Walker Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 Mainly to avoid thread hijack from I Need Help Wanted and New Toys in The Toy Box I've started off this little topic. Feel free to continue discussions here. Also if you've got anything weird, wonderful, off the wall or amusing anecdotes about anything at all this might be a suitable place to discuss them.Sphere Don't know that one but I can see where it's going, does it perhaps end Chel-Sea, Chel-Sea, Chel-Sea?Jager Quite right, do something to piss them off and they'll give you a playful, good natured ram at 30 knotts. You don't claw your way to the top of the food chain by being nice all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preston Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 Since some of my ancestors made their fortunes sending ships and men down to the seas to harvest whales throughout the nineteenth century, I will keep my distance from the whales. It would be unpleasent to know they felt the need for revenge.Seeing it coming might make we wish for Sphere's luck, damn that black-hearted son. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted November 19, 2003 Author Share Posted November 19, 2003 It's an instinctive reaction to threat and danger. Four dolphins might gang up to drive two other dolpins away form potential mates or food, but curiously they don't hate humans for hunting them or even feel any need for revenge beyond the moment. Intelligent but different, completely amoral but without a bad bone in their bodies. Maybe our need for vengence has something to do with the fact that Humans don't have a surrender response like most other mammals. We always like to press the attack in case the other dude gets us back later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preston Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 Walker, were did that come from? Of course human's have a surrender response. Sometimes our intellect overcomes it, but we are social creatures, and we surrender readily.That is why I say, "Stop! Police! Or, I'll shoot", with a reasonable expectation that they will stop.That is why we understand the universal gesture of raising both one's hands in the air.We, as humans, occasionally kill dolphins and whales, but if they systematically began hunting us, they would rapidly become extinct.I don't doubt the whales or porpi will be traveling to other worlds without our help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Baby Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 Whales, I do not see why people show such great care for whales.They are smart, and they are big, but the amount of cerdit they get for their brains is Well odd.The great white shark,is in a few provable ways to have a larger intolect.They provable learn faster,and adapt more rapidly to changes.I guess they just have better PR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerhead Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 Sharks, huh?I know a bit about them. One of them was partly responsible for my novahood. (Very shortly after that it passed on to the happy hunting pools.)I prefer dolphins, at least you can have a conversation with them. Has anyone actually succeeded in talking to a shark? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Baby Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 I have.In a manor of speaking.They are remarkable animals.They learn rather fast, and are not nearly as evil as the myths.THey are more apathetic, than anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerhead Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 I've had dolphins tell me jokes. At least, I'm pretty sure they did.Do sharks have a sense of humor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Baby Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 Sense of humor.THey are not human.Hell they are not even mamals.So wile I don't know if they have humor or not. I do not understand it, if they do. I am not physic, I just know how to use what I have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwriter Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 Dolphins, sharks and whales! AAARGH!Sorry, I hear waaaaay too much about these critters at Talaud Island. If I ever see another kelp farm or plankton tank...Ahem. Funny anecdote. I had to give a briefing on customs within a certain tribe to a couple of Team Tomorrow members, who shall remain unnamed for the sake of good publicity.We got to the bit where I pointed out not to offer anything with the left hand to them, as they used that hand to wipe their backsides. One of the agents scratched his head and told me, "But I use my right hand to wipe my butt."My immediate reply was, "Well, that's funny. Where I'm from, we use something called toilet paper."It didn't win me any friends, but if someone leaves themselves open, I will so walk in.Codex, the lady with way too much time on her hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 You know, this conversation is interesting, but I'm starting to think I should have brought my floaties. And a fishing pole.Enough humor, time for the real deal. Who's the brains of the ocean huh? And for that matter, what sort of society do some Ceteaceans have? Is it a Patriarchy, or do different pods have some sort of greater governmental order? A union of pods as you will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphere Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 Sharks are apathetic? So they're like the Generation X of the seas? Shark 1: Hey man, let's go eat those surfers.Shark 2: Why bother man, we're all gonna be dead in the end. Walker: Song actually goes "My old man said be an Arsenal fan. I said 'F*@k off, bollocks, you're a c^)t!'."And that level of wit is the reason why I prefer rugby. Footballs played by gentlemen and watched by thugs, with rugby it's the other way round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted November 20, 2003 Author Share Posted November 20, 2003 PrestonYou're probably right actually, evidence of it just seems in short supply sometimes.On Sharks Cunning, calm, singleminded almost stately in a way, once again it varies from species to species. It's true that a lot of shark species are more intelligent than most birds, reptiles and some mammals, it's just that their intelligence is focused in a different way. Every creature I talk to seems well disposed to me while it's talking to me but outside of that is anyones guess. Put it this way, I wouldn't mind a bottlenose dolphin coming across me whilst I was talking to a great white, but I wouldn't fancy my chances the other way around.On the Biggest Brains in the Ocean Once again that depends on how exactly how you mean it, and how you want to measure it. I'm not trying to be evasive but the impression I get (and this is only through the use of my quantum powers) is that a lot of creatures seem to be as intelligent, if not more so than humans, in their own way and at times. It's probably difficult for me to judge cos I can talk to just about anything multicellular. Though I do notice that it's mainly size rather than evolutionary history that seems to be the cut off point with regard to intelligence. The difference seems to be in how you use that intelligence and how it's shaped by it's environment.Codex Yeah customs aren't noted for their sense of humour and they really don't like warping and teleporting Nova's neither.Sphere Amen to your comments about Rugby and Football, the songs may be filthier but at least the words don't have to be broken up into syllables Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 Smartest creature in the seas?Octopi.No question. They are funnier than dolphins, more patient than whales, and depite their natures, have better PR than sharks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted November 20, 2003 Author Share Posted November 20, 2003 I'm more busy having a chat with all the animals and plants rather than demand they do IQ tests, so it's open to debate. Plus there's always the possibility that these different 'personalities' that different species seem to display are just my node's way of interpreting the data. The fact that even hungry crocodiles and sharks are well disposed to to me probably means there is some sort of quantum trickery going on, who knows how far it goes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerhead Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 LFC Ladies.All the sport I ever need to watch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 *sigh* The only sport, if you can call it that, is Chess. Well, that and the latest OPNet Strategy Game. Oh... and the occaisonal CCG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 The only sport I like playing, that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Grant Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 Okay what the hell is wrong with this world!? I just found out that the NFL is dead!!!! What happened! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 People got interested in Novasports.It's sad really. The Minnesota Vikings NEVER won a Super Bowl... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 Salaries kept going up; attendence went down. Sounds like suicide to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Grant Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 This sucks! I had 50 bucks ridin' on Kansas. Well I guess it don't really matter anyway seein' as that was 15 years ago an' all. Damn man, what do we got left for sports then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerhead Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 All the sports are still here. Only, now they are played for the right reasons, fun and keeping in shape, not for money.Unless, of course, you are a nova. Then there is still money in sports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUM TUM Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 TUM TUM LIKE FOOTBALL. WHALE TASTE BETTER THOUGH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Grant Posted November 22, 2003 Share Posted November 22, 2003 Well you can't argue with logic like that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted November 24, 2003 Author Share Posted November 24, 2003 I'll have a go.TUM TUM,Walker prefer to listen to whales sing. Stupid baselines eat too many whales in the past and there not many left. If TUM TUM start eating lots of whales, soon there is none left. This make Walker sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted November 24, 2003 Share Posted November 24, 2003 Walker, I can go one better.EAT WHALES, OTHER WHALES GET SAD.DON'T EAT WHALES!EAT SAMMICHES!HAM AND CHEESE GOOD. BELUGA BAD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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