Timeline for Could papillae or another muscular protrusion act like tube feet on a land-dwelling creature?
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| May 15, 2022 at 22:15 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Can you say why such a design should not work in reality, and then why that should be hard to overcome in a built world? What's wrong with muscular protusions or tube feet? | |
| May 14, 2022 at 15:19 | answer | added | addaon | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 5, 2022 at 22:27 | comment | added | Goodies | @AlexP I am not anglophone, and I must admit Google, Merriam Webster and Wikipedia all agree on the ambiguity you refer to, but "land-dwelling" makes a clearer distinction. Reading this question, I got confused reading the word "terrestrial" which translates in my language as either "aards" (common term for Earth-related) or "terrestrisch" which is a fairly unknown term and also ambiguous. There is no need for ambiguity? | |
| May 5, 2022 at 22:18 | comment | added | AlexP | @Goodies: The word "terrestrial" has several meanings. The meaning of "related to the planet Earth" (as opposed to extra-terrestrial) is only one of them; another very common meaning is "living on land" (as opposed to aquatic, for example). Other meanings include "rocky" (speaking of planets), and "using ground-level transmitters" (speaking of broadcasts, as opposed to satellite or cable). It was a perfectly understandable word in the context. | |
| May 5, 2022 at 21:17 | comment | added | Alan Davies | @Goodies I thought terrestrial meant living on dry land as well as being from earth but I have corrected it to your suggestions. | |
| May 5, 2022 at 21:15 | history | edited | Alan Davies | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 5, 2022 at 21:00 | comment | added | Goodies | Q: you're talking "alien" and at the same time "terrestrial", which refers to planet Earth. Do you mean "terrestrial" or "land-dwelling", that is an animal living on land ? Also, I would suggest adding a Creature Design tag to this question. | |
| May 5, 2022 at 20:37 | history | asked | Alan Davies | CC BY-SA 4.0 |