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WCDT: 2631-2635 (Feb 03 - 07 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Thrillho:
No. But there was a space rhino.
Why are they just rhinos? They couldn't come up with something better?
I'm sure there was a third one as well but I can't remember it.
Mr_Rose:
The trouble is that, with the truly incredible diversity of life on Earth, it's nearly inevitable that anything you come up with is going to be, on some level, a Space <$extantSpecies>
Unless it's a Space <$mythologicalSpecies> of course.
After ten thousand years of humans telling each other stories and fifteen billion years of evolution coming up with increasingly bizarre ways to live, avoiding overlapping one or both is increasingly hard.
Sidhekin:
Why vertebrates at all, though? In order to get to an industrial civilization, you kinda need large land animals (for reasons of fire and logistics). Large land animals on Earth are all vertebrates, but imagine vertebrates never developed. Would nature have to invent them, or would some other branch of life develop to fill that niche?
Vertebrates (with attributes like bone, teeth, and hair) are a cop-out. If you're going to go that way, you might as well admit the aliens are not really alien. Have all worlds populated by humans, and have them all wonder how that came to be ...
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 04 Feb 2014, 02:26 ---The trouble is that, with the truly incredible diversity of life on Earth, it's nearly inevitable that anything you come up with is going to be, on some level, a Space <$extantSpecies>
Unless it's a Space <$mythologicalSpecies> of course.
After ten thousand years of humans telling each other stories and fifteen billion years of evolution coming up with increasingly bizarre ways to live, avoiding overlapping one or both is increasingly hard.
--- End quote ---
Right, call me when we contact the Glorious Labia People of Smirnoff 5.
Thrillho:
They couldn't even make a rhino with like, ten horns, or no ears, or a rhino elephant hybrid?
Nope. Just a rhino face.
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