Perhaps we should consider all of this before finding life in other worlds. It’s nice to find it, of course. But that doesn’t mean we can deal with it, biologically, epidemiologically and, above all, emotionally.

We are currently in an almost global panic over what, in some ways, or at least previously unknown, lifestyle: the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the disease to be known as COVID-19) Flights are canceled, international trade is canceled at the convention, the Tokyo Olympics are going to be rescheduled and a global recession is underway. Last week in the United States The Dow Jones Industrial Average has had its worst week since the recession of 2008 and 2009, reporting a third of revenues since the 2016 election, largely due to concerns about on the effect of COVID-19.

Mankind as a whole suffers from the effects of the disease, but the Chinese have a particular kind of heat. A 16-year-old Asian American was attacked at a California high school and accused of carrying the virus. In South Korea, a covert anti-Chinese sentiment has emerged and stores have reportedly displayed signs saying “No Chinese”. In Vancouver, a Chinese boy in a school yard laughed “Hey, virus, boy! Don’t get us sick!”‘

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COVID-19 is a earthly problem, and doesn’t have anything related to space, and yet, even when the virus is raging, NASA is planning to launch a new rover on Mars in July seeking microbial life and will gather some samples of rock and soil, which will be returned to Earth – potentially containing this microbial life.

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On the one hand, there is almost no risk of damage to our bodies. As a column on Space.com indicated a couple weeks back, NASA has a long history of working to protect Earth from the biological hazards of other planets and to protect other planets from Earth’s biological hazards. The Space Agency also has a full dedicated section for this, which is formally known as the Office of Security and Mission Security (OSMA), but is more commonly described as the Planet of the Protection Office.

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Mars is going to be a completely different thing, because Mars, which was once immersed in water, and may have one day had life. As Space.com points out, Earth and potential life on Mars can be linked to each other: Mars meteorites that hit billions of years ago could have created microorganisms that survived the trip. inside pockets carrying water on the rocks, leading to life here. If that is the case, we don’t just find life on Mars, we are life on Mars. But any connection between earthly life and current Martian life can increase the risk that Martian microbes will discover our happy hosts.

The opportunity to find life on Mars is unknown and unknown. The prospect of recovering them and sending them back properly to Earth adds another level of uncertainty. The danger of escaping pathogens and the epidemic, although not impossible, seems to be more of a scenario than a journal sheet.

However, the risk exists. Even in level 4 labs – the strictest type of biological preservation facility – there is always a non-zero chance that something will escape. So one mistake and possibly people are infected.

The search for life in other worlds is an expression of our consumer interest in other organisms and, in some respects, our love for other organisms. The battle against SARS-CoV-2 is a unified face sign that we can show when one of the organisms threatens us all – and it is a collective of our highest qualities. Racial discrimination, directed against other people of Chinese origin, is a sign of our lowest level.

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