# Science Fiction World-building **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 23, 2001, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-world-building/94863 "2001-11-23T05:13:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2001, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-world-building/94863/21 "2001-11-26T12:00:40Z")
I think for biomechanicals, you want nonorganic materials for any parts subject to high stress, unless you want to go really high tech and have an organism that incorporates large amounts of metals, ceramics, polymers, etc. directly into its framework. An organic brain is way faster for pattern recognition and language processing, could be paired with a regular computer for number crunching. Perhaps an alien culture has contacted Earth, but hasn’t arrived yet. Maybe they are friendly and send information on new technologies, maybe they are coming to assimilate Earth into their empire, and Earth has to figure out something before the aliens arrive. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-world-building/94863/22 "2001-11-26T15:41:21Z")
…so, basically, if we come up with something cool, we can’t use it because it’s not our property? Therefore, it would make it more sense to come up with something nobody would want to use… 🙂 “In a world wracked by fear, after the great nuclear war, one man stands alone. Ace Blackstone and his talking motorcycle, Nina, are ready to fight the terror of Lord Humungo and his hord of ninja mutant robots…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-world-building/94863.md?page=1)