They Called This Planet Dead... Until Humans Stepped In | HFY | Sci Fi Short Story |
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- čas přidán 22. 01. 2024
- Skeptical diplomat Q’Netri joins human terraforming teams as they swarm a barren wasteland his people dismissed as dead. He watches in awe as they quickly transform endless deserts into thriving paradise by constructing geoengineering marvels and transplanting fully-mature biomes.
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"Well, we f'd up our homeworld, so we had to learn how to fix it," is what I imagined as the origin of this tech.
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that and having to revive two dead worlds, Venus and Mars (and possibly several other Jovian and Saturian moons)
Civilization-level tech support
Exactly. I don't get all these climate change deniers. Even if we are wrong and there is no climate change, what is the harm in re-learning our job skills and re-adapting our technology to have a lesser footprint and and lesser reliance on non-renewable sources? Things like carbon capture tech are the first steps in terraforming. I agree that terraforming a living world is much more delicate and involved process than doing it on some lifeless rock like Mars, but we are barely learning the ropes here on Earth, not attempting to cause major changes.
And economics of terraforming is a part of it. Our current economies are NOT built to fund such multi-tens of generations long infrastructure projects. We expect ROI within years/decades. So as much as the technology of terraforming, we also need to learn the socio-economics of it. And here people are up in arms because of nostalgia for their coal mining job.
smh.
"Then we tested it out on our neighboring planets and well, if it has enough gravity, we'd live in it"
The Genesis Device works.....
It took God six days. Here comes the humans, we'll do it in six minutes!
they could have asked Slartibartfast to build a new planet (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
With a LOT of fjords, with all of the lovely crinkly edges they have.
Now imagine how completely and utterly terrifying it would be to see us do the reverse.
Legalised nuklear weapons .
You're watching it happen real time right here.
Something like 70% of the forests in north America are gone and around 80% of the north American wetlands are gone and 99% of old growth has been obliterated--ocean acidification and ocean dead zones are expanding, not shrinking, and the lowland and coastal rain forests being logged will be deserts in 100 years or so after they finish obliterating all the top soil. Chemical based monocultre is also killing the soil--most farms were built on wetlands that exsisted for thousands of years and they are slowly killing soil that took centuries to build up.
Nothing humans are doing right now are sustainable and most of our settlement design and food systems are a net drain done in the dumbest way possible.
@@TurboLoveTrain In short , we don't know that enough is enough . Yeap , that sounds like us ...
As is the whole point of the story I think. And maybe why humans in the story have developed methods to do this sort of thing.
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The idea that humans can build a biosphere better than nature is the worst and most unrealistic fiction imaginable. If anything humans have demonstrated to be locusts and the people engineering biomes do it to destroy them for profit.
Amazing how the heat of processes got dissipated.
Shhh. The perfect sphere exists in the future, too. Just shhh.
Probably being pump back into the core of the planet, usually planet dies so suddenly like such short time were due to inhabiting species ripping too much thermo energy form the planet core.
@@Mantelar Perfect sphere seems more complicated
Let’s face it. We wouldn’t bother with a genesis device. We’d get the atmosphere breathable and then empty our jails and send them there.
sooooo we gonna pull an Australia on another planet?
@@johns5641 you think we wouldn’t, if we could travel the stars? I’d pick a word with no fissile material and few to no hydrocarbons. Even after 10,000 years, they’d have no way off.
@Mantelar, many other elements and compounds are available for propulsion.
@@draighodge6039 true. And people would find a way. But it would set them back. Centuries maybe. Point being, we’d want them to forget about us, create their own civilization, then we could harvest them when fully matured. It could be troop farm.
@@Mantelar, that sounds suspiciously like generational punishment. Trade and persuasion would be better ways to gain mutual benefits.
This will be wonderful if we can do all of those things someday.
Nice no violence . Wiser humans!
Beautifully written
Thanks for listening
In the Uplift series by David Brin humans are experts at terraforming planets due to how we had to fix our own. The rest of the universe are zealots when it comes to preserving planets and due them being uplifted (genetically engineered) by other races they never had to learn how to fix their own because they never screwed them up. If humans hadn't (fixed Earth) they would have been annihilated.
Ok, weird to just pick this out....but "soup skewers" ?
