Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20140531013206/@comment-6078851-20140606155228

excatly chaffen, plus in 40k the laws of physics are broken pretty much on a daily basis, and not just in the warp.

@ contributor, i know what humanoid means - 2 arms, 2 legs, torso, head - but calling orks humanoid is wrong. as i said orks pre-date humans by millions of years, and since they existed first then humans would be seen as resembling orks and not the other way round. although since them and the eldar were created by the old ones then it's probable that the old ones themselves were 2 legged, 2 armed, torso'd, and headed, and everything that came after them would be old one-oid.

"saying orks are plants is like saying a hippo is a bird because a bird picks it's teeth"?!? wow, really? i'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that you don't know much about ork biology, because i don't say they're plant-based life, canon material says so, namely this wiki and their codex. and amongst that canon material it says that the fungus forms cocoons from which orkoid life grows, and cocoons are formed by....oh yeah, larvae, hence why i mentioned that orks are more akin to larvae than fetus. also, they were genetically engineered by a race that goes beyond our comprehension in knowledge of the universe.

as for the 'universal laws of physics', 1) they're not universal. and 2) they're still just the best theory that our limited understanding of everything can grasp. the universe is unfathomably colossul, and we have barely started to scrape clean the ice-crusted window from behind which we view our surroundings, and view is all we can do, plus we are not even capable of seeing the whole universe with our paltry technology. and considering that we haven't even been physically beyond our moon we can't empirically test anything beyond. all we can do is get data from satellites and telescopes and apply our own interperatations and conclusions. and the biggest issue with the universal laws of physics (amongst the scientific communities) is that despite how hard people try, no-one has been able to make gravity fit in with the rest.

take earth 10,000 years (or even 2 centuries) ago and show the ancient peoples modern technology. every single one will think that they break the laws of physics - that's what the old ones' technological abilities would be like to the humans of the 41st millenium (even the human empire in the 41st breaks our current laws). throughout history every age/era has 'known' itself to be at the height of scientific knowledge and that they knew, or theorised, how everything worked. and then lo-and-behold, a new age of science gets ushered in and those who grow up in that age laugh at the scientific 'knowledge' of their fore-bears. science is still in that cycle.

oh, and on the point of belly-buttons, creatures born from eggs have no umbilicus. the nutrients are all right there and not a single calorie of energy comes from without once the egg is laid. and as for size, well....dinosaurs.

is that a viable enough solution for you? if not then think but this - it's science-fiction.