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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Buddahriffic 31 points 7 months ago (17 children)

A similar argument could be made for making first contact with an alien species. There's a decent chance one or both species carries some form of microscopic life that the other has no defenses against, assuming both species can even survive in the environment necessary for the other.

Not only will starship captains and crew not be able to have sex with the hot aliens they meet, "they have an nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere" won't mean the away team can land without environmental isolation suits. Planets with oxygen in their atmospheres might be the most dangerous ones out there for us.

[–] kraftpudding 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I personally trust humanity that we will work out a way to have sex with something we shouldn't rather quickly. Our horniest scientiest and our brightest perverts will find a way, even if it's at great personal cost.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Obligatory "that Venn diagram is basically a circle."

[–] Buddahriffic 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it is probably going to be one of the top 5 reasons to join a starship crew, so life will probably, ah, find a way. For all we know, NASA might even have a focus group working on this already.

BUT that doesn't mean it won't lead to the extinction of one or both species involved.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Read "scientities"

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