Clarification: I’m not talking about sex. I’m talking about biological exposition.
That’s why this is done: https://www.nasa.gov/ames/space-biosciences/planetary-protection/
I realize you were probably talking about visiting other worlds in person, but we would probably still have unmanned missions there first.
On the other hand, the two biologies could be so different from each other that they don’t interact at all.
This is an interesting idea. If neither biologies used the same fuel molecules then they wouldn’t compete for resources, but perhaps they would compete for space? But then if both biologies were that different from each other would they be able to even live in the same environment?
we could never set a foot on it
I’m not talking about sex
It’s ok Quentin.
Sure we can. Just send a few people to test the waters first.
And risk wiping the life on that planet? Considering something like that happened to native population in America, I guess people don’t care.
Yo what world you been living on? Course people don’t care.
*'cause
No we will, the bigger question is if one of the parties will have sex or dinner.
We send a member of MAGA to explore first, then dissect them and evaluate the results on the body before exposing the general populace to the atmosphere.
Why would your first act on alien life be to launch our vilest weapons of mass destruction?
More like miners with a canary in a cage.
Have some respect for the mine. If you want to mine in a tunnel, do you first fill it with shit?
They’re talking about sex 😉
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.
And they’ll bring that shit home too.
Of course, why would you leave your new significant other in outerspace?
More importantly the most advanced labs are on earth. Would you leave something so dangerous to a second rate lab?
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.
I’m sorry. I can’t let you do that.
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 their very own Chick-fil-A.
Yep i would expect them to send the blankets down from orbit first.
There’s an entire very large genre of scifi about this very topic
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.
Even if the alien species had completely incompatible biology (no DNA or RNA), a human body is still a warm habitat that contains water and useful minerals. So something small would probably settle inside of us.
And our immune system couldn’t interact with it and therefore not kill it.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!
You’ll just have to come in again.
I heard on the radio that bacteria is what killed the Martians
But how else am I supposed to get green *Orion trader women on my arm?
We won’t even be able to reach it until we can figure out FTL travel or technology that can support multi-generational passenger ships to get there.
You don’t need FTL travel or multi-generational ships really. If you get close enough to the speed of light, time dilation can make the travel time for the people on the ship be as short as you want. Only for the people that stay on earth would the spaceship appear to take generations. Getting enough energy to reach such high speeds would be the difficult part as well as accelerating quickly without crushing the travellers.
And presumably not vapourising from collisions with random particles in space while travelling at a significant fractions of C.
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.
That depends on the type of FTL we use. Some just require infinite energy or exotic particles to work. No mastery of spacetime needed.
As a kid, I once heard the theory that aliens are actually time travelers fucking with people.
i wouldnt call it mastery, implies you can control spacetime as well, just finding ways around the speed of light limitations.
at least beings shows that control are close to being godlike energy beings.
I love the hubris of this argument. It’s the identical construction of guys who say a woman must be a lesbian if they reject thier advances.
For that matter they have not sent travelers to us.
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.
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.
Never said it was the best. But yeah, I did read the whole damned thing.
Only thing that stuck out for me was the weird furry and homoerotic dog piles, but it was still fun.
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.
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.
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Who cares. We’re colonizers, the natives lives don’t matter /s
(check history book lol, humans are brutal)
Well I’m sure the aliens will. At least until they die of horrible human diseases. 🤷♂️
Oh shit, sorry, didn’t realize y’all’d be so susceptible to chicken pox
Marco never shoulda came back from Adastra. 😔
