Happy Metroid Day!

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2004-03-17 09:26:45 am

Cook of the Sea

How are metroids single-celled? Even if thse are nuclei, there's three or four of them (I think there's a fourth under the top one) and they clearly have organs, not organelles. Those teeth, for one, and their levitation must be powered by some kind of organ. And I don't think single-celled organisms are so big.

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2004-03-17 10:20:29 am

Oops, my bad. It even says in the opening sequence of Fusion that the vaccine was prepared from a metroid cell culture. Ok, so they're not single-celled. Still, the point remains that I'm pretty sure an official resource has called them nuclei before. I have a feeling it was the Super instruction manuel and the description of mochtroids, but I'm not sure. I am willing to concede that the "nuclei" of a Metroid do not function exactly the same as normal nuclei and are only so called because of their visual resemblance to normal nuclei (whatever you say, they still LOOK like giant single-celled organisms).

However, I still think the "nuclei" function as a brain to the metroid, it just seems to make sense to think of them that way to me. I am perfectly willing to accept that I could be wrong, though. Metroids appear to be different enough from the living organisms we're used to that there's no guarantee their larval stage has any kind of heart or brain in a form we could recognise. They could be something entirely different like energy storage.

Oops, my bad. It even says in the opening sequence of Fusion that the vaccine was prepared from a metroid cell culture. Ok, so they're not single-celled. Still, the point remains that I'm pretty sure an official resource has called them nuclei before. I have a feeling it was the Super instruction manuel and the description of mochtroids, but I'm not sure. I am willing to concede that the "nuclei" of a Metroid do not function exactly the same as normal nuclei and are only so called because of their visual resemblance to normal nuclei (whatever you say, they still LOOK like giant single-celled organisms).

However, I still think the "nuclei" function as a brain to the metroid, it just seems to make sense to think of them that way to me. I am perfectly willing to accept that I could be wrong, though. Metroids appear to be different enough from the living organisms we're used to that there's no guarantee their larval stage has any kind of heart [b]or[/b] brain in a form we could recognise. They could be something entirely different like energy storage.

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2004-03-17 10:22:56 am

Cook of the Sea

Wait a second... Yeah, I know what you're talking about there. They were called nuclei somewhere.

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2004-03-21 06:13:02 pm

*Discovers metroid day is over*

Darnit!!!

*sticks metroid plushy and tupperware container of metroid juice in box that says "reserved for metroid day, march 8 2005"*

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2004-03-21 06:15:45 pm

Cook of the Sea

Metroid Day's been over for quite awhile. This is Metroid Day Boxing...Month...and a Half...

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2004-03-21 06:57:33 pm

yeah, well, I like to party.

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2004-03-21 08:02:40 pm

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Let us party...forever!

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2004-03-21 08:26:12 pm

Everybody dance! Dance like monkeys!

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2004-03-21 09:07:29 pm

BLOOBAPALOOZA!!!!!!!

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Syl

2004-03-22 10:18:12 am

i forgot where i heard this, but the metroid has a total of 4 "nuclei" as you call them, from waht i remember, each one houses a different system.

Nervous System
Digestive System
Respatory System
and uhh.. some other one. (maybe stomach?)

i remember hearing something like that a long time ago, but it may have just been another theory.

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2004-03-22 10:20:19 am

Syl, the stomach is part of the digestive. The last one might be sensory, or something.

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skynes

2004-03-22 12:09:22 pm

Why don't we arrange Metroid Day like this.

For every day that Metroid exists - It is a Metroid Day.

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2004-03-22 12:29:55 pm

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Quote from Saber in Blue:

Wait a second... Yeah, I know what you're talking about there. They were called nuclei somewhere.

Super Smash Bros. Melee, Metroid Trophy maybe?

"Mochtroids, which look like Metroids, are weaker and have fewer internal nuclei."

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2004-03-22 05:30:14 pm

Cook of the Sea

That sounds right. I can't check right now because I can't play GC during the week. That's weird when you consider that I can play GBA during the week.

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2004-03-22 05:41:15 pm

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That sounds right. I can't check right now because I can't play GC during the week. That's weird when you consider that I can play GBA during the week.

It's not that weird. I only get to play GC on weekends cause I'm to busy on the weekdays, so I settle with GBA. Although I played Sonic Adventure 2 for 3 hours today, but we had the day off...

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2004-03-23 12:48:47 pm

* melds metroid jelly with marijuana *

mmm... metroijuana....

* smokes it in a blunt *

* notices everything changing colors *

WEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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2004-03-23 01:04:37 pm

Quote from ilikebloob:

* melds metroid jelly with marijuana *

mmm... metroijuana....

* smokes it in a blunt *

* notices everything changing colors *

WEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

XD

Watch out! He might start trying to drain the life out of people!

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