Timeline for How would an aquatic, air-breathing species organise its spaceship interior?
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| Aug 1, 2019 at 17:44 | vote | accept | VienLa | ||
| Mar 20, 2018 at 4:31 | comment | added | Thucydides | Since the OP has specifically asked how they will build spacecraft, it can be assumed they already have undergone the tech revolutions needed to build such things | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 22:10 | comment | added | Samuel | A liquid environment also has some benefits for tolerating higher acceleration. | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 21:40 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | I remember a Larry Niven story "The Handicapped" with a protagonist who works for a company that makes (thought controlled?) prosthetic arms and hands for hand less intelligent beings like dolphins - the "handicapped". In David Brin's Uplift Universe it is common for intelligent beings to genetically modify sub intelligent beings to full intelligence. No doubt the process could also involve giving them technology and teaching them how to make and use it. So even if intelligent sea dwellers might be unable to create technology on their own, they could still have it. | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 21:28 | comment | added | RonJohn | When did we find chemicals that burn underwater? 500,000 years ago at the time we mastered fire? No. 8,000 years ago when we developed agriculture? No. | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 21:24 | comment | added | Demigan | @Ronjohn and we have neither wings nor Fins, yet we fly and swim and use subs. No species evolved for space travel and yet we are there. And we found chemicals that burn underwater, no reason they wouldn't find those or that they would find all the burny things above water and do the research. Yes their tech would use a divergent path to ours, but that doesnt mean its impossible. | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 21:10 | comment | added | celtschk | Do they need to develop fire? Maybe volcanism provides them all the heat they need for their technology. | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 21:03 | comment | added | RonJohn | @Demigan they have no legs. And water extinguishes fire. | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 20:57 | comment | added | Demigan | @Ronjohn assuming they start some tool usage and begin scientific advances, they would eventually get to material and chemical sciences required. Similar to humans using boats they would develop land-traveling vessles and probably need ways to build land-based mines as well. At some point they would invent ways for air-travel, probably for military purposes first. Then they develop sattelites for communication and such, and eventually reach a tech level where they consider the gargantuan task of water-filled space vehicles. Robotics and space-mining might be required first to stockpile water. | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 20:26 | comment | added | RonJohn | But -- remembering that dolphins have no legs -- how will these dolphins-with-hands develop fire, much less the technological underpinnings needed to build the spaceship? | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 20:20 | history | answered | Thucydides | CC BY-SA 3.0 |