On Trial. Day 6

[David Flin]

The latest holiday instalment of this astounding series by @sGtFroSty can be found HERE.

And Here is where you should discuss it.

 

[Alexander Rooksmoor]

And do not forget reptiles, e.g. Silurians, especially now we know that dinosaurs became warm blooded much sooner than we thought.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/nov/11/t-rex-dinosaurs-warm-blooded
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scientists-ap-earth-research-tyrannosaurus-rex-b2545634.html

 

[Charles EP M.]

First thought is that this means human migration gets checked - early man coming out of Africa and early lycanthrope coming out of Europe run smack into each other, for example - or one group of sapien wipes out the others and is surprised later to find fossils. For them, it'd be like if we found Cyclops bones, "they actually existed?!"

 

[Ncw8]

First thought is that this means human migration gets checked - early man coming out of Africa and early lycanthrope coming out of Europe run smack into each other, for example - or one group of sapien wipes out the others and is surprised later to find fossils. For them, it'd be like if we found Cyclops bones, "they actually existed?!"

They might not wipe out the other group, but instead enslave and domesticate them. So maybe the end result is wolves keeping humans as pets.

 

[Maltaran]

Would be interesting to see what happens in Australia. The Emu War might have a whole different outcome.

 

[Charles EP M.]

They might not wipe out the other group, but instead enslave and domesticate them. So maybe the end result is wolves keeping humans as pets.

"Look at my purebred Habsburg!"

 

[Ncw8]

"Look at my purebred Habsburg!"

“My British Bully is just a big softie really”

 

[Thande]

I only learned recently that archaeologists have learned that Neanderthal man lived on for many years in Gibraltar specifically after going extinct / blending with Homo sapiens elsewhere. Does make you wonder about other remote/defensible places where human subspecies or other intelligent beings could potentially hold out, then be rediscovered (sounds like one of those Victorian era adventure stories).

 

[David Flin]

I only learned recently that archaeologists have learned that Neanderthal man lived on for many years in Gibraltar specifically after going extinct / blending with Homo sapiens elsewhere. Does make you wonder about other remote/defensible places where human subspecies or other intelligent beings could potentially hold out, then be rediscovered (sounds like one of those Victorian era adventure stories).

Like Stig of the Dump.

 

[Charles EP M.]

I only learned recently that archaeologists have learned that Neanderthal man lived on for many years in Gibraltar specifically after going extinct / blending with Homo sapiens elsewhere. Does make you wonder about other remote/defensible places where human subspecies or other intelligent beings could potentially hold out, then be rediscovered (sounds like one of those Victorian era adventure stories).

Also the justification for why there could really be a Bigfoot and its fellow 'big ape' cryptids, maybe there's an isolated remote community of them.

Likely a dark comedy in a tale of intelligent non-humans tracking down the mysterious Human of the Woods or an elephant-humanoid Professor Challenger telling us about "the wars that matter" after he's just helped wipe out Human Town in the Lost World.

 

[Stateless]

Carcinisation suggests it's surprising that the world wasn't colonised by intelligent crab-people.

 

[Pete U]

Carcinisation suggests it's surprising that the world wasn't colonised by intelligent crap-people.

As per Science of the Discworld, maybe it was, but one of the mass-extinction events removed all traces.

I think octopoid civilisation is underused (40 years of RPG/Fantasy literature has shown me every kind of insertanimalhereman I can think of)

 

[Ncw8]

As per Science of the Discworld, maybe it was, but one of the mass-extinction events removed all traces.

Just as they were getting ready to make a great leap sideways.

 

[Pete U]

Just as they were getting ready to make a great leap sideways.

Ah, do crabs think we walk sideways?

 

[Thande]

Carcinisation suggests it's surprising that the world wasn't colonised by intelligent crap-people.

That's an interesting Freudian slip.