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Callisto81896 [2016-12-02 23:30:33 +0000 UTC]
Lovely concept, but why have eyes if you're blind? Vestigial?
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jillybean711 In reply to Callisto81896 [2016-12-03 01:07:25 +0000 UTC]
Thank you! Yes, the eyes are vestigial. It's unknown to the (fictional) scientists why they have those eyes, or why they have them in the first place. Due to this, it might mean Europa wasn't always an ice moon, or... there might have been something bigger than them, that they needed to look out for at one point.
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Callisto81896 In reply to jillybean711 [2016-12-03 03:18:05 +0000 UTC]
Hmm, it'd probably be the first. Like, there's no way any light could get through Europa's ice, especially not with the Sun as far away as it is, with ice predicted to be anywhere from 1 to 10 miles thick. All light down there is either from lava - that's shortlived and cools almost instantly - or from natural bio-luminescence. And it's unclear why bio-light would evolve at all on Europa.
Sure in Earth's oceans you have some light-up squids, flashlight fish, angler fish, but those are all in the 'upper' deep ocean, where they can still sometimes interact with light-seeing creatures. At the very deepest parts, where the only interaction life has with light-using life is eating their dead bodies as they fall, everything is eyeless; the ancient microbes that are their ancestors never evolved the light-sensitive pigments that became eyespots that became eyes.
Sorry if this sounds unappreciative or nitpicky, but I'm designing my own Europan species and I have LONG ago surrendered my soul to the altar of overthinking.
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Taylor-Call [2016-11-17 14:14:31 +0000 UTC]
LOVE the colors and the design! Beautifully done!!
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