Backhanded apology for my sometimes clipped English.
I know I shouldn't laugh, but I did.
If a turtle has it's shell surgically removed, is it naked or homeless?
Dead. You have to do catastrophic damage to remove a shell depending on the species, and most wouldn;'t survive it.
One specie of Turtle removed their shells about 200 million years ago.
It was one step in the earliest technological civilization on Earth.
They "ascended" relative to out limited understanding.
They've been monitoring our progress ...
discretely.
I know this is true. I saw it on the Jesse Ventura show.