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desert eyes
Topic Started: Oct 9 2010, 03:43 PM (490 Views)
Owl Streak	Oct 9 2010, 03:43 PM Post #1
Newborn Posts: 67 Group: Members Member #406 Joined: Oct 6, 2010	is there any creature that has a type of ye that is able not to get scratched if the creature the eyes belong to dive into sand and tunnel through it?



Holben	Oct 9 2010, 03:50 PM Post #2
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	Transparent eyelids like those of snakes and lizards would be fine. But if the eyes are constructed more like arthropod eyes, they'll be harder anyway. It'd be like sand trying to scratch a rock.
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Spugpow	Oct 9 2010, 10:52 PM Post #3
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,025 Group: Members Member #389 Joined: Sep 20, 2010	What kind of creature did you have in mind?
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Kamidio	Oct 9 2010, 10:54 PM Post #4
The Game Master of the SSU:NC Posts: 14,725 Group: Members Member #149 Joined: Mar 12, 2009 Nationality: Who knows?~♪ Favorite Quote: "Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio Gender: Dude	Holbenilord Oct 9 2010, 03:50 PM Transparent eyelids like those of snakes and lizards would be fine. But if the eyes are constructed more like arthropod eyes, they'll be harder anyway. It'd be like sand trying to scratch a rock. Sand erosion would like to speak with you.
	SSU:NC - Finding a new home. Quotes Steve Irwin I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer. The Writing on the Wall You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive. Parasky \| 2015 You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists. Dan Avidan See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate. Dan Avidan Follow your stupid fuckin' dreams. WAA http://31.media.tumblr.com/2f7731936cac777ea7b8cb26e8ccaab6/tumblr_inline_mxz9c7XmS41qa4twn.png636,360 http://tmv.proto.jp/reblog.php?post_url= A tool to reblog my own posts. I put it here because I know I'll forget it.


Owl Streak	Oct 9 2010, 11:39 PM Post #5
Newborn Posts: 67 Group: Members Member #406 Joined: Oct 6, 2010	Spugpow Oct 9 2010, 10:52 PM What kind of creature did you have in mind? I was thinking of a winged serpent with scaly wings that fly's up and launches itself into the sand. when its in the sand it travails at speeds of 40km making it an excellent hunter. I call it a Gorvint. Edited by Owl Streak, Oct 9 2010, 11:41 PM.



Kamidio	Oct 9 2010, 11:51 PM Post #6
The Game Master of the SSU:NC Posts: 14,725 Group: Members Member #149 Joined: Mar 12, 2009 Nationality: Who knows?~♪ Favorite Quote: "Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio Gender: Dude	We have those. We call them sidewinders.
	SSU:NC - Finding a new home. Quotes Steve Irwin I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer. The Writing on the Wall You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive. Parasky \| 2015 You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists. Dan Avidan See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate. Dan Avidan Follow your stupid fuckin' dreams. WAA http://31.media.tumblr.com/2f7731936cac777ea7b8cb26e8ccaab6/tumblr_inline_mxz9c7XmS41qa4twn.png636,360 http://tmv.proto.jp/reblog.php?post_url= A tool to reblog my own posts. I put it here because I know I'll forget it.


The Dodo	Oct 10 2010, 05:57 AM Post #7
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,382 Group: Members Member #189 Joined: Jul 26, 2009 Gender: Male Nationality: Australian	I'm pretty sure sidewinders can't fly. The Gorvint wouldn't work as a snake as snakes probably wouldn't evolve powered flight, maybe some kind of future lizard could work.



Spugpow	Oct 10 2010, 02:46 PM Post #8
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,025 Group: Members Member #389 Joined: Sep 20, 2010	There's a kind of deep sea fish with its eyes encased in its transparent head... http://gconnect.in/gc/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/seethrough_fish.jpg Maybe your creature could have something like that to protect its eyes from the sand.
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Owl Streak	Oct 11 2010, 12:09 AM Post #9
Newborn Posts: 67 Group: Members Member #406 Joined: Oct 6, 2010	wow that is one weird fish but it might work.



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