I didn't downvote you. However, there are ethical and moral quandaries to doing that. What if you accidentally wipe out existing, undetected life on that planet?

You aren't going to see anything "take hold" on a human timescale. Evolution takes place over geological time. By the time there's something to observe, there might be no one to observe it. Or all knowledge of the experiment might be lost.

There is no other civilization in the solar system.

If it's humans vs alien slime mold, I stand for humans.

> ou aren't going to see anything "take hold" on a human timescale

Right. Seeding life onto lifeless planets takes a long time, but it is a moral imperative. We are the only life in the solar system, and maybe even in our galaxy.

BTW, the Earth is going to fry in 100m years. We'd better learn how to colonize the other planets.