This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Bluetooth The Pirate: MIB is a page about the generic concept, not the actual series, so I think the reference should stay how it was until there's a page for it.
Looney Toons: Yeah, I should know that, given I wrote the original MIB page. What can I say, I've been short of sleep for a couple of weeks.
(snipped stuff here to Puny Earthlings Discussion)
Kizor: Should we note James White's Sector General book series about a huge outer space hospital? His alien biologies are as bizarre as anyone else's, nothing new about that, but they are always internally consistent, well thought-out, and at best more detailed than practically anything in the scifi genre.
White could tell you in detail the disadvantages a second heart would have on the cardiovascular system of a life-form that lives at four Earth atmospheres and eats through its sides. He'd write operation scenes where the surgeons have to use two-handed scalpels to cut carapace.
Ununnilium: Mmmmm, not really - since this is about Human Aliens or Rubber-Forehead Aliens who make themselves seem more alien by alluding to weird inner parts that we can't see. Your example just uses straight-up alien aliens.
Kizor: Fair enough.
Scrounge: Why does this only apply to those two subsets, though? It's used to further alien-ize everything short of Energy Beings, so why not note that it can be applied on to Serkis Folk, Big Creepy-Crawlies, and the like as well as Rubber-Forehead Aliens?
Random832: Why is "aliens allergic/poisoned/drunk by some mundane earth substance" straight but "humans not affected by alien poison" an inversion?
BT The P: Because it's not expected, though it probably should be. On the other hand, since living things are inherently rather fragile, one would expect that there's more stuff in the universe that's toxic to everyone than stuff that affects one species at a time.
Theres a mistake on the main page. March up country. The supplement is a second posion, and not the original one that they were blackmailed with.
Roland: While I'm no biology expert, the draenei's blue blood could easily be explained as reliance upon hemocyanin instead of hemoglobin in their blood, much like squid.
Qit el-Remel: If I post anything else about S.L. Viehl's Jorenians (or any of her other alien races, for that matter) it will turn into a long angry rant. Is there anyone else who's read the StarDoc series and is willing to do that?
And Roland: All annoyance aside at people who keep comparing draenei to squid...I think hemocyanin (copper-based biochemistry) would result in teal-blue blood, not indigo.
