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Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 15/10/2014: supermarket parking lot
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 06:56:35 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>
>>
>>      Larry Niven created a sentient three-legged creature in his early
>> Ringworld novels.  Can't recall the species name.
>>
>
>Pierson's Puppeteers are the species from the Ringworld novels. Two
>forelegs and a single hindleg. Eyes on thick "stalks" that also carried the
>mouths. Mouths were effectively hands as well. Brain encased in a bony
>compartment at the base of the eyestalks. They were Niven's idea for a
>possible sentient evolution from a herbivorous herding source species,
>rather than an omnivorous or carnivorous source species.
>

     You are obviously a very serious Ringworld fan.  I recently came across a 
signed copy of "Ringworld's Children" in a thrift store.


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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