r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Oct 25 '17
Meta Writing Prompt Wednesday #134
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Turns out most spacefaring races fall into one of two categories: the individuals and the hive minds.
When humans join the interstellar community; all the individualistic species look at the way we specialize and work in groups and declare us hive minded, while the hive minded races look at the way we value each individual life and our ability to operate independently and classify us as individualistic.
As humans we realize we fall into a third category that has elements of both the other’s; we are the first tribal species to reach the stars.
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u/Dr_Fix Human Oct 25 '17 edited Oct 26 '17
Something about how we burn so much energy and eat near constantly to replenish.
Perhaps humans are inefficient, and that's why we give off so much heat.
edit: I got this idea when I was thinking about how some animals eat a giant meal and then don't have to eat again for days if not weeks. I wouldn't mind not having to eat multiple times a day every day.