Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20140531013206/@comment-71.49.78.136-20140607011824

Even soft science-fiction cannot assume a that all science is gone, else it is simply fiction. Or High Fantasy, at the best.

Dinosaurs? Seriously? You can sit there and say that because a dinosaur egg (an enormous thing) contains enough energy to support a dinosaur which grows no larger than the egg, a spore that is extremely small can grow to many times its size without absorbing anything else?

If you can honestly say that, I sincerely hope you never publish a paper, because you would be laughed out of my university. I mean, I've heard of people questioning the dissonance between quantum physics and the theory of time travel... But I think you saying that a spore could grow without absorbing other things (no further mass) is the  ludicrous idea I've ever heard. Seriously, take some courses in logic, it would help.

Which one came first has nothing to do with biology. At all. You keep saying that, but then you use dinosaurs to compare to the Orks. You obviously have lost track of the fact that these Orks were FICTION BASED OFF OF HUMANOID ORCS, BASED OFF OF HUMANS. We're looking at the source of the idea, not some fictional lore. Writers don't base their ideas off of the lore if it's from a secondary source. Orks don't predate humans, because they were made by humans. They were designed by people wanting to make a sci-fi game. Are you so far gone into your own lore that you forget the real world? Orks don't actually predate humans. Humans don't resemble Orks. Orks resemble humans, because they were WRITTEN BY THEM. It's actually funny how you forgot about the fact that lore is just lore, and that the creation was not actually done by anyone other then flawed writers.

And, furthering on that theme, they aren't plant-based. The writers made an error. Plant-based and a symbiotic relationship with fungi through engineering aren't actually the same thing. The best you could say is plant-dependent. Now, some experts in biology would argue that the Orks could be considered roughly plant-based, but their reproductive design is a conglomerate between animal and plant. For future reference, animals have nervous systems in general, plants don't. Just because someone writes something, doesn't mean they're right. I can say that the car in my novel is an airplay that contains an infinite amount of sand and no sand. I can also write that in that makes sense. Does it? No. It doesn't make me wrong, it just means I'm not writing science-fiction, I'm writing trash.