Space!, Friday

[not_a_whiner]

"Hey," Kaidan greeted the class. "Today, we're going to do a little thought exercise. No lectures. Just this list."

He gestured at the actual blackboard behind him, which had several descending numbers on it.

"We're going to be talking about aliens over the next couple of weeks. But, before we start, we're gonna have a look at something important: what does life need to happen? What can change? What could be totally different about alien species?"

"I want each of you to come up to the board and write down something that Earth needed in order to facilitate human life." He pointed at another list of numbers right next to it. "And over there, jot down something you think we might find in alien species, and why. Try to keep it down to three words. Feel free to discuss before you get up here."

Comments

Sign In

[not_a_whiner]

La.

Re: Sign In

[not_a_moonie]

Alana

Re: Sign In

[voiceoverdue]

Cecil Palmer

Discuss!

[not_a_whiner]

What's Earth got that makes human life possible? And what kind of different traits might we find in alien species? Find a partner and discuss.

Blackboard

[not_a_whiner]

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Humans

[not_a_whiner]

Write down one thing that Earth's got that humans needed in order to develop as a species. Then pass on the crayon.

[[ collapsy style! ]]

Re: Humans

[not_a_moonie]

Alana seemed to be the first up, so she went for an easy one.

Stuff to eat.

As far as she knew, nothing could exist without food.

Re: Humans

[voiceoverdue]

Cecil took his turn and frowned at the board for a while.

Well, there was something to drink? Except there were some folks... Maybe something to breathe? Only not everybody... Oo! ...no, that wouldn't work, either. He sighed.

Then he perked up and wrote: Blood.

Everybody needed that, right?

Aliens

[not_a_whiner]

And what unfamiliar traits might we find in an alien species, and what part of their environment might cause that?

[[ collapsy style! ]]

Re: Aliens

[not_a_moonie]

Another easy one. Alana smugly wrote Wings! in a large, frilly hand, following it with, because Landfallians used to need to fly to escape predators in smaller letters.

She was almost certain that was what her bio teacher had said, anyhow.

Re: Aliens

[voiceoverdue]

This one was even harder. Cecil thought about it. And thought.

Eventually he shrugged and apologetically said to Commander Alenko, "Everything I can think of is familiar. If it were unfamiliar, I wouldn't be able to think of it, right?"

Talk to the TA

[not_a_whiner]

When she pings in.

Talk to the Teacher

[not_a_whiner]

Taking a quick break to browse through some extranet posts on a potential new species joining the Citadel? Maybe.

OOC

[not_a_whiner]

Four more days and I get my life back and I can stop writing posts in between render jobs.