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Title: Who needs aliens?
Post by: aldo_14 on July 04, 2004, 12:53:00 pm: (http://paranormal.about.com/library/graphics/weird_creature_lg.jpg)

It's a long-nosed Chimera, apparently (http://paranormal.about.com/library/bl_weird_creature.htm)

Wierd little bugger, innit?
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Post by: Lynx on July 04, 2004, 12:56:14 pm: I wonder how it tastes
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Post by: Ghostavo on July 04, 2004, 01:09:21 pm: All hail the sea god, or choose to have his wrath upon you!!

*worships fish*

[Homer's voice]Hm.... fish....[/Homer's voice]
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 04, 2004, 01:12:31 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Lynx
I wonder how it tastes

Salty.
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Post by: Fineus on July 04, 2004, 01:55:40 pm: The Gollum of the ocean...
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Post by: neo_hermes on July 04, 2004, 02:30:31 pm: O_o cool.
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Post by: Kamikaze on July 04, 2004, 03:02:29 pm: Sashimi....
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Post by: Nico on July 04, 2004, 04:03:14 pm: GWAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
The old ones are back! Beware the sons of Cthulhu!
"whispers forbidden prayers to the dark gods"
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Post by: Taristin on July 04, 2004, 04:05:50 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kamikaze
Sashimi....

Might be good shabu-shabu, too. :)
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Post by: Ace on July 04, 2004, 05:34:42 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Nico
GWAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
The old ones are back! Beware the sons of Cthulhu!
"whispers forbidden prayers to the dark gods"

Dagon could kick Cthulu's ass any day of the week :p
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Post by: Bri_Dog on July 04, 2004, 05:43:06 pm: Pfft....Cthulhu would send dreams out and make his servants slay Dagon's followers
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Post by: .::Tin Can::. on July 04, 2004, 05:46:13 pm: Uber Fish WILL return to rule the seas once more...
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Post by: Moonsword on July 04, 2004, 05:58:07 pm: Quote
I wonder how it tastes.[/qoute]

Why am I not entirely surprised to see this out of this forum?
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Post by: Knight Templar on July 05, 2004, 01:59:13 am: Nessie lives!
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Post by: Nico on July 05, 2004, 02:03:01 am: Quote
Originally posted by Ace

Dagon could kick Cthulu's ass any day of the week :p

yeah, and if Killmenow was here, he'd say an ISD2 could slay it too ( according to KMN, an ISD can outpower anything in the known AND unknown universe ), so your point is?
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Post by: Knight Templar on July 05, 2004, 02:04:35 am: Star Destroyers pwn
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Post by: Bobboau on July 05, 2004, 03:10:29 am: that... looks like a pleaseeasaur!

just did some looking on this and found this
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About 10 years ago a Georges Bank trawler I knew landed a 5ft Elephant (long-nosed) chimera, and no one knew what it was. And these people were all long time commercial fishermen and fish dealers. All I can remember is one of the older guys saying "that's a devilfish!" and acting all creeped out like we were all gonna be cursed (maybe it cursed him 'cause I think he's dead now). It took a phone call to a state fisheries biologist to name the creature. It's still the strangest fish I've seen in years of fish work. Like a shark with a squid for a nose and a parrot's beak for a mouth. No one ate it.
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Post by: Liberator on July 05, 2004, 03:25:44 am: Quote
Originally posted by Nico

yeah, and if Killmenow was here, he'd say an ISD2 could slay it too ( according to KMN, an ISD can outpower anything in the known AND unknown universe ), so your point is?

I have yet to see anything organic that can stand up to a focused high energy photon beam(phasers, turbo lasers, ect). but if they can we could just drop a few ounces of Anti-Matter. Would probably crack the planet wide open, possibly even sundering it in two, but it would definately kill/obliterate/disintigrate/atomize/cosmic dust anything within the initial blast range which would easily encompass a small continent.

