SpaceCase
Liquid Emperor
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« on: 05-11-2004 11:55 »
« Last Edit on: 08-24-2008 20:36 »
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Hello All, I did a search for this but didn't find anything, so pardon me if it's already been discussed. Here Goes: In TDTESS we see the Brain Spawn and they are essentially disembodied brains. Period. No arms, no legs, no hands. They have no means of using tools or manipulating objects. Correct? Or did I miss something? Now here's my point: If the Brain Spawn have no means of using tool, who built the Infosphere? Note: While I'm not loosing sleep over this, I am mildly curious, and I should like to hear your thoughts. That's all out'ta me for now...
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Action Jacktion
Professor
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The Big Brain was in "The Why of Fry," it just didn't look much bigger than the other brains for some reason. You can recognize it by its voice.
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Bushmeister
Professor
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Telekinisis on a large scale is something that you can expect from powerful beings that are just brains. I think in TDTESS you saw in the library the pages turning in the book the brain was reading as the book was engulfed in some kind of ray coming from it.
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Nixorbo
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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You might as well just ask why they speak English and how exactly they can speak without vocal cords.
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fussili
Crustacean
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One thing about the big brain's re-appearance in The Why of Fry that's interesting is that he acts as if he's never met fry: "we are in the presence of the fabled one" Then again it does set up a fantastic joke where he says: "detecting trace amounts of mental activity. Perhaps a dead weasel or a cartoon viewer". To which the Futurama Fan cartoon viewers are obliged to reply "No I'm, doesn't"
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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Maybe Fry wrote into the story that the Big Brain forget ever coming to Earth.
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Allen
Professor
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Actually, I heard it as he did know. Exactly how would Fry be the "fabeled one" without spreading it around? As Fry never gave his name and the Nibblonians never say it, how else would he be addressed?
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SpaceCase
Liquid Emperor
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So the Brains either: 1) Use some kind of mind control power to get another species to build the infosphere, or; 2) Use telekinesis (or however you spell it)
Well, the Brains primary power is their stupification ray - Not mind control. So if they built the infosphere themselves, they would've had to use an ability we never saw in the series.
As for telekinesis (I can't flamin' spell!), we've seen the Big Brain manipulate the pages of a book, but we don't know if all Brain Spawn can do that or just him. And turning the pages of a book telekineticly telekineticaly telekinetically mentally (*sigh*) is vastly different from using a screwdriver, tweezers, or soldering iron.
Please don't misunderstand: It is not my intention to flame anyone's ideas - I truly appreciate the discussion! I'm trying to explain where the damn infosphere came from by clues in the show.
So, did I miss something? are there any hints that the Brains have mind control, or telikinesis telekinesis telekenisis ([EXPLETIVES DELETED]) - aw, c'mon, you know what I mean!- highly developed enough to manipulate tools well enough to build the flamin' thing?
Note to self: Learn to flamin' SPELL!
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SpaceCase
Liquid Emperor
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Okay, telekinesis (oh, here we go again ) is the front-running idea. For sake of discussion, suppose the Brains have telek telik ([EXPLETIVES DELETED]) Okay-that tears it! I'm abbreviating the damn thing "TK." *Ahem* Let's suppose the Brains have TK. How, for example does one use TK to refine ores into metal alloys? How oes one use TK to build the hardware in the infosphere? *Toing* Homer Simpson has a word for this!A third alternative just this moment occurs to me: Suppose the Brains stole tools and technology from some earlier civilization they destroyed? They then would have been able to manipulate said tools to develop technology for their own ends. Is this reasonable, or are there faults in my reasoning- er, well, I know there are faults in my reasoning, but are there any faults in my arguement?
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gottalovebender
Bending Unit
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i'm gonna try to answer all the questions in this thread, BUILDING THE INFOSPHERE: they probably used telekinesis to move around scrap peices of metel or something else they find in space or from another civilisation, and then weld it together, it didn't seem like that much a scientific thing concidering in The Why of Fry there was the infosphere and covering the entire inside was the chief brain. WHERE DID THE BIG BRAIN GO FROM TDTESS AND TWOF: there were different brains, cause in TDTESS the brain looked the same size as all the other brians, but in TWOF it like took up the whole info sphere, it is just probably the fact that leaders have controling voices that they sounded alike, plus if the TDTESS brain was small, it was just the leader of the earth conquering mission under the crontrol of the one in TWOF, which answers WHY DIDN'T TWOF BRIAN KNOW FRY: because he only heard of him from the littler brains, and only the TDTESS big brain the brains under it's control met him and saw him, so to TWOF brain, he was new i think i answered all the questions, so there
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Allen
Professor
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I still maintain that they knew Fry. He was the fabeled one. Plus they knew about December 31st, 1999. How they managed to record it without anyone seeing them is beyond them.
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Steel Sima Yi
Crustacean
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I think it's funny that no one has mentioned that the brains all have to levitate to get themselves around. So maybe either in the few seconds the universe existed before they popped in they developed their telekinesis or they just always had it (like the Nibblonians have always been cute... :P).
I can only just imagine a planet full of brains, just laying around, waiting for it...
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