Would humans be cute pets?
Posted 1st April 2008 at 04:20 AM by Blackjack
The year is 2xxx. A race of giant humanoid aliens (Might not look at all like humans. But it's not a spaceblob or a massive spider) has landed on earth. Humans are no longer the top creature, but we are accepted by the aliens, just like we accept birds, horses, dogs and bears. And the aliens view earth like an exotic island, ala the galapagos, and not a potential place to live.
Would humans be pets? Would the aliens see us as a cute species, like we do dogs and cats? Or would they be creeped out by us, like spiders creeps out most people?
We don't have 8 hairy legs. But we do have weird little grabby fingers, and skinny extremities. We only have dense clusters of hair on certain parts of our bodies, unlike most animals. We pose no real threat to anything over 3 times our size, as we don't have claws, and our teeth mostly dull and not venomous.
Our movement is relatively slow, and predictable, as opposed to the spider. Gravity owns us; We can't fly, or walk on walls and ceilings.
Ignoring the fact, that most humans would make terrible pets on account of us being to independent. And would most likely see it as slavery, rather than being a pet.
From a purely anatomical standpoint. Would humans be a cuddly pet? Would we be right there, on the giant fuzzy space couch, watching giant alien Monty Python, on the giant space TV, huddled up with our owner?
Or would we be something, that one really weird alien has in a glass container, and uses to creep out the normalz?
Would humans be pets? Would the aliens see us as a cute species, like we do dogs and cats? Or would they be creeped out by us, like spiders creeps out most people?
We don't have 8 hairy legs. But we do have weird little grabby fingers, and skinny extremities. We only have dense clusters of hair on certain parts of our bodies, unlike most animals. We pose no real threat to anything over 3 times our size, as we don't have claws, and our teeth mostly dull and not venomous.
Our movement is relatively slow, and predictable, as opposed to the spider. Gravity owns us; We can't fly, or walk on walls and ceilings.
Ignoring the fact, that most humans would make terrible pets on account of us being to independent. And would most likely see it as slavery, rather than being a pet.
From a purely anatomical standpoint. Would humans be a cuddly pet? Would we be right there, on the giant fuzzy space couch, watching giant alien Monty Python, on the giant space TV, huddled up with our owner?
Or would we be something, that one really weird alien has in a glass container, and uses to creep out the normalz?
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nah, we'd be vermin. Whether we'd be aesthetically-pleasing vermin (e.g. more like a fox than a rat) is down to the aliens; "...eye of the beholder" etc.Posted 14th April 2008 at 11:28 AM by DaGaffer
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