2006-03-16 09:04 | fche blog seriously layered defense
Given two intelligent species on a planet, where should the smarter one make its home, considering the possibility of extraterrestrial invasion?
Yes, sure, a likely scenario. But Douglas Adams dealt with it in his famous travel treatise (humans vs. dolphins … and mice). So did an odd dream last night, which included an amphibious llama with a cargo uterus (don’t ask, I won’t tell).
Anyway, studying my one or two dozen millithoughs on military strategy, I would have to favour the subsurface species. Let the aerial ones take the heat burns of screaming space ship engines; let the surface ones be stomped by block-sized landing feet. Those hiding below can plan their escape in the mean time.
Bring it on, baby. I’m growing gills.
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ROTF, in the kung fu world, there are the familiar aerial and surface kung fu masters. You’ve seen them fly on bamboo branches or tip toe over water in the movies. But rarely making it onto the movies are the subterranean kung fu masters. They burrow they way around the enemy and stealthly shoot poison needles at surface targets. The method of containment against them is to tie them up and hang them from a tree. There are of course the aquatic kung fu masters, and they usually die horrible crushing death at hydro dams. Li - 2006-03-16 14:12
My favorite kung fu movie contains the invisible master Oxi Chen, who feuds within the jungle. Or it may have been a National Geographic documentary. Same thing. Frank - 2006-03-17 00:18