02-03-2018, 03:30 PM | #11 |
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Re: Animal Genetic Traits Useful for Parahumans.
The ones with the support structure allowing major changes in level of blood hydration without popping or shriveling?
That would help one survive dehydration, but with how much humans sweat, it would be a relatively short lived stopgap in very hot weather. Camels do have a number of interesting adaptations to hot, dry, and even cold weather. Mix those with production of avian uric acid rather than our water-hungry urea, and you can justify a point or two in reduced consumption: water.
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02-04-2018, 09:26 PM | #12 |
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Re: Animal Genetic Traits Useful for Parahumans.
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02-13-2018, 09:11 PM | #13 |
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Re: Animal Genetic Traits Useful for Parahumans.
Not necessarily. The square-cube law means smaller creatures are effectively under less influence from the same gravity and indeed numerous insects use halteres that flap in counterpoint to their wings for balance rather than our semicircular canals with their interior hairs to sense inertial fluid.
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02-13-2018, 09:25 PM | #14 | |
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The sonar idea is interesting and in fact its documented that human ears already produce sounds naturally for unknown reasons, but care would be necessary to make it elective. |
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02-14-2018, 03:39 AM | #15 | |
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So humans can make sounds with their ears? Bats use larynx, tongue, wings or noses to produce echolocation sounds so when suggestion it I thought of something similar and using the big ears for reception only. --- Here's another one, spit poison like a |
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02-15-2018, 08:57 AM | #16 |
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Re: Animal Genetic Traits Useful for Parahumans.
Bats! NASA has brought a lot of animals into space, and bats are the only ones who don’t freak out when they’re in free fall. The current theory is that because they sleep upside down, they’re more comfortable not knowing where up is.
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02-15-2018, 10:25 AM | #17 |
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Re: Animal Genetic Traits Useful for Parahumans.
Grandpa Munster space explorer! I like it!
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02-15-2018, 10:48 AM | #18 |
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Re: Animal Genetic Traits Useful for Parahumans.
Or Tizbeth the Camazotz from the Bio-tech/TS vignette.
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02-15-2018, 03:34 PM | #19 |
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Re: Animal Genetic Traits Useful for Parahumans.
Grandpa Munster is sillier. So I like him better. Besides Tizbeth probably never slept hanging upside down. Grandpa Munster is routinely shown sleeping like a bat.
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02-24-2018, 04:09 AM | #20 |
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Re: Animal Genetic Traits Useful for Parahumans.
What about poisons and irritants? Mind you, given where a skunk shoots from, that modle won't be followed. Still parahumans and bioroids with hidden weapons would fit Transhuman Space.
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