If that fails, there's always the local black hole.
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Post by: Col. Fishguts on July 05, 2004, 04:00:09 am: Quote
Originally posted by Lynx
I wonder how it tastes

[beavis voice] Hmm...tastes like chicken. [/beavis voice]
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Post by: Turnsky on July 05, 2004, 04:26:46 am: that is one ooogly fish

[Edit] wait, it'd probably look better at the depth you'd find it at, deep sea.. since all it's organs have expanded, etc.
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Post by: Reaper on July 05, 2004, 04:42:32 am: anyone know the lenght of this creature?
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Post by: Hunter on July 05, 2004, 04:44:59 am: Looks like a natural vacuum cleaner.
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Post by: karajorma on July 05, 2004, 05:01:55 am: Quote
Originally posted by Liberator
but if they can we could just drop a few ounces of Anti-Matter. Would probably crack the planet wide open, possibly even sundering it in two, but it would definately kill/obliterate/disintigrate/atomize/cosmic dust anything within the initial blast range which would easily encompass a small continent.

Why is it that people hugely overestimate the power of antimatter? I blame Star Trek actually. People are always going on about how powerful the explosion would be if a ships engines detonate.

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Posted by me on a thread a while back
E=MC^2 goes on mass. You only need avagadro's number and the weight of a proton etc to calulate the energy release per atom. Since we are talking about kilogram weights we can dispense with that and plug the numbers straight into the equation.

The yield of 2kg matter/antimatter weapon would be 1.8x10^17 Joules which works out as around 43 Megatons (roughly equivalent to the largest a modern day H-Bomb has been).

A few ounces would therefore be equivalent to the effect of a tactical nuke.

Also since antimatter bombs release all their energy as gamma rays you might not even get a large explosion. Not certain about this but you'd probably see nothing at all except everything around the bomb getting invisibly cooked by the gamma rays.
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 05, 2004, 05:36:33 am: Quote
Originally posted by Reaper
anyone know the lenght of this creature?

5ft (ish)
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Post by: TopAce on July 05, 2004, 06:03:41 am: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
(http://paranormal.about.com/library/graphics/weird_creature_lg.jpg)

It's a long-nosed Chimera, apparently (http://paranormal.about.com/library/bl_weird_creature.htm)

Wierd little bugger, innit?

It's like a Typhon Mk thousand.
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Post by: vyper on July 05, 2004, 06:28:30 am: I wonder if it can be flash fried...
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Post by: neo_hermes on July 05, 2004, 06:55:15 am: i bet it could...mmm chimera ala vyper...
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Post by: Janos on July 05, 2004, 07:23:18 am: So cute!
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Post by: Nico on July 05, 2004, 10:06:32 am: Quote
Originally posted by Liberator

I have yet to see anything organic that can stand up to a focused high energy photon beam(phasers, turbo lasers, ect). but if they can we could just drop a few ounces of Anti-Matter. Would probably crack the planet wide open, possibly even sundering it in two, but it would definately kill/obliterate/disintigrate/atomize/cosmic dust anything within the initial blast range which would easily encompass a small continent.

If that fails, there's always the local black hole.

Cthulhu is a god. I think that sums it up? :p
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Post by: .::Tin Can::. on July 05, 2004, 10:11:23 am: The one fish to rule them all..
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Post by: Jetmech Jr. on July 05, 2004, 10:14:20 am: When I first saw that pic, I thought it was a baby goblin shark...

(http://www.boattalk.com/sharks/images/goblinshark1.jpg)
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Post by: neo_hermes on July 05, 2004, 11:01:55 am: kinda looks like someone stuck a knife somewhere and the fish absorbed it...
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Post by: TopAce on July 05, 2004, 11:26:01 am: With that 'knife', it can defend itself against sharks.
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Post by: neo_hermes on July 05, 2004, 11:46:43 am: i'm ignorant of fish....sometimes i feel glad some species become extinct everyday...brings a tear to my eye that some day we'll be with them...(a tear of joy.)
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Post by: Black Wolf on July 05, 2004, 10:41:21 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
that... looks like a pleaseeasaur!

