great grandaddy bur oak
(midwest.social)
fossilesque
Science MemesIf you like the idea of alien plant based fiction check out Semiosis by Sue Burke. Recommend going in blind
Or the Infected trilogy by Scott Sigler
Ooh, I'll add it to the list
then they will try to domesticate us. I've read the literature
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.
Dendrologists: [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?
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.
We won't know until we try
Scientist 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]
But think of the splinters... Oh god... Think of the splinters... Mike should get hazard pay
Bold of you to assume Mike isn't paying for the privilege.
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: https://youtu.be/BLbJC7LeC8E
Serious question: I know many oaks can crossbreed with each other, but do oaks actually crossbreed with non-oaks?
Oak go bur
How do you know if this hasn't happened already?
