Ch5-68
Othosmops on Aug. 29, 2024
Panel 1:
While the news interview rolls on …
BRUNO: Look at that … Whoooaah! ?
Like Snow White and her … four giants!
Panel 2:
GISELLE: I never want to be an apple tree in zis plantation.
LENNARD: Why not?
BRUNO (czech): Ach kurva! (Oh fuck!) * grunts *
GISELLE: I'd die of loneliness. Zere's no real biotope zere anymore. No more community wiz ozer living beings zet builds resilience. A monoculture of ze worst kind in ze service of ‘umans. Such an existence is pure plant slavery.
Panel 3:
BRUNO: How can you, as a scientist, say that? You’re transferring your crude human ideas to a plant! That's bullshit. Apart from that, on the surface as well, there are only very few functioning biotopes left.
Panel 4:
GISELLE: Zet's exactly what's so bad! And zen such inappropriate plant ‘usbandry is sold ’ere as good news. Where do we end up when even such so-called good news is in fact bad news?
And as for you: I can understand zet as a biochemist you see all life as a collection of ‘eaps of molecules. But sorry - I ’appen to know a lot about apple trees.
Can someone please turn on ze light?
jerrie at 11:31PM, Aug. 29, 2024
they got a better chance of a successful apple tree plantation, with robots running it instead of us stupid humans. Us humans will mess things up.
Othosmops at 1:14AM, Aug. 30, 2024
Everything is contingent. Not a single apple has been harvested yet.
plymayer at 1:43AM, Aug. 29, 2024
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Othosmops at 5:25AM, Aug. 29, 2024
Perhaps Giselle would have been better off keeping her mouth shut. A thoughtless remark is sometimes worse than a pistol shot.
bravo1102 at 12:36AM, Aug. 29, 2024
She is right. Lots examples of building a society on one thing, that thing goes bad, there goes society.
Othosmops at 5:22AM, Aug. 29, 2024
On the other hand, we humans have not had such a lucky touch when it comes to building artificial ecosystems.