What? It looks almost nothing like a plesiosaur, though the positioning of the ventral fins is very interesting - that was a featrure of plesiosaurs, elasmosaurs and a lot of other mesozoic Marine reptiles - I'd be interested to see how this thing moves around in the water.
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Post by: Ace on July 05, 2004, 10:45:42 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Nico

Cthulhu is a god. I think that sums it up? :p

*Elder* god. That means he could eat of any of these new age hippy monotheist gods. Especially the schizophrenic ones ;)
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Post by: karajorma on July 06, 2004, 10:06:01 am: Quote
Originally posted by Black Wolf
What? It looks almost nothing like a plesiosaur, though the positioning of the ventral fins is very interesting - that was a featrure of plesiosaurs, elasmosaurs and a lot of other mesozoic Marine reptiles - I'd be interested to see how this thing moves around in the water.

Suddenly that SG post about plesiosaurs becomes clearer :)

As far as weird fish go I quite like Archer fish. :D
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Post by: Flaser on July 06, 2004, 03:37:31 pm: FISHhh...!!!

/glares into the void with glazy eyes...
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Post by: diamondgeezer on July 06, 2004, 03:54:09 pm: Nice juicy fish... give it us raw and keep nasty chipsss...
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Post by: Genryu on July 06, 2004, 04:03:13 pm: Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
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Post by: Bri_Dog on July 06, 2004, 05:10:01 pm: I didn't know there was so many Lovecraft fans here
Title: Great just Fricken GREAT!
Post by: Star Dragon on July 06, 2004, 06:05:50 pm: MY background story for the mod is RUINED!

Too many people saying the name!!!

Guess it's no surprise I had the third space aliens as MINOR servats of the Big C (if you have followed my fanfic at Spacebattles.com you might have guessed it by now)...

Wait till the Shivans meet the minions of Cuthulu! (Gee a Sathanas does a 180 and starts to rip into their own task force) OUCH! Telepathic manipulation sucks HUH?

WOW some B movie came on while I was writing this, the ship inthe 1 min opening sequence looks like something from I-WAR (round middle, pionted front, twin engines) nice...
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Post by: Rampage on July 06, 2004, 06:23:31 pm: Wonder how it tastes? Just ask Raa Tor (or another resident Vasudan).

Also, what is this stuff about Cthulu? I know it's from a novel and Derelict used it for Shivan ships, but - - - [fill the void].

Oh yeah, plesiosaurs and man lived together - 4000 years ago! [I'm a Bible freak BTW.]
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Post by: diamondgeezer on July 06, 2004, 09:50:20 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rampage
Oh yeah, plesiosaurs and man lived together - 4000 years ago! I'm a Bible freak BTW

Right, now usually when I'm around Christians I try not to blaspheme, just out of politeness. And it's a real effort cos normally I just take the Lord's various names in vain pretty much every other sentance. Bearing this in mind, please know that I'm not saying this to offend you, and I do apologise for insulting your beliefes or what ever this constitutes, but as someone who has studied geology, planetery sicence and paleontolgy his whole life there is only one response to a statement like that:

Jesus H. Christ on a bicycle with a basket on the front and a big flag stuck to the back
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Post by: Knight Templar on July 06, 2004, 09:54:00 pm: With the flag being orange and reading "Wide Load".
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Post by: diamondgeezer on July 06, 2004, 10:01:08 pm: Or it'd have this picture on it (no offence Rampage)

(http://www.cpcug.net/images/bull****.jpg)
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Post by: Black Wolf on July 06, 2004, 10:05:49 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rampage

Oh yeah, plesiosaurs and man lived together - 4000 years ago! [I'm a Bible freak BTW.]

And now you see why I felt compelled to rant in that SG post. :rolleyes:
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Post by: Ace on July 06, 2004, 10:33:34 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rampage
Wonder how it tastes? Just ask Raa Tor (or another resident Vasudan).

