RE: Alien habits and pet peeves

No. We will make the same mistakes, exporting terran flora and fauna to
other worlds to make them seem more like "home". I expect the first of
these
to be "food" plants and insects to pollinate them, prepare the soil,
etc.
Second (perhaps, first) will be pets that escape and go feral (if there
are
local flora or fauna it can eat). Then someone will decide it would be
great
to clone big game and let them loose to have an unrestricted hunting of
engineered "endangered" species on the planet (independent world). All
of
this, of course, doesn't count the engineered bacteria that we drop to
"terraform" the planet.

Of course at the same time we will bring back alien life forms (plant
and
animal) to earth for "display" and research. Some will invariably
escape.

Humanity has an almost unlimited capacity for destruction of itself and
its
environment. No wonder the Kra'Vak, Phalons, and Sa'Vasku see us as
dangerous. 

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Brian Bell
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-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Books [mailto:books@jumpspace.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 08:50
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: Alien habits and pet peeves

On  7-Mar-02 at 08:30, Bell, Brian K (Contractor)
(Brian.Bell@dscc.dla.mil)
wrote: > -----Original Message-----
> From: The Sutherlands [mailto:nma@kda.attmil.ne.jp]
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 08:09
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Alien habits and pet peeves
> 
> [snip]
>   (painted like lady bugs... dont laugh, lady bugs are some nasty
> bloodthirsty insects.)
> 
> [Bri] And if they are like the japanese lady beatles that have invaded
us,
> they are _impossible_ to get rid of. Kill all you want, they will make
> more! 

Do you think we will ever figure out that intentionally importing
someone elses fauna is a bad thing?  The accidental tourists
are bad enough.