Caryl Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 I don't think the Babel fish helps with understanding Vogon poetry as nothing does that! Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits On a lurgid bee That mordiously hath bitled out Its earted jurtles Into a rancid festering [drowned out by moaning and screaming] Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts And living glupules frart and slipulate Like jowling meated liverslime Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes And hooptiously drangle me With crinkly bindlewurdles, Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon See if I don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 I don't even know what a babel fish is. (apart from the translator). :lol: I don't think i would dislike one though ha ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkles Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 we found a couple of fairly big blue ones when digging out an old garden a few months ago, anyone want to hazard a guess at what type they were? Didn't get photos sadly but they were blue and about 10cm. If you don't know what a babel fish is you don't know what you're missing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 The Babel Fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and is a universal translator which simultaneously translates from one spoken language to another. When inserted into the ear, its nutrition processes convert sound waves into brain waves, neatly crossing the language divide between any species you should happen to meet whilst travelling in space. Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation. Arthur Dent, a surviving Earthling, commented only 'Eurgh!' when first inserting the fish into his ear canal. It did, however, enable him to understand Vogon Poetry - not necessarily a good thing. The book points out that the Babel Fish could not possibly have developed naturally, and therefore proves the existence of God as its creator. However, as Man points out, God needs faith to exist, and this proof dispels the need for faith, therefore causing God to vanish "in a puff of logic". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whetu Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Wow that's a stunning centipede! I wish we got that sort of thing around here but I've certainly never met one. I do, however, own a plot of land which contains (among other weird and wonderful beings) some giant native carnivorous snails. I betcha one of my snails would despatch your centipede very promptly! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Got some pics whetu? Our club did a walk in the dark at Whites Bay. There are supposed to be carnivorous snails there but we didn't find any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted July 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 whetu post the pics and we will arrange the prizefight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zev Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Hmmm... the rellies used to do this with crickets in a bucket - I don't know how they knew which was whos cricket, but they seemed to know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinytawnykitten Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 We got to play with one of these in Scotland... Must be a relative :lol: Caryl is that the place just out of Edinburgh? I have an almost identical photo of my hand :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 I think it was tinytawnykitten. Called Butterfly and Insect World and next to a large Dobbies Garden Centre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkfur Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 we found a couple of fairly big blue ones when digging out an old garden a few months ago, anyone want to hazard a guess at what type they were? Didn't get photos sadly but they were blue and about 10cm. If you don't know what a babel fish is you don't know what you're missing sounds like possibly Peripatus, which are really cool. They are kind of living fossils. There's an article about them on this page http://soilbugs.massey.ac.nz/onychophora.php but the pics aren't very blue, I've seen really blue ones, depends on what part of the country you are in This is the bluest type: cool huh? Image from http://www.rodmorris.co.nz/insect_gallery1.htm by Rod Morris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkles Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 wow that is cool ours weren't that blue, more blue on the body with brownish legs, and they were sort of transperant, not solid like that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkles Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 and after looking at the link, ours didn't look like that at all, more like a normal centipede. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted July 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 the velvet worm looks different to the centipedes have them here as well but more grey colour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkles Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 wow check this one out http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1008/127 ... b3b993.jpg I found this "The Lithobiomorpha are shorter and more compact centipedes and are very active. Adult Lithobiomorpha range in size from 0.5 cm to over 3 cm....Occasionally one finds beautiful violet individuals – these are freshly moulted Lithobius centipedes, which become reddish-purple when hardened." so maybe thats what ours were, but they were much longer than 3cm. Fascinating creatures, i would have loved to have kept one but i have no idea how to look after centipedes lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdspider Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Giant millipedes are so cool. I held a young one in Fiji --> I don't think I'd want to hold the centipede though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuffaDragonNZ Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 i found a blue velvet worm with orange spots very cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted July 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 do you still have it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuffaDragonNZ Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 no sorry let it go they are endangered they are in the top 100 threatened NZ species was very cool .they are nocturnal predators and give birth to live young Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alienara Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 sounds like possibly Peripatus, which are really cool. They are kind of living fossils. There's an article about them on this page http://soilbugs.massey.ac.nz/onychophora.php but the pics aren't very blue, I've seen really blue ones, depends on what part of the country you are in This is the bluest type: cool huh? Image from http://www.rodmorris.co.nz/insect_gallery1.htm by Rod Morris OMG that actually looks like something that came out of a space movie or something... kinda looks aquatic as well >.< wonder what would happen if a giant centipede met one of those. Btw there are carnivorous snails?!?!?!?!? how the heck do they chase down their prey? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkles Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 they're big snails, fist sized, and the hunt down worms and eat them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 they're big snails, fist sized, and the hunt down worms and eat them Worm Vs Snail, woah, blink and you'll miss it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whetu Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 I don't have any pics of the snails that live at my place, but here's a DoC article with some pics & a bit of info: http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/nat ... ail/facts/ They aren't slimey like a garden snail - their body is black and kind of leathery and their shell is very beautiful. I still think my snails would give your worms/centipedes/space aliens a run for their money. *sets up a wrestling ring* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted July 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 by the time the centipede got his boxing gloves and shoes on the fight would be over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricketman Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 in Zimbabwe, millipedes were called "Chongololo" (shong- ga- lo -lo) and, thier appearence was meant to foretell a coming rain, and as such were considered lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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