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10-28-2010, 02:22 PM | #42 | |
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We don't have gopher snakes, but we do have some sort of (non poisonous) black water snake, and of course garter snakes, both of which have little tiny teeth but will nip if harassed. And unfortunately both seem to drive seemingly-sensible people into "Kill the snake" hysterics.
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10-28-2010, 03:59 PM | #43 |
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I have one point here, what is the genre? Hard biopunk? No way would I buy this, too energy intensive. Fantasy, well it is much less unlikely that creatures of living fire or some such.
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10-28-2010, 07:21 PM | #44 |
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10-28-2010, 07:31 PM | #45 | |
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10-28-2010, 09:40 PM | #46 |
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I did comment 'whatever they use for a brain' to contrast the lack of such in real spiders. Brain tissue, at least in mammals, is metabolically expensive, so if the sapient spider-like entity used something similar, that would be an added oxygen cost atop the added cost of the larger body.
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10-28-2010, 10:03 PM | #47 |
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It should be noted the larger arachnids are all (IIRC) hunting spiders not web layers.
But that being said "That scream in the dark is either some who just discovered a large harry spider crawling up their leg, or just discovery they are crawling up the leg of a larger hairy spider." (now i wish i remember where i heard that) |
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10-29-2010, 01:52 AM | #49 |
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