Although Planet's native life is based, like Earth's, on right-handed
DNA, and codes for all the same amino acids, the inevitable chemical
and structural differences from a billion years of evolution in an
alien environment render the native plant life highly poisonous
to humans. Juicy, ripe grenade fruits may look appealing, but a
mouthful of organonitrates will certainly change your mind in a hurry.
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
"A Comparative Biology of Planet"
DNA, and codes for all the same amino acids, the inevitable chemical
and structural differences from a billion years of evolution in an
alien environment render the native plant life highly poisonous
to humans. Juicy, ripe grenade fruits may look appealing, but a
mouthful of organonitrates will certainly change your mind in a hurry.
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
"A Comparative Biology of Planet"
Related:
- Planet's atmosphere, though a gasping death to humans and most animals,
is paradise for Earth plants. The high nitrate content... - Having now established a secure perimeter, we have made ourselves
relatively safe from enemy incursions.
But against the seemingly random attacks by Planet's... - You see in this dome the intermingling of native and earth plants.
Outside, they are competitors, struggling over the... - The fungus has been Planet's dominant lifeform since about
the time of the Lower Paleozoic on Earth.
But when, once every hundred million years or so, the... - The prevalence of anoxic environments rich in organic material,
combined with the presence of nitrated compounds has... - The Isle of the Deep is really not a single creature but a colony
of thousands of individual tubules,
an aquatic vector of the Mind Worm which terrorizes... - Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind.
Have you drunk your fill?
Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with... - You waited so long to heed us, earthdeirdre,
Almost we pruned you,
as we may yet prune your branches. -- Lady... - No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we,
but bright children of the stars! And together we shall...
