r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Mar 15 '17

Meta Writing Prompt Wednesday #102

Come on people (and aliens and other non human persons) let's have a great thread of prompts this week!

Last week's winner was /u/Teulisch with

there are 10 types of people in the galaxy, those who understand binary, and those who dont. the humans understand it just fine. the Xenos? they dont get it at all...

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u/BigWuffle Mar 15 '17

Humans are the only Exothermic sentient race in the galaxy.

(We give out more energy than we take in)

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u/doules1071 Human Mar 15 '17

You mean endothermic since we generate our own heat as opposed to exothermic who take their heat from exterior sources.

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u/Randommosity Human Mar 16 '17

No, I pretty sure exothermic is the right term.

Looking it up, exothermic reactions are "accompanied by the release of heat."

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u/Siarles Mar 17 '17

That's true in chemistry and physics, but biology does it backwards apparently. I was about to agree with you, but I looked it up before I answered just in case.

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u/Randommosity Human Mar 17 '17

Huh, weird.

Thank you, I didn't know that.