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Sunday Dec 05, 2004

Dec 5, 2004
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So I've always thought how cool it would be to have a prehensile tail - a fully articulated tail that can move objects , pick things up, and support my body weight. Then I was talking to my neighbour who is taking a course in primatology. She told me that primates that have prehensile tails cannot move their arms above their shoulders! This is because primates with prehensile tails usually run through or on top of the jungle canopy, and their tails are used for balance. They never had to develop the arm musclature to swing from branch to branch, so their arms don't go up as high. This is the Faustian bargain that all primates must make at some point in their evolution.

So now I'm not so thrilled about this tail business. But life sure would be different if we had tails, but couldn't move our arms above our shoulders -

-no rave culture if can't dance with hands up in the air
-instead of chin-ups, tail-ups!
-jokes about 'how many whatever's does it take to screw in a lightbulb' are less funny, because it would always take more than one person to do it in real life. Watching people try to install lightbulbs with tails, though, that would be funny.

I might put some fan art up later in the week, if anyone cares, which they probably do not. I have Monday and Tuesday off, too....

edited to add a very small picture of cassiopeia



edited further to add how much cooler it looks acutal size...
VIEW 4 of 4 COMMENTS
leccy:
I vote we have Doc Oc style tentacles instead.
Dec 6, 2004
superflea:
Hey mate - thanks for the birthday wishes. Rough start thanks to fun workplace drama (tell me you need a lovely assistant), but a great finish, with the girl spoiling me as a crew from the office joined us for delicious steaky things.

The December 6th thing used to really bug me, because I hated hearing about what a dark day it was all the time (dumbass massacre taking the focus off ME and my day), but I haven't thought about it in many years. Which I guess means that the national memory of the event is subsiding somewhat. Either that, or I pay less attention to the news than I used to.
Dec 7, 2004

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