EPTah found it:
guess he was assimilated into the swarm huh?
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Madkipz
Norway1643 Posts
ah found it: guess he was assimilated into the swarm huh? | ||
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Herculix
United States946 Posts
ling surround, no? | ||
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ThE.SparkZ
United States381 Posts
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Amestir
Netherlands2126 Posts
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Melt
Switzerland281 Posts
On August 15 2010 21:57 Liquid`Jinro wrote: This is the coolest/scariest thing I have ever heard. they WILL take over the world! Also explains the bug-like look of the new Zerg. | ||
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jamesltl
Malaysia159 Posts
btw thx for the info :D | ||
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Tritonus
Denmark125 Posts
On August 15 2010 23:44 Amestir wrote: I have been interested in ants and swarm behaviour for quite some time now. When you start diving into how ant swarms work it really gets creepy. We should concider ourselfs lucky that ants aren't activly trying to destroy us ^^ How do you know they're not? I once heard about an estimate of how many ants there are on earth, and I almost passed out. Can anyone find this number? Imagine that when they hit a "critical number" where enough colonies are connected, they'd be able to systematically take over entire territories... Ha! Oh, and btw, banelings, as posted in another thread, are real. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38243325/ns/technology_and_science-science/?GT1=43001 | ||
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
Earth That Was The principle reason that the Terran left planet Earth was due to catastrophic scarcity of resources caused by the world's 23 billion people. The original colonists were sent on an interstellar mission to colonize a new sector of the universe and to discover new sources of minerals and resources for the survival of humanity. But could things ever get that bad on Earth? Given that I think the Earth is enormously and horribly overpopulated already, I find this to be an impossibility," -Dr. Charles A. Hall, Professors of Systems Ecology at New York State University "Given that I think the Earth is enormously and horribly overpopulated already, I find this to be an impossibility," says Dr. Charles A. Hall, professor of systems ecology at the State University of New York. Hall says that the rapid population escalation over the past 100-150 years has been due mostly to agricultural advances. Since most experts today believe we've reached the peak of oil production, that will put a cap on how much food we are able to farm (tractors, pesticides, and irrigation systems are all heavily petroleum-dependent.) No additional food means fewer babies. "So no," says Hall. "I do not think we can maintain even the present population." While it seems impossible for the global population to ever reach Starcraft's enormous 23 billion, global resource shortages still seem inevitable nonetheless. Verdict Mostly True Terrans in the kropulu sector were prisoners sent away into some fancy exploration project, not because earth life was unsustainable. | ||
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Tritonus
Denmark125 Posts
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ironchef
Canada1350 Posts
The space surviving bacteria was pretty interesting. omg maybe we're fucking something up by having satellites/camera travel around space and act as transports for these bacteria lol. His response made me wonder, how do zerg travel around the galaxy? Mutas and OL's cant fly lightspeed! | ||
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Dionyseus
United States2068 Posts
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Tritonus
Denmark125 Posts
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Tritonus
Denmark125 Posts
On August 16 2010 07:29 ironchef wrote: That is pretty cool. It is not surprising, given a lot of sci-fi is based off nature and current science, maybe exaggerated or misinterpreted. The space surviving bacteria was pretty interesting. omg maybe we're fucking something up by having satellites/camera travel around space and act as transports for these bacteria lol. His response made me wonder, how do zerg travel around the galaxy? Mutas and OL's cant fly lightspeed! You know, they've found water on Mars, so basically, there could just as well be bacteria there too. When some Mars satellites return to Earth with a deadly, unstoppable micro-organism that wipes out the earth, I'll be punching some austronaut in the face with my zergy hands. | ||
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Bair
United States698 Posts
On August 16 2010 06:26 Tritonus wrote: How do you know they're not? I once heard about an estimate of how many ants there are on earth, and I almost passed out. Can anyone find this number? Imagine that when they hit a "critical number" where enough colonies are connected, they'd be able to systematically take over entire territories... Ha! Oh, and btw, banelings, as posted in another thread, are real. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38243325/ns/technology_and_science-science/?GT1=43001 [quote=Wiki Answers]2,308,263,650,000,000,000 ants exist on planet earth. The land area on earth is approximately 57,491,000 square miles and at 10 ants per square inches you get 2,308,263,650,000,000,000 ants on planet earth.[/quote] Kind of alot of ants...even if Wiki Answers may not be the most reliable place for an answer, that is still pretty scary. As for those IRL banelings, first I was like :D because banelings are awesome. Then I was like O.O because banelings do not like people. Ants are creepy little bastards. | ||
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guitarizt
United States1492 Posts
On August 15 2010 23:27 Madkipz wrote: wasnt there a macgyver episode with ants? ah found it: guess he was assimilated into the swarm huh? hahaha oh man I remember watching that ep as a kid. macgyver was badass. | ||
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latan
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psion
106 Posts
On August 15 2010 23:44 Amestir wrote: I have been interested in ants and swarm behaviour for quite some time now. When you start diving into how ant swarms work it really gets creepy. We should concider ourselfs lucky that ants aren't activly trying to destroy us ^^ Yeah. Except, you know, pesticides... The science of Starcraft here is really more just common sense. You don't need to be a neurologist to know that Ghosts are impossible, in any sense of the word. I'd rather see information about the gauss rifles, or how FTL communication and travel works (especially for zerg), but I don't think there's much or any information available. The few things they say during the WoL campaign is just meaningless Star Trek babble  | ||
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Schnake
Germany2819 Posts
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dim2thesum
United States65 Posts
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GGTeMpLaR
United States7226 Posts
kinda scary though, fuck bugs | ||
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