Timeline for Why would my species expose their brains through a glass dome?
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| Dec 13, 2022 at 17:37 | vote | accept | RotNDecay | ||
| Mar 4, 2020 at 12:58 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | "Wow! Look at the cortex on THAT one! Hey, baby!! WOOOOOO!!!!!!" - alien construction workers | |
| Mar 3, 2020 at 16:44 | comment | added | Michael Vehrs | In M. John Harrison's "The Centauri Device", the members of a certain religion implanted windows into various parts of their bodies to display their inner workings. | |
| Mar 3, 2020 at 14:49 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | Someone tried a cure for baldness, or a funky new hair color, that instead caused the skull bone and skin to turn transparent (or dissolve). | |
| Mar 3, 2020 at 14:44 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | This would also make it a display of status or intelligence. Only the 'top tier' would have a 'full window'. The lower the stature in society, the 'less decorative' the window. | |
| Mar 3, 2020 at 13:27 | comment | added | Gilsido | Would have been my answer as well, advantages relative to Andon's one are wider range in fashion (medical instruments are usually quite normailzed) like dyed glass, curved patterns in the glass, wilder shape etc. It also allows some people to refuse to wear them, or to wear oppaque ones as a protest against this fashion (with Adon's answer those people can exist to but they are an anti-vax equivalent) | |
| Mar 3, 2020 at 0:13 | comment | added | Hand-E-Food | "Hey! My eye's are down here!" | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 20:33 | comment | added | val - disappointed in SE | Reminds me so badly of "Did you know that you can increase size of your core in just two easy steps?" - Virgil, Portal Stories: Mel | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 19:19 | comment | added | Mermaker | Since the OP clarified that this is an artificial feature that is added surgically, this answer is probably the best one. | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 16:28 | comment | added | SRM | @WGroleau as I said earlier... I think the OP wants this dome to be a natural feature of the alien, not the result of surgery. I’ve asked the OP to clarify. | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 14:25 | comment | added | WGroleau | @SRM, did we have a reason (other than aesthetics) for the first tattoo or nose piercing? But if you want a reason, how about a clear insert replaced a part of damaged skull, and when the patient’s (something) I proved dramatically, research found that it would work for anyone in the species. | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 13:55 | comment | added | SRM | I’m going to ask the OP to clarify. | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 13:54 | comment | added | SRM | And that was my objection to this answer... it’s off base from the question premise in my opinion. :-) @user253751 | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 13:53 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | @SRM Well, the answer says that it's a cosmetic procedure they do, not that it evolved. | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 13:52 | comment | added | SRM | The question doesn’t actually say that. @user253751 There was a secondary question about humans replicating this with modern tech (I removed that tangent to keep the question on focus). Given that the dome is mentioned in the same breath as the reptile tail, I think OP intends this to be an evolved trait of this species. | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 13:48 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | @SRM Well, the answer says that it's a cosmetic procedure they do, not that it evolved. | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 13:08 | comment | added | SRM | It does need some reason why it happened initially... the aesthetic argument can carry it along. Humans might think four arms is awesome, but we cannot breed-select to enhance a trait that isn’t there. | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 13:01 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | ‘Hey baby. I hear you want a mate with a great big.. brain.’ | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 3:23 | history | answered | MetalJimmor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |