There's not a real limit per say... but I've heard from some that a man over 5'9 might just have his request "lost".What's the height limit?
Would have been nice to have you there. A lot of the troops around the world have to rely on the USAF for close support. The Corps needs all the pilots it can get.Specifically, I wanted to fly planes for the Corps.
The issue I have isn't the medium, or even comparartive intelligence. Even if dolphins were more intelligent than humans, there is a major factor limiting their ability to develop space travel, or the mastery of any other technology. And no, I'm not talking baout fire - something could be technobabbled to explain that they mastered cold plasma, or something. What we've got that dolphins don't - and why my dog still depends on me rather than killing me and eating my carcass - is good old-fashioned thumbs.Atekimogus wrote:Why is that? Is an intelligent species which doesn't happen to breath the excat oxygen-nitrogen mixture that alien? Thats the reason I quite liked the Benzites for instance and I find it a shame that they lost their nice little breather during DS9.
To be honest the only difference between humans and aliens in star trek seems that "we are the borg, vulcans, datas etc having not your puny human emotions....). I quite enjoy species living in a different medium.
I admit I thought clearly in the wrong direction. Do they actually wanted to have earth-dolphins/whales whatever in those tanks? I was thinking more about xindi-water-lifing intelligent species. Having them performing a special function - like navigation - would be somewhat cool imho, just a bit like the MIB alien supervising the computer all dayMikey wrote: The issue I have isn't the medium, or even comparartive intelligence. Even if dolphins were more intelligent than humans, there is a major factor limiting their ability to develop space travel, or the mastery of any other technology. And no, I'm not talking baout fire - something could be technobabbled to explain that they mastered cold plasma, or something. What we've got that dolphins don't - and why my dog still depends on me rather than killing me and eating my carcass - is good old-fashioned thumbs.
.But having normal dolphins plotting a course sure is dumb.That is indeed the case since there are imho surprisingly few aliens onboard the E-D, all of which are obviously able to survive in our enviromnent quite well.Deepcrush wrote:The problem is that you are trying to support a long range starship. The more forms of environment you try to support the more trouble you will have. It is better just to have that life form have a ship of its own.
No, the reference was definitely to "cetacean" or the species name of the bottlenose dolphin.Atekimogus wrote:Do they actually wanted to have earth-dolphins/whales whatever in those tanks? I was thinking more about xindi-water-lifing intelligent species.
I could see a species with tentacles figuring it out.Rochey wrote:Exactly. Quite simply, if you don't have thumbs then you'll never have technology...
The line specificly stated "cetacean", which explicitly means whales, dolphins and porpoises.Atekimogus wrote:I admit I thought clearly in the wrong direction. Do they actually wanted to have earth-dolphins/whales whatever in those tanks? I was thinking more about xindi-water-lifing intelligent species. Having them performing a special function - like navigation - would be somewhat cool imho, just a bit like the MIB alien supervising the computer all day
They'd be limited to using voice-only systems, though. No hands.Tyyr wrote:I just figured some kind of voice interface.
