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Are we a scavenger race?
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Maxious
Dragon Knights of EvE
#1 - 2012-06-21 20:16:13 UTC
I was just watching a documentary the other day about dinasores. The T-Rex. Massive king of the land of monsters. Was in a scrap and got mortally wounded and was laying down to die. But some of the very small dinasores (sorry can't remember the names) they all could smell death and was gathering around knowing that soon when the mighty T-Rex next closes its eyes it will be feeding time. And their loads of them. Traveling around in packs. Now in many games (eve including) I have seen this behaviour. I'm not going to name games but in one iPhone game of knights and castles I had a very high might level, people kept away because I was a big fish and could kick their asses. And I had loads of wealth. Untill an even bigger fish came along. A massive battle I was wiped out but not before taking most of his army too, and to the victor goes the spoils. All my wealth, I salute you, good show well done you win.. But that left a big fat 0 over my castles might level. And before I could even log in to see what happened several people just jumped right in to take their little bite. Like scavengers. Comming in after the hard work has been done.
Same thing goes in eve. Once I did a story line mission in a very populated system like jita. And before I managed to Finnish the first room people started to show up. Before I knew it their were like 5 or 6 people fighting over the wrecks and loot cans of the ships I was destroying. And those little dinasores came in to my mind, waiting, watching at a distance the two titans fight, and then swarming in as a pack when one goes down to grab what they can. They don't want to fight because they will get beat, but the t-Rex won't fight them neither because the numbers will overwhelm him
Simetraz
State War Academy
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-06-21 20:24:36 UTC
Actually I heard one debate about T-Rex being a scavenger as well.
Basically using its size to scare way the smaller predators after they made the kill.
The theory is it arms were no good for fighting and as such it had no really good way to kill its prey with any efficiency and as such most likely resorted to scavenging most of the time.

Either way like nature people will find a niche and fill it, each according to there own desires (or perhaps there limitations).

EVERYBODY KNOWS
Vicky Somers
Rusty Anchor
#3 - 2012-06-21 20:28:02 UTC
My eyes...
Kuehnelt
Devoid Privateering
#4 - 2012-06-21 20:31:42 UTC
Yes, it's actually an alien species that built all the skyscrapers, all the roads, all the networks, all the farms, and all of the slaughterhouses. The alien species looks an awful lot like us humans, and they maintain a fiction of actually being from the same planet as us, so you are very perceptive to have picked out the difference and identified yourself as being a natural scavenger.
Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2012-06-21 20:33:50 UTC
Maxious wrote:
And those little dinasores came in to my mind, waiting, watching at a distance

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Unimaginative Guy
Dutch Squad
#6 - 2012-06-21 21:18:17 UTC
People do what they can to survive, and Scavanging helps them survive.

It's also very easy, and people like easy.
Kunming
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2012-06-21 21:26:06 UTC
Its energy efficient, so it will continue to exist.
Adalun Dey
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2012-06-21 21:33:51 UTC
As a matter of fact, our ancestors were scavengers. In the animal kingdom where all the other creatures were either faster or stronger, humankind (or whatever it was called back then) only had its intelligence and a pair of hands to their advantage. Predators killed their prey and the parts that were left behind, the bones, were then scavenged by the humans. Using tools our ancestors could break the bones and get to the marrow which was used as sustenance.

Source: click here

[i]" Take my love, take my land, take me where I can not stand, I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me. "[/i]
Just Alter
Futures Abstractions
#9 - 2012-06-21 21:38:06 UTC
Adalun Dey wrote:
As a matter of fact, our ancestors were scavengers. In the animal kingdom where all the other creatures were either faster or stronger, humankind (or whatever it was called back then) only had its intelligence and a pair of hands to their advantage. Predators killed their prey and the parts that were left behind, the bones, were then scavenged by the humans. Using tools our ancestors could break the bones and get to the marrow which was used as sustenance.

Source: click here


Endurance hunting theory would partly disagree with this.
Adalun Dey
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2012-06-21 21:41:33 UTC
Just Alter wrote:
Endurance hunting theory would partly disagree with this.

As would human pride.

[i]" Take my love, take my land, take me where I can not stand, I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me. "[/i]
Simi Kusoni
HelloKittyFanclub
#11 - 2012-06-21 23:04:15 UTC
Adalun Dey wrote:
Just Alter wrote:
Endurance hunting theory would partly disagree with this.

