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Re: Planet Andalite must be one dangerous place...
« Reply #45 on: March 21, 2009, 06:39:59 PM »
but i said it in a simple way...

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Re: Planet Andalite must be one dangerous place...
« Reply #46 on: March 22, 2009, 01:45:09 AM »
hahahaha.

yeah. the Yeerk problem is now kinda a scapegoat. And they feel so embarrassed about it they're going overboard...with a few plotting their own agendas in the mix.

oooOOooo...the drama.
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Re: Planet Andalite must be one dangerous place...
« Reply #47 on: March 22, 2009, 05:03:33 AM »
also the yeerks  were jealous of andalite tails because theirs where small and they where trying to compencate

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Re: Planet Andalite must be one dangerous place...
« Reply #48 on: March 22, 2009, 02:45:35 PM »
......yeah....way small...^^
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Re: Planet Andalite must be one dangerous place...
« Reply #49 on: March 25, 2009, 12:54:47 PM »
also the yeerks  were jealous of andalite tails because theirs where small and they where trying to compencate

"Yes . . . we were jealous of the tails. We were jealous of their eyes, their legs, their hands, we were jealous of their freedom! I had a vision, a joyous vision where even the smallest of yeerk grubs can crawl freely into an Andalite ear and run in fields of grass singing thoughtspeak songs of merriment and joy, a dream of freedom a vision of peace through partnership, however one-sided . . . and you humans ruined it all with your silly little "let's morph into animals and stop the evil Yeerks" club! Now our grubs are left to cry, bodiless, or else forced to morph once and only once into some alien shape, stuck forever as something they might not want to be . . . and it's all your fault, humanity . . . I hope you're happy . . . because you're so out of my Fav 5."
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Re: Planet Andalite must be one dangerous place...
« Reply #50 on: March 25, 2009, 02:12:50 PM »
dang. That's the second person to drop me from their fave five.

I better call and tell Ax he's back into my top 5.
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Re: Planet Andalite must be one dangerous place...
« Reply #51 on: April 18, 2009, 02:56:21 PM »
Since the Andalites grew tail blades and became the dominant species on the planet, it's easily possible that those predators no longer exist, but even if they do they clearly no longer pose a threat to the Andalite people.

I think it's more like as it is with the cheetah and the antelope. When the cheetah becomes faster and can catch more antelopes, and survive, the antilopes have to become faster to escape, to survive.
The most dangerous animals our ancestors had to fight was bears and wolfs, at least were I live. And both of them is still here.
And that thing on their moon is obviously to dangerous for them.

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Re: Planet Andalite must be one dangerous place...
« Reply #52 on: April 19, 2009, 02:13:26 AM »
Survival of the fittest, adapting and adapting to others' adaptations, all a part of evolution . . . so cool.

I don't see Andalites swimming a whole lot to be endangered by that thingy though, also wolves aren't around just because they're canny (that's the Coyote) they're around because at some point we realized that killing every last one of them wasn't smart and we started preserving them, they've just recovered really well. They'd be extinct (or at least near-extinct) if mankind as a whole all over the world made a concentrated effort to get rid of them, and it's slightly implied that this is exactly what the Anadlites do to their predators so even if andalite predators kept adapting to kill the Andalites eventually technology would have made it not only possible for the Andalites to wipe their predators out, the Andalite lifestyle would have made it necessary.

Any predator that evolved to continue preying on the Andalites would have been a danger since the Andalites don't live in cities or even very well defended homes, wolves don't pose that great a danger to a city full of people, and while a bear is the last thing you want to see knocking on your door they're not going to kill off entire towns. Similar predators could have wiped out entire andalite families since they live such secluded lives. Even a farmer in a wilderness of wolves has four walls and a roof to protect him, Andalites live in scoops which are just ditches in the ground with minor weather defense.

On the other hand think of what happens any time a predator kills a human being, we get up in arms to hunt it down and kill it so it doesn't happen again. When a lion eats a person an effort is made to kill that lion that often enough results in dozens of innocent lions dying as a result. Same for sharks, wolves, bears, chimps, any species that preys on us pays for it though sometimes the individual responsible isn't the one who pays. For the Andalites killing off all their predators or at least driving them into the places Andalites wouldn't bother going anyway, wouldn't have been anything less than a necessity for their safety unless they started building walls and such, which might have been less trouble but doesn't seem to fit the Andalite mentality.

To me at least this might imply why andalite warriors rarely ever morph in battle, we humans morph the things that kill us, maybe Andalites killed off all the things that killed them, this could also lend to their arrogance. Just imagine the things that would have hunted Andalites though, I mean look at Ankylosaur (sp's almost certainly off) a walking tank. Something forced it to evolve that way so's to avoid gettin' eaten, and then something evolved to get past that armor so's to keep eating it. So whatever evolved to outdo the andalite tail blade must have been one awesome beast.
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Re: Planet Andalite must be one dangerous place...
« Reply #53 on: April 29, 2009, 01:25:45 PM »
i agree. and yeah i'm sure they must have killed them off. there might be some alive in a secluded place  or whatnot who knows.

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Re: Planet Andalite must be one dangerous place...
« Reply #54 on: April 29, 2009, 03:27:39 PM »
I don't think it's called Andal. We don't exactly call our planet Hum or something like that...

Actually, we kinda do in some languages.  In Hebrew, "man" and "dust" are homophones.  Latin "homo" which became English "human" is related to "humus", meaning "soil" and the root of English "inhume" and "exhume" meaning "to bury" and "to dig up".

So, we hyumans really do live on a big ball of Hyume.
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Re: Planet Andalite must be one dangerous place...
« Reply #55 on: May 01, 2009, 03:53:01 AM »
yeah i mean they have the mentality of herbivore pray animals.
I mean imagine that antelopes as as smart as humans and they see Lions trying to eat them.
soon they will try to get rid of the problem. So they elaborate ways of stopping or even killing the lions off.
That is basically what the Andalites did. They are very smart antelopes.
We are very smart omnivores so we didn't have those kind f issues much.

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Re: Planet Andalite must be one dangerous place...
« Reply #56 on: August 19, 2009, 02:06:03 AM »
Maybe the Andalites keept there super predators on the moon for zoos or they just killed there predators the way we kill malaria and tape worms (our true predators), the tail blade is presumably a hangover from the old days of fighting off super predators, in the ellimist chronicles the andalites are shown fighting with a giant predators.

not quasi communists (I hate commies more than most people but if any species is communist in the animorphs it is the yeerks) but fascists and eugenics being a fascist eugeninist is actually quite compatible with being a hippy nature lover proud  warrior race guy, much as i hate to invoke godwin's law but the nazis are perfect examples of this... Also Andalites who don't have the gene for thoughtspeak or sharp tail blades would have it really hard.

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Re: Planet Andalite must be one dangerous place...
« Reply #57 on: August 19, 2009, 03:49:59 PM »
 I know what kind of predators hunted Andalites. Sand sharks!!
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Re: Planet Andalite must be one dangerous place...
« Reply #58 on: August 20, 2009, 12:59:22 AM »
I like the eugenics idea... It also explains their intelligence as well as their physical fitness.

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Re: Planet Andalite must be one dangerous place...
« Reply #59 on: August 20, 2009, 12:16:53 PM »
I like the eugenics idea... It also explains their intelligence as well as their physical fitness.

and given their attitude towards cripples, as well as hork bajir, its not entirely baseless.