That might be true but have you not seen the movie “war of the worlds” ? Or read that book by the guy who wrote “the martian” about the light eating organisms?
In all seriousness that makes s lot of sense to me, but I thought there still might be a non -zero chance of a different kind of pathogen (perhaps that doesn’t fit our earthly paradigms) that could just wipe us out.
Millions of “fission bugs” that enter you then explode, or a rapidly reproducing carbon eating parasite or a..
I know this example doesn’t match because they still do have roughly the same environment, but introduced species can take over another more rapidly grab in their own where they are in equilibrium. What if we didn’t have that one critical defense mechanism that every creature on Jupiter’s moon uses routinely to keep it at bay?
Yeah, invasive species did come in mind to me as well, but usually the environments of the invader and the invaded are not that different. If you introduced elephants to antarctica they wouldn’t fare very well, for example.
That might be true but have you not seen the movie “war of the worlds” ? Or read that book by the guy who wrote “the martian” about the light eating organisms?
In all seriousness that makes s lot of sense to me, but I thought there still might be a non -zero chance of a different kind of pathogen (perhaps that doesn’t fit our earthly paradigms) that could just wipe us out.
Millions of “fission bugs” that enter you then explode, or a rapidly reproducing carbon eating parasite or a..
I know this example doesn’t match because they still do have roughly the same environment, but introduced species can take over another more rapidly grab in their own where they are in equilibrium. What if we didn’t have that one critical defense mechanism that every creature on Jupiter’s moon uses routinely to keep it at bay?
IDK probably just being ridiculous here.
Yeah, invasive species did come in mind to me as well, but usually the environments of the invader and the invaded are not that different. If you introduced elephants to antarctica they wouldn’t fare very well, for example.