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Now if we only engineered a retrovirus to uplift them into complex social structures and intelligence... https://a.co/d/85Wwwhi https://a.co/d/85Wwwhi
by torstenvl 3y ago
Now if we only engineered a retrovirus to uplift them into complex social structures and intelligence...
https://a.co/d/85Wwwhi https://a.co/d/85Wwwhi
- pugworthy 3y agoJumping spiders are very cute though, and can dance - so I anticipate them being very friendly.
- serf 3y agoI wouldn't consider anything with that kind of dinner etiquette to be friendly if scaled up -- humans included.
- xarope 3y agoBianca? Portia? (minor spoiler to the books)
- torstenvl 3y agoThe OP refers specifically to the Portia genus. ; )
- lemmsjid 3y agoI just finished reading Children of Time and was indeed imagining that he was looking at earlier research on this subject, because the way he describes the spiders' initial thinking skills quite echos the article. It was very fun to read from that perspective!
- wonderwonder 3y agoloved the first 2 books, could not get through the 3rd
- codeulike 3y agoChildren of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky is probably the best sci-fi I've read in the last 10 years. Its won the Arthur C Clarke award and recently the series (the other two books in the series are also great) won a Hugo