Timeline for I'm stranded on an alien planet. How can I tell what's good to eat?
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| Nov 9, 2017 at 8:36 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | @Ettina: but they might still enjoy eating (or mining, I guess) us. Say one of the alien microbes likes living in slightly salty water and chews on haemoglobin: it’s be a pretty nasty passenger to pick up. | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 13:00 | comment | added | Ettina | I don't think the War of the Worlds ending is likely, personally. After all, there's maybe only one disease we share with plants, and alien life probably has less in common with us than they do. Their microbes wouldn't know how to attack us. | |
| Sep 27, 2015 at 16:40 | history | edited | Vincent | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 27, 2015 at 10:14 | comment | added | nigel222 | Speculation is futile. We only know of one instance of life, and virtualy nothing of its earliest evolution out of nonbiological chemistry. I'd guess that mutual biochemical incompatibility is more likely than mutual assured microbiological destruction. Attempting to eat alien life would result in poisoning at worst, deficiency diseases at best, because the vital building blocks of alien life are so different from ours. Interstellar travel would be safe. But that doesn't work in this story's scenario. | |
| Sep 27, 2015 at 0:49 | comment | added | user3652621 | I was wondering about the divergent paths and the likelihood of total nano-war between microbiomes, War of the Worlds style. Do you think that's the most likely outcome? Or could we think of it as "just another invading species" like dogs in Australia. | |
| Sep 26, 2015 at 22:05 | history | answered | nigel222 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |