Under "natural" circumstances one is extremely safe from attacks.
Unless you're Samuel L. Jackson in the middle of a monologue.
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
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Dana - Jun 19, 2007 1:14:41 pm PDT #9290 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
§ ita § - Jun 19, 2007 1:16:43 pm PDT #9291 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's nothing natural about Samuel L. It's why we can love him so.
Sean K - Jun 19, 2007 1:17:17 pm PDT #9292 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Now, I can see how humans got to apex predator status. After all, we kill stuff all the time.
Killing stuff is practically our favorite thing to do.
Pigeons? How do they end up with no one eating them?
I think plenty of things ate them, they just bred like tribbles.
DavidS - Jun 19, 2007 1:18:47 pm PDT #9293 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think plenty of things ate them, they just bred like tribbles.
Yeah, but only when they were massed a million wide across the sky. I'm not sure if that makes them orgiastic or kind of shy.
sumi - Jun 19, 2007 1:22:18 pm PDT #9294 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
The bird's only natural predators were hawks and eagles.
Although, I bet that owls took a few too.
And even if we didn't slaughter them they would have suffered because we destroyed their natural habitat. (By clearing all so much of the forests between the Atlantic and the Mississippi.)
Polter-Cow - Jun 19, 2007 1:24:56 pm PDT #9295 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Is there a SciFi movie about a mad scientist who harvests passenger pigeon DNA and regrows them á la Jurassic Park, and then they breed rapidly á la Gremlins and begin attacking people á la The Birds ? If not, why?
DavidS - Jun 19, 2007 1:25:33 pm PDT #9296 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The bird's only natural predators were hawks and eagles.
That must've been like a buffet line for the raptors.
DavidS - Jun 19, 2007 1:26:31 pm PDT #9297 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
If not, why?
Have you seen Night of the Lepus?
Because horror films about not-horrible animals tend to not ping the primal fear centers in the brain.
sumi - Jun 19, 2007 1:28:29 pm PDT #9298 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
P-C, you should totally propose that to SciFi. Perhaps you could include the Giant Auk and the Sea Mink. Ooh and the Carolina Parakeet!
sumi - Jun 19, 2007 1:29:17 pm PDT #9299 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Well, maybe something like the Attack of the Were-Rabbit. . .