Galapagos Tortoise

[guppiecat]

This tortoise would like to point out that, had aliens visited Earth and set up terraforming equipment that pumped carbon into the atmosphere and raised planetary temperature, humans would have fixed the problem in a couple of years, then would invented interstellar space flight, new weaponry, and spy tech, and then flown off to kick ass.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Comments

[pameladean]

There's a Theodore Sturgeon story along similar lines, though at the moment I feel it may have been optimistic. Possibly it just needed a Galapagos tortoise, though.

P.