If you live on a fully urbanized planet and your kid's pet spaceworm gets too big for your apartment, dumping it in the nearest asteroid belt would be the equivalent of flushing an alligator down the toilet in New York for a society that has FTL ships. They of course will grow to an enormous size.
Also, when you get a new job on that urbanized planet and can't bring your pet Wampa, letting them loose on Hoth might sound like a good idea. You know some people would do such a thing, and the galaxy seems very full of people-like folks. It all fits together once you think of what kind of invasive species an intergalactic society would create. Thinking of each planet as an island is where this article misses the point.
With a magic energy field in the background that raises good and evil wizard like the teeth of Cadmus's dragon, I think conventional physics and biology applies in a dubious sense. ;)
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Their auroras must kick ass!
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Also, when you get a new job on that urbanized planet and can't bring your pet Wampa, letting them loose on Hoth might sound like a good idea. You know some people would do such a thing, and the galaxy seems very full of people-like folks. It all fits together once you think of what kind of invasive species an intergalactic society would create. Thinking of each planet as an island is where this article misses the point.
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See also: Han Solo (and possibly Lucas) doesn't know wtf parsecs are.
It's not even proper science fiction (at least Rodenberry tried) but I still like it.
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