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This is the result of myself and Othello. Although Othello did a much better job of the tail then my original sketch. ^ \ w / ^ This is of course his Mate Zack! I gather this is something of a birthday or anniversary gift.
Eitherway for anyone asking in the audience I am willing to do this sort of work, i.e. make a sketch then have someone else do the lines and what not. I am REALLY getting good a hyper muscles and the mutations of such things.
Anyway here is the FULL image. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-image.....ackcolour.png/ Enjoy!!!
Eitherway for anyone asking in the audience I am willing to do this sort of work, i.e. make a sketch then have someone else do the lines and what not. I am REALLY getting good a hyper muscles and the mutations of such things.
Anyway here is the FULL image. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-image.....ackcolour.png/ Enjoy!!!
Category All / Hyper
Species Western Dragon
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File Size 595.9 kB
Thank you. I believe it was an Isaac Asimov story in which other races in the Universe avoided humans because we stopped growing after a certain size. This was because a certain malevolent entity actually caused out genetics and hormones, etc., basically all biological systems that are involved in steady growth and the halting of growth once we reach "adult" size, to switch off and on in the manner they do that keep us bottled up at 6' tall max (on average - just work with me here and agree that's a workable mean height cap). All other creatures in the galaxy will keep growing, perhaps not at the same speed throughout their life, but in all cases more and more as they age, just in smaller increments, all the way until they die. So many are like Dinosaurs, or saurian creatures - they can be tremendously huge if they are the elders of their tribe or council, for example. So structures are built with very tall roofs; multi-story buildings seldom have one story less than 50' above the next, unless it's only meant for creatures less than 100 years old, and so on…
So to come into contact with us would be to come into contact with the invisible entity/contagion that causes limited growth - almost like a curse - and because its means of spreading and infection vector was not understood, caused a quarantine of Earth. I guess the rest of the story was the solving of the mystery of what this was, and what to do about it. But I do not remember the name of the story. Asimov wrote a kajillion stories, and I read a whole big lot of them through the years.
So to come into contact with us would be to come into contact with the invisible entity/contagion that causes limited growth - almost like a curse - and because its means of spreading and infection vector was not understood, caused a quarantine of Earth. I guess the rest of the story was the solving of the mystery of what this was, and what to do about it. But I do not remember the name of the story. Asimov wrote a kajillion stories, and I read a whole big lot of them through the years.
I've read only the robot stories and foundation stories, which still are a LOT. That particular story must've been in some anthology, or SF journal in which he published… I also read his one and only time travel story, which put to bed why he'd never write another. He tends to stay consistent with what he writes indefinitely… which is likely why the 3 laws of robotics came about.
The 0th law of robotics in the film "I, Robot" was basically the same as what R. Daneel Olivaw had to arrive at in Asimov's own story, wasn't it?
The 0th law of robotics in the film "I, Robot" was basically the same as what R. Daneel Olivaw had to arrive at in Asimov's own story, wasn't it?
So the film was terrible Asimov. And as well was Millennium Man...? I found it poignant, humorous, a good mirror on the human condition - much like SF is meant to be... even the Science Channel special on Asimov (an episode of "Prophets of Science Fiction" by Ridley Scott) didn't seem to capture the kind of mind he had.
I guess Harlan Ellison said it best in a sound byte in the show: "There will only be one sun; there never will be another Asimov." (para.) The show impressed me with how he spanned 9 of the 10 categories of the Dewey Decimal system... so if you've read all his works, you have what could be a serious set of bookshelves, or active library card.
Ellison spoke about how Asimov could pick up books on any subject, distill their information, and write a new book on the subject, covering only the important points - because he had good judgment, knowing how to do so. And this is exactly what he did. I forget how many different titles they showed, all seeming to cover what he seemed to be important to explain and simplify for people.
I am guessing the decimal he skipped was religious treatise and scripture?
I guess Harlan Ellison said it best in a sound byte in the show: "There will only be one sun; there never will be another Asimov." (para.) The show impressed me with how he spanned 9 of the 10 categories of the Dewey Decimal system... so if you've read all his works, you have what could be a serious set of bookshelves, or active library card.
Ellison spoke about how Asimov could pick up books on any subject, distill their information, and write a new book on the subject, covering only the important points - because he had good judgment, knowing how to do so. And this is exactly what he did. I forget how many different titles they showed, all seeming to cover what he seemed to be important to explain and simplify for people.
I am guessing the decimal he skipped was religious treatise and scripture?
Yeah I have read some of his non-fiction work, and it was good! X3 Some of the stories about IRL things that have happened with professors and scientists where hillarious! The more technical subjects like math I'll avoid until I have a better grasp of algerba or if its not too complex on that sort of math...only have grade 10 (of 12) in mathematics...
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