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Offline Yarin

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Andalite stalkeyes
« on: April 17, 2009, 04:27:53 PM »
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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Re: Andalite stalkeyes
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2009, 04:30:40 PM »
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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Re: Andalite stalkeyes
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2009, 04:33:43 PM »
they could flop... like a tentacle
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Re: Andalite stalkeyes
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2009, 04:48:53 PM »
But would they then be looking upside down?
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Re: Andalite stalkeyes
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2009, 05:29:10 PM »
Quote from: Chad28 on April 17, 2009, 04:48:53 PM
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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Re: Andalite stalkeyes
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2009, 06:18:48 PM »
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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Re: Andalite stalkeyes
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2009, 06:38:18 PM »
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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Re: Andalite stalkeyes
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2009, 10:08:25 PM »
good points
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Re: Andalite stalkeyes
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2009, 10:59:45 PM »
Quote from: DinosaurNothlit on April 17, 2009, 05:29:10 PM
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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Re: Andalite stalkeyes
« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2009, 01:13:04 PM »
Quote from: Cody on April 17, 2009, 06:38:18 PM
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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Re: Andalite stalkeyes
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2009, 04:30:58 PM »
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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Re: Andalite stalkeyes
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2009, 05:17:43 PM »
Quote from: wildweathel on April 19, 2009, 04:30:58 PM
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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Re: Andalite stalkeyes
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2009, 08:59:08 PM »
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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Re: Andalite stalkeyes
« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2009, 12:37:00 AM »
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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Re: Andalite stalkeyes
« Reply #14 on: April 20, 2009, 04:47:54 AM »
Quote from: wildweathel on April 19, 2009, 04:30:58 PM
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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