Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Yarin on April 17, 2009, 04:27:53 PM
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How can the stalk eyes turn all the way around they couldn't be fixed on the head if they could turn 180 degrees?
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I think they just twist around. Like a snake neck. They can only twist around so far, though, before they have to turn the other way.
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they could flop... like a tentacle
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But would they then be looking upside down?
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But would they then be looking upside down?
I'm guessing the Andalite brain could cope with that, and figure out how to get the image right-side-up. Humans have that ability to some degree, actually. I heard about a scientific study where this guy wore glasses that were made to turn everything that he saw upside down. After about a day, his brain was able to compensate, and things looked right-side up again, even though the image was still actually upside-down. Then when he took the glasses off, things were upside down again.
I would speculate that Andalite eyes would work the same way, but on a much quicker scale. Because they would probably get turned every which way, no matter what mechanism by which they operate. Andalite brains would have to be able to adjust for that.
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Our hands can turn 180 degrees. why can't andalite stalk eyes do that? their stalk eyes probably don't even have bones in them...
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I always imagined it as very very thin stalks. made out of muscles. Not Bones. Like Morf' said.
I see no reason that they shouldn't be able to turn them all the way around. Certain *Ahem* parts of the human body, can turn around completely backwards and even full round about when *Ahem* flaccid.
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good points
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I'm guessing the Andalite brain could cope with that, and figure out how to get the image right-side-up. Humans have that ability to some degree, actually. I heard about a scientific study where this guy wore glasses that were made to turn everything that he saw upside down. After about a day, his brain was able to compensate, and things looked right-side up again, even though the image was still actually upside-down. Then when he took the glasses off, things were upside down again.
That is awesome. =o
And also, yeah, I generally think of the stalk-eyes as being muscle and maybe cartilage, not bone. And I think of them as being able to twist like an owl's neck, in a circle, and turn up and down, but not being tentacle-like; I don't think of them as being able to loop around and turn upside-down or anything like that. But I think they're one of those aspects of the aliens that everyone interprets a little differently. ^^()
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I always imagined it as very very thin stalks. made out of muscles. Not Bones. Like Morf' said.
I see no reason that they shouldn't be able to turn them all the way around. Certain *Ahem* parts of the human body, can turn around completely backwards and even full round about when *Ahem* flaccid.
yeah, agreed.
i always thought of them as muscles.
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Goom, Broke, you have no idea how much willpower it's taking me not to chase that thread. No idea.
But, I won't.
Let me just say that Wikipedia is your friend. And leave it at that.
I think we can all agree that the stalk-eye portrayal in the TV series was badly wrong.
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I think we can all agree that the stalk-eye portrayal in the TV series was badly wrong.
how were they portrayed in the show?
it's been a long time since i've seen it, and i only watched a few.
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to be totally honest the way I picture an Andalite is how Elfangor was depicted on The Andalite Chronicles, all textual evidence to the contrary. I think at one point stalk eyes are described like the horns of a giraffe with eyes on the end, but I pictured them much longer and twisty-mobile.
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when i was reading this question i just immediately thought
"DUR an owl can turn its head around why cant the eyes???"
hope it helps?
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Let me just say that Wikipedia is your friend. And leave it at that.
great advice. problem. what am I supposed to search for?
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Don't, Morf. We like you all innocent.
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That's actually what I was just thinking. Owls have the ability to do a 180 with their heads, and they've got neck bones in there.
I would imagine the stalks are more made of muscle than bone. Or yeah, something like cartilage. But with that in mind a 180 turn for the eyestalks would be believable.
If she had tried to pass of a 360, I'd be more skeptical. lol.
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yeah i agree with the owl neck thing
but i always thought of it as a muscle thing.
I mean stalk eyes can stretch can't remember where its mentioned.
that Aximili stretched his stalk eyes to full length when he is surprised or something.
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If there are any bones in the stalk eyes they probably act like miniature spinal cords, bending and stretching as necessary(to an extent). I imagine perhaps the base of the stalk eyes have a bit of bone similar to vertebrae and then the rest is supplemented by muscle and/or cartilage. Turning 180 degrees shouldn't be a problem - that exists in our own natural world (as some people mentioned with the owl). And obviously an Andalite brain would be adapted to receiving visual information from four directions at once, at all different angles.
I never imagined them being like "horns". Jenny, I think that what they meant is that they were in the place that horns would be, not that they were stiff like horns. Unless it was a ghost writer that said it. Then they are just stupid.
I too always pictured it as Elfangor on TAC, and Aldrea on HBC.
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I always thought it was one of two things, and I never thought about which one I liked better.
One was that it was similar to a spinal column, as had been said. It would be able to bend in many directions, as well as a large degree of rotation.
Another thought was that they were a muscle similar to the tongue, except longer. This theoretically has more potential, but would be more biologically difficult.
And Broken, I'm pretty sure that the part of the human anatomy you were referring to can't move like that on its own. Correct me if I am wrong, or if you are a special case.
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yeah i agree with the owl neck thing
but i always thought of it as a muscle thing.
I mean stalk eyes can stretch can't remember where its mentioned.
that Aximili stretched his stalk eyes to full length when he is surprised or something.
uh, by stretch, I don't think it means grow in length. It means rise to full height, like when you stretch your arms. normally the stalk eyes curve a little. when they stretch to full height, they're straight.