Communities

Writing
Writing
Codidact Meta
Codidact Meta
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
Photography & Video
Photography & Video
Scientific Speculation
Scientific Speculation
Cooking
Cooking
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Judaism
Judaism
Languages & Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
Software Development
Software Development
Mathematics
Mathematics
Christianity
Christianity
Code Golf
Code Golf
Music
Music
Physics
Physics
Linux Systems
Linux Systems
Power Users
Power Users
Tabletop RPGs
Tabletop RPGs
Community Proposals
Community Proposals
tag:snake search within a tag
answers:0 unanswered questions
user:xxxx search by author id
score:0.5 posts with 0.5+ score
"snake oil" exact phrase
votes:4 posts with 4+ votes
created:<1w created < 1 week ago
post_type:xxxx type of post
Search help
Notifications
Mark all as read See all your notifications »
Q&A

The Crowman race to space!

+0
−0

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?

History
Why does this post require attention from curators or moderators?
You might want to add some details to your flag.
Why should this post be closed?

This post was sourced from https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/115354. It is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

0 comment threads

0 answers

Sign up to answer this question »