[Ghost]

Yes, mikhael, we know what records are. We aren't that young.

[achtung]

Everyone should know what a record is.

[mikhael]

Actually, some of you ARE born post-Vinyl.

[Ghost]

We might be born after the vinyl-era, but that doesn't mean our parents were.

[KappaWing]

Wh00t!? Vinyl? Is it like an I-pod 2 or something?

[/sarcasm]

[achtung]

My dad has a huge collection of records like 100's of em of course he cant find a needle for the record player.

[Ghost]

We have like a jillion Beatles vinyls... and quite a few others, as well. Hell, we got rid of a lot of them, but we still have so many, and we still have our player from ages ago.

[Carl]

Originally posted by Swantz
My dad has a huge collection of records like 100's of em of course he cant find a needle for the record player.

you can use your fingernail. it works, but it messes the record up.

[achtung]

Originally posted by Carl


you can use your fingernail. it works, but it messes the record up.

w00t! my 100th post!

[Bobboau]

...eh.....
anyway...

the probe design was prety good, but I'd hope they would make something a bit more resiliant than robot blimps. makeing one or two blimp bots isn't a bad idea, but something that moves on treds and is built to take a beating.
if they want the things to live they should let them loose in africa for a few months, to test the design out.

[phreak]

they probably had them loose in several areas on earth for testing. deserts, plains, forests, arctic, oceans, etc..  they also should have equipped them with anti-air missiles for those damn birds.

[Bobboau]

or a minigun at least.

hehe, we ome in peace... or do we?

what they should have done is come up with a small primitive animal and tryed to make a complete evolutionary tree out of it.

[Flipside]

Thing is, thinking aliens would be radically different from Earth-based life forms is as silly as the little green men theory. There would, no doubt, be notable differences, but, and I point out this is only for the evolutionists amongst us, the species that exist on this planet have mutated and been put through the mangle of life for millions of years. The designs work, that's why the creatures survive. If conditions on another planet are similar to an area on Earth, then there is no reason why the creatures that evolve there wouldn't be pretty familiar. The random mutations would have to cope with the same challenges, and would, most likely, come up with pretty much the same answers.

[Bobboau]

they would have a similat style to them yes, but the basic layout of there bodies would be totaly diferent, what happens if rather than starting out with a wormlike creature with a radial spine anf fins you start our with something like a three leged spider thingy. the divergence from that origin would produce fundementaly diferent shapes and mechanisms, even if the over all behavior and look was... familiar. there are only like three uniqe animal styles on this planet, arthropods (hard shelled exoskeliton, one or more segmented main body cavities, multi-segmented legs (usualy conected to one part of the animal)), vertibrates (spine with arms and legs, head on the top of the spine), and moluscs(lumps of squishy flesh, usualy one main body cavity and tentical like apendagease if anything).

[FireCrack]

lol, butcher tree, so halflife.

[Bobboau]

you know maybe we should make a evolution game in the art forum

[Flipside]

LOL You know, that would actually be quite fun

[Carl]

Originally posted by Flipside
The designs work, that's why the creatures survive. If conditions on another planet are similar to an area on Earth, then there is no reason why the creatures that evolve there wouldn't be pretty familiar.

but the way it happened to us isn't the only way it could happen. our designs work, yes, but so could a trillion other ones.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Flipside
Thing is, thinking aliens would be radically different from Earth-based life forms is as silly as the little green men theory. There would, no doubt, be notable differences, but, and I point out this is only for the evolutionists amongst us, the species that exist on this planet have mutated and been put through the mangle of life for millions of years. The designs work, that's why the creatures survive. If conditions on another planet are similar to an area on Earth, then there is no reason why the creatures that evolve there wouldn't be pretty familiar. The random mutations would have to cope with the same challenges, and would, most likely, come up with pretty much the same answers.

This point is specifically answered in the show, Flipside. The discussion of the gyroloper (i think that's what the two legged in-line creature was) included some mention about how similar, but geographically disparate, places on Earth evolved different solutions to the same problems. Thus, Darwin IV's native life forms would likely have evolved different solutions to the same problems as well.

[Nuke]

i think they drew there inspiration from the zerg. this is what you call a mocumentry. this should have been on the scifi chanel. i personally think the discovery chanel has gone to hell, the history chanel is still pretty descent. best documentries are still on pbs. that nova special on string theory was awesome. and trippy too (i had just finished a j when i watched it)