| Posted: 01 June 2013 at 7:05am | IP Logged | 4
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When a human being eats a salad, s/he consumes and ultimately destroys BILLIONS of living organisms, in the form of bacteria that survive on even the most zealously cleaned and processed food. Any one of those bacteria could -- and sometimes do -- prove to be of a lethal or at least infectious kind. Hard to get thru a week without some restaurant getting in trouble, for instance, because patrons are sickened by eating meals prepared by a chef who didn't bother to wash his hands after going to the bathroom.Galactus is about as far above us as we are above those bacteria, the principle difference being that we are intelligent, with the power of speech, and can, if he choses, engage Galactus in dialog. But that doesn't alter the fact that we are utterly inconsequential to him, as established by Stan and Jack in the very first story. 
Just as we can imagine bacteria doing us harm, and even killing us, so we can imagine humans doing harm, even lethal harm, to Galactus. But the scenario is a whole lot less likely than getting sick from eating a salad! (Interesting to note that Galactus as the destroyer of billions of intelligent beings thru-out the cosmos was something of a retcon. As Stan scripted that initial appearance, Earth was the first living world to catch his attention. What would be the perception of the character today, I wonder, if that original presentation had been kept?)
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