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[kraidy1117]

One of my favs.

[kglaser]

Yeah kraidy, I was just looking at that one...it's incredibly sweet and I love it too

[Mr.BlazenGlazen]

Found this one

[kraidy1117]

kglaser wrote...

Yeah kraidy, I was just looking at that one...it's incredibly sweet and I love it too

Thats one of my fav shots in the game, up there with the waterfall shot and seeing Legion for the first time. Also of course my other fav is the shot when you see Miri tear up and her boobage scene, simply because the lighting was fantastic

[kglaser]

Yeah the lighting yup that was some lighting. LOL
I liked the snarl on Miranda's face when she came through the door and shot that guy near the beginning of ME2. I thought, uh-oh, hope she is on our side.

And Mr. there is some great shading in that picture.

Modifié par kglaser, 13 mai 2010 - 02:29 .

[Mr.BlazenGlazen]

deviantart is awesome

[kraidy1117]

kglaser wrote...

Yeah the lighting yup that was some lighting. LOL
I liked the snarl on Miranda's face when she came through the door and shot that guy near the beginning of ME2. I thought, uh-oh, hope she is on our side.

And Mr. there is some great shading in that picture.

tho I still love the waterful scene. Everyone, including even Grunt looks nice there. Don't know about Zaed tho

"Miranada what are you-
*shot  right in the throat*
*Miri gives a evil glare*

[Andaius20]

hey folks how's it going in here? Anything new and exciting?

[kraidy1117]

Andaius20 wrote...

hey folks how's it going in here? Anything new and exciting?

Just Garus love

[Lemonwizard]

kglaser wrote...

I do love studying languages. I have textbooks for about 16 different ones, including Pidgin and aUI (ConLang for communicating with extraterrestrials). I learn a few things, get bored, and move on to the next. LOL
The only two besides English where I know anything are French and Russian.

Okay I know this was a couple of pages ago, but I must ask....how have humans come up with a language that we can realistically expect would let us communicate with extraterrestrials?

[kglaser]

Lemonwizard wrote...

kglaser wrote...

I do love studying languages. I have textbooks for about 16 different ones, including Pidgin and aUI (ConLang for communicating with extraterrestrials). I learn a few things, get bored, and move on to the next. LOL
The only two besides English where I know anything are French and Russian.

Okay I know this was a couple of pages ago, but I must ask....how have humans come up with a language that we can realistically expect would let us communicate with extraterrestrials?

aUI literally translates as "space language", but to be fair, I believe its creater (John Weilgart) was also trying to get through to psych patients who were having difficulty communicating in a conventional manner:

http://en.wikipedia..../AUI_(language)

I think his whole thing with it was that the language was "intuitive" and hence easy to learn.  Of course I realize intuitive means different things and aliens may not think like us at all, rendering the exercise useless.  But it's a really cool language, and sounds so bizarre when spoken, kinda like French-Russian spoken on too little sleep and slowed down about 2/3 normal speed.  Really cool stuff.

[Pacifien]

Lemonwizard wrote...
Okay I know this was a couple of pages ago, but I must ask....how have humans come up with a language that we can realistically expect would let us communicate with extraterrestrials?

Translating pitch and mannerism to the actual meaning of the word, it looks like. I would think it'd be easier to go with a variation of sign language then.

I'd stick with math for communication.

[kglaser]

Pacifien wrote...

Lemonwizard wrote...
Okay I know this was a couple of pages ago, but I must ask....how have humans come up with a language that we can realistically expect would let us communicate with extraterrestrials?

Translating pitch and mannerism to the actual meaning of the word, it looks like. I would think it'd be easier to go with a variation of sign language then.

I'd stick with math for communication.

Then F-grade-Calculus people such as myself would be in trouble. LOL

[Lemonwizard]

Frankly, communicating through math is already difficult and very non-intuitive even for people who already understand our mathematics system.





I presume if we were to encounter extraterrestrial life we would begin with picture based communication (presuming they had eyes, it would be much harder if they didn't) and then began associating those pictures with our and their words for them, until a strong enough mutual vocabulary base existed to begin teaching the languages more conventionally.

[Pacifien]

Lemonwizard wrote...
Frankly, communicating through math is already difficult and very non-intuitive even for people who already understand our mathematics system.

