Re: Armalligator was: Email

KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de Wrote:

>Not a bad idea in general, Some details:
>It is not obvious from the sketch whether the Oitjuan have any "hands"
>(manipulative organs). Any organism that develops technology must be
able
>manipulate things with a fair degree of dexterity. No sensory equipment
or
>mouth is visible.

The sketches were partial, not complete.  Rest assured they would have 
"hands" and "Mouths/eyes" etc.

> > >2) the digestive process efficiently and effortlessly removes the
>"useful"
> > >portions of metallic diet, then spits back out the "waste"
>products(bodily
> > >excrement=pure, refined iron and steel ; respiratory waste=oxygen).
>
>??? This will need more explaining. Which metals of the diet are used ?
Why
>is iron not a useful item ? why is Oxygen a waste product ? Extra
energy
>might be gained by combining iron and Oxygen to form rust. Steel is not
a
>"pure" product. Why should waste products be "pure, refined" ? Note
that on
>Earth animal waste products are hardly "pure, refined".

I've already brought this point up with him, and he had already agreed
that 
this was one point that needed to be changed.

> > >
> > >3)slow thinkers:
> > >  combination of metallic biochemistry and high body temperature
would
>mean
> > >that their neurons could not be as densely packed together as ours.
>
>Electronic (metal/semimetal based) switches are much faster and smaller

>than
>Neurons. Any electric switching would need insulation elements. High
>temperature may indeed need sturdier channels. However, "Slow thinking"
is
>not an obvious result of the combination.

The speed of the individual neurons would be faster, yes, so they would
have 
quicker reactions.  But the lower density of the neurons would mean
their 
thinking would be a little more linear than ours, and thus slower.

Brian B2

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis
is 
of no use."

				 - S. Freud

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