--- Julia Thompson wrote:
snip
If we have the dogs outside and want to *keep* them
outside (or at least
keep the darn door closed) we have to lock the
outside door now. Our
outside doors in this new house all have levers, and
this past week, the
dogs figured out how to open at least one
Jeroen wrote:
The quote is indeed from Gorilla, My Dreams. It is available at
www.brin-l.com (Path: David Brin | Essays Articles | Gorilla,
My Dreams).
He is really a (very evil) (Evil Overlord). Usually we
don't see someone writing a book and its own parody.
I nicknamed this
Joe Hale wrote:
I don't know if this is covered in the series, but once you start
uplifting species where do you stop? If you uplift dogs, why not cats?
Why not squids? (They're smarter than you think). In fact, why not
uplift cock roaches? Of course you'd have to make them bigger so
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 11/4/2002 4:20:58 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why not squids? (They're smarter than you think). In fact, why not
uplift cock roaches? Of course you'd have to make them bigger so their
head could hold a bigger
At 05:19 PM 11/4/02, Joe Hale wrote:
I don't know if this is covered in the series, but once you start
uplifting species where do you stop? If you uplift dogs, why not cats?
Because they are already smarter than humans? After all, as someone has
said: Dogs have masters. Cats have staff.
At 11:19 PM 11/1/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
There was something from DB at some point about why the dogs weren't
part of the uplifted species on Earth. Something about them being
uplifted to where they could finally open doors, and then door
technology changed drastically, and this affected their
In a message dated 11/1/2002 10:16:19 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There was something from DB at some point about why the dogs weren't
part of the uplifted species on Earth.
A quick guess is that the storyline would become too Sirius.
William Taylor
