Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, July 12, 2023.
Yes planet being, you ARE a bit creepy (but in a nice way).
Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, July 12, 2023.
Yes planet being, you ARE a bit creepy (but in a nice way).
I confess, I kind of want to lick it.
It’s not *too* creepy so long as it isn’t creeping.
Reminds me the shapeshifter sea in DS9.
Or Solaris.
Wouldn’t bother me but in deference to the planet, I’d decide to walk on it barefooted. Feels much more respectful.
If it creeps across the planet, it’s creepy. And the territory comes with it.
WoW!
You want bad “territory” jokes?
http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20190201.html
They’re from Sommalier – a nation of conservative fundamentalist vintners. Their people are very passionate about winemaking.
They sometimes resort to sabotage to get the better of their competitors.
Some people call them terroir-ists.
Ooh, that’s a bad (good) pun! Thanks for the link too – a webcomic about hyenas. Just my cup of tea.
It’s a very grounded being.
What’s creepy is that Silwellyia, planet and individual, managed to produce a biosphere that created the symbionts. (SYMBIONTS! SYMBIONTS! SYMBIONTS!)
WHAT perversion of natural selection permitted this outrage to happen? Don’t tell me it was an ingrown hair, or a pimple, or — God save us all — a MOLE.
Unless the symbionts somehow were transported to Silwellyia and found it habitable — or, worse, made it so for their species — this is an organic problem of the first water. Walking on a planet-sized (or planet-covering, whichever) being is not creepy. Being infested with aggressive and rude symbiotic parasites IS.
Planet-sized ‘Eeuuughhh!’ here.
I would stay in orbit until somebody explained to me how it eats. Photosynthesis? I’m cool with that. Organic debris drifting in from space? That’s another matter.
This is a weird dream, and one step away from nightmare (?)
“Sorry, planet. You’re not creepy. It’s just the concept of a symbiotic planet skin that’s creepy.”