"Hiding Place."
See also:
The Zoo Ship and its links;
Aliens in Anderson and Niven.
Eliminations
Brains
Van Rijn hypothesizes that the aliens might have brains in their bellies and Torrance murmurs that some people do before presenting the standard argument for minimum distance between brain and principal sense organs at the top of the body.
Larry Niven did us all a favor by arguing that the brain can be better protected at the center of the body and that an eye at the top of each of two long necks/throats would provide adjustable binocular vision but even his Puppeteers can be described by comparing them to Terrestrial organisms. I expect that extraterrestrial organisms do exist and that they look like nothing on Earth.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Of course I'll expect MANY extraterrestrial living forms, plants and animals alike, to look like nothing on Earth. But I still would not be surprised to see SOME resemblances and parallels to terrestrial organisms. I think both will be likely.
And whatever that figure is on the illustration you chose is, it's standing on the elephantoid's TUSK, not horn.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Indeed it is.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
And the problem with Niven's Puppeteers having an eye at the end of those long necks/throats is that it exposes them to injury, accidental or not. A Kzin warrior could easily slice off one or both of those long necks!
Ad astra! Sean
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