Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: aristh asela on April 08, 2010, 01:17:38 AM
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hey guys
considering the nesk destroyed the mercora with the whole comet blasting earth, anyone think that the nesk ever came back to earth? i used to think that not all the nesk actually left and that the ones that stayed de-evolved into normal ants. any thought?
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theres no such thing as deevolution, but yes the nesk are considered to be the ancestors of modern day ants.
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And don't forget that the mercora provided us with broccoli! (Much to the dismay of Marco) "I knew that broccoli was alien!"
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And don't forget that the mercora provided us with broccoli! (Much to the dismay of Marco) "I knew that broccoli was alien!"
Haha still always think of the Mercora everytime I eat broccoli! 8)
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but i mean the nesk had warehouses and all that stuff. are we to believe that after the comet blanketed earth that everything just disappeared? some of that technology should have survived considering that they were highly advanced
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Well if it did exist it could have survived we haven't found it yet. The Earth is a big place it would be buried underground like dinosaur bones.
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Considering it's been 65 million years, the chances that it survived are... impossible to judge, at best. The fact is, we don't have any idea how long a civilization can leave its mark. 65 million years might just be too long.
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Given that that "life after people" show--which I don't take seriously at all but still--thinks most of human civilization's marks will disappear in less than one million years a few warehouses lasting from the end of the crutacious (sp, bah!) to the present isn't hard to buy at all, and I'd have to reread but I don't recall it saying that they didn't just take everything with them, they may have packed it all up before they left.
Plus, the nesk may have aimed the asteroid right at their enemies, obliterrating the remains of their own camp as well if they were close enough.
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Assuming the Nesk left anything behind (like JFalcon said they probably took most/all of it with them) it would almost certainly have been destroyed by the shockwave produced by the impact of the comet.
It is possible that in the Animorphs universe, Earth Ants were the decendants of the Nesk, or that they were related at least. I wouldn't think it likely though, as the Nesk wouldn't have fired a comet at a planet they still intended to live on. Even if somehow a few stray Nesk were left behind, they probably would have perished during/after the impact.
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Exactly, why would an intelligent race leave storehouses of nukes, energy weapons and such behind to be vaporized by the comet?
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well considering that the dinos lived for like 140 million years, its safe to assume the nesk could possibly still be around. i would think they would come and visit earth at least.
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Plus, the nesk may have aimed the asteroid right at their enemies, obliterrating the remains of their own camp as well if they were close enough.
Something I agree with, but I just find it odd every time I read this book: the blast sent them 65 million years back and time.
And 2000 miles south.
The asteriod thought to be this asteriod supposedly hit somewhere in mexico, so I figure that's where this book takes place, but somehow the leap in distance bothers me more than the leap through time :-\
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Psh, RYTX....didn't you know history got it wrong? EVERYTHING of worth takes place in SoCal. Including the end of the dinos. Obviously that's why Visser Three chose to ONLY focus his invasion there and not build a single other Yeerk Pool in THE ENTIRE WORLD.
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so.......did the ordinary earth ants and the nesk exist at the same time in the time when the nesk were on earth? or did the ordinary ants didn't exist at all until after the nesk left earth?
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Perhaps they coexisted in a way, if ants even existed back then and I don't know if they did, it's possible that the Nesk considered them a good indicator that Earth would be a fine place to live, like how humans sent chimps into space. They could have regarded ants in general the same way humans regard chimps, i.e. a similar species but not actually equal that had best stay out of our way or we'll put them in a world of hurt but whom we otherwise don't care much about except to say "aww, he's like a wittle person!"
It's also possible that other Nesk "colonies" existed and might not have been evacuated before the planet was hit, if they were far enough away these Nesk could have found themselves without transportation if they were stranded, or if their ships were somehow damaged. They may have had a decline in civilization and been reduced to the level of ants, going from a sentient hive mind thingy to a more simple minded one might not be a devolution, but rather survival of the fittest after millions of years, simple minded survival colonies outdoing and thereby outlasting higher thinking colonies until the modern day ants were the result.
If you think a sentient species can't get dumber you clearly haven't met the people I've met. ;)
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Psh, RYTX....didn't you know history got it wrong? EVERYTHING of worth takes place in SoCal. Including the end of the dinos. Obviously that's why Visser Three chose to ONLY focus his invasion there and not build a single other Yeerk Pool in THE ENTIRE WORLD.
I've spent the better part of the last three years in SoCal now. Nothing of worth takes place here.
Proof: Visser Three has proven himself a tactical moron several times through the series. Should have based in NorCal :P
But now that I think about it: how did they have 3 years worth of story supposedly in SoCal, and only have like, one drought, instead of the typical 7 month heat wave. Too weird. And off topic so....
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Psh, RYTX....didn't you know history got it wrong? EVERYTHING of worth takes place in SoCal. Including the end of the dinos. Obviously that's why Visser Three chose to ONLY focus his invasion there and not build a single other Yeerk Pool in THE ENTIRE WORLD.
Yeah go SoCal! I was born and raised there and my family still lives there. 8)
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yep its all about so cal
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i never thought of that actually. i don't know. maybe the nesk could have possibly returned, or maybe where ever they went, they were wiped out. after all, 65 million yrs is a long time. and who knows how time would pass in another galaxy? that would have been awesome to know actually
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well.... since we're on this topic...
what do we know about the Nesk's attitudes? like...we're they spiteful? how smart were they? how advanced? I mean...they moved an asteroid to destroy a planet..but they didn't have any planet destroying weapons (assuming they would have used it if they did)...
and why exactly did they want to destroy the Mecora?
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Wasn't it just because they didn't want to share Earth? It's been awhile since I read the book, but I could have sworn them hitting Earth with the asteroid was the equivalent of 'Fine, if we can't have it, no one can!'
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yea because the mercora were the "alien" species that came to earth. perhaps the nesk were originally from earth. they may have thought "its us or no one." unless they were aliens to earth also. considering the wide array of technology they stole from others. come to think of it they may have gone somewhere and did roughly the same thing.
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i thought they were both alien...
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anybody else wonder how they got a rock the size of texas(not to scale) to just change direction?
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Tractor beam? All they'd have to do is give it a push.
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well, a push in the right direction. since they have space faring capabilities.... it probably wasn't too hard for them.
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Yeah, I can't see it being that hard.
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if i remember correctly, the mercora simply state that the "nesk had redirected the comet to hit that settlement" assuming that the nesk could only do this by strategically placed explosions, then wouldn't the animorphs see (or hear) some kind of explosions? why i am saying this is because perhaps the nesk calculated and measured that the comet was going to hit that settlement and they figured that the best thing to do is to leave. if this is true, if tobias and ax carried any guilt they shoulda have to worry. haha
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Yeah, it was as simple as putting it into decaying orbit around Earth.
Go Physics!