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Re: You know what I dont get
« Reply #30 on: October 11, 2008, 12:19:01 PM »
Yeah this is true; I think this is one of the biggest 'suspension of disbelief' points.
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Re: You know what I dont get
« Reply #31 on: October 11, 2008, 03:45:05 PM »
How would you even get from the ear to the brain anyway?  You'd have to go through a nerve or something.

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Re: You know what I dont get
« Reply #32 on: October 11, 2008, 03:53:19 PM »
I'm not sure, but she needed some way for a Yeerk to get into the brain. The ear seems pretty plausable for kids that don't know enough about anatomy.


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Re: You know what I dont get
« Reply #33 on: October 11, 2008, 04:22:27 PM »
Unless I'm mistaken, people use to think that's how earwigs use to get to your brain, but not to wrap around it, but to eat it.  Of course, that's been proven false. . . .


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Re: You know what I dont get
« Reply #34 on: October 11, 2008, 05:04:33 PM »
Maybe they cut thorugh the drum and then secrete a membrane over the hole?
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Re: You know what I dont get
« Reply #35 on: October 11, 2008, 07:06:32 PM »
I was thinking they sort of merge with the drum and sort of become it, then come out the other side. the merge with the nerve cells to get to the ear...am i making sense?

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Re: You know what I dont get
« Reply #36 on: October 12, 2008, 01:00:48 PM »
No, not really. :P
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Re: You know what I dont get
« Reply #37 on: October 22, 2008, 10:43:54 AM »
Well, she could have made them go through the nose, but then you'd have to worry about snot in your brain.
Besides, don't the Yeerks drill through something at some point? *Hasn't studied human anatomy in ages*
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Re: You know what I dont get
« Reply #38 on: October 22, 2008, 02:21:09 PM »
They don't want to kill him. If they do, he would be replaced by someone more clever, like Visser One. It didn't take her long at all to figure out they were Human.

On the other hand, Visser One is the one pushing for a covert infestation. In a way she would be more dangerous, but on the other hand she can't morph. She also doesn't want to go out in the open with the war.

Better the enemy you know, than the one you don't. Therefore, they don't try too hard to kill Visser Three.

Not to mention the inability to cope Marco may have with fighting his mom.
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Re: You know what I dont get
« Reply #39 on: October 22, 2008, 03:29:59 PM »
Well, she could have made them go through the nose, but then you'd have to worry about snot in your brain.
Besides, don't the Yeerks drill through something at some point? *Hasn't studied human anatomy in ages*

I think they mention at one point that they kind of move things around. So maybe they're able to push things to the side, and then move them back afterwards?
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Re: You know what I dont get
« Reply #40 on: October 22, 2008, 11:16:50 PM »
Heh, when you think about it, Yeerks are really wonders of evolution, aren't they? I wonder how that went...
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Re: You know what I dont get
« Reply #41 on: November 22, 2008, 02:14:48 AM »
meh, its not too hard to beleive just look at some of our old Earth Creatures.