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Tripod life forms

Post 21

Paigetheoracle

If all else fails, try pods is what Senna always told me to do


Tripod life forms

Post 22

Recumbentman

The wheel can't evolve without its counterpart, the flat surface. Philip Pullman made sure to allow for this in His Dark Materials.


Tripod life forms

Post 23

ITIWBS

That's what legs are for, shock absorbers.

Insect legs rotate at the main joint to the thorax.

The other joints are shock absorbers.


Tripod life forms

Post 24

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

I sometimes find them in the soil in my yard, and I imagine that they are harmless. Mostly.


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