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Pressure-Based (Vacuum/Hydraulic)

Filaments (Standard)

[ashton1993]

Umm... just a thought, how exactly are we consuming food at the moment, through the pseudo-pods?

[Tidal]

Hm, why don't you come up with how you eat? You could have a "mouth" opening kind of thing on the end of the pseudopod or a feeding groove in the cell to take food into a specially designed digestion cell. Hah, silicon teeth/grinder things.

[ashton1993]

Hm, why don't you come up with how you eat? You could have a "mouth" opening kind of thing on the end of the pseudopod or a feeding groove in the cell to take food into a specially designed digestion cell. Hah, silicon teeth/grinder things.

Oh right... that basically sounds like we can't actually eat at the moment... peoples I found our number one priority time to start innovating! I say we turn our silicon plates into guard cells similar to the really small mouths on plant leaves used for breathing carbon, that way they can open and close allowing things we've shot our enzymes at to be absorbed. Hmm... so yeah just like starfish I suppose. In the sense that we open up holes in our body spray digestive juices everywhere and absorb it all through the same holes

[kaian-a-coel]

uh, yeah, sounds nice. But we should keep the "bomb" instead of spray.

[woose1]

Light, huh? Perhaps we should develop some sort of hyper-efficient form of photosynthesis, to act as a backup system in case we run out of food. We could probably even put it on the surface of our silicon spikes.

I like the blade idea too.

EDIT: We've ignored mobility for a while. We need to grow more flagella, or develop a better mode of transportation. Maybe this?

[Hubris Incalculable]

Light, huh? Perhaps we should develop some sort of hyper-efficient form of photosynthesis, to act as a backup system in case we run out of food. We could probably even put it on the surface of our silicon spikes

This. a constant supply of energy is a damn good idea.

[RAM]

Engineer an enzyme that pulls amino acids out of complex proteins. Place this enzyme into the spikes.

What would this do, exactly? Be like a contact poison?

More like an injected/ingested poison, and it would cause a specific, common element to be removed from proteins to render them, and therefore the cell, non-functional.

We could probably also use it in digestion...

[Tidal]

EDIT: We've ignored mobility for a while. We need to grow more flagella, or develop a better mode of transportation. Maybe this?

What is "this"? Do you want the cell to move like a Blue Blubber Jelly?

[woose1]

EDIT: We've ignored mobility for a while. We need to grow more flagella, or develop a better mode of transportation. Maybe this?

*jelleh*

What is "this"? Do you want the cell to move like a Blue Blubber Jelly?

No, no. Like, contracting and expanding to propel water behind us. As opposed to cilia.

[Tidal]

Cilia are a secondary propulsion system, their main purpose is to provide the majority of your senses. The flagella (the long whippy things) are the "corkscrews" that propel the organism, like propellers at faster speeds. The water-jet method would be a little faster, but in bursts (jet, slow, jet, slow...); it would be quite unwieldy (which is why jellyfish have almost no control over where they are going). Although, it could be used as a emergency method of propulsion in case things get hairy.

[woose1]

Cilia are a secondary propulsion system, their main purpose is to provide the majority of your senses. The flagella (the long whippy things) are the "corkscrews" that propel the organism, like propellers at faster speeds. The water-jet method would be a little faster, but in bursts (jet, slow, jet, slow...); it would be quite unwieldy (which is why jellyfish have almost no control over where they are going). Although, it could be used as a emergency method of propulsion in case things get hairy.

That would work. Maybe we could use it as a weapon of some sort, as well. Store it up in some sort of high-pressure bladder, and release it at whatever looks at you funny.

[Tidal]

It wouldn't be a weapon, as much as a superpressured jet of water that goes Psssssheeeeeeew!! and blasts the other cell out of contact range (for pseudopod attacks and such). A direct stream would be less effective than a slightly out of focus jet blast for your standard amoebous blob. Maybe there is some way of clamping on with a pseudopod+silicon grappling claw and firing a super-concentrated blast of water at point blank range? That would be an effective weapon for ripping into a cell's wall or separating armor plates. Of course, then you would have to have another manipulator to function as a "mouth"/proboscis jaw thing. Heheheh. So fun.

[woose1]

Last post tonight, but, uh, has anyone noticed that we only have a basic nucleus and basic data processing unit? We should probably upgrade those, STAT.

[Ibid Straydrink]

I'm up for that.

[Ehndras]

Agreed