{"id":17918,"date":"2022-02-23T18:18:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=17918"},"modified":"2022-02-23T18:18:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T23:18:15","slug":"heres-the-stupidest-guilt-trip-for-americans-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/23\/heres-the-stupidest-guilt-trip-for-americans-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the Stupidest Guilt Trip for Americans Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a child of the 1960\u2019s Space Program I\u2019ve always been very excited by the JPL robotic missions to Mars, Jupiter and beyond.\u00a0 Seeing closeup views of Jupiter and its moons or Saturn was mind-boggling for a science fiction junkie of my generation.\u00a0 Now the Mars Rover missions always seemed a little disappointing because the landscape just looked like Nevada without the gambling.\u00a0 But I had no idea at the time that I was witnessing a crime against the Cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>You see we were guilty of planetary cross-contamination in the first degree!\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know we were guilty until I read <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/we-re-not-prepared-for-contamination-between-worlds-1848557352\">this ridiculous article<\/a>.\u00a0 But now I\u2019m hoping that somehow, we\u2019ve already wiped out all the extraterrestrial lifeforms in the solar system solely because I know it would devastate Sofia Quaglia, the authoress of this drivel and all the space ecology weenies that she consulted on this fake crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Now, understand.\u00a0 I highly doubt that any organisms that can\u2019t trace their ancestry to Earth will be found elsewhere in the Solar System.\u00a0 But if I have to worry about them succumbing to the COVID virus then my take is they deserve extinction.\u00a0 These geniuses want to somehow ensure that the probes we send up are somehow 100.0000% sterilized of all biological organisms.\u00a0 This would probably end the space program.\u00a0 And if it didn\u2019t, it would require enormous expense to add all these requirements to the missions.<\/p>\n<p>But what makes it especially stupid is that Earth organisms have most probably found their way to other parts of the Solar System without our help.\u00a0 Not that any of them probably were able to thrive on Mars or the moons of Jupiter.\u00a0 But if they did are we supposed to be worried about it?\u00a0 And if these terrestrial descendants somehow outcompeted the native Martian or Jovian flora and fauna should this upset me for some reason?\u00a0 Well, if it\u2019s supposed to then I have a bulletin; it\u2019s not working.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care.\u00a0 If these extra-terrestrials are such lame losers that they can\u2019t survive e. coli, then they deserve to go extinct.\u00a0 Let them get on the ball and discover penicillin like we did.\u00a0 And anyway, seeing them all wiped out is the surest defense against them catching up with us on the evolutionary ladder and pushing us off.\u00a0 As the Legionnaires in Galaxy\u2019s Edge put it KTF, kill them first.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, don\u2019t these snowflakes have anything more important to do than fret about space paramecia being outcompeted by their terrestrial cousins?\u00a0 Lord help us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child of the 1960\u2019s Space Program I\u2019ve always been very excited by the JPL robotic missions to Mars, Jupiter and beyond.\u00a0 Seeing closeup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[712,3545],"tags":[713,121],"class_list":["post-17918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-science","category-science","tag-fake-science","tag-space-program"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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