Submitted 9 months ago by thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
I had a similar thought for an OC the other day. I like scifi so a lot of my writing is set in space, and I thought it would be funny to have a character from a world that doesn’t have rain getting freaked out when she sees rain on another planet for the first time.
“How can you all be so calm? There is water falling from the sky! That isn’t natural!”
There’s a scene in The Wheel of Time books where characters that lived all their lives in a desert region and were raised in a culture that treasures water more than anything venture out of that desert and see rains, rivers and lakes for the first time. The first reaction is basically “wait, all this water… is just free to take?”
In Project Hail Mary there is an alien species that from our point of view are basically living rocks, living in a far hotter atmosphere with many times the pressure of earth.
But from their point of view, humans are leaky sacks of flesh that live in fridge near-vacuum
Look up the book Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter. The first short story titled The Sun-People is exactly this scenario. It happens on a large asteroid in our solar system. Needless to say, that the creatures can’t survive in our presence.
I suppose it depends which creature from Titan you ask. Everyone knows that some creatures from Titan are racist, but that doesn't mean it's fair to generalize about all of them like that.
If you want a book about hot aliens thinking Earth is frigid, try “Iceworld” by Hal Clement.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 9 months ago
We sure are. We’re walking around, being 70% superheated ice. We can melt normal solids like oxygen and carbon dioxide to vapour just by huffing on them. In fact, we breathe oxygen and carbon dioxide!
marcos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m pretty sure oxygen would be a gas there.