• tygerprints@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    If you think about, we “humans” are about as strange as creatures can get. We breathe oxygen, which is a corrosive gas. Metal exposed to oxygen starts to rust. Some common foods we eat like apples contain arsenic and other poisonous substances. By the time we’re adults, we have more foreign microbes living in our bodies than human cells. We’re pretty scary as a species all right. To other alien life out there, we’re probably going to seem like extremely mutant freaks.

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      9 months ago

      We use oxygen to oxidise stuff for energy. Nothing odd about that, practically all Earth life does that and has since the oxygenation crisis

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        9 months ago

        Yes but what I’m saying is, to life forms from other planets that breathe other gases, us humans breathing oxygen will seem as weird as what they breathe might seem to us. To us on earth, it’s perfectly normal and not odd, because it’s what we are used to.