The Crowman race to space!
In this answer https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/25219/50641 (to the attached question) one of their counter points was "oh, crows use tools, therefore, human advantage negated".
That got me thinking, could crows build a spaceship?
Obviously not with their current level of intelligence, so I propose the following scenario.
A trickster god (we'll blame Loki) has transformed every member of the human race into a crow, and set out a challenge for us. If we can land a crow(man) on the moon, grab a relatively small rock (say, one pound) and return it to Earth, we will be restored to our original form (and we'll all get ice cream, yay!).
Some ground rules.
- Crowmans are completely identical to crows (or ravens if that's more convenient/thematically appropriate) biologically, but they have the full intelligence, personality, and skills that they had while they were human, without needing the requisite brain matter.
Crowmans either speak some variant of crow that is functionally equivalent to their human language, or just are capable of speaking that language intelligibly regardless of whether a real crow could actually pronounce all of it.
Lifespan. The crows also gain the benefit of a human length lifespan, if it is necessary.
So, would the crowman race ever be able to succeed at this task? Would they even be able to survive?
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