Distant Planet Terrified It Might Be Able To Support Human Life

[Shaka Zulu]

In short, all humans are parasites according to this planet.

Oh well, there's other planets in the galaxy....

 

[Silvercrest]

Ugly. Bags. Of. Mostly. Water.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

^LOL, I remember that!

 

[Shik]

Humanity: the body lice of the galaxy.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Well, the lizard people would agree. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doFt-ME5YOQ

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Crap. Considering how long thoughts take for planets, this one must have been writing this text since Homo Erectus times. Can you imagine the horror, a blink and the humans are there.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Space:1999 had an alien express something like that idea.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

^That's where the writers probably got the idea for this article from.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

a very pretty picture of Jupiter, at any rate! =) Europe's shadow looks a bit like one of those beauty patches they used in the 1700s

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

RIMMER: Lister, don't you ever stop and wonder: why are we here? What's the grand purpose?

LISTER: Why does it have to be such a big deal? Why can't it be like, like, human beings are a planetary disease? Like the Earth's got German measles or facial herpes, right? And that's why all of the other planets give us such a wide berth. It's like, "Oh, don't go near Earth! It's got human beings on it, they're contagious!"

RIMMER: So you're saying, Lister, you're an intergalactic, pus-filled cold sore! At last, Lister, we agree on something.

-- Red Dwarf, "Waiting For God"
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[Mr. Laser Beam]

Reminds me of that bit in the first Men in Black film where Agent K compares human thought to an infectious disease. I'd have thought that was a lot less ironic if it wasn't an actual human being who said that line.