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They likely don't have night vision, so they would need to use instruments. They can only discover stars (perhaps except few brightest ones) after invention of
by rini17 3y ago
They likely don't have night vision, so they would need to use instruments. They can only discover stars (perhaps except few brightest ones) after invention of photography.
- CuriouslyC 3y agoI think it's more likely that the interesting life would evolve from organisms that exist on the fringe and can survive and migrate to either side.
- bluGill 3y agoDo they have fire? Clouds mean they already can adjust to different light levels - at least some. A fire lit torch is obvious if you have fire.
- andrewflnr 3y ago"Night vision" is not a special binary adaptation. It's not as if humans have exemplary might vision either, and we see LOTS of stars in a dark sky. Plus there are lots of diurnal reasons to not be helpless in low light, like tree cover and caves.
- XorNot 3y agoProbably more importantly, an obvious adaptation in such an environment for prey animals would be to hide in dark places like caves where predators can't see you...so predators would develop with low-light vision for hunting where other predators couldn't and in turn.... Basically evolution tends to do every weird thing it can - and we can't know which would be likely to end up as traits on the dominant intelligent species.
- rini17 3y agoWell, hiding under water is another obvious adaptation...but it does not automatically mean sea mammals evolved gills. They did evolve but in other ways. Some weird things just don't happen.
- bombcar 3y agoThey’d likely have discovered caves or roofs at some point - and have some ability to see in dimmer light.