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Re: Announcing the Aquarium: the new Sea Monkey home.
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lugnet.aquazone
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Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:52:44 GMT
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In lugnet.aquazone, Felix Greco writes:
> If they were telepathic, its likely they would have a
> better understanding of the environment and somehow be at harmony with it.
> So, humans would be the ultimate invasive species (the biologist in me is
> coming out). With thier ability to adapt to any environment, they could
> totally throw off the balance of SM ecosystems.
Another difference I see is that humans don't adapt to the environment as much
as adapt the environment to them. And that mastery of the environment is
something that the SMs disdain...they live in a general harmony with the sea.
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> > Now if you want to get extreme, what could happen with this is that the SMs
> > want to ultimately take control of the seas, perhaps to the point of coming
> > up with a way of raising the sea levels.
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> I guess that depends on where we see them living. If you remember the old
> aquazone posters, they seemed to be in an environment with huge blue
> canyons. I always considered that hydronauts were spacers who colonized an
> ocean planet (which I named Oceanica). But, were the SMs to invade a
> planet, raising the ocean levels would be a rather rude way to terra form
> for thier own purposes :)
So where do we see them living? The places I think of immediately are in the
marine trenches, or by hydrothermal vents...places not well explored by humans.
But it could be that the SMs are planning for an invasion, with outposts and
weapons and aquaformers being made and sent over...
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> Though I was toying with the idea of giving the SMs
> interstallar "gates" they could use to go planet to planet, in a war they
> would still need air and space power.
The SMs could still have gates (and that would be a good reason to use the LOM
gates, parts-wise) to travel quickly long distances.
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> I really like that. "To halt the menacing silence."
Thanks!
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> > I spent some time thinking about this while I was building the AttackCrab,
> > and I agree that wheels are a foreign concept to the SMs. And organic is
> > another thing that I would expect from the SMs. Most, if not all of the SM
> > crafts would be based by the environment that they live in, so fish shapes
> > and other sea animals would be emulated.
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> Sounds good.
I'm still stuck on social interaction for the SMs. But I am working on some
ideas for vehicles.
Joe Meno
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| (...) True. This way, they're not just war-mongers, but on a worthy mission. (...) Interesting that you say that. One of the ideas I've been toying with lately is that SMs don't have to eat to obtain energy. I'm always dissapointed in sci-fi aliens (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.aquazone)
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| (...) I totally agree. If they were telepathic, its likely they would have a better understanding of the environment and somehow be at harmony with it. So, humans would be the ultimate invasive species (the biologist in me is coming out). With (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.aquazone)
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