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Re: Octupi

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, December 30, 1999, 20:30
abrigon wrote:
> But would they have to have a skeleton?
No. Octopi don't, AFAIK, have a skeleton, yet they can use their tentacles just as we can use our hands.
> How about some form of airsacs that produce natural hydrogen?
Why?
> How do you make Helium? Could a being create it naturally?
Nope. To make helium requires fusion of hydrogen, or collection of alpha particles emitted by certain radioactive substances.
> If a race can communicated via electromagnetic means, then ... > can they do more with it than just talk? After all, most life I > know of, has a small electromagnetic charge, it comes from our > blood or ...
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. What else would they use electromagnetic means for? Attacking other beings? And, FWIU, no living thing has an electromagnetic *charge*, we're overall neutral. But living things DO have an electromagnetic *field*. -- Today is: 9 Watikala'f Wakabi'f watya'nifaf plas 272 809, September 10