water
water
streamline
the tapered shape of animals that
live in water
Great White shark
beside boney and cartilaginous fishes,
warm
blooded sea-going mammals have developed a streamline shape as well
Bottlenose dolphin
and comets - are they dirty snowballs, stones and frozen h2o?
there is th far out Kuiper Belt with major Ice bodies
there is the so far out it's sketchy Oort Cloud of Ice bodies in wide orbit around us
point being we got water
aplenty
and astronomers have every reason to believe that many other solar systems are like ours in this feature
picture planetary basins filled to the rim with water
are they lakes or oceans?
does it rain on those worlds - - probably on some water worlds, ones w atmospheres
so there are beaches and rains on distant water worlds in the cosmos
And if there is life in those waters, any creatures there will be shaped in a
streamlined way, their forms - vertebrates - will take the body contours of
fishes.
Ichthyosaur
sea going reptile of ages
past
cousins of dinosaurs, predators swimming through prehistoric oceans, ichthyosaurs too had a fish-like shape
picture planetary basins filled to the rim with water
dorsal fin exobiology Phd
we should well expect to find this anatomical feature on vertebrates on water worlds far-flung in the cosmos
notice the flippers on this shark resemble the flippers on the ichthyosaur
so the streamline body shape, dorsal fins above and flipper fins below are exobiologic features
And if there is life in those waters, any creatures there will be
shaped in a streamlined way, their forms - vertebrates - will take the body
contours of fishes.
zooooooommmmmmm
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If we do
someday follow our dreams to the distant stars,
we are likely to find
fantastic ocean worlds out there.
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