Also, what is this stuff about Cthulu? I know it's from a novel and Derelict used it for Shivan ships, but - - - [fill the void].

Oh yeah, plesiosaurs and man lived together - 4000 years ago! [I'm a Bible freak BTW.]

Fool! Cthulu shall consume you and your heathen new-age god.

He shall send forth his minions from beneath the waves and feast upon thy flesh. Mwuahahahahahahahaha! :drevil:
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Post by: Liberator on July 07, 2004, 06:53:25 am: If he was any kind of god, he wouldn't sneak around like that. His minions would come for us in plain sight and there would be a reckoning like none before. So, to me, he is nothing more that a great, ugly antique fish.
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Post by: karajorma on July 07, 2004, 06:56:41 am: Quote
Originally posted by Liberator
If he was any kind of god, he wouldn't sneak around like that. His minions would come for us in plain sight and there would be a reckoning like none before. So, to me, he is nothing more that a great, ugly antique fish.

And that arguement can't be applied to your god too?
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Post by: Liberator on July 07, 2004, 07:35:23 am: No, you see God isn't a powerful organic being. He is Omnipotent, Omnicient and Omnipresent. Can you honestly say that Cthulu is any of these?
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 07, 2004, 07:48:22 am: <-early warning system->
Oi!

This thread is about comedy fishes, not religion!

<-/early warning system->
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Post by: Nico on July 07, 2004, 08:56:17 am: Quote
Originally posted by Liberator
No, you see God isn't a powerful organic being. He is Omnipotent, Omnicient and Omnipresent. Can you honestly say that Cthulu is any of these?

yes: the writer ( Lovecraft ) makes him just like he wants him to be ( I guess that makes Lovecraft a god too :p ).

There's a book about god's ( your god ) physical death, I'm sure you'd love it :p
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Post by: Col. Fishguts on July 07, 2004, 09:04:01 am: Quote
Originally posted by Liberator
So, to me, he is nothing more that a great, ugly antique fish.

Blasphemy!!!

Cthulhu is not fish, he's more of a squid god. And he's one of the omnipotent, great elder ones.
And if you don't show proper respect for him, he will eat your purdy little head, or send his ol'buddy Hastur over to you.
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Post by: Jetmech Jr. on July 07, 2004, 09:24:16 am: ... :)

Gone Fishing (http://www.machall.com/index.php?strip_id=185)

Cthulhu, the Littlest Elder God (http://www.machall.com/index.php?strip_id=184) :D
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Post by: Genryu on July 07, 2004, 11:50:34 am: As far as I can remember, isn't Chtulu all of this ?The squid part of him would be roughly equal to Jesus, a physical representation of him in our world :p
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Post by: übermetroid on July 07, 2004, 06:12:41 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
(http://paranormal.about.com/library/graphics/weird_creature_lg.jpg)

It's a long-nosed Chimera, apparently (http://paranormal.about.com/library/bl_weird_creature.htm)

Wierd little bugger, innit?

This is that I think Vasudans could have come from....
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Post by: Ace on July 08, 2004, 03:33:33 am: Quote
Originally posted by Liberator
No, you see God isn't a powerful organic being. He is Omnipotent, Omnicient and Omnipresent. Can you honestly say that Cthulu is any of these?

Fool! Cthulu is merely sleeping! When he awakes you shall pay for your blasphemy pathetic mortal worshipper of the new age gods! :drevil:
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Post by: WMCoolmon on July 08, 2004, 03:35:50 am: Big words for someone with such a small name. :p
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Post by: Gloriano on July 08, 2004, 03:49:48 am: Nice fish
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Post by: Bri_Dog on July 08, 2004, 03:14:40 pm: In His house in R'lhey dead Cthulhu lies sleeping
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Post by: vyper on July 08, 2004, 05:06:35 pm: I get hungry every damn time I look at this thread, can we possibly have a link to Dominos added to the quick reply box?