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[WarChicken78]

But they have to take care because of...
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Modifié par WarChicken78, 26 mars 2010 - 08:14 .

[Solomen]

Dethateer wrote...

monkeycamoran wrote...

Biioware could bull**** you on how an mass effect drive can work, but they couldn't write-in a believable fake biology.

No, they can't. Also, if the overall human school system was better, people would stop saying "sentient" instead of "sapient" and "race" instead of  "species". And they'd know what the f**k "biotic" means.

Take two antibiotics and call me in the morning.

I know somebody who uses the word sophont when talking about sapience.  She only considers about 10% of humanity to qualify though... sentient is a perfectly acceptable word as well, check your thesaurus

[Weiser_Cain]

Whenever a tech is shown in science fiction I think of a way to use it that the source doesn't, I'm good like that. So I write it down to put it out of my mind until I'm done with the story.

[GodWood]

Solomen wrote...

Dethateer wrote...

No, they can't. Also, if the overall human school system was better, people would stop saying "sentient" instead of "sapient"

sentient is a perfectly acceptable word as well, check your thesaurus

No it is not.

[Dethateer]

Solomen wrote...

Dethateer wrote...

monkeycamoran wrote...

Biioware could bull**** you on how an mass effect drive can work, but they couldn't write-in a believable fake biology.

No, they can't. Also, if the overall human school system was better, people would stop saying "sentient" instead of "sapient" and "race" instead of  "species". And they'd know what the f**k "biotic" means.

Take two antibiotics and call me in the morning.

I know somebody who uses the word sophont when talking about sapience.  She only considers about 10% of humanity to qualify though... sentient is a perfectly acceptable word as well, check your thesaurus

But then I'll lose my biotic powers... also, sapience isn't the same thing as sentience, so your comparison is invalid, since sophont is a synonym for sapient.

[HTTP 404]

we're similar to gorillas can we have half gorrillas half man? someone should try to mate with a gorilla on this board and tell us the results in 9 months.

[Weiser_Cain]

Solomen wrote...

Weiser_Cain wrote...

Nah, I think Humans have too many critical mutations for anything to be viable

They've crossed monkeys and rats with jellyfish... but that is chimeric recombination

Slipping in a bit of code is relatively easy but mixing two animals that form differently is impossible. or would require massive genetic hand holding and rewrites on both sides. We actually have a broken gene that if fixed would mean there would be no space for our brains to grow as large as they do.

Back on topic, Just because their proteins match means very little, the way they evolved would be wildly different. Their reproductive cells would probably not even recognize each other.

[Solomen]

Weiser_Cain wrote...

Solomen wrote...

Weiser_Cain wrote...

Nah, I think Humans have too many critical mutations for anything to be viable

They've crossed monkeys and rats with jellyfish... but that is chimeric recombination

Slipping in a bit of code is relatively easy but mixing two animals that form differently is impossible. or would require massive genetic hand holding and rewrites on both sides. We actually have a broken gene that if fixed would mean there would be no space for our brains to grow as large as they do.

Back on topic, Just because their proteins match means very little, the way they evolved would be wildly different. Their reproductive cells would probably not even recognize each other.

 but that is chimeric recombination
covered it already

[Weiser_Cain]

That wouldn't be breeding it'd be engineering. And you'd have to do it like 50 time with variation to get a stable breeding population, at least with humans, with the apparently less genetically diverse species you'd need more.

[Tooneyman]

Ahh, this is on topic but not. Ok, what i'm getting is yes they are direct. Ok, we understand this the conversations going on and the links plus the tolds of numbers. It is possible, but it would be a .011658697865% chance for a turian to impregnant a quarian or vice versa say a male quarian and a female turian whenever Bioware decides they are going to put one in a game. (ME3) Anywho, I'm going back to my argument earlier. Turians are a type of mammal. They must leg eggs internally the way bioware has set them up, even those they look like walking bugs. Salarians yes we know they lay eggs and most of their population is 90 percent male and only 10 percent female because their females can lay up to 1000s of eggs. This is for their breeding rights they have. Do mission on illium with salarian on the phone. HE can explain it better than I can.



Wow that felt long.

[Solomen]

Tooneyman wrote...

