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| Topic Started: Oct 19 2009, 11:51 AM (1,983 Views) | |
| Ddraig Goch | Oct 19 2009, 11:51 AM Post #1 |
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I don't know if you have ever read any of these "theories", but some believe that humanity was the result of genetic engineering by aliens, 230 million years ago. Others even believe that it wasn't aliens, but future humans (which creates an incredible paradox) My point is, if this did happen (which I know it didn't, but still...), then which prehistoric lifeforms do you think have been genetically modified? My own personal vote goes for Tyrannosaurus Rex. I mean, what was up with those arms?... |
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| lamna | Oct 21 2009, 03:43 PM Post #16 |
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Indeed. Lets start talking about weird shit that is on topic. I suppose whales look really rather odd. |
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| Holben | Oct 21 2009, 03:45 PM Post #17 |
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Really? i think ugly people must be genetically created. How could they be selected? (only joking)[/big Edited by Holben, Oct 21 2009, 03:46 PM.
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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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| Carlos | Oct 22 2009, 02:18 AM Post #18 |
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I'd restricted that to Odontoceta, because they are quite fucked up. Asymmetry, melon... |
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| The Dodo | Oct 22 2009, 03:24 AM Post #19 |
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Some of the animals of the Cambrian seem pretty strange. |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 22 2009, 10:15 AM Post #20 |
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Yeah; something like Opabinia, or Wiwaxia. Personally, I think that all Vendian Life would fit the desciprtion of "genetic experiments gone wrong". Take, for example, Inaria, Dickinsonia and Charnodiscus. Of course, if aliens had genetically engineered the Tribrachidium, it would at least explain what it is - they were trying to make a living frisbee. |
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| Holben | Oct 22 2009, 11:33 AM Post #21 |
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Erm... Hallucigenia? Another bonkers animal is the Axolotl. |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 22 2009, 12:31 PM Post #22 |
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Oh, of course. Forgot about the Hallucigenia. Which end was it's head, exactly? If we're talking about modern species, I think that the mimic octopus's behaviour says genetic-behavioural modification. Certainly, it's very interesting. |
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| Holben | Oct 22 2009, 12:50 PM Post #23 |
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The Grey mimic octopus? (different topic alert) |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 22 2009, 03:49 PM Post #24 |
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"Grey" mimic octopus? Do you mean the one in the sketch from the "Strangers in the Dark" topic? Or do you mean the actual mimic octopus of Earth? |
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| Holben | Oct 25 2009, 10:08 AM Post #25 |
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SitD. |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 25 2009, 10:14 AM Post #26 |
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Ok. No, I mean the Terran Mimic Octopus. |
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| Holben | Oct 25 2009, 12:25 PM Post #27 |
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Yeah, i was just being silly. |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 26 2009, 06:02 AM Post #28 |
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Right.
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| Holben | Oct 26 2009, 07:57 AM Post #29 |
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Gerwoorgel.
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 27 2009, 06:05 AM Post #30 |
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"Blblbl! *raspberry* eeweeweeweeweeweeheehe pluuuu! Blblblblblblblblblbl!" Oh god! The Blibbering Humdingers' loose again! Quick... |
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