----------| Am 28.01.2010 16:13 schrieb Jon Lang: |---------- > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Thomas Thrien <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Nevertheless, it might be interesting to think about what would happen, >> if some of the plant spores from Pandora (or Midworld) would reach Terra >> (or another feasible world). But I doubt that such an "invasion" would >> have immediate or short-term impact. My opinion is that it would take >> generations before things might get visible. But at least Midworld did >> not describe a mean how such a "child world" could communicate with the >> parent - such a child world would be like a palm tree on the neighbour >> island, without any contacts to the parent beside some passing insects >> or birds carrying spores or alike. >> > Not having seen the movie, I'm limited on how well I can comment. > That said, what sprang to mind upon reading the above was "War Against > the Chtorr", a series of sci-fi novels where an aggressive alien > ecosystem appears on Earth and starts taking over. > > I hope I remember that novels correctly. Then the difference between that "aggressive alien ecosystem" and Midworld/Pandora is like the difference between a parasite (that alien ecosystem) and an individual (Midworld/Pandora). In the latter case, the world is *the* lifeform, while in the other case life is existing on a world.
But regarding that "invasion" idea, this difference might by rethorical as its best. One may assume that an "invasion" from Pandora or Midworld might be less agressive and more evolutionary, and that it will be more assimilating the existing lifeforms than replacing it - but there is no prove for that, it could be even faster and more radical. On success, the invaded world would have changed its appearance completely - in either case. -- Thomas Thrien Geo 51° 28' 12" N 7° 32' 17" E _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