As would human pride.

Well to be fair we are* biologically the best long distance runners on the planet.

*Well, you are. I chain smoke 30 a day and can barely run to the end of my garden.

[center]"I don't troll, I just give overly blunt responses that annoy people who are wrong but don't want to admit it. It's not my fault that people have sensitive feelings"  -MXZF[/center]
Ohanka
#12 - 2012-06-21 23:07:38 UTC
fix the hidious imicus!

North Korea is Best Korea
Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#13 - 2012-06-21 23:31:18 UTC
Lions scavenge as often as they hunt.
Hyenas hunt as often as they scavenge.

I guess dinosaurs were no different.
I guess our neolithic ancestors weren't either.
Kyle Ward
Doomheim
#14 - 2012-06-22 14:52:14 UTC
I wish instead of spaceships we all rode dinosaurs!
I would ride a platapous...

The Sandbox, you're playing it wrong!
Dark Assassin15
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2012-06-22 14:56:58 UTC
TAB control, use it.

[img]http://www.invokemethod.com/repo/failedsig.png[/img]
Goremageddon Box
Guerrilla Flotilla
#16 - 2012-06-22 15:02:52 UTC
Kyle Ward wrote:
I wish instead of spaceships we all rode dinosaurs!
I would ride a platapous...


platypus? isnt that a mammal?


DID YOU JUST DIVIDE BY ZERO?
Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#17 - 2012-06-22 15:05:13 UTC
@Op

If you are making analogies in between dinosaurs and humans then yes, we're still primordials for the most.

Some are sure they're better men because they drive Porches or blinky chrome wheels cars whatsoever. It's the same primordial behaviour and the only change is what you show off.

The average women are by far more advanced than we are in all aspects of human life, even thou some also primordial enough and replaced diamonds love by silicon.

Lol

brb
Ituhata
Killboard Padding Services
#18 - 2012-06-22 15:10:13 UTC
Of course we're scavengers, that's called resourcefulness. Big smile
Copine Callmeknau
Dirty Vagrants
Intergalactic Space Hobos
#19 - 2012-06-22 15:13:35 UTC
Maxious wrote:
I was just watching a documentary the other day about dinasores. The T-Rex. Massive king of the land of monsters. Was in a scrap and got mortally wounded and was laying down to die. But some of the very small dinasores (sorry can't remember the names) they all could smell death and was gathering around knowing that soon when the mighty T-Rex next closes its eyes it will be feeding time. And their loads of them. Traveling around in packs. Now in many games (eve including) I have seen this behaviour. I'm not going to name games but in one iPhone game of knights and castles I had a very high might level, people kept away because I was a big fish and could kick their asses. And I had loads of wealth. Untill an even bigger fish came along. A massive battle I was wiped out but not before taking most of his army too, and to the victor goes the spoils. All my wealth, I salute you, good show well done you win.. But that left a big fat 0 over my castles might level. And before I could even log in to see what happened several people just jumped right in to take their little bite. Like scavengers. Comming in after the hard work has been done.
Same thing goes in eve. Once I did a story line mission in a very populated system like jita. And before I managed to Finnish the first room people started to show up. Before I knew it their were like 5 or 6 people fighting over the wrecks and loot cans of the ships I was destroying. And those little dinasores came in to my mind, waiting, watching at a distance the two titans fight, and then swarming in as a pack when one goes down to grab what they can. They don't want to fight because they will get beat, but the t-Rex won't fight them neither because the numbers will overwhelm him

It's spelled dynasaw noob

There should be a rather awesome pic here
Thomas Ardenvald
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#20 - 2012-06-22 15:15:26 UTC
Simi Kusoni wrote:
Adalun Dey wrote:
Just Alter wrote:
Endurance hunting theory would partly disagree with this.

As would human pride.

Well to be fair we are* biologically the best long distance runners on the planet.

*Well, you are. I chain smoke 30 a day and can barely run to the end of my garden.


That is why I took up dipping instead of smoking. It made quitting tobacco altogether so much easier, because of how disgusting dip is. Although it feels so much better than a cigarette.

Anywho though, now all the other animals are scavengers eating out of our trashcans and such.
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