My not-so-little left for an extended absence this morning. Their cat witnessed the packing, the stressing, and all that went along with it, and was clearly (a) quite agitated and (b) actively trying to prevent their departure, crawling over their shoulder and onto their back in an effort to hold them down. Natch, an eight-pound cat is not going to do much against a human ten times her size, but her opinion of such things was made CRYSTAL clear.
I am the wee moggie's emergency backup human, when both Mama and Gramama are away... I expect to collect quite a bit of snuggles and such over the next few days. And I suspect there will be phone calls... the cat has learnt to recognize her human's voice despite lousy speakers, and seems to be comforted by it.
I thought of that; I don't know if that's possible, or if the cat would get the idea (their vision being significantly different than ours), but if it is, I'mma try it.
Worth a shot I guess. Maybe skype, and a gaming computer.. the higher the frame rate the better since cat vision needs a higher FpS to get the persistence of vision thing like we do. [anything below 60hz and they can see the individual frames.]
I asked some of the trees in your neck of the woods, back in a year beginning 197....
It will break my heart if those trees are no longer there, as I strongly suspect they might not be. But they were definitely self-aware, even if they thought on a time scale so different that I couldn't quite interpret the message.
Some of the trees in my yard are. *laugh* The orcs fought them and lost. Home Base has almost entirely engulfed the scythe blade, and you can't see more than the ends of the barbed wire around one of the walnuts. Old, powerful things.
When I visited the redwoods on the coast I was awed by them. Who isn't? But most people don't hear them anymore. They actually find us amusing. I think it must be like watching kittens or butterflies is for us.
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Date: 2019-01-16 07:50 pm (UTC)It is the height of arrogance to assume we're the only sentient species on this planet, let alone in the universe.
Sentient beings
Date: 2019-01-16 09:31 pm (UTC)My not-so-little left for an extended absence this morning. Their cat witnessed the packing, the stressing, and all that went along with it, and was clearly (a) quite agitated and (b) actively trying to prevent their departure, crawling over their shoulder and onto their back in an effort to hold them down. Natch, an eight-pound cat is not going to do much against a human ten times her size, but her opinion of such things was made CRYSTAL clear.
I am the wee moggie's emergency backup human, when both Mama and Gramama are away... I expect to collect quite a bit of snuggles and such over the next few days. And I suspect there will be phone calls... the cat has learnt to recognize her human's voice despite lousy speakers, and seems to be comforted by it.
Re: Sentient beings
Date: 2019-01-16 09:40 pm (UTC)Re: Sentient beings
Date: 2019-01-16 09:46 pm (UTC)Re: Sentient beings
Date: 2019-01-16 09:57 pm (UTC)Although audio alone might be enough anyway.
Re: Sentient beings
Date: 2019-01-16 10:25 pm (UTC)Re: Sentient beings
Date: 2019-01-17 03:45 pm (UTC)Yes ...
Date: 2019-01-16 10:42 pm (UTC)And the redwoods. I would not fuck with terraformers.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2019-01-16 11:16 pm (UTC)Hmmm. I'd wanna wait 'til summer, but the thing about you and me and some others here and trees is we can just go _ask_...
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2019-01-17 03:52 am (UTC)It will break my heart if those trees are no longer there, as I strongly suspect they might not be. But they were definitely self-aware, even if they thought on a time scale so different that I couldn't quite interpret the message.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2019-01-17 04:39 am (UTC)When I visited the redwoods on the coast I was awed by them. Who isn't? But most people don't hear them anymore. They actually find us amusing. I think it must be like watching kittens or butterflies is for us.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2019-01-17 11:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-01-18 03:26 am (UTC)