When I think about how I find a majority of earth living things kinda icky, it strikes me that I wouldn't make a good alien-world explorer
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ickiness is an evolved reaction tuned to Earth life, so it might not be so bad
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not so sure... Consider oceanic creatures we encountered late in evolutionary history, like octopi. Mix of icky+wowee.
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went to child birth training or whatever today, and man, icky is an understatement
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cue aliens mimicking by sawing "eeewwww" as greeting from then on
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You've evolved over hundreds of millions of years to avoid being infected by parasites that look like those icky things.
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