tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post8507195363669232993..comments2024-03-25T09:31:36.926+01:00Comments on Furahan Biology and Allied Matters: Go, tetropters, go! (tetropters III)Sigmund Nastrazzurrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16449461215427527447noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-87849721848616208882009-10-28T05:09:32.686+01:002009-10-28T05:09:32.686+01:00One of the most original AND plausible alien ideas...One of the most original AND plausible alien ideas i've ever seen. Wish that i had thought of it.<br /><br />My guess is that tetropters would (all other things being equal) be slower is forward/upward motion than more traditional flyers whose wings are primarily designed to move the creature in a single direction. But they probably have an advantage in general manuverabilityj. w. bjerkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06800512284198234202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-64676845095469078322009-08-08T17:49:46.696+02:002009-08-08T17:49:46.696+02:00Is it possible to have an ecosystem that is not en...Is it possible to have an ecosystem that is not entirely bacterial were plants are not as common as here on Earth? I know Antarctica has few (perhaps no) non-aquatic plants but I mean no plants on a larger scale. Maybe the very bottoms of this vegetation deficient food chain would extract nutrients from mineral rich rocks or dirt (compromised of decomposed animal matter) in the absence of plants. I guess the planet would be quite barren with only rocks and perhaps a few pockets of dirt.<br /><br />Just musing,<br />DinoboyUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02671841848734348484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-56122591451832860352009-08-08T17:43:49.539+02:002009-08-08T17:43:49.539+02:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02671841848734348484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-59598702674242329282009-08-08T00:55:53.801+02:002009-08-08T00:55:53.801+02:00Hi Dinoboy,
Actually, the plant life is rather sk...Hi Dinoboy,<br /><br />Actually, the plant life is rather sketchy, but yes, I think there are pollinators: it is too good a scheme not to have! <br /><br />But seriously, I think that it is likely that a plant-animal symbiosis in which animal pollinate plants and get food in return makes such good sense but it may well be a universal evolutionary principle.<br /><br />Sigmund NastrazzurroAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-57814702154298940942009-08-08T00:27:39.188+02:002009-08-08T00:27:39.188+02:00How embarrassing, again I have failed to read all ...How embarrassing, again I have failed to read all the posts pertaining to a subject before commenting! I definitely need more practice with blogs.<br />As for the matter of "one way flight" I got to carried away by the similarity of Tetropters to those aforementioned spinning seed pods.<br />I promise next time I'll read everything before posting!<br />P.S. Are there any animal pollinated plants on Furaha (I'm a mite too lazy right now too see for myself)?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02671841848734348484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-54334809076308991322009-08-07T08:35:09.932+02:002009-08-07T08:35:09.932+02:00Hi Dinoboy,
Thanks for liking the tetropters. But...Hi Dinoboy,<br /><br />Thanks for liking the tetropters. But what do you mean with one-way flight? <br /><br />The tetropter flight patern certainly allows them horizontal directional control. Think of dragonflies and the like: but subtly twisting thei wings, they can control their flight in various directions. The only thing you do not see them do is suddenly flying sideways.<br /><br />That's no problem for a tetropter, so, if anything, it is more manoeuverable than Earths' flying forms.<br /><br />And as for danger while being on the ground, yes, but that holds for all flying animals. It's the quick getaway that gives them an advantage.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11296687551276996434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-57264312596472537952009-08-07T02:34:50.076+02:002009-08-07T02:34:50.076+02:00For some reason whenever I see the Tetracopter ske...For some reason whenever I see the Tetracopter sketch, I immediately think "pollinator". I must say it again I love the design!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02671841848734348484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-2481092526139361322009-08-07T02:32:10.971+02:002009-08-07T02:32:10.971+02:00Ingenious, reminds me greatly of those wind-disper...Ingenious, reminds me greatly of those wind-dispersed seeds that one often sees growing on certain trees (pardon my inability to name the species). As to the question over the number of limbs these creatures might have, I think that the minimum (and maybe most useful) number would be four, though I have little idea of the usual amount on Furaha. Pardon my asking but what would press these animals to evolve one-way flight? I don’t think they’d be very useful for a getaway, since as soon as it landed the Tetropter would become very vulnerable to predatation once more. But perhaps I may be missing some crucial piece of information (again ☺).Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02671841848734348484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-48761239364538811242009-07-09T04:04:01.572+02:002009-07-09T04:04:01.572+02:00At any rate, I liked some of the vadlo science car...At any rate, I liked some of the vadlo <a href="http://vadlo.com/cartoons.php?id=61" rel="nofollow">science cartoons</a>!Speranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-71330603885693749132009-06-30T21:45:31.698+02:002009-06-30T21:45:31.698+02:00That's a definite possibility, and one that ma...That's a definite possibility, and one that makes sense. <br /><br />There are other possibililties too: the archetypal limb in Earth's arthropods is 'biramous': it has two brac=nchges. In some one branch go lost, and it others one branch became a gill and the other a walking leg. Such an arrangement might even leave a tetropter with eight walking legs and four wings.Sigmund Nastrazzurrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16449461215427527447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-89612621657189002582009-06-30T20:18:37.551+02:002009-06-30T20:18:37.551+02:00I thought perhaps if tetropters evovled from ances...I thought perhaps if tetropters evovled from ancestral spidrids that four of limbs could have become wings while the other four could have remained for walking.JoshThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11119363116616020435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-21065670655999399882009-06-30T19:50:38.028+02:002009-06-30T19:50:38.028+02:00Dear Anonymous: un placer.
Am I right in thinking ...Dear Anonymous: un placer.<br />Am I right in thinking that 'guaauuu' means 'wooof!'?<br /><br />Josh, definitely. I played with the idea of having animals with a radial body plan, and the spidrids and tetropters were the result. But they do not have the same ancestry, or, in other words, I haven't thought about that musch. Spidrids have eight limbs, and tetropters have four wings and some legs (I haven't even worked out how many yet).Sigmund Nastrazzurrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16449461215427527447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-87368625241479397242009-06-30T17:29:16.650+02:002009-06-30T17:29:16.650+02:00I'm really amazed at the ingenuity of tetropte...I'm really amazed at the ingenuity of tetropters. Are they by chance related to the spidrids? Since they both seem to be radial symetric arthropods.JoshThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11119363116616020435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-45989693642001504172009-06-30T16:22:07.360+02:002009-06-30T16:22:07.360+02:00guaauuu es genial.............. ami me gusan mucho...guaauuu es genial.............. ami me gusan mucho tus criatras..<br />sinseramente matias palmaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com