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[–] fieldlilly 3 points

Silverbloods. Those are the “blue people” you are referring to. They are also known as the Ba’Vashandyr, also Ba’Vashandi. Where I am from we call them, “Ba’Vashandi Ael Tkk’n.” That is, if they have more than two arms. Every species with more than two arms is “Tkk’n.” “Tkk’n Ka” (pronounced only with the mouth and toungue usually without any breath exiting the lungs if that is all that is said) means “much occupied.” It must be spoken rapidly like clicking.
Tkk N K(a)
They have also been called Ba’Vashi but Vashi is pronounced like something between a B and a V and means something akin to “field medic” or “field surgeon” in English.
The word means “blood stopper.”
It is only a homonymic play on words in my language as the word Vashandi is as far removed from field medic as a silver necklace is from the ground.
Put simply, Vashandi is an amalgamation of three words and essentially means “Silverblood.”
“Silver flowing in living veins.”
In the same context, humans would be VashMachTi or “Ironblood flowing through living veins.”
You are VashMachTi, or Ironbloods.
Pronounced not like a ch sound but like the term for speed of sound mach.
And for those paying attention to another statement I made a while ago...
Kami MatchtKa means “She (female warrior) of the Iron Claws.”
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-RD

[–] PoeDameronski 1 points

Good find. What do the dashes mean again? Are we meant to cypher those?

[–] fieldlilly 1 points

u/ACuriousHumanBeing is great with the meaning of these...

[–] ACuriousHumanBeing 2 points

Hardly

I believe // indicates several things. Usually a new avenue of discussion. As I understand, I think /// is the end of something, but I don't know

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[–] ACuriousHumanBeing 1 points

They can be. But that is something different.

The / is a versatile mark. It can be used in a few different contexts.

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[–] fieldlilly 1 points

Iron is intrinsically linked to our metabolism and immune systems, and we evolved with that as the metal tied to the way our body works. I can only guess that the Ba’Vashandi had a higher concentration of silver in their ecosystem, and that is how/why they evolved with their body functions revolving around that.

I wonder rather, if instead of evolving like that, if they modified themselves that way in order to be disease resistant. If that is the case, there may be trade off’s to having silver blood that other species are not willing to accept. It is an interesting topic.

[–] tacocat9797 1 points

For some reason, I feel like it was the 'clay' we were made from. It is because we are of the earth. I don't think we ever evolved silver blood for it to compete within our species because that would be a huge evolutionary advantage.

Iron binds to oxygen so that is its function in the blood in humans. We don't eat a lot of silver either. This means that the Ba'Vashandi consume a lot of silver in their diet.

If you replace the iron in the heme group with different metal ions, you get:

  1. Hemocyanin: Copper instead of iron in the heme groups. A blue-green copper containing respira­tory pigments found in some crustaceans, xiphosurans, myriapodes, and in some gas­tropods, bivalves and cephalopods.
  2. chlorocruorin: It is a green coloured respiratory pig­ment containing iron found in the plasma of some polychaetes (e.g., Serpulid, spirorbid, sabellid fanworms).
  3. Haemerythrin (Haemo-erythrin): iron containing respiratory pig­ment found in the blood corpuscles of some invertebrates (e.g., Sipunculans, Priapulids and inarticulate Brachiopods). It is pink or violet coloured in oxygenated state and colourless in deoxygenated state.
  4. Pinnaglobin—a brown coloured manganese containing pigment found in the plasma of Pinna (Lamellibranchs).
  5. Coboglobin: Cobalt based globin. Colorless when oxygenated(arteries), yellow in veins.

http://www.biologydiscussion.com/animals-2/blood-animals-2/pigments-found-in-the-blood-of-animals/33322

[–] fieldlilly 2 points

That reminded me of something my Grandmother used to say. It was about people, though, not aliens. She would say that when God formed us out of the clay of the earth, he used different colors of clay, but that it is all the same breath that he breathed into us.

Pretty interesting points you have there. I have had quite a few off-line discussions with people concerning the anti-microbial and anti-viral properties in silver. What do you think about the possibility of our blood possibly being able to accept silver, and our bodies adjusting accordingly? Colloidal silver is available for ingestion, but it is kind of relegated to the realm of quack science...

[–] ACuriousHumanBeing 1 points

Funnily enough if a human does ingest enough silver, they do in fact turn blue.

Course there are some concerns that silver could mess with your body due to build up.

There are humans who have genes that can make them 'blue', even with their iron blood, I think its due to the flow of oxygen being switched or something like that. There are complications associated with such genes though.

As it is woman prefer men with reddish and yellow hues.. As it showcases health.

As it is, I don't know if switching bloods would make sense. Best we realize the strength we have in using iron.

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[–] fieldlilly 1 points

I think you are right about not switching bloods, but I wonder if we could still somehow include the silver in our existing blood and make it complimentary.

[–] FaustianRubix 1 points

Magnetic fields. Polarization. Vibration.
Electromagnetic fluxes affect more than just machines. That's where you should be looking.