On the constant search for life outside earth, would we even recognize it?

This is meant to be a hypothetical discussion not meant to be taken literally. We all know you would never find a fetus alive just floating in space. Why are scientists so concerned about finding the least cell of life on another planet but we don't value the basic human life on this planet?

I feel you are comparing two different things. Biologists and astronomers may be interested in a Martian bacterium because studying it would increase and/or change our understanding of the solar system. The same scientists may not be interested in studying a fetus because that would be unlikely to alter our understanding of the solar system. It is also possible for scientists to be concerned about Martian bacteria and be against abortion. Likewise some people may be unconcerned with Mars or abortion.

Fair point thanks for commenting 🤗

Not to mention those scientists study their subjects utilizing methods that require their bodies in a state of death, or at least that would lead to ending in it.

“Methods that require bodies in a state of death” Reminds me of an anatomy class I had where the shelves were filled with jars of preserved babies and fetuses with various malformations.

Ugh, that is horrid. Totally improper.

depends on what field of science you are going into. Some biology labs just have straight up dead people that the students are instructed to dissect, learning about human anatomy in the process. (those are called cadaver labs, btw.) if anybody reading this is interested in what i'm saying, go check out the institute of human anatomy on youtube. there's some interesting stuff there.

Well of course.
For some reason I figured he meant basic bio level anatomy class.

FUN FACTS:

Organisms rarely survive the preserved in a jar of formaldehyde and dissection process, which is what would happen to any such creature if it was found. In fact, no species can be formally named without killing it and preserving the body.

'Excess' animals in zoos, even endangered ones, are routinely killed rather than simply tranferring them to another zoo.

It takes no more that 3 days for a big tree in the NYBG in the Bronx get cut down, cut, chipped and carted away, and the spot were it once stood to be replaced with grass so seamless, you wouldn't notice a tree once stood there unless you went there every day, like I used to.
Entire garden displays there, like the outdoor desert succulents on a small hillside in front of the Conservatory in 1999 or the Wildlife Garden have disappeared on a whim.

Scientists, whether at NASA or zoologists or horticulturists aren't about setting up petting zoos with PETA ceritification, they're about study, which tends to entail killing far more than most people would be comfy with. And that's just school. It don't get much better after.

B-52s singer Fred Schneider was attending forestry school when he was told to cut down a tree. He refused, saying he was there to save them, not kill them. He dropped out. Most don't.

Humans like to kill things like their lives depended on it because it does.

Absolutely, any life is worth preserving (unless it's a bad soul). There are many more planets in our galaxy where life is more than possible.

The Martian atmosphere has an average pressure of 0.088psi which is close to a vacuum, less than 1% of the pressure of Earth’s atmosphere. The average temperature of Mars is -81 degrees. The fetus would likely be in a freeze dried condition. The high C02/ low oxygen content would also keep the tissues preserved from oxidation. The fetal tissues would likely be adequate for many types of pharmaceutical development, so I imagine they would have some value and be worth preserving.

You're taking the question too literally bud, lol. See my comment.

anybody: "what does that cloud look like?"

you: "a bunch of suspended water and ice particles. why?"

I cannot say with certainty what a cloud looks like.

so your saying that its not worth trying to save?

it'd be dead anyway

Dead things have value

hmm..... i guess so, but then what is there to save?

It wouldn't be found on Mars.

hypothetically, of course.

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If a human fetus was found on mars. it would be dead. Hence the term 'fetus' and not 'child'.

No mother to nurse it, no heat compression for cold shield