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But that's "Space Sasquatch", not our normal, one-horned Terrestial Sasquatch…
Chewie, why are you wearing banannas on your head?
No horns = Terrestrial Sasquatch (Biggus Footius Reclusiva)
Two Horns = Space Sasquatch (Pedius Grande Wookius)
One Horn = My Little Sasquatch (Ponius Teenius Unicornius)
Much better, but I can live without the bald head and funny nose. Most importantly I would advise you when kissing her, keep your tounge away from those teeth.
Note that Aqualeena has both a fishtail and legs - Just like Darryl Hannah in "Splash". So why can't Aqualeena also have both lungs and gills?
Not to divert anything but I am finding this conversation fascinating. In my Biology career, I have often had discussions with people outside of the field about somethings that are unique to biology. In grad school, I lived with students of various disciplines and one of the physicists said that sociology and linguistics are soft sciences, physics, math, and chemistry were hard sciences, and biology was a squishy science. I would say that biology is descriptive and not proscriptive. For example, I think of lions and tigers as two different species but am aware that they can produce fertile young such as the best example of hybrid vigor, the liger, and the tigon. "Species" is a functional category for me but I don't think it is bound by strict rules. I will say that mermaid gills seems quite sensible but I'm still disturbed by the 6 limbs of a centaur.
Would it be better if Centaurs had 5 fingers and a thumb on each arm-like limb?
In the early days the fossil record shows that vertibrates experimented with up to 12 digits on a limb and iirc up to 8 limbs. They just settled on 5 digits and 4 limbs because it was a reasonable mix in the cost-benefit analysis. More limbs is more useful, but is harder to keep track of (needs more brain) and needs more development energy to create before getting to a useful size making the creature a vulnerable size for longer. It also means it takes longer to reach a break-even point in the cost-benefit analysis and if you go silly with limb numbers, you may never get to that point.
My problem with Centaurs is something quite different. It's getting food into that body. A humanoid gullet is not good for a low energy density food being used to power a large body. Too small, teeth wrong shape etc. Then if you go to a higher energy density food to accomodate the gullet & mouth, then you don't need the bacteria etc to digest a grass based diet, so you don't need a barrel shaped horse body, a lithe cat family body would be more efficient. But the human mouth still would be a choke point on the energy intake even then.
Mermaids & gills. Given the oxygen requirements of a relatively un-insulated humanoid mammalian type body (aka 'Mermaid') due to needing to keep itself warm outside very hot, shallow tropical oceans; I can't see gills being adequate. In warm tropical oceans the solubility of Oxygen in the water is lower than in cooler waters. So, in cool waters, the demand for oxygen is high to keep warm, needing bigger gills. In warmer waters, the O2 demand is lower, but the solubility is lower, needing bigger gills. In real terms the amount of sea water needed to contain as much oxygen as a lungful is, what?, 5 lungfuls of water? Maybe more in warm tropical waters. The gill areas/volumes and oxygen demands are difficult impossible to match in a humanoid torso. The engineering behind it doesn't work. Just like the engineering behind 2ft wing span dragonflies doesn't work in the current oxygen content of the air. It did once, but not now.
Regards,
Richard
I think I imagine mermaids if they existed (warm blooded torso with cold blooded tail?) as being similar to axolotls with both gills and lungs which work as secondary lungs underwater plus magic!
I'm sure Poseiden knew what he was doing with regards to gill size when he created mermaids. Given that he also created horses, he probably also made sure centaurs can sustain themselves with food somehow, too.
I posted this in another thread a while back, but it bears repeating. Way back in the seventies the SF Author Philip Jose Farmer (Riverworld) wrote a series of books colectively called The World Of Tiers, in which a race of beings with God-like powers decided to create a practical version of the centaur for an artificial universe they were creating. The solution was a smaller body, more like a pony than a horse, which allowed the arms to reach the ground more easily, and a much larger head with essentially no neck, allowing more room for airways and food intake while letting the human torso perform the functions of the neck. He also decided to pattern their culture directly after that of the Plains Tribes of Native Americans, which made both classic sense in that Centaurs have always been associated with archery, and also made for a fun bit where a group of them chased after one of the main characters in a sequence straight out of an old western. While the series itself has mostly faded from my memory, I've always remembered that neat bit of logical character and world-building.
I loved those books and I think I read every one of them
saw them more as fantasy (both Scifi and fantasy are genres I enjoy) with some science tossed in
I've not read many Philip Jose Farmer books, maybe two. Not an author I reall liked. Sounds as if he'd though about his creatures, though.
Regards,
Richard
Farmer's Dayworld is a favorite. And Riverworld is good. (Despite the names, they aren't the same series.)
just look at any mythological creature just like any other species human, animal, bug/insect extra. There are different types of birds, sharks, fish, spiders, humans so on, each creature species shares charactistics with their kind but also have variations hence the different types of vampires around the world, or were wolves/creatures, orks, dragons, beastmen. And yeah there are a lot of various variations of mermaids I've seen art of/read about some with faces with huge bulging eyes and fang teeth like angler fish and skeletol looking and can be chameleon like appearing beautiful to lure their prey before revealing their true image
I guess technically it would make more sense to have a mermaid with a porpoise tail and a blow-hole in the back of her neck...since they would be mammals
*adds that to project ideas too*
He was a bit all over the map and experimented in a lot of different genres, some I liked, many I never finished... I discovered him while reading through the old Doc Savage books from the pulps and Farmer wrote a book called Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, part of a series of books about famous fictional characters that were written as if they were historical essays on people who had not only lived in real life, but were also somehow related, with Doc and Tarzan being cousins. Since a lot of those books were out of print at the time, it was a good way to find out which OOP book titles in the series I needed to look for while perusing the used book stores, but it did get very silly at times, trying to link the Lone Ranger, the Shadow, and even James Bond all into the same scenario. But hey, those were the seventies...
I look forward to seeing it. As for gills, at thje very least they should be in the neck. These are almost in the stomach. I wish I had noticed then before I bought but that's what I get for jumping on a sale.
Speaking of strange fictional connections, there is anectdotal evidence that Blade Runners and Aliens may exist in the same universe. The Tyrell corporation exists in both, and Ridley Scott has implied it more tthan once. The original owner of the Tyrell corporation in Aliens is described in a supplement book as someone who:
P.S. Doc Savage is very cool. I part-time ran, a long time ago, PnP roleplay scenarios combining members of Doc's organization and the Hong Kong Cavaliers.
Possibly related to the one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater?