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Alien Looking Island

This is Sesame island, Yemen.
Duets it' s isolated location,
30% of the plant life here deosn' t grew
anywhere else on earth.
The island has been described as
the mest place an earth"
and “the jewel of biodiversity".
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#1 - wanpanman (11/27/2015) [-]
If this is what isolation on earth does.... can you imagine if we find other planets with life on them!?
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#101 to #1 - amuzen ONLINE (11/28/2015) [-]
There's a very strong chance life on other planets won't even belong to one of the six kingdoms of life.
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User avatar #102 to #101 - viscerys ONLINE (11/28/2015) [-]
I don't think it's that strong a chance tbh. The six kingdoms will probably still be there. They'll be different, but probably recognisable.
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#103 to #102 - amuzen ONLINE (11/28/2015) [-]
I don't mean that the six kingdoms won't exist just that there will most likely exist things outside them.
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User avatar #55 to #1 - platinumaltaria (11/28/2015) [-]
Chances are the life will either:
1) Look exactly the same (see convergent evolution)
2) Operate similarly (see panspermia)
3) Be completely foreign

3 is by far the least likely.
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#69 to #55 - internetnick (11/28/2015) [-]
Based on the fact that Yemen is #3, I'm gonna say it's the most likely.

I'd also like to point out that evolution isn't on a path, it's random mutations, and if they help the life, then it works. I'd bet money #1 is completely impossible.
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User avatar #70 to #69 - platinumaltaria (11/28/2015) [-]
Convergent evolution, do you not understand it? For instance, whatever reason plants are green for would likely make other "sun-eating" lifeforms also green. Everything has the same chemicals to work with.
Chances are animals won't have two heads, because that's twice the sensory weak spot.
Chances are they'll have eyes that work in roughly the same wavelengths as earth creatures: red through to ultraviolet, as these wavelengths are common to less intense stars like ours.
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#71 to #70 - internetnick (11/28/2015) [-]
Green plants can still be insanely alien. Animals with 1 head can still be extremely alien. I get that you're going to say those are just examples and that most things work that way, but that's 1. Assuming that their circumstances are the same as ours, and 2. that there aren't dozens of ways to cope with each problem. I mean, look at earth. WE have tons of stuff here that seems completely alien. There may be something similar on earth to anything we find, but it could be like, Octopods are similar to their land animals I get WHY that's the way it is, and I do agree, but I'm saying the possibilities for things like how you'd escape predators and such have so many options you'd end up with something crazy.
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User avatar #72 to #71 - platinumaltaria (11/28/2015) [-]
Yes, those were just examples, other traits may also be carried over, too numerous to list.

8 legs are more "expensive" to maintain.
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User avatar #92 to #72 - justxjames (11/28/2015) [-]
evolution is the product of "survival of the fittest" which means the traits that make it fit in with its environment are carried on. So if life was in a completely different environment then surely the life-forms would be different from our environment.
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User avatar #106 to #92 - platinumaltaria (11/28/2015) [-]
Different, yes, but they would likely use the same solution to some problems. "fish" looking organisms work no matter where you are.
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User avatar #90 to #70 - haroldsaxon (11/28/2015) [-]
But all this is under the assumption that the particular alien life survives on the same things most life on earth do: light and oxygen.


While what you're saying is true, 1 and 2 is only more likely for similar lifeforms, similar conditions. Why do the aliens need to have any legs, or eyes, or heads?
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User avatar #107 to #90 - platinumaltaria (11/28/2015) [-]
Well they're going to use light, it allows life forms to find prey and avoid being eaten.

"Animal" style life would need legs to go after its prey, legs work very well on rough terrain unlike the alternatives.
Heads are really just sensory nodes, if you put all the sensors on the front you can detect **** in front of you. Plus it's good to have them closer to the central processor. If life evolved in an underground ocean like on Io they might not use eyes but they would definitely still have heads.
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User avatar #83 to #55 - brisineo (11/28/2015) [-]
As it mostly depends on the conditions that said life is produced from, and the conditions of the planet it's on, I'd say a mix of 2 and 3.

