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OK, I understand now. That seems plausible--cats are even more sedentary, and lions are famously muscular. Everything evolves to meet the needs of it's own niche. Our niche, as you point out, was constantly running down prey and gathering plants. That presumably selects for chronic low level activit...

Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but I just wanted to clarify that organisms cannot evolve features so they can then use them for some function they can't attempt until after they evolve the feature. To take one example, neither humans nor reptilians could have evolved an upright posture so that t...

I have a weird thing--when I submit a new post, I get sent to a blank page, with no way of getting back to the thread. I have to manually type in the main forum page, or else Google and look for it that way.

Except it's not consistent--for example that didn't happen just now.

My definition of "evolution" is "involves genetic mutations, selected by natural conditions." The effects of being a couch potato are not evolution, except indirectly (via behavior and motivation). But perhaps we are talking about different things. I was responding to the idea that our ability to in...

Needs more cowbell.

As their tool use evolves, they will become less and less dependent on next fixed nest building behaviors. By the time you get to the neolithic, I imagine a bowl shaped artificial "nest" constructed out of woven fibers, sort of like an upside down human hut.

Of course there wasn't, otherwise very likely we wouldn't be here. But the OP is asking for speculative origins for an intelligent, civilized reptilian race.

"Maybe the ability to rapidly gain and lose muscle mass is a human adaptation specific to tool-using culture? Flexibility is important to our way of life, I think." Heh, I'm reasonably certain it's a non-evolutionary outcome of a modern, sedentary lifestyle (ie, we didn't evolve to become more flexi...

I think I read somewhere that the point of the upright bipedal stance is that it conserves energy such that we became marathon runners/walkers, about to run down any prey we targeted. Or at least that "run them till they drop" is one of the common hunting strategies among indigenous people. I don't ...

If you want to stick to earth-life, I'm of the opinion that no current reptile would plausibly evolve advanced social intelligence. You pretty much have to go back to the dinosaurs for that. Troodon is the most likely candidate, and there's even a scholarly article, by an expert in the field, specul...

You can read more about them at Atomic Rockets, here: https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php#nswr "Zubrin calculates that the 20% enriched uranium tetrabromide will produce a specific impulse of about 7000 seconds (69,000 m/s exhaust velocity), which is comparable to an ion drive....

Chad x Chad, the story.

"Humans use a variety of sex toys... quite a variety for both genders... none of which I'm aware of are heated." Actually some of them are, though texture seems to matter more than temperature. Anyone else thinking of this Not the 9 o'clock new sketch? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VgwxKW0J6I Th...

"Humans use a variety of sex toys... quite a variety for both genders... none of which I'm aware of are heated."

Actually some of them are, though texture seems to matter more than temperature.

Ah yes, I see from the rules that the pieces actually represent space ships for the most part. It would be cool to spec up a set of miniatures for this game.

I seem to remember Arioch stating that humans and Loroi are not genetically related. That we were used as a physical template for visible characteristics, but the Loroi genetic code isn't derived from ours.

You could ask the Farseer if she thinks she detected something during the fraction of a second that a ship is in hyperspace, but even if she says 'yes,' there's no way I can think of to test whether this detection was real or imagined. I my "theory" about "farseeing" i don´t think minds do have an ...

"Jumping ships are only in hyperspace for a fraction of a second, so I think this would be difficult to prove one way or another." What's true of the ships is also true of the minds, not so? What I mean is that even if telepathy and farsensing do work between hyperspace and real spacetime, I don't ...

"Jumping ships are only in hyperspace for a fraction of a second, so I think this would be difficult to prove one way or another."

What's true of the ships is also true of the minds, not so?

That's very cool. However, one questions then--why are you still using chess pieces, when nothing about this game seems related to chess?