Betül Kaçar

Because it goes back to, again, would we, first of all, do we have a responsibility to propagate more of this chemistry that we have on this planet elsewhere, given that we know ultimately we will be vanished by the entire planet?

And if this is, in fact, a very rare chemical event that happens because all the right circumstances came together and we were the lucky one, do we have a responsibility to sponsor it?

If we were to back up... Sponsor, I like it.

If we try to...

backup remnants of our civilization right so we want to potentially create conditions on different planets so that humans can survive given that we know or we want to just for the sake of growing

Exactly.

But what really is at stake here, I think, or what is really more interesting is what we don't see, which is, again, the chemical behavior that enabled everything in the first place.

That's different than sending potato crops or engineering bacteria to live on a different planet.

That's very different.

you're really stripping it down to what is possible at the chemical level.

So even if you are instigating the chemistry on different planets, you are letting that very planet to do its thing.

You're not necessarily contaminating this planet with different chemistry because the idea behind this

at least the way I thought about, is that you understand that planet, you understand the conditions, you understand the chemistry of the planet really well before choosing the planet as a candidate in the first place.

And then it's not about sending a missing ingredient per se, but again, just sending more of what it already has.

That would be respecting that planet's condition too.

So I'm not suggesting any occupation.

I'm not suggesting any colonization.

I'm not suggesting any, like, let's just strip everything and make everything Earth-like.

That's not what I'm saying.

It's more about empowering that place.