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ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eric Richards
5/ I actually quite liked The Postman ; read it at least three times. It was a solid book! ...but that doesn't mean that Brin invented even a single one of the tropes in it.https://twitter.com/EricRichards22/status/1201984548692779008 …
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6/ > To be clear, I am not a litigious kind of guy. In the past I shrugged off how Halo and many other games used concepts that are at least somewhat “mine.” Just one rather blatant example: uplifting dolphins to speak and fly in space.
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7/ So Brin is upset that Halo stole his concept that he mashed up and stole from The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) + Lord Seton's Voyage Among the Seven Planets" (1765). Yes. This is sane.
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8/ Also, I have a distinct memory of reading some hippy dippy article in Omni magazine c. 1980 or 1982 talking about space stations with pools so dolphins could share their wisdom with us
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9/ The 1970s were chock full of nature-over-nurture we-can-teach-animals-to-talk craziness. It was fairly mainstream, in out-of-the-mainstream corners, to think that dolphins ALREADY HAD LANGUAGE. I mean, FLIPPER was on TV, for !@#'s sake.
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ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Snake
10/ Startide Rising was a novel (1983). I know this, because I read it. I was talking about an ARTICLE in Omni MAGAZINE, a few years earlier. Which ... is the point I'm making here.https://twitter.com/tigerboy74u/status/1201987623662653441 …
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ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted John Taloni
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12/ I'm reading more of the Brin rant, and he disclaims that his complaint is a legal one ... then spends the whole time framing his argument as a legal one. e.g. > To be clear, the law doesn’t care much about denials that an infringer ever “read the original,” Amusing story:
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13/ He responded "Yeah, apparently there's a lot in common. I never even heard of them before I published the books!" I...took him at his word. It seemed pretty obvious to me that the trope of "very long years affect human civilization" could be reinvented. I'm not David Brin
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ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Paul Bates
14/ more talking dolphins:https://twitter.com/PaulBates7/status/1201989357864808449 …
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Replying to @MorlockP
The more interesting sociological question here is why were hippies apparently so obsessed with hyper intelligent dolphins?
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Replying to @tigerboy74u @MorlockP
Seriously though, there are a lot of other really intelligent animals, some of which even make and use tools Corvids and some apes come to mind That are more relatable and can actually effect their environment more than rapist fish
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