[one guy in new jersey]

There is no life beyond earth other than whatever space-surviving virions or bacteria we’ve flung out there on some spacecraft.

[cgbg]

Life on other planets would have to be really stupid to send out radio waves so that potential intergalactic enemies would know where to invade.

Only homo sapiens is that dumb.

[dragnet2]

There is no life beyond earth

The arrogance of humans never ceases to amaze.

[DannyTN]

"There is no life beyond earth other than whatever space-surviving virions or bacteria we’ve flung out there on some spacecraft."

I'm a big fan of flinging.

We should engineer or select for bacteria that can survive on Mars and Venus. And we should massively seed the planets.

We've flown a drone on Mars. And we have drones capable of spraying. So we just need a drone capable of refueling from a large tank of seed bacteria.

Of course some planning is required. You don't want to put bacteria on Mars that releases oxygen if that oxygen is just going to be stripped away due to the lack of the magnetosphere or some other reason. So maybe we need to build a ring around the planet and a nuclear power plant to create a magnetosphere before we fling bacteria.