By that logic, we're all bacteria.
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by Nationstatelandsville » Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:53 am
by Olthar » Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:58 am
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:I love the humour in the fact that as I am ranting about crazy animals here, a flying fox slams into my window.
by Constaniana » Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:58 am
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:TV Tropes on Australia
"The plants can also kill you. The Stinging Tree is aptly named; all shrubs and trees of this genus have very fine hairs which will end up in your body if you walk too close (also, said hairs SHED, so too close is probably within a 5km radius). These stingers are poisonous, and they have been known to kill horses, dogs and, yes, people. With great efficiency. Even if it doesn't kill you, the hairs - and subsequently the pain, because its the Stinging Tree for a reason, tends to last several years; the hairs are too fine to remove, and they don't break down in your body."
Australia is a lie.
Ameriganastan wrote:I work hard to think of those ludicrous Eric adventure stories, but I don't think I'd have come up with rescuing a three armed alchemist from goblin-monkeys in a million years.
Kudos.
by Olthar » Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:58 am
by Nightkill the Emperor » Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:59 am
Nat: Night's always in some bizarre state somewhere between "intoxicated enough to kill a hair metal lead singer" and "annoying Mormon missionary sober".
Swith: It's because you're so awesome. God himself refreshes the screen before he types just to see if Nightkill has written anything while he was off somewhere else.
by Astrolinium » Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:59 am
by Mavorpen » Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:59 am
by Nationstatelandsville » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:00 am
by Nationstatelandsville » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:01 am
Mavorpen wrote:I juet realized there's no possible way for PCs to survive on their own in my RP.
by Olthar » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:05 am
Nationstatelandsville wrote:I can't go "By that logic, we're all cells", because... well, yeah, we are.
by Mavorpen » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:06 am
by Nationstatelandsville » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:06 am
Olthar wrote:Nationstatelandsville wrote:Well, the first cell would have been similar to a modern bacteria.
Actually, not really. There are many differences between the original single-cellular lifeforms and bacteria. After all, bacteria have been around for billions of years, and they've been evolving, too. In fact, they've been evolving much faster than us because of their rapidly shorter generations.
by AETEN II » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:08 am
Olthar wrote:Astrolinium wrote:
You know perfectly well what he meant.
If his point is that we're all still the stuff we evolved from, then yes. That is perfectly accurate. While calling us all fish is technically inaccurate as "fish" isn't a scientific term with a static definition, we are all still chordates, and that's close enough. It's impossible for something to ever stop being what it is.Nationstatelandsville wrote:Well, the first cell would have been similar to a modern bacteria.
Actually, not really. There are many differences between the original single-cellular lifeforms and bacteria. After all, bacteria have been around for billions of years, and they've been evolving, too. In fact, they've been evolving much faster than us because of their rapidly shorter generations.Nationstatelandsville wrote:I can't go "By that logic, we're all cells", because... well, yeah, we are.
Indeed we are.
"Quod Vult, Valde Valt"
Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P.
Nationstatelandsville wrote:"Why'd the chicken cross the street?"
"Because your dad's a whore."
"...He died a week ago."
"Of syphilis, I bet."
by Olthar » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:09 am
Nationstatelandsville wrote:Olthar wrote:
Actually, not really. There are many differences between the original single-cellular lifeforms and bacteria. After all, bacteria have been around for billions of years, and they've been evolving, too. In fact, they've been evolving much faster than us because of their rapidly shorter generations.
Hence why I said "similar", not "exactly identical".
Bacteria change, but they still more closely resemble a cell than anything else.
by Nationstatelandsville » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:11 am
Olthar wrote:Nationstatelandsville wrote:Hence why I said "similar", not "exactly identical".
Bacteria change, but they still more closely resemble a cell than anything else.
Bacteria are prokaryotes while our cells are all eukaryotes. They're more fundamentally different than us than virtually any other form of life.
by Olthar » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:11 am
AETEN II wrote:Olthar wrote:If his point is that we're all still the stuff we evolved from, then yes. That is perfectly accurate. While calling us all fish is technically inaccurate as "fish" isn't a scientific term with a static definition, we are all still chordates, and that's close enough. It's impossible for something to ever stop being what it is.
Actually, not really. There are many differences between the original single-cellular lifeforms and bacteria. After all, bacteria have been around for billions of years, and they've been evolving, too. In fact, they've been evolving much faster than us because of their rapidly shorter generations.
Indeed we are.
Point being though, that for all intensive purposes, Aves is no different than theropods, save slightly different skeletons. But really, they need to be reclassified, or possibly shuffle dinosaurs into their own Class, because the system for dinosaurs is old, and they were classified before we got a real good understanding of them. Like how, theropods were insanely advanced Archosaurs that were most likely warm-blooded.
by Olthar » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:13 am
Nationstatelandsville wrote:The point is - you're looking way, way, way too far into this metaphor.
by Nightkill the Emperor » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:14 am
Nat: Night's always in some bizarre state somewhere between "intoxicated enough to kill a hair metal lead singer" and "annoying Mormon missionary sober".
Swith: It's because you're so awesome. God himself refreshes the screen before he types just to see if Nightkill has written anything while he was off somewhere else.
by Seshephe » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:14 am
Olthar wrote:AETEN II wrote:
Point being though, that for all intensive purposes, Aves is no different than theropods, save slightly different skeletons. But really, they need to be reclassified, or possibly shuffle dinosaurs into their own Class, because the system for dinosaurs is old, and they were classified before we got a real good understanding of them. Like how, theropods were insanely advanced Archosaurs that were most likely warm-blooded.
The entire Linnaean taxonomic system needs to be thrown out. It is massively out of date, so much so that it now actively contradicts evolutionary biology.
by Nationstatelandsville » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:14 am
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:So, Nat, let's start to move this along. Edit your post and such.
by Nightkill the Emperor » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:15 am
Nat: Night's always in some bizarre state somewhere between "intoxicated enough to kill a hair metal lead singer" and "annoying Mormon missionary sober".
Swith: It's because you're so awesome. God himself refreshes the screen before he types just to see if Nightkill has written anything while he was off somewhere else.
by Nationstatelandsville » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:15 am
by AETEN II » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:16 am
Olthar wrote:AETEN II wrote:
Point being though, that for all intensive purposes, Aves is no different than theropods, save slightly different skeletons. But really, they need to be reclassified, or possibly shuffle dinosaurs into their own Class, because the system for dinosaurs is old, and they were classified before we got a real good understanding of them. Like how, theropods were insanely advanced Archosaurs that were most likely warm-blooded.
The entire Linnaean taxonomic system needs to be thrown out. It is massively out of date, so much so that it now actively contradicts evolutionary biology.
"Quod Vult, Valde Valt"
Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P.
Nationstatelandsville wrote:"Why'd the chicken cross the street?"
"Because your dad's a whore."
"...He died a week ago."
"Of syphilis, I bet."
by Seshephe » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:18 am
Nationstatelandsville wrote:Olthar wrote:
Actually, not really. There are many differences between the original single-cellular lifeforms and bacteria. After all, bacteria have been around for billions of years, and they've been evolving, too. In fact, they've been evolving much faster than us because of their rapidly shorter generations.
Hence why I said "similar", not "exactly identical".
Bacteria change, but they still more closely resemble a cell than anything else.
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