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Well that's not the main reason I'm thinking of him having a human girlfriend instead of an alien one like I originally planned, it's because it might not work and wouldn't be realistic.

You know, I just realized that to keep with the science fiction themes of the story I should keep her an alien, but it turns out that her extreme displays of affection towards the main protagonist are only as a friend (they played together a lot on her home planet as children), and not the desire for a romantic relationship. Also, I should give her a boyfriend of her own species to further emphasize the fact that she's NOT in love with her human friend, she just loves him in a friendly way. As for her human friend, I'll just give him a human sweetheart, obviously, with the description I gave you of my possible Hispanic/Taino girl.

Well somebody's gonna have to move this topic somewhere and help me rename it.

Well I'm very happy to have gotten your input on the matter. With that in mind, I've come up with this rough-draft of her character: -An expert at karate. -Fast runner. -Wide hips and a big butt, don't let those fool you. -Has a plain accent but fluent in Spanish. -Never been to Spain. -Can easily break someone's arm. -Able to trip people who are bigger and stronger than she is. -Works helping to protect the Mexican rainforest. -Very good hoverbike racer and driver. -Never needs somebody else's help in a fight. -Very good at sports. -Comes from a family of botanists and wildlife rangers. -Her great great grandmother helped get rid of the smog in Mexico City. If I've hit anything stereotypical about Mexicans there let me know. I'm not trying to be offensive. Also, another idea I had was to make her descended from the Taino Indians (the tribe Columbus encountered when he first reached America). http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20071230/arts/images/Layout1_1_PGIO2TAINO200AM.jpg http://insidejourneystravel.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/dsc02938.jpg http://www.gonomad.com/cultures/1102/cuba-images/ceremony.jpg

Okay, I won't get into the politics of the 22nd century so much. What about my jungle girl? I could say she's from Mexico and part of a tribal renaissance movement, and that way she could still show her sex appeal without going completely nude. Unfortunately I couldn't find an example, so I've attached one. It's not a very good picture of her because I did it in only a few minutes. Also, can she still be a deadly fighter without having superhuman strength or being a mutant?

Around 2135 AD. Yes they are, but there are a few political changes by then, such as bigger milestones for human rights in the third world, 80% less pollution, and 65% more jobs worldwide. Although North Korea is now a barren wasteland, but they're an acceptable target for mockery in fiction. Yeah, that seems less excessive. That part is only the back story for the alien girl and her people. The main story involves hoverbike racing, which ends up tangled in with a recent crime wave. Someone is stealing the racing prize money and replacing it with counterfeit currency.

Well, when I still had her as an alien, her home planet was filled with trees everywhere, even a few in their lakes and rivers. Because trees were only to be used for shelter and food sources, logging on her planet was punishable by death, as demonstrated in this promo I made for the show: Click here to watch it. So what if in the 22nd century Brazil has made it punishable by death, or at least life in prison, to cut down ANY part of the Amazon. Thus the entire ecosystem is a government protected area and off limits to loggers. The Amazon natives would be able to adjust to such a law more easily than city dwellers, don't you think? On a related note, you may want to read this.

Well I mostly want her to come from a tribe where women get to wear loincloths, because I'm tired of women in loincloths being mostly fantasy characters. Plus, loincloths are more functional on women than men when you think about the biological differences. I was thinking of her being from a South American tribe because it would be closer to Canada (Where her boyfriend is from and what country her racing team represents), but I'd have to give her a bikini or cover her up with vegetation because most tribal women in that area don't wear clothes normally. As you can guess I still want her to look sexy most of the time for added audience appeal.

Well, there's this tribe called Hoitoto in Peru's jungle. I particularly like their native dress for women and girls: http://www.explorationsinc.com/PhotoGallery/amazon-tours-people/196-Amazon-Huitotos.html http://www.explorationsinc.com/PhotoGallery/amazon-tours-people/200-Amazon-Huitotos.html www.explorationsinc.com/PhotoGallery/amazon-tours-people/204-Amazon-Huitotos.html http://www.explorationsinc.com/PhotoGallery/amazon-tours-people/203-Amazon-Huitotos.html Then there's this recreated Amazon tribal dance: Pay attention to how the girl handling the snake is dressed.

Well, another idea I had was to make her a rebellious member of a Yanomami community in Brazil, but her native outfit (WARNING! Bare breasted tribal woman) looking like that? I read on a few sites that it was a loincloth, but close up it looks like the front half of a grass skirt painted red. It's set in the distant future, so, as someone on deviantART suggested, I could just give her a bikini and say it's a hand-me-down she got from relief workers.

Then what do I do about her tribal bodypaint? I really want to keep that aspect of her, so what culture would she be if she was human?

Now I get it.

I don't get the joke.

That's the thing. I don't want my main character, a human, to have a romantic relationship with a surprisingly sexy alien, if it would count as bestiality. The big conflict with that is because, well, take a look at her: Body language aside, I wanted to make her attractive to human males, but for the sake of creativity I made her an alien. She's even strong enough to lift 10 times her own weight (All of her people are built like that), and I figured that if she was human AND that strong, she'd be one of those gross muscular women instead.

I was thinking about that sort of thing too! For example: If the creature was from a gas giant, it would look like this. It would move it's body in a way that would push the gasses behind or underneath it to travel. Or what about if it was a planet with a dangerous to touch surface but very tall structures of rock? The creature might look like this. Obviously he wouldn't live on the ground because it's not safe for his kind, so they'd live in tall trees or rock structures for safety.

Well then I guess science fiction is crap now because it's unrealistic, unless it's not supposed to be realistic.

Am I an idiot for believing in the possibility of extraterrestrials with bipedal physiology like ours?

Well technology is improving over time, eventually we'll have space travel or something like it. That, and maybe as part of a colonizing process for planets farther from Earth, we figure out a way to genetically alter people so that they're more physically adaptable to new worlds. They'd still count as aliens, wouldn't they?

I thought by conducting you meant drawing heat towards the host, as opposed to controlling and maintaining it.

It doesn't mean there can't be humanoid life outside our own world, just because most alien species out there will more likely have a drastically different physiology than us.

So if I had more helium in my blood I'd get more heat drawn into my body?

But you said helium is an excellent conductor of heat.

Has MythBusters looked at that?

You mean helium would trap more heat on the planet than oxygen or carbon dioxide?

I was only planning on sucking it out of a balloon, not a pressurized gas cylinder.