While Oxygen and Water based environments would probably (as far as we know) be the easiest to host life, due to their relatively volatile and reactive nature, they aren't the only possible base for life, as many extremophile bacteria and fungi we find around our own planet can provide examples for.

In places that have little to no light to photosynthesize, you could find plants that feed off tidal heat, (as seen in the sea floors by hydrothermal vents) or even creatures that feed off of high energy electromagnetic rays like x-rays or gamma rays (as seen in the fungus that grows in Chernobyl's reactor core)

They could also be ammonia based, sulfur, or silicon based, since any of those could be catalysts in a multitude of energy-bearing reactions that can sustain life. (and we see several types of life here that utilize those different reactions) Our own carbon/water/oxy based life is dominant mostly because of the open availability of said substances, our planet has to be a very specific temperature to be able to keep all of them in a stable, usable form.

However, traits such as orifices to eat and waste, reactive organs to light, vibration, temperature, and/or physical touch, (most of those being in pairs or greater to maximize physical awareness) and limbs or other attachments of some sort to manipulate and move through the surrounding environment would be fairly universal, so we'd possibly see ET life take shape in ways that we could compare to our own, even if it functions by completely different methods.
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#5 to #1 - anon (11/27/2015) [-]
**anonymous used "*roll picture*"**
**anonymous rolled image**
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#87 to #5 - duwang (11/28/2015) [-]
Nice roll
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User avatar #79 to #5 - kimmu (11/28/2015) [-]
That's a pretty good roll once you find out what this is from.
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User avatar #78 to #1 - yunoknow (11/28/2015) [-]
lived in australia for a few years. isolation breeds monsters i tell you
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User avatar #13 to #1 - klowserpok (11/27/2015) [-]
>if we find other planets
You mean when we get there.
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#20 to #13 - scruffyguy (11/27/2015) [-]
That's seriously optimistic bro
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User avatar #26 to #20 - tacobadger (11/27/2015) [-]
Warp drives aren't nearly as far fetched as they once were, we've recently accidentally created warp bubbles with electron drives, and space travel technology of the similar persuasion is looking bright.
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#77 to #26 - robuntu (11/28/2015) [-]
I dunno - they had lasers that might have traveled faster than the speed of light. That's a lot different than getting something with mass beyond the speed of light.

I haven't been able to find any more recent news on the topic, just the initial reports from right after the discovery. It wouldn't be the first time we thought we went faster than the speed of light, but didn't. Does anyone know if they confirmed faster than light speeds? I'd have thought it'd be all over the news, but I might have missed it.
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User avatar #109 to #77 - tacobadger (12/01/2015) [-]
Warp speed doesnt go faster than light, it covers a distance faster than light can, but its not moving faster, if that makes sense.
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#74 to #26 - anon (11/28/2015) [-]
Big nuke kill all the humans so no rocket to distant place
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#36 to #26 - scruffyguy (11/28/2015) [-]
Space cant be warped. Space is not a "thing", it is the lack of "things".
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#38 to #37 - scruffyguy (11/28/2015) [-]
"possibility"

