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Hey science side if Tumblr. . why is the full moon orange sometimes?

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What does it mean?
Bad weather is coming?
Humidity?

If it’s close to the horizon when it appears orange then you are likely seeing it through a haze of smoke normally invisible to the human eye.

Orange and yellow moons can be an indicator of atmospheric pollution

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Do humans count?

Heheh. Um. There are times when the species are very vastly different that understanding and communication are virtually impossible.

The jury is very much out on the Hyperspace-native species known through onomatopoeic nomenclature as the Xyrak’l. Nobody knows if they’re cogniscent, cusp-cogniscent, or non-cogniscent.

But they are big enough to crush a standard passenger liner, so the general consensus is to leave them to their own business.

And then there’s the vary rare cases where a

TBH, that is something I am going to explore as I go on in the Amalgam Universe series.

Most cogniscent life would depend on an extended childhood for learning. This leads to a need for nurturing, which means more effort spent on fewer young.

Cogniscents who have litters would be rare. And possibly level 5 Deathworlders.

Civilisation also, to some degree, requires an element of co-operation to progress. You need a certain amount of trade and specialisation to get into space. Naturally

Some Deathworlders are more hazardous than others.

The ones hell-bent on galactic genocide are given a short, sharp shock as part of the general negotiations strategy.

And, if they won’t learn, they’re either ostracised or eliminated. It depends on the situation.

Species-tailoring is usually a gradual process because the next generation cannot, by existing, harm the prior one. For all intents and purposes, its more bother than selective exposure and equally selective breeding.

The differently-abled, so long as they are known to be of a cogniscent species, are afforded the same rights as other cogniscents.

Those rights include:

• The right to shelter
• The right to safety
• The right to proper nutrition
• The right to comfort
• The right to gainful employ according to abilities
• The right to choose what aids are used to help attain the other rights
  

It’s when the individual is of an unknown species that the real problems start.

Gengineering is generally approved in all quality-of-life improvements. Tukkatukka, being a foodstuff designed to aid terraforming, is in the definitive green tick zone.

Augments are definite grey areas. They fall loosely under the category of service animals and the CRC keeps a rigid check on their welfare.

Engineered Life Forms, or ELFs, who exhibit cogniscence are the ones who cause trouble. Companies who make them are considered responsible for their welfare and upkeep.

Huge amounts of paperwork are required. The CRC has

The Cogniscents’ Rights Committee has the relatively simple stance that if an intelligence can seem like an intelligence to another known intelligence, then the original intelligence deserves all rights and freedoms afforded to cogniscent life.

Signs of intelligence include:

• arguing
• making wishes known
• attempts at communication
• attempts at trade
• mimicry with the goal of attempted communication
• attempts at understanding
  

Of course, there are cusp-cogniscent creatures like the Grey Parrot, the pig, and some species of ape. The CRC prefers to err on