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Re: Flood and evolution
Posted By: yakaman	Date: 2/8/12 1:03 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Flood and evolution (scarab) : Bungie says that the Flood starves without sentients. : But it also looks like it can grow in an environment without sentients. An : example of this is the Isolation mp map. : So it can grow without us but somehow dies out. : I think this is because the environment strikes back. The Flood then either : fails to adapt and dies or adapts and is no longer Flood. : I don't know whether the environment is entirely FCS but has scattered into a : myriad of competing organisms that are missing the politically instilled : aspects or if the environment is a richer mixture of FCS cells, non-FCS : organisms and hybrids between the two. : I suspect the latter because, it seems, that in biology, no strategy wins : always so there are always a mixture of results. : Have you read any of the Pern books? : The thread is voracious and seems to conquer all. Yet, in the centuries : between thread fall the natural environment wins out. Pern is not a : seething mass of thread. It has forests and fields, grass, and fish in the : sea. : I also wonder if the GMs act like shepherds. If they need sentients to : survive then they can't afford to consume all the sentients in one go. : Its the same problem that the authors of the Blade films forget. The vampires : are portrayed as if they want to turn all humans into vampires. You can : spot the obvious flaw in that plan. :-) So Halo doesn't kill Flood - it kills their ability to evolve. Without Sentients, the Flood spores (FSCs) will be beaten by the environment (i.e. bacteria et al) and rendered a dead end. Brilliant strategy if your intended result is a galaxy wiped clean of higher life forms. It's almost like formatting a hard drive, but leaving BIOS intact. Best thread I've read in ages....

Message Index

Flood and evolution	scarab	2/7/12 8:47 p.m.
Great post!	ZackDark	2/7/12 9:01 p.m.
Re: Great post!	scarab	2/7/12 9:37 p.m.
Re: Great post!	uberfoop	2/7/12 10:24 p.m.
Re: Flood and evolution	kanbo	2/7/12 9:35 p.m.
Its independent of any fiction	scarab	2/7/12 9:42 p.m.
Re: Its independent of any fiction	kanbo	2/7/12 10:50 p.m.
No real spoilers	scarab	2/8/12 1:34 a.m.
Re: No real spoilers? eh...	General Vagueness	2/9/12 11:42 a.m.
Re: Flood and evolution	Flynn J Taggart	2/7/12 9:40 p.m.
Re: Flood and evolution	scarab	2/7/12 9:59 p.m.
Night guys	scarab	2/7/12 10:00 p.m.
Regarding Isolation	JDQuackers	2/8/12 8:09 a.m.
Re: Flood and evolution	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/8/12 8:32 a.m.
Re: Flood and evolution	yakaman	2/8/12 1:03 p.m.
This thread is gold. *NM*	Postmortem	2/8/12 9:09 a.m.
Genetic space is not a constraint...	Arithmomaniac	2/8/12 1:43 p.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	scarab	2/10/12 2:21 a.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	JDQuackers	2/10/12 7:13 a.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	scarab	2/10/12 8:06 a.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	davidfuchs	2/10/12 8:59 a.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	scarab	2/10/12 10:10 a.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	General Vagueness	2/10/12 10:10 p.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	Quirel	2/11/12 2:58 a.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	General Vagueness	2/11/12 11:02 a.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	Quirel	2/11/12 12:35 p.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/11/12 12:38 p.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	General Vagueness	2/11/12 1:07 p.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/11/12 1:55 p.m.
Well...	ZackDark	2/11/12 2:03 p.m.
Re: Well...	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/11/12 2:11 p.m.
Re: Well...	ZackDark	2/11/12 2:13 p.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	General Vagueness	2/11/12 4:23 p.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/11/12 4:48 p.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	General Vagueness	2/11/12 5:24 p.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/11/12 8:09 p.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	General Vagueness	2/11/12 10:20 p.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/12/12 9:25 a.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	General Vagueness	2/12/12 4:58 p.m.
Re: Genetic space is not a constraint...	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/12/12 5:19 p.m.
If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	davidfuchs	2/8/12 3:10 p.m.
Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/8/12 3:42 p.m.
Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	ZackDark	2/8/12 4:36 p.m.
Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	Hoovaloov	2/8/12 4:42 p.m.
Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	ZackDark	2/8/12 4:57 p.m.
Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	davidfuchs	2/8/12 5:23 p.m.
Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/8/12 6:07 p.m.
Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	Bry	2/8/12 8:09 p.m.
Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/8/12 8:30 p.m.
Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	Bry	2/8/12 10:03 p.m.
Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/9/12 5:38 a.m.
Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	Quirel	2/8/12 10:46 p.m.
Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/9/12 5:41 a.m.
Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	davidfuchs	2/9/12 8:00 a.m.
Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/9/12 8:02 a.m.
Re: If there's no "cure" to the Flood...	Bry	2/9/12 10:30 a.m.
Well, crap.	Quirel	2/9/12 10:37 a.m.
Re: Well, crap.	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/9/12 11:46 a.m.
Re: Well, crap.	Quirel	2/9/12 5:06 p.m.
Re: Flood and evolution	General Vagueness	2/9/12 11:37 a.m.
Re: Flood and evolution	scarab	2/10/12 7:48 a.m.
Re: Flood and evolution	ZackDark	2/10/12 5:04 p.m.
Re: Flood and evolution	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/10/12 5:19 p.m.
Re: Flood and evolution	ZackDark	2/10/12 5:28 p.m.
Re: Flood and evolution	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/10/12 6:08 p.m.
Re: Flood and evolution	General Vagueness	2/10/12 7:43 p.m.
Re: Flood and evolution	General Vagueness	2/10/12 10:25 p.m.