Have you ever seen a feather star swim?

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We live on, by far, the most amazing, beautiful planet that we know of so far.
Let’s keep it that way. :grimacing:

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Have you ever seen a feather star swim?

I’ve tickled someones hiney with a feather, does that count?

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Me, when I realize someone took my squat lobster…

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Aren’t those used for bait?

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very nice, but what’s the difference between a starfish and a seastar?

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“Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.” Evolution, eh? Fucking awesome.

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Right?
I remember in an old Heinlein book there was a lighthearted debate that butterflies weren’t insects, but rather animated flowers.
These feather stars are like animated ferns. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Or members of the Great Race of Yith?

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For stuff like this, I can almost forgive Evolution for design decisions like “the human knee” or “the lower back”.

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Evolution, “Hey, buddy, cut me some slack. It is a work in progress!”

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That’s what I loved about Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time - the plot is essentially about accelerated evolution, producing an amazing and unexpected diversity, ending with the message that the evolution of intelligence tends towards cautious altruism.

For some reason I really needed to read that last year.

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