all? They might get so outraged, if Mars turned blue or green, that they would violently shove us out the door of the old folks home!