Clarification: I’m not talking about sex. I’m talking about biological exposition.
What are you saying? Are you saying it isn’t like in Star Trek where they can beam people down to untraveled planets and somehow still have a breathable atmosphere suitable for humans? Say it isn’t so!
On the other hand, the two biologies could be so different from each other that they don’t interact at all.
Read the book Children of Ruin
Fuck reading just the one. Read the whole series. So very much worth it.
we could never set a foot on it
I’m not talking about sex
It’s ok Quentin.
No we will, the bigger question is if one of the parties will have sex or dinner.
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.
NASA is funny. They are always searching for signs of life, past or present, on planets in our system when they can send a lander of some sort. But, if there is a spot where there actually might be a chance of life existing, they avoid it because of the minuscule chance of some bacteria on any rover contaminating the area.
We’ll look for signs of life where it’s hard to find and avoid the areas where there might be a better chance of it.
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 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?
You’ve clearly never been in a coal mine. 😂
Do…do you poop in your coal mines to fill them before digging?
You poop before you scoop? Defecate before you excavate? Drop your load before you tunnel your road?
They’re talking about sex 😉
There’s an entire very large genre of scifi about this very topic
But how else am I supposed to get green *Orion trader women on my arm?
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!
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.