I'd trust Tesla, the guy who actually invented things.
www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/tesla-vs-einstein-the-ether-the-birth-of-the-new-physics
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User avatar #39 to #38 - tacobadger (11/28/2015) [-]
Can't I be an optimist?
What do you make of the reports from NASA of instances of warp bubbles in controlled settings?
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#40 to #39 - scruffyguy (11/28/2015) [-]
What on Earth is a "warp bubble"?
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User avatar #44 to #40 - tacobadger (11/28/2015) [-]
The confined "Bubble" for lack of a better term, undergoing warp and travelling, its something to do with the space in front convexing and space behind concaving, creating a bubble in stasis. And with regards to space not being able to be warped, Im pretty sure a black hole is an instance of space being warped
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#45 to #44 - scruffyguy (11/28/2015) [-]
A black hole is an instance of gravity. Anyways, I looked these "warp" tests up. They're admittedly inconclusive. They probably hype it up to get funding.
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User avatar #46 to #45 - tacobadger (11/28/2015) [-]
Can you blame them? I guess im a hopeless optimist for interstellar travel
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User avatar #21 to #20 - klowserpok (11/27/2015) [-]
All we need is a way to travel faster than light, then we're fine. That, or massive 'moving colony' type ships with their own gravity and places to grow food.. So, another 100 years for the second option to be possible, maybe.
Pity I won't be around to see it.
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#23 to #21 - applescryatnight (11/27/2015) [-]
oh come on how long do you think it will take for science to advance enough to put your brain in a jar and hook it up to a roomba?
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#22 to #21 - scruffyguy (11/27/2015) [-]
That will be an impossibility when the world IQ becomes 85.
www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/03/race.world

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#24 to #22 - anon (11/27/2015) [-]
Hey dingus, the IQ will never stray from 100 as it's continually adjusted for 100 to be the average.
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#25 to #24 - scruffyguy (11/27/2015) [-]
The people of the future would still be objectively stupider.
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#56 to #20 - anon (11/28/2015) [-]
We've already found other planets that could feasibly support life. Hell, some MOONS IN OUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM may support life.
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User avatar #104 to #56 - svensname (11/28/2015) [-]
im fairly sure if they find life on Jupiter's moon, (the one with a mile of ice over top and liquid water underneath, and a hot core and what not) it will pretty much be almost exactly the same as what we have in the depths of out oceans, it would be in the exact same conditions and environment.
i wouldnt be surprised if, when they get a probe there and under water they have pics of yeti crabs and those tube worm things.
folks will think its just a hoax
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#65 to #56 - scruffyguy (11/28/2015) [-]
okie dokie anon, I'm not talking about life.
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User avatar #32 to #1 - iphony (11/28/2015) [-]
EVERYTHING WILL BE ON A COB
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User avatar #2 to #1 - enlightednatzie (11/27/2015) [-]
Or my basement.
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#3 to #1 - arkis ONLINE (11/27/2015) [-]
don't forget the Isolation of the deep and what it makes
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User avatar #27 to #3 - vorarephilia (11/28/2015) [-]
ayyy lmao.
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#18 to #3 - ihatethecharacterc (11/27/2015) [-]
sp00py.
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#67 - sulfurhexafluoride (11/28/2015) [-]
Imagine taking a guy/gal who's in a coma and placing them on that island with a bunch of nurses dressed as aliens
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User avatar #11 - becauseoprahsaidso (11/27/2015) [-]
Being isolated makes you weird. just look at me
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User avatar #19 to #11 - erotictentacle (11/27/2015) [-]
you're the most beautiful person i've ever met
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User avatar #108 to #61 - erotictentacle (11/28/2015) [-]
hooooly **** am i getting ****** over for that.

i wonder why? i pulled that **** off several time and this is the only time it ever backfired...... oh well
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#33 - okamibanshu (11/28/2015) [-]
I am groot?
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#12 - totallytito (11/27/2015) [-]
I feel that alien life will look very similar to earth life.
Evolution has taken very many twists and turns, and there are only certain designs that will survive the chaos. While the ecosystem will not look identical to ours, we will find many animals that look vaguely familiar to our own, with behavior patterns to those on our planet.

Evolution didn't just happen at random,
many designs were introduced, many were scrapped,
the few that worked remained...until they too were later scrapped.

