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THE WAY THINGS ARE: The meaning of life is to be found in thinking about what is reality and the beauty of reality is to be found in our DNA's memorization of all forms that have been successfully retained along the four billion years of evolution of the principle of life on Gaia our earth. In the end what I mean to say is that beauty is something objective and what we call ugliness is then simply our unconscientious feel of something evolution did not retain.
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APOD: 2007 May 28 - A Hole in Mars
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May 29, 2007 7:01pm
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•http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap07...
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A Hole in Mars
 in Nasa's Astronomy picture of the day
Credit: NASA, JPL, U. Arizona
Explanation: Black spots have been discovered on Mars that are so dark that nothing inside can be seen. Quite possibly, the spots are entrances to deep underground caves capable of protecting Martian life, were it to exist. The unusual hole pictured above was found on the slopes of the giant Martian volcano Arsia Mons. The above image was captured three weeks ago by the HiRISE instrument onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling Mars. The holes were originally identified on lower resolution images from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, The above hole is about the size of a football field and is so deep that it is completely unilluminated by the Sun. Such holes and underground caves might be prime targets for future spacecraft, robots, and even the next generation of human interplanetary explorers.
 A Hole in Mars
Amazing how the unknown behind this image of a hole is driving our imagination...
As the commentary states "Quite possibly, the spots are entrances to deep underground caves capable of protecting Martian life, were it to exist." So here we go. But what if life were really present in those deep caves? If Martian life forms were becoming "prime targets for future spacecraft, robots, and even the next generation of human interplanetary explorers" what would be the impact of our encounter with them?
Do you really believe that we could handle such an encounter any more gentler than our earlier encounters with other civilizations, human societies and other animal and plant species? Would our encounter not be a threat to the survival of Martian life? And if we think this could be a possibility what about our moral responsibility?
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