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Subject: A question that's been bugging me
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If grunts evolved on an ice planet, why aren't they furry? Or feathery, or warmed by thick layers of blubber? I admit, it's a wierd question but it's been bothering me ever since I read the Halo books and found references to their "frozen home world". They just don't seem like arctic creatures to me. Does anyone have an explaination?

  • 09.28.2004 7:43 PM PDT
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Because they werent designed with Fur or Feathers

  • 09.28.2004 8:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: Sketch_
Because they werent designed with Fur or Feathers

But then why would the books, which came out after the game was released, have grunts coming from an ice planet? Eric Nyland must have seen a grunt before writing the books, right?

  • 09.28.2004 8:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: Bloodywheels
Posted by: Sketch_
Because they werent designed with Fur or Feathers

But then why would the books, which came out after the game was released, have grunts coming from an ice planet? Eric Nyland must have seen a grunt before writing the books, right?
u'd think that anyways i mean it doesn't matter who cares they're funny masked dolts (fun to shoot to and wase a grenade on )so what difference does it make

  • 09.28.2004 8:25 PM PDT
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Grunts are cute.

  • 09.28.2004 10:17 PM PDT
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Whales live in some of the coldest waters on the planet. And they have very little hair. There are other ways to stay warm, and indeed, in some environments, better ways than fur or feathers.

  • 09.28.2004 11:21 PM PDT
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Maybe they warm themselves with plasma grenades that have long timers.

  • 09.29.2004 6:42 AM PDT
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Grunts Live in an Icy Swamp Planet, and they breathe methane, if they breathed oxygen then they would have the same skins as the animals on our planets!

  • 09.29.2004 8:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: Rat Nukem
Grunts Live in an Icy Swamp Planet, and they breathe methane, if they breathed oxygen then they would have the same skins as the animals on our planets!


Which animals? The fish? The reptiles? The amphibians? The mammals? They all breath oxygen and have wildly different types of skin.

  • 09.29.2004 1:15 PM PDT
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Maybe they don't need to stay warm. Maybe they are cold-blooded. Maybe they are immune to what we would consider to be the uncomfortable effects of temperature variations; and as long as their blood doesn't get cold enough to freeze or hot enough to boil, they are happy and their bodies work well.

Maybe they are warm-blooded; but due to their biological make-up "warm" for them is below the freezing point of water.

Or maybe they are warm-blooded, but they have an excellent circulatory system and a metabolism like a hummingbird: burning enormous amounts of calories to keep warm.

Maybe they DO have an excellent layer of insulation, maybe something that insulates better than fat.

Maybe they are "un-warm-blooded" --> Their body chemistry works to cool them down below ambient temperature (like a refrigerator).

Maybe they burrow on their home planet, or only thrived near geothermal sources until technological advancement allowed them to tame the entire planet.

Maybe they had forebears who dropped them off on the planet (as in Home World); and all extraterrestial remnants of the race were susequently wiped out.

Maybe it is a combination of things listed above and/or things I haven't thought of.

I don't know the answer, but the above are just a few of the considerations I would find believable...

Edit: A few examples of earth animal that demonstrate that animal with very little natural insulation can survive in very cold habitats: minnows (and other small fish, octopus and a wide variety of sea life much to numerous to list); reptiles (albeit very slowed down); salamanders; naked mole rat; and humans.

[Edited on 9/29/2004 1:52:39 PM]

  • 09.29.2004 1:42 PM PDT
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yea, maybe their skin is all they need to stay "warm".. or they could be cold blooded... and there is no "cold" or "warm" to them...

[Edited on 9/29/2004 2:50:39 PM]

  • 09.29.2004 2:50 PM PDT
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well they are alians and maybe they dont need to use things we and animals use to keep warm maybe they something entirely different. hmmmmmm

  • 09.29.2004 3:05 PM PDT
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what if grunts are a type of reptile and they lay eggs, ever think of thast? maybe they dont care about tempature, casue they dont feel it under they winter armor

  • 09.29.2004 3:15 PM PDT
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maybe the have furry butts, how would we know? i mean cmon their blood is purple isnt it?

  • 09.29.2004 8:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: Magzy T
Grunts are cute.
a grunt said fuk you to me once is that cute??????

  • 09.30.2004 5:03 AM PDT
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They have fur. Look at thier arms.

  • 10.10.2004 11:42 PM PDT