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>The question is, who would be who's worst nightmare?
Now, imagine writing this from the squid's point of view. "Exactly
what ar= e those... things
that breathe that free oxygen... in the air, and have only two limbs to
sta= nd on and two to
work with, not four and four like us, and what is that stuff... inside them=
, the hard beams
of whatever, calcium and other stuff, that holds them up. How can they be
= so... stiff."
On the other hand, maybe the sentient squids are the friendliest beings
aro= und, since they
evolved on a world on which they were the top predator and had no sentient
= land animals
hunting them. Of course, imagining how squid living in the water could
dev= elop technology
without fire might be a problem. I saw an interesting book recently,
calle= d "The Future Is
Wild," which has computer-generated images showing the possible
evolution o= f life on
Earth through the next two hundred milliion years. Various species of
squi= d moved on land
once land vertebrates died out, and one was even becoming sentient and
livi= ng in the trees.
It's like the evolution of the Treeaq all over again.
Steve
The Universe Unbounded.
Visit "Star Trek: Athena" at http://ussathena.iwarp.com
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>The question is, who would be who's worst nightmare?
Now, imagine writing this from the
squid's point
of
view. "Exactly what are those... things
that breathe that free oxygen...
in the air, and
have only two limbs to stand on and two to
work with, not four and four like
us, and what is
that stuff... inside them, the hard beams
of whatever, calcium and other
stuff, that holds
them up. How can they be so... stiff."
On the other hand, maybe the
sentient squids are
the friendliest beings around, since they
evolved on a world on which they
were the top
predator and had no sentient land animals
hunting them. Of course,
imagining how squid
living in the water could develop technology
without fire might be a
problem. I saw an
interesting book recently, called "The Future Is
Wild," which has
computer-generated images showing
the possible evolution of life on
Earth through the next two hundred milliion
years. Various species of squid moved on land
once land vertebrates died out,
and one was even
becoming sentient and living in the trees.
It's like the evolution of the
Treeaq all over
again.
Steve
The Universe
Unbounded.
Visit "Star Trek: Athena" at http://ussathena.iwarp.com;">http://ussathena.iwarp.comhttp://ussathena.iwarp.com">http://ussathena.iwarp.com;
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