Its basically soup you eat with a fork instead of a spoon. Its sort of at just the place between soup and stew where you would transition from one to the other. Yet, the delicious liquid element, or as close to it as we can consider, seems to stick more strongly to the ingredients inside despite the otherwise fairly liquid-seeming surrounding pool. As such, while both a spoon or fork can be used, some people will actually use a longer, two-pronged "skewer fork" to eat it. This was initially especially common a practice among an aquatic alien species with instinctive fishing capabilities, but humans and some other nearby local sapients who were moving freely around and working together across the local star cluster's worlds rapidly adopted this eating habit as it proved remarkably compatible with the "twin nature broth" that acompanied this dish due to the multi-cultural, and really, multi-planetary ingredients of these remarkably delectable "skewer soups."
Oh, don't worry about the more liquid of the two interconnected broths being wasted. For the leftover, more liquid part of the broth proved to be a wonderful ingredient for some human dish they called "curry." But that is another story for another time.
Rocket buses!
Sooo... the humans are magratheans?
If a fantastic idea exists then sooner or later someone will pull it off.
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This was good!
I imagine this is the kind of stuff we could do if we managed to fix our own planet and colonize our solar system.
Makes sense tech would advance in that direction.
For people criticising the lack of tension etc. It was only 8 minutes long, you can get a fair bit of information in that time, but this doesn't even say what human year it is. Plus, don't criticise what you don't have the ability to achieve yourself.
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So I can’t criticize hitler because I couldn’t have conquered half of Europe ?
Gives alien a G.E.C.K 😂
Where do you pack all the carbon you pull out of the atmosphere with the atmospheric factories? We are speaking gigatons of carbon.
Maybe they created dimensional engineering.
Presumably in all the newly grown planet life.
Lots and lots and lots of graphene:-)
There was no talk of carbon pollution in the story, only heavy industry destroying the biosphere. I think you've jumped the gun and imprinted human climate catastrophism onto a story about wanton greed and negligence? The destruction of an ecosystem on a planetary scale would take multiple centuries unless the council in the story just turned their backs and ignored it?
Why would you remove the carbon anyway? It's THE essential building block of life - as we know it on Earth at least.
The takeaway here is that Humans can achieve wonders if they put their minds to it, just as we have on Earth; But also terrible destruction and death if opportunity presents itself.
High fantasy in space not science fiction.
Nah... Rather than HFY, this story is BSFO... I like a bit of reality in my SF. I'm prepared to suspend disbelief if the story is a good one... But this one takes it just a bit too far and fast. Humans may be good, but we're not that good
What is BSFO? I only recently found HFY stories and fell in love with them.
@@ALLSciFi88 - It's a parody term I made up on the spot while writing that comment... It means Bull Shit F*ck Off.
Your narration was OK, but the story sucked .
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@@ALLSciFi88 - It's a parody term I made up while writing that comment. It stands for Bull Shit F*ck Off...
Your narration was OK, but the story itself sucked....
You will find there is a wide variation in the HFY stories. Some are truly excellent and worthy of publishing as a novel, or in a short story anthology, while others are "not so good"....
If you like a good read, have a look on HFY for "The Humans Answered", "Why The Galavrck are no more", and "Those who Run" . Also, if you want a good giggle look at "To The Nerds....
LOL ok I was looking for what it ment I thought I just couldn't find anything. I'm sorry you did not like and yea some are hits others not soo much even if you did not like it dosent mean it might not be someone favorite or it is not a good story. I'll check those out I love HFY stories.
I find the idea that humans can successfully manage a global ecosystem with the goal of restoring it is too far fetched of a premise for me to buy. Otherwise a fun little story.
In a universe where humans haven't obliterated themselves then I could believe it. We would have quite a bit of experience by then in fixing our own planet.
@@RichardStrong86 By the time humans realize the extent of the damage it will already be to late to fix it. Humans would rather go extinct than stop cutting down trees and polluting.
Just couldn't get into this story as we trash our planet for a buck.
High fantasy in space not science fiction.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke
Where is this not SciFi? Existing science exo-biology leads to terraforming. Language models and AI may lead to alien communication. I see no fantasy background.
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Lol this wasn’t a story. It had no conflict, tension to resolve.
The, "tension to resolve," was whether or not the humans could help restore the environment. Really not that hard to understand, "if you only had a brain," Mr Scarecrow.
I'm so tired of eco-terrorist bullshit!
Don’t listen then.
@@geoffquickfall I didn't I stopped watching