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Venom: comets, Von Neumann goo, and the alien brown note

Published: Nov. 19, 2019, 7:45 a.m.

Decontamination protocols \n\n

NASA\u2019s irl de-contamination measures. Private space industry without apparent government oversight.

\n\n Comets \n\n

Some of the oldest things in our solar system and maybe the oldest things that we can reach. Leftovers from early solar system formation. The possibility of finding the precursors of life. Delineating between comets and asteroids. Fuzzy definitions. \u201cExtinct\u201d comets. Scales & tails.

\n\n Von Neumann Goo \n\n

Sending out of infected ice-balls and hoping someone notices. Like a tree! Just send your reproductive material everywhere and who cares who it lands on or gives allergies to.

\n\n Evil Jeff Bezos \n\n

Thinly-written villains. Narcissism. Poorly designed humans and \u201csaving\u201d humanity.

\n\n Sound \n\n

And magnets! The frequencies in which MRI machines are loudest, and the way that doesn\u2019t line up with Venom\u2019s sonic sensitivities. Resonance frequencies and alien \u201cbrown notes.\u201d

\n\n Symbiosis \n\n

Christopher\u2019s surprise learning the distinction between the category of biological interactions that is symbiosis and its subcategories.

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  • parasitism
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  • commensalism
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  • mutualism (Venom, but perhaps not his compatriots)
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