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subby · Post by **subby** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 4:29 am

locutus wrote:no-didnt steal from GL, just did a google image search...not sure where it came from but I belive it was a 3D rendering group

Ohh ok , i think its from the game though, the game play isnt so good on GLtron but the rendering etc is soooo much better then Armagetron

http://www.gltron.org/screenshots.php

Prey4Me · Post by **Prey4Me** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 4:58 am

nic i can't even make out what your avatar is, so i really can't say anything about it

subby · Post by **subby** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:11 am

Prey4Me wrote:nic i can't even make out what your avatar is, so i really can't say anything about it

It looks like afish to me

and prey, i cant make out your avatar at all!

Prey4Me · Post by **Prey4Me** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:02 am

i know, thats because i can't enlarge it, so i put the words on it as my signature

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:50 am

subby wrote:It looks like afish to me

you're in the neighborhood. sort of.

Majination · Post by **Majination** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:53 am

nicolas.b wrote:
subby wrote:It looks like afish to me
you're in the neighborhood. sort of.

I always thought it was some kind of shell. I never knew the significance, though.

Post by **Tank Program** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:17 am

Looks kindof dead. That's besides the point.

n54 wrote:I'm so terribly alone.

subby's avatar wrote:Helllloooo there partner.

Majination wrote:Piss off, she's mine.

n54 wrote:No she isn't.

Majination wrote:Yes she is.

n54 wrote:No she isn't.

Majination wrote:Yes she is.

n54 wrote:No she isn't.

Majination wrote:Yes she is.

n54 wrote:No she isn't.

Majination wrote:Yes she is.

Meanwhile...

Marrow wrote:I'll pay you.

subby's avatar wrote:Sure, why not?

*they go off "happily" together*
*n54 and Majination notice*
*they go to get the killler dunnarts*

and what was happening to locutus the whole time? to subby and nicolas.b?

Who knows? And who knows what will happen next? Find out next episode of Days of our Tron Players.

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:28 am

someone needs to go back to sleep and then try waking up again.

BTW, maji... yeah, it's part shell. but don't bother guessing "conch". this animal is in a very small group along with three other famous relatives that have the initials "O", "S" and "C". these are some of the smartest animals in nature, altho not quite as smart as the parrots, cetacians and great apes.

does that help?

frizza · Post by **frizza** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:59 am

nicolas.b wrote:
BTW, maji... yeah, it's part shell. but don't bother guessing "conch". this animal is in a very small group along with three other famous relatives that have the initials "O", "S" and "C". these are some of the smartest animals in nature, altho not quite as smart as the parrots, cetacians and great apes.

does that help?

Is it a type of cephalopod?
O= octopus, S= squid, C= cuttlefish

frizza · Post by **frizza** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:02 am

im getting freaked out just looking at pictures of bloody squid *shudders*

i hate em i hate em i hate em

who ever heard of a bloody aquatic invertebrate having a bloody beak. its wrong i tell you!!!

frizza · Post by **frizza** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:03 am

its a nautilus isnt it? (nicolas' avatar)

n54 · Post by **n54** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:49 am

hmm are you seeing the same avatar as me?

it looks flat and pentagon-shaped to me, not like any squidlike thing at all...

btw i love vampire squids, they are the most beautiful animal ever! (the ones with red skin and blue eyes) sadly there aren't any really good pictures of them on the web, the ones below are the best i've found but still not close to their true splendor...

some good sketches from the side on page 2421: http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/201/16/2413.pdf

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 12:23 pm

FRIZZA, YOU WIN THE PRIZE! ...and in honor of your persistence and achievement,
we would like to take this opportunity to award you:

- one

Starfish Johnson

- one

Monkeyhead Jones

- and one entertaining & show (viewing times will vary)

the producers would also like to say "thank you for your participation" and
"we hope you enjoy your luffly new gifts".

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 12:42 pm

(here's another view)

these animals are living fossils, c. 500 million years old. they once ruled the world along
with their extinct cousins the ammonites. i'm not totally sure, but i don't think fish
had come out of the sea by then... i'm not sure fish had even evolved, period!

even so, little is known about nautili. they are prized for their large, beautiful shells,
but reproduce slowly and have been wiped out in some areas. they can't really be kept
as pets (since they deteriorate away from their habitat) and have never been successfully bred.

here's another interesting mathematical fact from dr. wood's site:

As far back as the ancient Greeks, the shell of the chambered nautilus has been a
symbol of perfection. This shell can be described mathematically as a logarithmic spiral.
It is often confused with a very specific type of logarithmic spiral that the Ancient Greeks
described. This special logarithmic spiral has a ratio of 1:1.618. and is called The Golden
Ratio or the Divine Proportion. In truth, while Nautilus is a beautiful example of a
Logarithmic spiral, it is not in the proportions of The Golden Ratio.

more on cephalopods: http://is.dal.ca/~ceph/TCP/index.html

n54, that squid you found is amazing. scientific name vampyroteuthis infernalis
i.e. vampire from hell? really??

n54 · Post by **n54** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 12:58 pm

nicolas.b wrote:n54, that squid you found is amazing. scientific name vampyroteuthis infernalis
i.e. vampire from hell? really??

yes it's scientific name is Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, it is pretty amazing yes (and it's not really a squid or an octopus it's a seperate type of cephalopod - they have 8 tentacles of the normal kind + 2 specialized fully retractable ones) they are amazing and extremely beautiful (i've watched some footage on discovery a few times, sadly i've not found pictures of the same quality). they're really fast although for a long time one though they almost weren't able to move at all, they have "the opposite" of the ink-defence thingy as they use bio-luminous cells/light for defence (both covering their body and by squirting out clouds of bioluminiscent bacteria), and when they invert (turn inside out) their body and show all their "teeth" they look insanely scary in a "hungry-monster-from-outer-space" kind of way - some have described the inverted look as a "spiked volleyball"

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