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| Holben | Feb 13 2010, 02:59 PM Post #46 |
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Can you give me a link to the marsupial mole? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| sam999 | Feb 14 2010, 12:40 PM Post #47 |
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Just use wiki. |
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| Holben | Feb 14 2010, 12:45 PM Post #48 |
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Hmmm. Yes. I'm not that energetic. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| sam999 | Feb 18 2010, 03:13 PM Post #49 |
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Nevermind, it's not OT anyway. |
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| The Dodo | Feb 19 2010, 12:26 AM Post #50 |
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What do you mean by OT? |
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| Holben | Feb 19 2010, 04:34 AM Post #51 |
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On-Topic. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Vultur-10 | Feb 19 2010, 09:53 PM Post #52 |
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Like the Grendels in The Legacy of Heorot. They ate every animal off the island and ended up having to eat their own young, which were very numerous and a totally different kind of creature, so hardly any grew up to the adult size. Thus, when the human colonists killed off the adult Grendels (since they were eating people) ... big problems, since they ended up with like 100x as many Grendels. |
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| lemming98 | Feb 22 2010, 12:17 AM Post #53 |
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Everything on the Island is not one species. If you looked at the scientific names in the book you would see some almost all of them have different genus names and species name. The trees (sessile wasps-things) are also not blood sucking just merely carnivorous, also some are herbivores feeding on the clovore. The trees don't seem to photosynthesize, but the clovore photosynthesizes on the Island and forms the basis of the ecosystem, it also chemosynthesizes iron and sulphur and produces large amounts of methane. |
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| sam999 | Feb 22 2010, 04:25 PM Post #54 |
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Did anyone ever to a DNA test? Check each and every creature's DNA compared to the others? |
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| Terrence of Chance | Feb 28 2010, 04:43 PM Post #55 |
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Yes actually. It was their DNA tests that led them to link the mobile organisms with crustaceans, and the rooted animals to certain kinds of anemone. I have to say that I find the idea of the entire ecosystem being one species as a bit off. Surely a single species can fill in multiple niches in it's various life stages, but it would take some real trickery for a running jumping Spriger to metamorphose into a stationary blood-tree. I think the idea that there are about ten main species, with dozens of life-stage sub-species split off from each of them, to be the more probable one. Also, Sam, more spell-check please? I had to read one of your posts three times before I could understand what it was you said. |
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| sam999 | Mar 1 2010, 04:15 PM Post #56 |
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To bad. Might make a good project however, all creatures in an eacosystam as one species. |
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| lemming98 | Mar 1 2010, 08:00 PM Post #57 |
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I would say more than just ten main species because the book list three unique species of wasp and their life cycle, also some trees are covered in a hard exoskeleten while some small ones are just muscle and are herbivores. |
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| sam999 | Mar 1 2010, 08:03 PM Post #58 |
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And the people DNA-tested the wasps compared to each other in detail? |
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| Dragon wasp | Jul 3 2010, 05:26 PM Post #59 |
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I am reading the book at this moment. it is awesome so far. |
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| Dragon wasp | Jul 9 2010, 05:44 PM Post #60 |
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Is it always this gory!!!?? |
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