Like a good Neighbor

Gerry Quinn · 23 Nov 2011, 22:06 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:06:55 -0000
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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From: David Stockhoff 

> For me, the most compelling argument would be that inhumi do not 
> see---or at least are not blinded---in the human visual spectrum. Krait 
> says he can see the stars at day. Either his vision is extremely 
> sensitive, without protective mechanisms like irises, or it's extremely 
> insensitive.  Now, what's the evolutionary advantage of that? Sounds 
> like a spacefaring species to me, evolved for feeding on Neighbors.

I read it as inhumi seeing in the infrared or microwave spectrum.  Infrared vision would fit with an evolutionary ancestry of snake-like predators on warm-blooded creatures.

- Gerry Quinn
 
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