The dominant species in the end, will be water bears.
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#66 to #12 - fergin (11/28/2015) [-]
That would only be true on planets with similar living parameters as earth. Life on planets that don't even have oxygen or liquids would look completely different than life on our own. There's even a possibility that life exists that our senses can't even perceive. Plus its impossible for the human brain to imagine a life form that looks nothing like something on earth. Anything we can imagine is a random combination of things we've seen. Maybe I explained this badly but something truly alien is unimaginable to the human brain. It's like trying to imagine a new color. There can be familiar alien life, and there can be something we've never even considered possible.
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User avatar #68 to #12 - taniv (11/28/2015) [-]
Super interested to see what rare possibilities might exist. Carbon is obviously the superior base, but what if we found silicon-based life? I mean, if the Universe is as infinite as it looks, who knows what might be out there
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User avatar #85 to #12 - danmegaflakes ONLINE (11/28/2015) [-]
it might be
they've actually found similar compounds and small organisms in other planets such as mars
and other further planets contain the same elements that kickstarted life on earth
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User avatar #100 to #12 - sphincterface (11/28/2015) [-]
Evolution works in a way that the species with the traits that handle the conditions of the planet end up surviving, and that the species best suited to survive become the most advanced species.

That being said, the most advanced species will most likely be species with a primate or human type intelligence, but with different physical traits. For example, thicker skin and more hair to handle a hostile arctic environment, fish-like or amphibian like traits for a planet mostly water, etc.
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#57 to #12 - sheepnut (11/28/2015) [-]
But will other planets have pineapples?
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User avatar #60 to #57 - vgmddg (11/28/2015) [-]
Yes. They'll be underwater and have sponges living in them.
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#99 to #57 - anon (11/28/2015) [-]
but will they have ayy lmao?
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User avatar #59 to #12 - penalcupcake (11/28/2015) [-]
I agree to some extent, however one must remember that things evolved/adapted the way they have because of external conditions, conditions that might not exist on other planets for whatever reason(s).
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User avatar #53 to #12 - soundofwinter ONLINE (11/28/2015) [-]
Assuming that the life arose independently, in all likelihood the life would be vastly different. At one point the earth was covered in life that survived in sulfur and a mass extinction occurred when oxygen was introduced into the atmosphere in large numbers. I think it's unlikely to find another earth type planet with life that resembles ours
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User avatar #17 to #12 - Creant (11/27/2015) [-]
Thanks Tito.
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#14 to #12 - sentinyl (11/27/2015) [-]
That's what I find so fascinating about the subject. If we find a planet with advanced alien life, literally no matter how similar or different they are to us it will be extremely biologically significant. So much more evidence to expand the field.
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User avatar #15 to #14 - totallytito (11/27/2015) [-]
We have so many variations of ocean life, yet we call so many of them by normal names suchas "fish" or a variety of octopi.
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User avatar #62 to #12 - lamarsmithgot (11/28/2015) [-]
************ how the **** are you gonna be a surfshack tito theme account,


and not ******* say "as the ancient hawaiians used to say" before laying down some knowledge?