It's pretty universal, though. I'd expect any spacefaring civilization to have some proficient mathematicians at their disposal.

Establishing communication visually could be problematic if, for instance, the other species sees in ultraviolet.

[Collider]

Sadly due to the enormity of the galaxy it seems unlikely that we'll ever find aliens.

[kglaser]

That's why we need something like the Charon relay to speed up things. Otherwise, forget it.

[Lemonwizard]

Pacifien wrote...

Lemonwizard wrote...
Frankly, communicating through math is already difficult and very non-intuitive even for people who already understand our mathematics system.

It's pretty universal, though. I'd expect any spacefaring civilization to have some proficient mathematicians at their disposal.

Establishing communication visually could be problematic if, for instance, the other species sees in ultraviolet.

Not necessarily. If photographic equipment that captures the entire spectrum of light beyond that which is visible to humans, the picture would look just like what they see it as, even if it looks different for us. Even if we couldn't look at the same picture, we could certainly take one of their cameras, point it at something, take a picture with it, and even though it doesn't show us anything we can interperet we still know we've taken a picture of, say, a tree.



That said, it's highly unlikely that other lifeforms would see outside the visible spectrum. The reason all life on earth sees in the visible spectrum is because that's the type of solar radiation that penetrates our atmosphere in the highest concentrations of any kind of light. There's more visible light for us to see than there is infrared or ultraviolet, so we evolved specifically to see it. We have enough of an understanding of how cellular biology works on the chemical level to know what materials life could and could not be made out of for such reactions to plausibly happen (....it's basically just carbon and silicon based cells full of either water or ammonia). Any other planet with conditions that could support life within our present definitions would be in similar positions of visible light being drastically more present than other kinds.




And if we encountered life that does not exist by current scientific definitions, something so fundamentally different in cellular biology would surely be so different from us in so many other ways its senses in general would be wildly different from ours that communication problems would stretch far beyond what kind of photos we can look at.

[Pacifien]

Lemonwizard wrote...
And if we encountered life that does not exist by current scientific definitions, something so fundamentally different in cellular biology would surely be so different from us in so many other ways its senses in general would be wildly different from ours that communication problems would stretch far beyond what kind of photos we can look at.

Math, dude.

I bet they ask us what our current calculation of pi is.

[Ghostwing85]

I know this is changing the topic around to something already discussed but I was reading over posts about Garrus' age and felt my head about to explode.



People are saying he's YOUNGER than 30 because "Turians enlist at 15". Yeah, they do. They enlist in the TURIAN MILITARY, not C-Sec. A Turian in C-Sec is 30 + because Turians serve in the military from 15 to 30 then go into reserves afterwards. Only then do you see them working for C-Sec.



Sorry for popping in the random rant but... it was all over the net and I couldn't respond to any of it. I had... I had to say it. Does no one thuroughly read the Codex?



/rant /rant /whine /complain /moan /spit /hissyfit /goes off to get a life /done



*poofs!*

[Pacifien]

Ghostwing85 wrote...
People are saying he's YOUNGER than 30 because "Turians enlist at 15". Yeah, they do. They enlist in the TURIAN MILITARY, not C-Sec. A Turian in C-Sec is 30 + because Turians serve in the military from 15 to 30 then go into reserves afterwards. Only then do you see them working for C-Sec.

They server the Turian state from 15-30, whether that be in the military to a simple sanitation worker. I'm not sure working in C-Sec is still considered working for the Turian state, as it would depend if Turians count working for the Council or anywhere there's a sizeable Turian presence as state work.

Does lend credence to Garrus being over 30, though, even if you do count his time with C-Sec.

Then again, he could be back under 30 if he cut his service short because, by his own admission, he's not a very good Turian.

[Collider]

People are saying that he's under 30 because his writer said he was under 30.

[Pacifien]

Collider wrote...
People are saying that he's under 30 because his writer said he was under 30.

Pfft. What does he know.

[Collider]

Probably nothing.

[Pacifien]

Collider wrote...
Probably nothing.

I bet he doesn't even know pi.

Garrus's eyepiece probably provides him with a continuous readout of the number. No being caught off guard by the evil overlord for him.