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Old 12-12-2007, 01:27 AM   #10 (permalink)
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It is imperative that we make the steps to expand before this civilization recycles and loses the ability to make the leap.
Yeah, to become the trailer trash of the milky way, "Ohh shit! It's those rimbillies again. Fuckin' spacecraft looks like a bunch of sodapop cans glued together. They're all braggin' about crossing 450 lightyears in a week, and all I can think is, 'Wow, traffic must've stunk.'"

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Just imagine a human that evolves in zero gravity, would an octopus be more comfortable in that environment ?
According to first novels I wrote they are the ideal astronaut. No bones to decalcify, they have a far better sense of orientation in three dimentional space, they can hold onto something with just one point of contact [with the right design pressuresuit the magnetic pads would be activated by a control fitted to their suckers] and they have innate understanding of EVA movement.
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