What It Feels Like To Play Pokemon Ruby And Sapphire On Max Volume

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I think the "humans are weird"/"earth is a hell death world" genre of fiction seems to miss a key point that should be obvious.

The reason why humans evolved sapience is because that's our natural defense. Our world is vast and terrifying and tough to survive in, and that is exactly why sapience evolved here at least once; likely several more times (there are half a dozen extant species which demonstrate pre- or protosapience). Intelligence evolves in the face of great adversity. Peaceful, stable environments do not produce significant selective pressures; they do not encourage evolution. Ergo, any other sophonts we encounter in the deep reaches of space will almost certainly have evolved from similarly challenging environments. They will likely be very different in many respects -perhaps they rely on ammonia rather than water, perhaps they see the world in high-definition ultrasound, perhaps they are a collective consciousness born of a million nonsapient individuals. But they will have originated on a world with just as much death as Earth, and it's likely their overall attitudes and accomplishments will show that.

What I'm saying here is, odds are good that aliens and their homeworlds are going to be just as crazy as us and ours.

Just a FYI, the original blog post where NPLB comes from was posted Oct. 19th, 2007. I thought I missed the anniversary but no, we still have over a week to go.

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Rebageling again because I found this sketch I did a while back! This is a species of meter-long barracuda-like macropredator which lives in the Europan ocean in the Astra Planeta canon.

Because I included the lithopanspermia hypothesis in this setting, the Europan biosphere is descended from a handful of hardy microbial organisms which originated on Earth in the Carboniferous and were transplanted via impact ejecta.

This particular species and its branch of life are descended from rotifers, tiny animals which suck in food using water vortices! The Europan "rotifish" group have adapted their central trunk cuticle to be a hollow “fuselage” with ciliated coronae lining the interior surface in order to push water through the channels and over the gill surface... and provide propulsion. They are living jet engines.

It wrinkles my brain that Jupiter’s moon Europa has oceans that are sixty miles deep, while Earth’s oceans only reach seven miles deep at most. I’m willing to bet good money that there’s life in Europa’s oceans. Like five bucks. You hear me, NASA? I bet you five bucks that there’s life on Europa… Now that there’s money and reputation on the line, I bet they send a mission there real quick.