Spec the pacific tree octopus

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Spec the pacific tree octopus; Yes, I know it's a hoxe but still...
Topic Started: Apr 16 2010, 05:03 PM (1,177 Views)
sam999	Apr 16 2010, 05:03 PM Post #1
Adult Posts: 886 Group: Members Member #212 Joined: Sep 6, 2009	Let's find out just what this thing is...
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Scrublord	Apr 17 2010, 08:56 AM Post #2
Father Pellegrini Posts: 4,423 Group: Members Member #169 Joined: May 5, 2009 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: American (unfortunately) Favorite Quote: Life can seem a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line.	It's the missing link between the swampus and the squibbon!
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colddigger	Apr 17 2010, 09:57 AM Post #3
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Black_Panther	Apr 17 2010, 12:22 PM Post #4
Adolescent Posts: 472 Group: Members Member #56 Joined: Aug 17, 2008 Gender: Private Nationality: Mexico	It is a hoax? O NOES, I've been living all my life with a lie! Joking. Hmmm...dunno, i don't think octopuses could do for arboreal life (at least not in the spiderman-treeswinging-quickie style of the Squibbon); maybe some bizarre species of octopus-looking arthropod?
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Ook	Apr 17 2010, 12:30 PM Post #5
not a Transhuman Posts: 2,933 Group: Members Member #282 Joined: Mar 10, 2010 Gender: Male	hi black panther maybe it is alien race from space,they study human race



Pando	Apr 17 2010, 06:33 PM Post #6
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	This: Is what a tree octopus will look like!



Holben	Apr 18 2010, 01:22 PM Post #7
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	Nice drawings! Click- i've thought about this hoax before. Arboreal is next best to marine. But they need to sort out a hell of a lot- i mean, TERRESTRIAL CEPHALOPODS? I refuse to comment until they are explained.
	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."


Practically Uninformed	Apr 25 2010, 08:55 PM Post #8
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Pando	Apr 25 2010, 09:06 PM Post #9
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	Or they could become freshwater because as they move inland they'll get less used to salt.



Holben	Apr 27 2010, 11:48 AM Post #10
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	Practically Uninformed Apr 25 2010, 08:55 PM But really, tree octopi aren't that much of a stretch. It'd have to be in a place where the water is as salty as the ocean, like a mangrove forest, but it has potential. Apart from breathing, flesh, support, respiration, circulation, radiation, biomass wasteage and the skin/hydroskeleton weakness etc etc. Maybe if they'd been evolving for 300 MY though. The cephalopods back at that time would be easier to convert.
	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."


Practically Uninformed	May 3 2010, 08:25 PM Post #11
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Ddraig Goch	May 4 2010, 12:38 PM Post #12
Ar hyd y nos Posts: 2,745 Group: Away Staff Member #230 Joined: Sep 27, 2009 Gender: Male Nationality: Welsh Favorite Quote: Vicious things can be amusing - like a shark in a funny hat.	Something like the Climbing Perch, perhaps?
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Terrence of Chance	May 5 2010, 06:47 PM Post #13
Infant Posts: 85 Group: Members Member #151 Joined: Mar 13, 2009 Favorite Quote: We'll cross that bridge once we burn it.	Save the Pacific Tree Octopus! Y'know, for some reason, I can imagine it being covered with a coating of stinging nettles. Y'know, for self-defense.



Toad of Spades	May 5 2010, 08:20 PM Post #14
Clorothod Posts: 624 Group: Members Member #114 Joined: Dec 27, 2008 Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: Street smart is just an excuse for dumb people to use the word smart to describe themselves.	They're genetically engineered house pets to be used in decorative indoor trees.
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Holben	May 8 2010, 02:18 PM Post #15
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	Oh yes, let's skip out all the spec and GE them.
	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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