>top tier alien race

Mantids are based

>>40835096 (OP)
you don't say!

fact: most mantid consciousness Ive met were quiet and respectful
fact: it's too quiet and something feels permanently off about them
fact: there is probably a mantid in your room RIGHT NOW

https://youtu.be/iomvIKbDnqc?si=9ngzo2TsXpIzRLnJ

My questions abound!

One of the primary, and most interesting questions for me personally, that I would love to know, is this...

Are Science and Religion always separated during a species evolutionary climb?

They seem so very similar, the quest for fire and answers!...but....but...there is always a butt..... there is a gap for humans in between ratio of the congruent what we can see, observe directly.....and ratio of the all that exists.

And this just because our first measurements we took as humans upon arising to sentience, awakening as a species to self consciousness, the first self awareness of the existence of the huge quantity of observers and perceptions that exist, and the ability to perceive those existences, and place our selves among them at the top, and why we are the top of the food chain here on Earth.

-The first measurements a species takes are simply cutting out a chunk from the middle, anywhere they can measure and grab on and start making ratios, and then another, and comparing the two chunks to one another...

How hard it is to grab to two sides of the charge, religion and science, and drag them together to form a new larger united whole it is here on Earth....

Are these two....forces as they seem to act for humanity....always this difficult to bring together?

Even with a Pyramid Cube tablet, language/math/geometry baby Einstein monkey starter kit, training staging planetary migration expedition camping knap sack Jansport Backpack, 5% planetary tilt, every 25,000 years, North African Desert/Paradise gate tilt twist twerk, it seems it is still very hard to...make "it" work...

Are the gems, gold and silver rocks always so shiny that they cause every species, during their ascent towards the stars, the bird bros to peck each other to death, and the mantoids to chop over, the greys the brain zap to have the most shiny rocks?

The gold and silver, and ems are awfully shiny and sparkly after all

>>40835108
There are two factions of them predominantly.

One side is nicer and growth-orientated, seeing cultivation of life and it's curation as a kind of duty. (They might be slightly egoistical to some)

The other side involves a zero-tolerance weakness policy and very much a "trial by fire" form of existence. They did evolve from a predatory species after all.

Lets just all take a moment to thank them for all of the help they provided to us along the many long, painfully slow, almost comically goofy banana peel slides we monkeys have danced through.

Flight is massively powerful evolutionary adaptation that provides such an amazing mobility
That it seems difficult to imagine any world where the creatures with flight would not dominate the evolutionary ladder

Predator comes, fly away, no more predator problems
You are a predator, drop down on the shitters and feast, fly away, shit down on them while flying away, its based.

But it is a genetic evolution that directs and requires a massive amount of energy to evolve, and then maintain. As we know birds can and do lose flight and get stuck back on the ground to become dinner for kot. Eye tracking movement has to be super fast for flight as you are moving towards and around obstacles faster than even sprinting, or shifting as bats do to even out maneuver insects in mid air

My question then is, how does the Home World determine flight becoming the dominant trait to evolve?

You would desire less of a quantity of ground animals to compete with and evolve against in the chase for resources
More of an Island world?
Where flight could island hop, but ground is going to have a more difficult time and cant get the genetic variety required in the mutation race to dominate because it is far too spread out?
More of a mountainous world? Where life lives at the top, but the valleys are too narrow?

But then you are competing with more flight animals...
And as we know, tropical parrots are believed to develop the vibrancy of color plumage, parrots for example, because the jungle is so packed tightly together, there is a huge variety of flying animals in there, And the ability to tell one another apart rapidly is easy with color that only your in group can even see, otherwise it behaves as camouflage to other predators

>>40835269
>That it seems difficult to imagine any world where the creatures with flight would not dominate the evolutionary ladder
Not necessarily...

There is a lot of energy in the body dedicated to flight muscles and far too much brain power dedicated to eyes. With that much necessity, you can only develop so much intelligence. When you di develop intelligence of a flying species, the next problem is bodyweight to flight capacity ratios. If the organism is too heavy, the adaptations to flight are wastes. A larger brain is most certainly heavier and the head being too large or shaped wrong leads to drag which increases needed energy of flight.

Flight is exceptionally useful, we can also see that certain species adapted intelligently. The problem is the simple hominid model just developed it quicker because its body shape just conserves more energy.

Powerful minds are energy intensive...

>>40835294

The proportion ratios are always so hard to squeeze together

Even when they finally do start to get stitched together right, then the size of the exit hole the larger piece needs to come out of does not fit coming out!
Human heads are getting too large for the birth canal
Have to grab the little buggers and yank them out

Is that also always a problem?
Even for an egg?

What came first, the chicken or the egg?
What came first, the larger egg shell, or the larger creatures body, possessing a larger mind, forcing the evolution of a larger egg shell to sustain the larger mind?

>>40835311

>What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Likely a happy mutation allowing for better nutrient flow during pregnancy. Now initially (and as likely the reason for parallel evolution of this in mice) that gives simply an advantage in faster gestation. But it also opens a door to brain optimization (with sure a gestation time tradeoff). Birds cannot make such a leap easily. The clever variants likely maxed out the efficiency of their minds to its limit.

>>40835096 (OP)
basado

>>40835294

Crows and parrots are rather smart.

>>40835411

Blue Birb, Brow Bucket, Brain Boosting, Beam Bonding, Bonus Bridge Beyond Baker, Bullish Backing Beating Back Barbarism, Bookshop Blessing Breathing Biosphere

>>40835096 (OP)
Agreed.

>>40835162
>Are Science and Religion always separated during a species evolutionary climb?
are you retarded? real question. Are you retarded?

>>40835096 (OP)

Yuppers.

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