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BLADE_CHASER

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 12:44 am

a question ???

last nite i watched a tv program about the effect that higher lifeforms have on lower lifeforms
and i pondered something ...
say for instance that u had to make a settlement on another planet(yes i know bit far fetched as yet) and that planet had lifeforms that were adapted to living in total darkness
as a human u would probably bring along lights to be able to see. possibly enough lights to change the evolution of a certain lifeform after so long this lifeform would change and become adapted to the light and dark....
after so long u might leave this so called place .. but the changes u have made to the living things there are unchangeable so after awhile they cant go back to living in the dark,,, so i ask this if u could change a lifeforms evolution so much that they might die if reverted to old ways WOULD U STILL DO THOSE THINGS OR NOT????

sorry if i dont make to much sense i cant get the idea from my head to here to good lol but i think u get the general idea

have you ever used your light saber to open a bottle of Bud Light???????

Tawakalna

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 1:28 am

isn't such a hypthesis highly conditional? there's already countless instances of humans radically altering the living conditions of other life forms on Earth and indeed other humans. I doubt if it was so imperative to colonise and transform another ecosystem that most humans would disturb their consciences over much. nor were it necessary to abandon said altered ecosystem eventually that much concern would be given to the wrack left behind. Just imagine if we discovered now a planet with limitless oil or gold or diamonds or whatever, but the conditions were as you suggest, and we could get there fairly easily. Do you think Texaco or big firms like that would care about some alien sea-snails?

BLADE_CHASER

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 1:30 am

ahh but think on differnet planets they would be aliens so they would have to put into a higher classification than sea snails.... i just wonder if humans are gonna be the trash leavers of the glaxy... we do it on are own planet imagine humans on a galactic scale

have you ever used your light saber to open a bottle of Bud Light???????

Tawakalna

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 1:45 am

so are they intelligent aliens or just dumb animals?

BLADE_CHASER

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 1:51 am

hmmm theres a sore point there ,,,, ok lets go with inbetween animals that can be trained say like dogs

have you ever used your light saber to open a bottle of Bud Light???????

mustang

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:31 am

Anywhere we go would have a massive change on the eco system. Take a look at earth, the main animals that have managed to keep their numbers are those that adapt to living with humans, rats, pigeons, mice and other vermin. If we had never come along, the ol' rat would probably be struggling a little at the moment.

So if we went to another planet with life and stayed for any period of time we would certainly have an impact but no more of an impact than what we are having on earth. It's really survival of the fittest on a galactic scale.

If there were no reason to go to a planet, then i'd say no but if we had a chance to colonise another planet (and it was a good planet, with lots of cheap beach front property) then yes. One species isn't as important as guaranteeing the survival of our own.

Bloody hell I write some crap sometimes, I hope someone makes heads or tails of what I just wrote.

RILMS

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 5:44 am

I'd probaly still do it. It's in our nature.

Life: No one gets out alive.

Ugnaught

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 8:42 am

If you want to make sure a species doesn't go extinct you should start eating it. Chickens and cows will never go extinct as long as people need to harvest them. Corn could go extinct if there were no humans because it has been bred so well to protect the kernels that they can't fall out and plant themselves. So you see, human activites are a good thing because they're keeping corn, chickens, and cows alive.

Let's get those missiles ready to destroy the universe!!

Recusant

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:17 am

I doubt we'd ever be really fussed about killing of alien space creatures. Look at all the creatures that we've wiped out on this planet, the ones that we manage to save from extinction due to public outcry tend to be the fluffy, non-slimy variety with big eyes. No-one goes "Save the venemous spotted giant centipede" do they? But they will cry out for seals and hold up banners with pics of fluffy seal pups.

Tawakalna

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:55 am

I'd kill the seal pups and save the venomous slimy alien space creatures.

I spear-gunned a dolphin once. Dolphin, tuna, what's the difference?

I used to kill fish with hand-grenades too.

Edited by - Tawakalna on 1/12/2004 10:55:57 AM

Esquilax

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:46 pm

Since when have humans ever cared about what they do to the environment or animals? Global warming, anyone? Whale hunting? Need I go on?

Esquilax

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