Clarification: I’m not talking about sex. I’m talking about biological exposition.
It would go exactly like in many (bad) movies, Yolo! (seriously.)
Sexy results?
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!
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.
I heard on the radio that bacteria is what killed the Martians
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.
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.
They’re talking about sex 😉
No we will, the bigger question is if one of the parties will have sex or dinner.
we could never set a foot on it
I’m not talking about sex
It’s ok Quentin.
There’s only one way to be sure: nuke it from orbit.
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?
Well we can’t have infinite growth without infinite exploitation ConstantPain. Duh
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?
Read the book Children of Ruin
Fuck reading just the one. Read the whole series. So very much worth it.
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?
The sci-fi book Children of Ruin (sequel to Children of Time) covers this somewhat. There humans encounter a planet with a breathable atmosphere but with a toxic environment that slowly kills them.
I’ve read that one, it was quite good.
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).