Ahh, this is on topic but not. Ok, what i'm getting is yes they are direct. Ok, we understand this the conversations going on and the links plus the tolds of numbers. It is possible, but it would be a .011658697865% chance for a turian to impregnant a quarian or vice versa say a male quarian and a female turian whenever Bioware decides they are going to put one in a game. (ME3) Anywho, I'm going back to my argument earlier. Turians are a type of mammal. They must leg eggs internally the way bioware has set them up, even those they look like walking bugs. Salarians yes we know they lay eggs and most of their population is 90 percent male and only 10 percent female because their females can lay up to 1000s of eggs. This is for their breeding rights they have. Do mission on illium with salarian on the phone. HE can explain it better than I can.

Wow that felt long.

Turians are birds... not mammals at all.

[Solomen]

The only way a turian and a quarian could interbreed is if their base ancestor evolved on a seperate world and they are technically the same species adapted to different environments... this would mean quarians would also have mouth flaps

[ObserverStatus]

Solomen wrote...

The only way a turian and a quarian could interbreed is if their base ancestor evolved on a seperate world and they are technically the same species adapted to different environments... this would mean quarians would also have mouth flaps

Good thing that's not the case.

[Aedan_Cousland]

Ray Joel Oh wrote...

There have been documented accounts of interspecies breeding as high as the family taxon in other animals.  That would mean humans can theoretically breed with other hominids.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee

I'm positive that some of the people posting on this forum are Humanzees.

[Pannamaslo]

Solomen wrote...

Turians are birds... not mammals at all.

O RLY? Show me the codex entry...

[Solomen]

Pannamaslo wrote...

Solomen wrote...

Turians are birds... not mammals at all.

O RLY? Show me the codex entry...

Don't take my word for it.  Look it up in the codex yourself.

[Gavinthelocust]

bobobo878 wrote...

Solomen wrote...

The only way a turian and a quarian could interbreed is if their base ancestor evolved on a seperate world and they are technically the same species adapted to different environments... this would mean quarians would also have mouth flaps

Good thing that's not the case.

Funny thing is that's what Quarians look like already.

[Pannamaslo]

Solomen wrote...

Pannamaslo wrote...

Solomen wrote...

Turians are birds... not mammals at all.

O RLY? Show me the codex entry...

Don't take my word for it.  Look it up in the codex yourself.

I did. Nothing there about them being birds, mammals, reptiles or fish for that matter.

Gavinthelocust wrote...

bobobo878 wrote...

Solomen
wrote...

The only way a turian and a quarian could interbreed is
if their base ancestor evolved on a seperate world and they are
technically the same species adapted to different environments... this
would mean quarians would also have mouth flaps

Good
thing that's not the case.

Funny thing is that's what Quarians look like
already.

I knew there was something fishy about those masks.

Modifié par Pannamaslo, 26 mars 2010 - 09:07 .

[Tooneyman]

Pannamaslo wrote...

Solomen wrote...

Turians are birds... not mammals at all.

O RLY? Show me the codex entry...

I agree with your statement. Show the codex and tell us the evidence. This whole turians lay eggs bull is war now.
Prepare for an argument from hell.




Turians look like a type of mammals speices that may have evolved on their planet around more insect like skeletons, but the codex doesn't say they have an exoskeleton. This is why we are assuming they are mammals. Nor do they ever mention an exsoskeletons and if turians are birds where are the feathers? Serously this is over rated. We all know salarians are either giant talking newts or frogs.

[kraidy1117]

If anybody post the Newborn, I will kill you in your sleep.....

Modifié par kraidy1117, 27 mars 2010 - 02:46 .

[abstractwhiz]

 I don't see anything in the codex entries, but the Mass Effect Wiki entry on Turians has this to say:

"Turian features are avian, making them resemble humanoid birds or raptors. In Mass Effect: Revelation, David Anderson claimed that turians reminded him of the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs."

Of course, this doesn't prove that they are avian or saurian, but then these terms are meaningless for non-Terran life anyway. <_<

Modifié par abstractwhiz, 27 mars 2010 - 04:19 .

[WarChicken78]

Turians have some quite reptilean features, that's undeniable.

Also without codex information nobody can say if turians lay eggs or not.

Even here on earth we have had some few reptiles that give birth to living young - Some Dinosaurs are estimated to have birthed. And on the other hand we have a mammal (or mammalesque) animal that lays eggs and has some kind of beak - the duckbill. Further we know that our birds have evolved from reptiles (see the Archeopteryx).



This is why this discussion is (again) futile. You can just not determine in what category Turians are to sort in. Neither can we come to a conclusion if they lay eggs, or if they don't.

[XxCITIZENxX]

Turians and quarians breeding together equals-