#echo-hotel

[scientificpokedex]

Doing some back of the envelope calculations we can see how much original DNA is in the current incarnation of Amaura. Presuming cells weighing approximately the same as humans (1 nanogram) a 25.2 kilogram pokemon has 2.52e+13 cells and presuming human base pairs 3 billion genes per cell gives us 7.56e+22. DNA has a halflife of 512 years and the pokemon has been dead for 100 million that is 195312 half lives so 7.56e+22(1/2)^195312 and my calculator just crashed, looks like Amaura is all new DNA

Thanks for doing those calculations! The decomposition rate (half life) of DNA is the main problem with reviving fossils, and the reason why we haven’t opened a real Jurassic Park yet. Fossils are not the real tissue of the creature, anyways; it’s nothing more than a rock. So, the DNA from fossil pokémon must have been preserved from other means. For example, scientists have successfully extracted mammoth DNA from a frozen specimen. More controversially, soft tissue found from a T. Rex might contain traces of DNA as well, that have managed to survive for millions of years through other means.

So dino-cloning is definitely not possible in our world (yet), but that doesn’t mean all scientific credibility is lost for pokémon (yet).

Thanks!

-Professor Julie

[scientificpokedex]

I'm pretty certain grounded or not a faraday cage will neutralize a charge inside it to ground or air. Possibly some form of magnetic bottle would be more accurate. Perhaps the "grudge" that the doll carries has the same negative emotional charge as cursed energy charged particles allowing the Banette to use the pins mentioned in it's pokedex entry to form a conduit from inside to out to cast it's "strong curses".

A Faraday cage neutralizes the effects of a charge, but doesn’t actually get rid of it. I love the idea with the pins!

-Professor Julie

[isriana]

but Ö IS the same as Ø and Æ is the same as Ä is the same as AE and Å is just "Oh"

I was rather referring to people using them as a fancy alternative for a and o - which just doesn’t work at all.

[freekills]

I'm sorry that "love and respect every person" is apparently DISrespectful of people in your world view. Are you perhaps a non-person entity feeling left out? A Synthetic Intelligence (I hear "Artificial" is considered demeaning)? A Collective Consciousness comprised of several beings? Well I'll endeavor to love and respect you regardless if you don't meet all the traditional criteria of "Personhood"! :-) What? No? You just wanted to be offended and have the last word in an internet argument?

Yes I’m all of those things, and more.... I guess whatever I say will fall on deaf ears of a person like you, so I won’t even try. Please feel free to message me again so you can have the last word. Apparently adding my own take on a topic close to my heart is “trying to get the last word in. By the way you seem like a kinda angry person? Are you angry, bud?

[zarla-s]

Man you are spoiled for choice with this game, there are SO MANY remixes from it. And they’re all really great!

At the top of my list though would definitely have to be The Impresario. Absolutely everything about this remix is completely amazing, from the arrangement to the lyrics to the vocals, it’s all perfect. PERFECT. It’s really hard to top this one!

But there are other ones that I also really like! The whole Balance and Ruin remix project is amazing, there’s a ton of really great stuff on it, like Smoke and Clouds, Tastes Like Victory, A Fistful of Nickels, Toxic, Gobble Snarf Snap, Idle City Street, Courage Failure Rosebud, There Will Be Blood, Til We Meet Again, Evisceration, it goes on and on.

There are other loose mixes too, like Day of Ruin, La Locura del Kefka, Deserted Industry, Cid in the Factory, Dancing Madly (First Form), Inspector Strago, Desertion, A Nightmare before Kefka, The Sveldt, Greater Alchemic Patchwork, Prancing Dad, The Haunted Train Disco, Koopa vs. Kefka and TimeShock. I especially love Dirt Devil, it's one of my favorites for sure. Hyadain’s Cayenne and Sabin’s Rap remixes are also really great, and I think his version of Terra is really nice. And from DoD, I've always been fond of Kadmium and Jim Grey's version of the Aria di Mezzo Carattrere.

[newtypezaku]

echo-hotel replied to your post “....what exactly will the Tryon 3 save Anime from?”

Which of the three "Gainaxing" versions are you talking about? The boob bounce thing, the mid season "what-a-twist" thing, or the ending that makes no sense thing?

Yes

[the-last-teabender]

echo-hotel replied to your post:Geeky girls who play the ‘not like other girls’...

Rather than the standard “Not all ***” argument I’m just going to invite you out to Iowa where anyone who upsets a girl is met by a matron mother nerd in her SCA gear holding a bullwhip she is more than trained to use.

Yes. Every self-respecting group of nerds needs their own mama-bear nerd. It is the way of things.

[the-last-teabender]

Speaking of Japanese food, do you follow Cooking With Dog over on YouTube?

I do indeed. Anything that involves a talking animal helping me to improve my quality of life is an instant win.