ZOMG ‘BLOG

Debris. Waste. Junk. Garbage. We cast it away as useless, but the truth is it is the stuff of LIFE. Organic wastes provide food and habitats for all sorts of tiny creatures. Radioactive wastes help speed evolution (defective mutants are a natural part of evolution, FYI). Even things like shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea, quickly become teeming habitats for life even thought they are mostly just lifeless piles of wood and metal.

Out of all of the planets in the solar system, Earth, this planet, has the most garbage and junk and goo. We also have the most life. This is no coincidence. Now, I know life creates garbage, and that is one explanation for this corellation, but even before there was life on earth there was garbage. Lots of lava and space rock debris and space dust. This finally settled down into what could be described as a gas-covered soggy ball of dirt, and then there was life. It’s a cycle. Life creates garbage creates more life. Well that is simplifying things (energy is important too) but you get the idea.

Now life is good and all, but the kind of life that is in some of our garbage is just not cool for human life to co-habitate with at the time. Why not send that garbage to Mars? Yeah, just rocket our trash into Mars. After a decade or so of blasting Mars with trash rockets we could have a nice habitat for … “something”. Then we send some “seed life” and wait another decade and see what grows! This simple project would both solve our waste disposal problems and be an amazing experiment.

kthxbye.

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