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Pressure-Based (Vacuum/Hydraulic)

Filaments (Standard)

[10ebbor10]

We can try to crack the ice with the pods or we can try to devise some kind of chemical reaction to melt the ice.(Or just overpower the infrared emittors to melt things.)

[10ebbor10]

We can try to crack the ice with the pods or we can try to devise some kind of chemical reaction to melt the ice.(Or just overpower the infrared emittors to melt things.)

no, I think lazorz would drain too much energy at this point.

I'm pretty sure any melting method will drain to much energy. I think our best bet is to either find a natural crack or to make one ourselves.

[Tidal]

anyways, finding cracks may be useful, but they won't be everywhere, so we'll need to be able to dig out holes.

Most of the ice is already gone. The water was being warmed by the light, so at this point, there are mostly just little bits of ice floating near the surface.

[Zecro_The_Scourge]

Lets just go look around for a random encounter, we need biomass/DNA if we are to become a greater being..

PREPARE OUR COMBAT SILICON TIP TENTACLE THINGS!

[Tidal]

You'd need muscles for a tentacle. This is just a wriggly little bit of cells with no force behind them bearing a sharp knife. They're pes- pepsw- pepswae- A misspelling of pseudopod that I adopted awhile ago. Because they aren't pseudopods, and they aren't tentacles, they're... manipulators of some sort.

[Roboboy33]

Create some muscles on our manipulators to make them tentacles.

[Zecro_The_Scourge]

I agree with ser nyan cat robo. We need combat tentacles!

[Tidal]

Create some muscles on our manipulators to make them tentacles.

I.E. do what I said?

You wanted to make them thicker and add little graspy nubs, right?

[Tidal]

Thickness adds resilience, but not force or power. Muscles are specialized cells.

[Zecro_The_Scourge]

Lets think about this polar bear man, with tentacles (muscles included) all we have to do is wrap them around something to do what graspers do, and we have the added effect of stabbing things with them and having silicon tips for added deadiliness (poison too!) with graspers we have to use tools and it'd look silly on our lil jellyfish dude

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

while graspers are useful and a good idea, not right now. sorry polarbearman!

[Reudh]

In my opinion, we should attempt to develop muscles. Once successful, we should modify two pseudopods into a mechanism similar to the Pistol Shrimp's, that is, a rigid hammer that cocks into place, when twitched, it sends a superheated jet of water, stunning anything in its path.

This requires only the energy to cock the hammer, and to open the twin pseudopods to create space for the hammer. It's a highly efficient way of hunting; in the Pistol Shrimp's example, where the shrimp is a few centimetres long, can send a jet of water reaching nearly 10,000C. This would definitely at least STUN our opponents, that are up to our size. It may work on slightly larger opponents too.

[RAM]

Build pressure-based muscles. Use crystalline structures to direct the forces and have cells expand or contract(possibly by exploiting differences in density between crystalline forms and non-crystalline forms) to create excesses and voids in pressure resulting in motion. It wouldn't be as good at pulling as muscles are, but it should be better at pushing and with cells being funnelled through crystalline frames it should be possible to achieve sufficient motion to meet our needs...

[Tidal]

Build pressure-based muscles. Use crystalline structures to direct the forces and have cells expand or contract(possibly by exploiting differences in density between crystalline forms and non-crystalline forms) to create excesses and voids in pressure resulting in motion. It wouldn't be as good at pulling as muscles are, but it should be better at pushing and with cells being funnelled through crystalline frames it should be possible to achieve sufficient motion to meet our needs...

Hm. At the size we are now, though, those frames might be kind of big.

[obolisk0430]

The jelly-fish thing would need to be a bit bigger to have muscles?  Wouldn't it?  How many cells wide are those psuedo-tentecles?

[Zecro_The_Scourge]

RAM, I think for now we just need muscles. when we get a tad bigger we should go for the armcannon / pistol shrimp weaponry.