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whswhs · 08-07-2018, 02:41 PM

I don't know if Appearance (Attractive) is appropriate.

C and I used to joke that if we travelled a few centuries into the past, we would probably be considered Attractive: exceptionally tall (5'8" and 5'7"), no missing teeth, no smallpox scars. . . . But in the early 21st, we're just Average. Your TL10 humans might strike us as Attractive, with their perfect complexions and unusually symmetrical bodies and faces, but I'm not sure that in their own era this wouldn't be discounted.

I think it depends on whether you think the human aesthetic response habituates or not.

08-07-2018, 02:41 PM	#2
whswhs Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS	Re: TL 10 Humans I don't know if Appearance (Attractive) is appropriate. C and I used to joke that if we travelled a few centuries into the past, we would probably be considered Attractive: exceptionally tall (5'8" and 5'7"), no missing teeth, no smallpox scars. . . . But in the early 21st, we're just Average. Your TL10 humans might strike us as Attractive, with their perfect complexions and unusually symmetrical bodies and faces, but I'm not sure that in their own era this wouldn't be discounted. I think it depends on whether you think the human aesthetic response habituates or not. __________________ Bill Stoddard I don't think we're in Oz any more.