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"I kind of take it for granted that our great-grandchildren will regard us as a sort of precursor species. That they won't think of us as human and if we could see them, we probably wouldn't think of them as human either."
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![]() Explorers find unexpected company in the vast silence of Rama's interior.
Here's a brief quote that illustrates its dervish-like motion:
This quote illustrates how it seemed to accomplish its movements:
It turns out that the 'spiders' are what the author calls 'biological robots' that were designed by the creators of Rama. Clarke coined the word "biot" to describe them. The spiders have 'considerable quantities of light metals.' The spiders have no mouth, no stomach, no gut, no lungs, no circulatory system. So, how does it move?
"Most of the spider is simply a battery, much like that found in electric eels and rays... It's the creature's source of energy."
SF fans will also, of course, remember the great tripods from H.G. Wells' 1898 classic War of the Worlds. Comment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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