shame.
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User avatar #64 to #62 - totallytito (11/28/2015) [-]
Ancient Hawaiians didn't know **** about evolution
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User avatar #28 to #12 - iluvnutella (11/28/2015) [-]
What is cool though is that alien life may not even need a terrestrial planet, or even a planet at all. Massive gaseous beings could be floating across the cosmos, consuming gases in nebulae. Or there could be lifeforms so small and fast that their lifespans could be measured in milliseconds. The universe is a vast place with amazing and awe inspiring things filling every inch, I just wish I could explore it.
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User avatar #29 to #28 - totallytito (11/28/2015) [-]
I think space fungus are more likely to be the dominant universal species
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#30 to #29 - iluvnutella (11/28/2015) [-]
I can see that.
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User avatar #31 to #30 - totallytito (11/28/2015) [-]
I imagine them spreading themselves into cloudy fuzzballs that capture comet ice for water, and rock debris for nutrients. They possibly have very slow metabolisms too.
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#34 to #31 - iluvnutella (11/28/2015) [-]
Maybe on planets they grow mushrooms like puff balls, that shoot out spores at escape velocity to spread to other planets. Pic related.
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User avatar #35 to #34 - totallytito (11/28/2015) [-]
nah I imagine them to be slow. it lengthens lifespan and helps the spread indefinitely.
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User avatar #41 to #35 - iluvnutella (11/28/2015) [-]
That would be cool to see, like a planet covered in huge mushroom forests that span continents.
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User avatar #43 to #41 - totallytito (11/28/2015) [-]
Something like that existed at one point, but with trees
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User avatar #47 to #43 - iluvnutella (11/28/2015) [-]
That would have been a sight to see.
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User avatar #49 to #47 - totallytito (11/28/2015) [-]
Wanna know something weirder?
If you watch a baby developing in the womb, you will see it go through every evolutionary species it was before it became a human. I **** you not this is real and verified by doctors.
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User avatar #84 to #49 - ninjaroo ONLINE (11/28/2015) [-]
Not quite. What you're referring to is called the theory of recapitulation, and while some stages of fetal development bear a strong resemblance to our evolutionary ancestors we no longer think we go through every ancestor nor do we really mimic any ancestor.
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User avatar #91 to #84 - totallytito (11/28/2015) [-]
ah okay gotcha thanks for the heads up
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User avatar #52 to #49 - iluvnutella (11/28/2015) [-]
That is awesome man!
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User avatar #16 to #12 - rattybastard ONLINE (11/27/2015) [-]
Evolution is random....designs are introduced and scrapped based on the environment. The species that are around now works because everything else evolved around it to make it so. Go back millions of years and we would be screwed. I can't even begin what another planet will be like, as even just lighting conditions can make drastic changes.
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#51 - rufflezrgood ONLINE (11/28/2015) [-]
Soooo Morrowind?
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User avatar #97 to #51 - utarefson (11/28/2015) [-]
Beat me to it.
******* n'wah
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#4 - anon (11/27/2015) [-]
Looks like the homeland of those filthy ******* lizards in Elder Scrolls.
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#94 to #4 - buddywuggle (11/28/2015) [-]
Time to move to Socotra island!
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User avatar #54 to #4 - thesovereigngrave (11/28/2015) [-]
Um, you realize that Black Marsh is, well, a marsh right? A really marshy marsh, too.
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#105 to #54 - anon (11/28/2015) [-]
I fully realise that. But the plant life, dude.
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#50 to #4 - nicepire (11/28/2015) [-]
Whats wrong with argonians
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#73 - kanatana (11/28/2015) [-]
**kanatana used "*roll picture*"**
**kanatana rolled image** Fess up. This is where Suess got most of his ideas.
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#93 - williamsonk (11/28/2015) [-]
Is this where they filmed The Dark Crystal?
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#98 to #93 - trollypollyz (11/28/2015) [-]
The bird creature in that movie
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#110 to #98 - erectopus (01/09/2016) [-]
GIF
Peekaboo!
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User avatar #76 - Karibookiller (11/28/2015) [-]
Looks like a beautiful place for a development
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User avatar #86 - kiljiarius (11/28/2015) [-]
When potato becomes the dominate species!
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#63 - kingderps (11/28/2015) [-]
We should find a crappy place with bland common **** on it and try to grow these plants on it to help preserve these rare species.
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User avatar #75 - soivieguysfriend (11/28/2015) [-]
So this is where Dr. Seuss is from..
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User avatar #96 - satansferret (11/28/2015) [-]
Those are some odd looking taters.
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User avatar #95 - sealman (11/28/2015) [-]
Soccotra? Ah, the Nestorians....
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User avatar #89 - batmanbeyonddgrave ONLINE (11/28/2015) [-]
Imagine walking around here while on acid...
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User avatar #88 - nanako (11/28/2015) [-]
I don't wanna rain on your parade, but four of those pictures are of the same type of tree.

is it really that diverse?
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#80 - sodaddict (11/28/2015) [-]
**sodaddict used "*roll picture*"**
**sodaddict rolled image**inb4 lets move here to get away from the sjws
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