That won’t stop humanity. I’ve seen enough movies to know that a man-eating crazy alien monster infestation isn’t enough to keep people off some rock they found.
And they’ll bring that shit home too.
If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences
Submitted 7 hours ago by ConstantPain@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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switcheroo@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
And they’ll bring that shit home too.
Of course, why would you leave your new significant other in outerspace?
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
There’s an entire very large genre of scifi about this very topic
scytale@piefed.zip 5 hours ago
We won’t even be able to reach it until we can figure out FTL travel or technology that can support multi-generational passengers to get there.
Xaphanos@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
FTL travel implies a mastery over spacetime itself. After that, a practical time machine is a matter of engineering details.
We can be sure that we never get there because we are not flooded with tourists from the future. QED.
Windex007@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I love the hubris of this argument. It’s the identical construction of guys who say a woman must be a lesbian if they’re not into them.
bluGill@fedia.io 5 hours ago
For that matter they have not sent travelers to us.
AmidFuror@fedia.io 6 hours ago
If the biology is different enough, things like viruses wouldn't easily cross between the planets. But bacteria could still probably exploit us (and them), and nothing would stop things with claws, teeth, and spikes from hurting us even if they couldn't ultimately digest us.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Ah, drat! My one weakness! Claws! Oh, and teeth. So two weaknesses.
Oh, and spikes.
Oh, and fire.
Pointed rocks.
Long falls off of cliffs.
Ok, I have many weaknesses!
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
s@piefed.world 4 hours ago
I heard on the radio that bacteria is what killed the Martians
db2@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
But how else am I supposed to get green Orton trader women on my arm?
GhostPain@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
My brother, we have spacesuits and decontamination protocols.
Also, by the time we get to meeting other life forms on other planets we’ll have cracked genetic engineering enough to make that inconsequential.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 hours ago
My brother, we have spacesuits and decontamination protocols.
What about the aliens we meet? As far as I am aware, we don’t decontaminate when leaving the ship (or decontaminate the ship itself) so while they might not mess with us, we would absolutely be messing with them.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Who cares. We’re colonizers, the natives lives don’t matter /s
(check history book lol, humans are brutal)
protist@mander.xyz 5 hours ago
Oh shit, sorry, didn’t realize y’all’d be so susceptible to chicken pox
treadful@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Reminds me of Deathworlders. Some woman got stuck on a planet and had to take a shit and the microorganisms in her shit wrecked the planet.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 22 minutes ago
Oh no, a HFY story… They are kinda entertaining but filled with so much weird pathos and self-dirision. That “btw, religions suck” section was just so out of place.
Imagine that: Getting abducted by aliens, fighting and winning against some of the most dangerous aliens of the whole universe and when being interviewed about it, one of the first things he chooses to say about humanity is “btw, we have religion and it sucks”.
And these stories go on for all eternity. 97 long chapters.
That’s what you get when people on the level of fanfiction writers write original stories without any oversight by an editor.
MangoCats@feddit.it 6 hours ago
There’s only one way to be sure: nuke it from orbit.
lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 5 hours ago
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Shouldn’t and couldn’t are too different questions.
bluGill@fedia.io 5 hours ago
We currently couldn't detect life on earth from nearest star and it is unlikely we ever can build anything good enough to. Which means if we discover life we know they are plenty advanced as to make our efforts uneeded as they can tell us a better protocol. Not that we have the ftl needed to reach them anyway.
tdawg@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Well we can’t have infinite growth without infinite exploitation ConstantPain. Duh
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Sexy results?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 hours ago
Not really much of a shower thought. Pretty sure Clark or Niven wrote entire books on this concept (I forget, just know I read these books 40 years ago, and they weren’t new then).
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 hours ago
*Another planet.
We have already found one.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
Arent you renting or paying income taxes? Its not your planet, thats why you have to pay to exist here.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Sounds like a good time
Greg@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Just wear protection
Dave@lemmy.nz 7 hours ago
We are human, we have done almost this exact thing for thousands of years and leave ecosystem devastation in our wake.
People with rockets would absolutely go down to that planet without a second thought.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
intergalactic tour guide: now if you look to your left, you’ll see the natural habitats of the Xpheno217 species. This is the only location in the whole universe they can live. And to your right, a brand new residential community fit with Walmart and there very own Chick-fil-A.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yep i would expect them to send the blankets down from orbit first.