Pigmask Colonel

Dec 30 2010, 08:15 PM

they can stay stable and move at high speeds despite having no toes on their feet

Ragna the Bloodedge

Dec 30 2010, 08:37 PM

Pigmask Colonel

Dec 30 2010, 08:15 PM

they can stay stable and move at high speeds despite having no toes on their feet

I always draw them with toes, (if they're barefoot) but that's way beside the point.

Yeah, I don't think Sonic and science exactly mix. Unless Eggy's the one doing the science. |D *shot*

Skys

Dec 30 2010, 08:54 PM

I'm going to crap out some random origin story of Chao, now, because I am quite bored.

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Once upon a time somebody gave Chaos 0 a crapton of jello cups.
But he can't eat.
So he left them on the doorsteps(or whatever they had) of the Echidna tribe. The Echidnas ate them, but as it turned out, jello was conveniently poisonous to them.
And so half died.
The other half decided to give Chaos the rest of the jello as an offering.
Which he didn't want.

So Chaos dumped all the jello into plastic bags, and tied them up nice and neat for the trash men, along with his buckets of tye-dye, googly eyes, and anti-gravity spheres.
But they didn't have trash men yet or most of that other stuff, so he was kind of screwed.
In anger of his flawed plan, he started whaling on all of his trash, forcing it together.
Realizing the he had made a mess, he swore at the gods.
Realizing he was a god and thus swore at himself, he swore again.
Realizing he had no mouth to swear with, he became boiling with rage seviourly annoyed.

After a while he looked back at his trash. While most of it was just a mess, there was one bag that actually looked kind of...adorable.
He took the colorful jello sack bag with him and left the others, completely disregarding what they would do to the environment, and enchanted it with his magical Chaos god powers! The sack-bag was now alive; moving, cooing, and making Chaos giddy. He inexplicably cloned them, and gave them his name. Without the 'S.'



And that, little tangerines, is why people don't eat you with diarrhea-inducing wasabi.


EDIT: Aw, man. Bliz's post just destroyed my theory. I actually took some time on that...
*sigh*

Lil Noel

Dec 30 2010, 09:42 PM

Considering the OP seemed to intend for this to be a discussion about what chao could possibly be, I think applying real-world science is perfectly applicable here. I never understood so many fans' repulsion to the prospect of applying science to the fandom. 8P Just because the world breaks some laws, doesn't mean it breaks all of them. Why does Sonic drown underwater but not suffocate in outerspace? The Space Colony ARK was even designed around a real-world space station blueprint. Science is broken, but it's still there; the creators leave some realism in tact, for the sake of the challenge, or to lower the need to suspend disbelief!

TL;DR

Some science in Sonic discussion is okay, especially when the topic calls for it 8D

That being said, "semi-reptilian synapsid" is redundant 8P! Though I like your idea of the proto-mammal. It meshes with my theory xD.