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MsAmiClassified Tired of givin' up the ghost from the fucking ocean Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Tired of givin' up the ghost
#41876: Aug 31st 2016 at 1:28:40 PM

thats what hcobb is for

moved to Oceanstuck because this handle was starting to bother me my tumblr
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#41877: Aug 31st 2016 at 1:29:38 PM

Randomness doesn't have an inner conspiracy theorist.

That involves a lot of...stuff.

Trust, I like ignoring the facts as much as anyone else.

edited 31st Aug '16 1:30:40 PM by randomness4

Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#41878: Aug 31st 2016 at 1:48:26 PM

-a cloud of swirling smoke appears followed by maniacal laughter-

You called?

So,the gems are inorganic,they have no true biological form,they are an Illusion of light

Its unlikely they came to exist naturally,inorganic things don't exist in nature,someone or something created them for a purpose

Those mutant gems you see?That's the form the gems had before they were uplifted

-vanishes in the puff of smoke-

edited 31st Aug '16 2:06:23 PM by Ultimatum

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CountofBleck Starting to believe in himself from New Wirral (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#41880: Aug 31st 2016 at 2:18:58 PM

Whoa, never realized Mayor Dewey was Joel from MST 3 K until now.

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#41881: Aug 31st 2016 at 2:20:22 PM

Timeline A: Joel gets sent to space to watch terrible movies, but eventually escapes.

Timeline B: Joel becomes the mayor of Beach City and falls in love with a gay space rock.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#41882: Aug 31st 2016 at 2:21:08 PM

[up][up][up][up]Since when don't inorganic things exist in nature?

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#41883: Aug 31st 2016 at 2:24:47 PM

In fiction? Whenever it's convenient.

Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#41884: Aug 31st 2016 at 2:32:52 PM

In real life there are no inorganic creatures

Nature is all about organic,living things

edited 31st Aug '16 2:33:10 PM by Ultimatum

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smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#41885: Aug 31st 2016 at 2:36:53 PM

That we've seen. We dunno what kinda shit that can happen in other parts of the universe. It's so massive, who's to say all living creatures are organic?

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#41886: Aug 31st 2016 at 2:37:34 PM

Really what would one define as living and as a creature anyway?

Oh really when?
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#41887: Aug 31st 2016 at 2:45:45 PM

The universe is massive yes

But most scientists and biologists will agree that inorganic things cant exist according our current knowledge

They *might* exist,just not on earth

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#41888: Aug 31st 2016 at 2:48:48 PM

Yeah, but that's our universe, not theirs. Who says inorganic life couldn't have come about natural here?

And you should be more clear, saying "inorganic things don't exist" is confusing when what you apparently actually meant is that inorganic life hasn't been found to exist, which is just obvious.

And no, nature is not all about living creatures. Nothing could live without abiotic factors.

edited 31st Aug '16 2:51:25 PM by LSBK

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#41889: Aug 31st 2016 at 2:50:59 PM

That, and the old argument that synthetic beings might just be a complex set of \algorithms that in every respect mimic conscious thought without having any independent sensations that would qualify as living. Of course, if you could theoretically ask one, it'd probably tell you otherwise without any way to really know.

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#41890: Aug 31st 2016 at 7:09:25 PM

I can suspend my disbelief enough to believe that, on a distant planet, rocks evolved the ability to project bodies made of Hard Light, powered by various forms of energy absorbed while in the earth. Mostly because learning about the history and evolution of Gems as a species would fascinate me and probably make for my all-time favorite episode.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#41891: Aug 31st 2016 at 7:42:56 PM

From the perspective of somebody with a background in this sort of stuff, any naturally occurring intelligence (excluding the odd Boltzmann brain, a phenomena which should be both astronomically rare and extremely short lived, and oddities like the China brain) is going to be carbon based under our current understanding of chemistry. Solvents other than water (ie ammonia) are reasonably plausible, but no chemical element other than carbon is capable of the kinds of complex interactions "in the wild" that we suspect to be necessary to get the ball rolling as far as life goes, and even the remotely "plausible" sort of exotic lifeforms don't really have any sort of reasonable path towards the sort of complex information processing we identify as intelligence.

That said, this isn't science, nor is it hard science fiction, so the limit is whatever the creators desire, but the manner in which gems reproduce certainly doesn't seem to support the notion that they evolved naturally; either they have external creators or they modified themselves from their natural forms into the Sufficiently Advanced Aliens they are today.

edited 31st Aug '16 7:44:07 PM by CaptainCapsase

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#41892: Aug 31st 2016 at 7:48:01 PM

Yellow Diamond seems to hold a pretty strong distaste for organic life if we go by her tone during Peri's phone call.

My personal theory is that someone created the four Diamonds and some sort of something happened between them and their organic creators and then some time after that the Diamonds created the rest of the gems as we know them and the Gem Empire.

Oh really when?
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#41893: Aug 31st 2016 at 7:49:03 PM

I got no problem the Diamonds came about by unknown circumstances and all the injectors and sucking off life are just their attempts to replicate the process.

I'd much prefer not finding out their origin to to any "They were super weapons but got out of hand" plot line.

edited 31st Aug '16 7:50:03 PM by LSBK

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#41894: Aug 31st 2016 at 7:49:06 PM

The Gem Life Form.

They exist as they are...never change.

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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#41895: Aug 31st 2016 at 8:07:34 PM

[up][up] That's not really an option, since it pretty much precludes giving an explanation for why the diamonds are the way they are or how the Gem Empire came to be; "they're just an asshole" is a deeply unsatisfying raison d'etre for a character.

Yes, the gems originally being living weapons that Turned Against Their Masters would be somewhat trite, but honestly "post-singularity (organic) species" isn't that far behind in terms of saturation, and there's a fairly limited set of backstories that are capable of logically explaining species with properties that simply can't have come to be naturally.

edited 31st Aug '16 8:14:12 PM by CaptainCapsase

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
MsAmiClassified Tired of givin' up the ghost from the fucking ocean Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Tired of givin' up the ghost
#41897: Aug 31st 2016 at 8:19:43 PM

you linked the perigam post twice by mistake

moved to Oceanstuck because this handle was starting to bother me my tumblr
Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#41898: Aug 31st 2016 at 8:20:51 PM

Well its lost forever then.

Have this comic of Peridot learning about responsibility as a substitute

edited 31st Aug '16 8:21:16 PM by Bocaj

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DaftPunch hiya, the name's scout. from lesbian Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Hugging my pillow
hiya, the name's scout.
#41899: Aug 31st 2016 at 8:21:03 PM

I live for all those links you post

I like to see stuff from tumblr :>

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higurashimerlin Since: Aug, 2012
#41900: Aug 31st 2016 at 9:13:57 PM

My thought is that gems were originally a by-product of some kind of organic life. Some of them were intelligent enough to guide the process to make more of themselves and become their own species.

When life gives you lemons, burn life's house down with the lemons.

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