fossilesquegreat grandaddy bur oak
Remember_the_toothDendrologists: [heavy breathing]
In all seriousness, isn’t it pretty unlikely that alien life could interbreed with terran life even if they also used DNA with the same bases?
AJMaxwellScientist 1: “How are things coming along with our test subjects?”
Scientist 2: “I don’t know, it’s about time to check back in with them.”
Scientist 2: “Hey, Mike? How’s it going?”
Mike: “Not too bad. There have been some challenges, but I think we got a few things worked out.”
Scientist 2: “Oh…my. was that it’s–”
Mike: “No, I don’t think so, but it seems like it was mutually enjoyable, though, so write that down.”
[Trilling noises in the background]
Bold of you to assume Mike isn’t paying for the privilege.
True, all I’m going to say is if you look up videos on “cbt therapy” make sure to put therapy in the search and/or have safe search on, as a result I believe Mike may enjoy the splinters
spankinspinachThe upsetting part about this is the ‘t’ already stands for therapy. And nothing else
Yeah, I’ll give you a more complete response after I go to the atm machine where I’ll enter my pin number. 😜
sighs in overwhelming redundancy
Actually I loved that haha
Well it seems safe to say it’s at least as unlikely as a terran species being able to breed with some randomly selected other terran species.
Even when possible, it’s often inadvisable as we learned from the monkapotamus in Drew Carey’s famous documentary: youtu.be/BLbJC7LeC8E
Drew Carey and Oswald Harvey encounter the Monkapotamus
It’s extremely unlikely that their DNA has the same translation semantics into proteins.
Not unless there is a common ancestor, which is theoretically possible. But yeah, extremely unlikely.
Wow. So I went looking if people actually knew when our codon system appeared.
Turns out that there are 26 slightly different systems on Earth right now, and there are good reasons to expect random alien life to have a system that looks like ours, but is different enough to not be compatible.
Incredibly. Even very closely related organisms can have a hard time breeding
Serious question: I know many oaks can crossbreed with each other, but do oaks actually crossbreed with non-oaks?
they can apparently even crossbreed with professors!
Oak go bur
Some plant aliens land and discover the air itself gets them pregnant from all the pollen freely flying around from such numerous and primitive plant life. Terra is the plant equivalent of an unbridled sex planet.
DeltaWingDragonI’ve got a relevant SMBC for that
How do you know if this hasn’t happened already?
then they will try to domesticate us. I’ve read the literature
PsaldornIf you like the idea of alien plant based fiction check out Semiosis by Sue Burke. Recommend going in blind
starman2112Xenophytophilia is my favorite word in the English language
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 What would happen if I crossbred with citrus? 🤔
I once had a short-lived romance with a Hanks Hard Lemonade
Doctors hate this one simple trick