Aliens by Richard Tornello

[Lester Curtis]

Tao wrote
But the Mouth might be tricky - the corollary is if a being can sustain the biomass without eating. If not ... a slightly ruder question is if that ... other side ... is needed.

For you scatological types:
In Dynotopia the dynos were so efficient and all energy was consumed from the food so that there was no waste by-product.

RT

That's a premise that's pretty hard to swallow (haw haw). For one thing, it means that under NO circumstances could they ever, even accidentally, swallow anything that they can't digest. It also means that they somehow manage to live without any of the symbiotic gut-fauna that everybody else uses, the dead bodies of which compose about half of a healthy turd (so I've read).

This is getting away from the topic, though . . . with arms, legs, eyes, etc. -- sounds a lot like US.

Maybe WE'RE the aliens.

[Lester Curtis]

Maybe more like:

"Where are your rest rooms?"

"What's a 'rest room'?"