Crocagators

William Ansley · 25 Apr 2001, 22:31 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: William Ansley <wansley at warwick.net>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Crocagators
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:31:37
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At 5:30 PM -0400 4/25/01, mark millman wrote:
>At the risk of being obvious, allow me to point out that, unlike the
>inhumi, wolves, bears, sharks, snakes, crocodilians, and the like do
>not preferentially target humans as their prey.

I don't think that "dumb" inhumi would preferentially target humans=20
as their host. As I read the text, it was just an accident that the=20
inhumi first fed upon the Neighbors and became sentient.

At 11:03 AM -0700 4/25/01, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>(As a side note, how many people are _actually_ attacked by alligators
>and the like in a given year? I presume that proper precautions could
>make the threat from non-sentient inhumi no greater than that from
>crocodilians.)

At 12:58 PM -0700 4/25/01, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>Which was pretty much my point. Assuming per argumentam the
>"Golden Rule" theory of the Secret, _and_ that the human
>colonists somehow manage to implement it, then the inhumi
>become "something we can live with," either as benevolent
>sentients or as dangerous but mindless giant leeches.

I think "mindless giant leeches" *that can fly* would be a much=20
greater threat that crocodiles. It is easy to stay away from=20
crocodiles, you just don't go near the river/lake they live in.=20
(Unless, of course, it is your only source of drinking water.)

Inhumi, on the other hand, can fly so you can't avoid them. I would=20
think, although I can't recall a specific example of this, that they=20
could also squeeze through very small openings, since they have no=20
bones.

Certainly, dumb inhumi would be orders of magnitude easier to defend=20
against that smart ones, but I think it would be more difficult than=20
you suggest.

William Ansley

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