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Avatar; New Trailer new creatures!
Topic Started: Nov 7 2009, 02:27 PM (1,816 Views)
Oceaniis
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Hey people!

Some of you shouldn't noticed the new trailer of AVATAR!!

Take a look!! http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/hd/
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Are you plausible?

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Possibly attracting 'insects' to further pollinate it...also they have a different bio-chemistry, so we can't go by Earth standards ;)


A good point, (that's what my nereid plants use it for, actually), and the biochemistry is a good point; a byproduct of some inherent process of their photosynthesis.

Any other ideas for what plants could use bioluminescence for besides attracting pollinators?
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Pretending to be an animal to warn animals away? Maybe it's a by-product of their form of photosynthesis.
Maybe?
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.

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On Tavotrio I don't have your problem hehe the "plants" are actualy animals, with algae symbiosis
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Algae are plants.
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.

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What?! Plants came from algae, this don't make algae plants

And my animals (Tmima phylum) use algae like our coral does
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Are you plausible?

I guess that depends on your definition of plant. :)

Incidentally, according to that Avatar wikia you linked us to, the helicoradian is part animal and apart plant. Go figure!
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I'm sure algae have all the traits of plants...
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.

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Plants don't use phycobilins and chlorophyll c, algae do

As Animal Kingdom Plant Kingdon is exclusively multicelular, most part of algae are unicelular

Algae are made of simillar cells, all with the same structure so they don't have organs, all plants have organs.

Yep seems helicoradian is an animal, on tavotrio these animals have to move, because the sade don't move (tidaly locked) so if they want that their algae recive light they need to reajust their position all the time, because others get in front of them.
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OK.
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.

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How come the air is differedent then earth's but the sky is still blue?
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Other gases scatter blue photons too.
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.

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ya Jupiter have blue sky too, and is very diferent than earth

But the plants should be diferent.... but as they're using Vue is compreencive..
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And this atmosphere isn't all that different.
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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