Troglodytes and Troglobites (from Very Many Questions XXXII)

[Birdjaguar]

Moving the thread to A&E is a death sentence. Why move it from OT once you decided to separate it?

 

[Arakhor]

Because I saw fit to do so. Anything else?

Moderator Action: Thread moved (by request) to Off-Topic.

 

[Perfection]

You may want to consider the possibility that they do not denote time into clear intervals.

 

[Mouthwash]

Moving the thread to A&E is a death sentence. Why move it from OT once you decided to separate it?

Meh, I've already gotten what I need.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

You don't mind if the rest of us carry on, I hope?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Personally, if I'm going to carry on I never ask permission.

 

[Mouthwash]

You don't mind if the rest of us carry on, I hope?

I don't own the thread. Just didn't want others to complain for my sake.

 

[Hygro]

Tidal forces, holy stalagmites, that every living thing cycles, old faithful, and uneven time increments.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

holy stalagmites

There could be a rival civilization that worships stalactites, leading to an endless religious conflict!

 

[Chukchi Husky]

holy stalagmites

Robin's first reaction when entering the Batcave for the first time.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Robin's first reaction when entering the Batcave for the first time.

No, I think Robin would definitely be a stalactite follower and disdain the lowly stalagmites as the source of all evil.

 

[BenitoChavez]

There could be a rival civilization that worships stalactites, leading to an endless religious conflict!

The war of the Mitey-Titeys. It could be a trilogy!

1) The Comrades of the Trogs
2) The Two Speleothems
3) The Return of the Holy Timekeeper

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I am reminded of the planet-spanning ocean in Jupiter's atmosphere as presented in Ben Bova's novels Jupiter and Leviathans of Jupiter (the Leviathans are massive whale-like colony creatures who live in Jupiter's atmospheric oceans, and they are sentient). It's been awhile since I read those novels, so I don't remember if there was anything said about how the Leviathans keep time when they can't see the Sun and don't even know that their environment is part of a planet.

@hobbsyoyo: Do you remember if anything was said about this in Bova's novels?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

The war of the Mitey-Titeys. It could be a trilogy!

1) The Comrades of the Trogs
2) The Two Speleothems
3) The Return of the Holy Timekeeper

Picture the stalactite worshipers' fanatical shock troops charging to the attack, clad in their holy titey-whities.

 

[Broken_Erika]

The Boxer Rebellion. Boxers or Briefs?

Moderator Action: Try to stay on topic, please. ~ Arakhor

 

[Timsup2nothin]

The Boxer Rebellion. Boxers or Briefs?

The stalagmite worshipers would no doubt wear boxers, differentiating themselves from those who follow the way of the 'tites.

 

[Hygro]

There could be a rival civilization that worships stalactites, leading to an endless religious conflict!

I like that. Or maybe they found a few that make some form of a constellation that also line up nicely once every X causing some kind of mass celebration.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I am reminded of the planet-spanning ocean in Jupiter's atmosphere as presented in Ben Bova's novels Jupiter and Leviathans of Jupiter (the Leviathans are massive whale-like colony creatures who live in Jupiter's atmospheric oceans, and they are sentient). It's been awhile since I read those novels, so I don't remember if there was anything said about how the Leviathans keep time when they can't see the Sun and don't even know that their environment is part of a planet.

@hobbsyoyo: Do you remember if anything was said about this in Bova's novels?

I do not recall them discussing seasons but the Leviathans were very long-lived so I would not be surprised if he mentioned something about it.


Speaking of stalactites -

I knew a guy who bragged about knocking over a whole lot of them in a cave where we lived in southern Illinois. He told the story with something approaching glee; it was a highlight of his young adult years.

I hated that guy.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I do not recall them discussing seasons but the Leviathans were very long-lived so I would not be surprised if he mentioned something about it.


Speaking of stalactites -

I knew a guy who bragged about knocking over a whole lot of them in a cave where we lived in southern Illinois. He told the story with something approaching glee; it was a highlight of his young adult years.

I hated that guy.

Those would have been stalagmites, but I hate him too.