RE: Re: Bio-Forces

Hey guys, here's an idea for the bugs -

The MI troopers in SST had a hard time with their dogs because of the
telepathic projections of the brain bugs - phermone control of the bugs
is good, why not add a rudimentary telepathic control link to it as
well?

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>Subject:	Re: Re: Bio-Forces
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>Reality check: sound doesn't travel all that far in space. Or in
>atmosphere. We use kinds of technology to translate sounds into other
>energy forms to travel well. Don't sell a smell talking bug short on
that.
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>Even the concept of only simple concepts being available for 'orders'
may
>be stunting your imagination. The chemical messages can be quite
complex,
>and if I had to use scents as commands for relatively 'dumb'
subordinates,
>I can still see a wide variety of messages initiating quite complex
>'programs' in the neural centers of the dumb bugs.
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>Try some other ideas; pheremones(sp?) tend to have a long life compared
to
>sounds, and social insects have to deal with 'layers' of scents and
scent
>trails. Ants, to some extent, have a built in written language, and
idea of
>a many layered plot in the story of the scents might suggest different
ways
>of thinking compared to our own tendencies towards linearity.
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>Well, 'nuff ramblings early on a Sunday morn. Hope that made SOME
sense.
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>The_Beast
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>Samuel Reynolds <reynol@primenet.com> on 11/08/97 07:41:23 AM
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>Please respond to FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
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>To:   FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
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>Subject:  Re:	Re: Bio-Forces
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>>In a message dated 11/7/97 3:32:33 AM, you wrote:
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>><<Since both DSII and SGII are games which require counters on the
table,
>>why not set up a command & control system for bugs based on
pheromones?>>
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>>With this very interesting control system, how would you apply it to
>>spacefaring species? Would they be able to coordinate at all?
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>>Charles
>Chemical sense-pads?
>Don't expect their space vessels to maneuver rapidly.
>I won't even speculate on how the acquired space travel
>(imagination fails me--unless they pulled a "High Crusade"
>to take someone else's technology).
>- Sam
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