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 neural net at last achieves the
critical mass necessary to become sentient, the final metamorphosis
kills off most of the other life on the planet. It is possible that
we humans can help to break this tragic cycle.
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
"Planet Dreams"
the time of the Lower Paleozoic on Earth. But when, once every
hundred million years or so, the neural net at last achieves the
critical mass necessary to become sentient, the final metamorphosis
kills off most of the other life on the planet. It is possible that
we humans can help to break this tragic cycle.
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
"Planet Dreams"
Related:
- You see in this dome the intermingling of native and earth plants.
Outside, they are competitors, struggling over the... - I believe Planet will talk to us if we are willing
to listen.
These fungal stalks behave as multistate relays: taken... - Planet's atmosphere, though a gasping death to humans and most animals,
is paradise for Earth plants. The high nitrate content... - In the great commons at Gaia's Landing we have a tall and particularly
beautiful stand of white pine,
planted at the time of the first colonies. It represents... - Having now established a secure perimeter, we have made ourselves
relatively safe from enemy incursions.
But against the seemingly random attacks by Planet's... - Although Planet's native life is based, like Earth's,
on right-handed DNA, and codes for all the same amino... - You are orphans, earthdeirdre, your homeworld already buried
so young among the aeons.
Yet now you fill the skies where we watched a million... - Observe the Razorbeak as it tends so carefully to the fungal blooms;
just the right bit from the yellow, then a swatch from... - Sky farms are fantastically beautiful, with their kilometer long
networks of glass framed in grids of metal,
and the sunlight shining through jungles of vegetation...
From the same category:
- When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's
skin,
one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it;... - The substructure of the universe regresses infinitely towards
smaller and smaller components.
Behind atoms we find electrons, and behind electrons... - Let the Gaians preach their silly religion, but one way or the other
I shall see this compound burned,
seared, and sterilized until every hiding place is... - A handsome young Cyborg named Ace,
Wooed women at every base,
But once ladies glanced at His special enhancement... - As distances vanish and the people can flow freely from place
to place,
society will cross a psychological specific heat boundary...
