I believe Planet will talk to us if we are willing
to listen. These fungal stalks behave as multistate relays:
taken together, the neural net connectivity must be staggering.
Can a planet be said to have achieved sentience?
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
Arguments in Council
to listen. These fungal stalks behave as multistate relays:
taken together, the neural net connectivity must be staggering.
Can a planet be said to have achieved sentience?
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
Arguments in Council
Related:
- 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... - 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... - Observe the Razorbeak as it tends so carefully to the fungal blooms;
just the right bit from the yellow, then a swatch from... - You are the children of a dead planet, earthdeirdre,
and this death we do not comprehend. We shall take... - Having now established a secure perimeter, we have made ourselves
relatively safe from enemy incursions.
But against the seemingly random attacks by Planet's... - 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... - No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we,
but bright children of the stars! And together we shall... - We welcome you, earthdeirdre and earthwheat and earthtree as
honored guests,
for you add great power to our ancient song-- ...
From the same category:
- Our first challenge is to create an entire economic infrastructure,
from top to bottom, out of whole cloth. No gradual... - No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we,
but bright children of the stars! And together we shall... - A ship at sea is its own world. To be the captain of a ship is
to be the unquestioned ruler of that world and requires all of
the leadership skills of a prince or minister.
Col.... - The prevalence of anoxic environments rich in organic material,
combined with the presence of nitrated compounds has... - Industrial Grade Nano-Paste, Planet's most valuable commodity,
can also be one of its most dangerous. Simply pour...
