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Started by Inkfingers April 22nd, 2009 7:44 AM
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Fire-breathing is an easy one.

The Pokemon holds a variety of non-harmful chemicals in flame sacs found within the mouth or throat, closer to the trachea. Upon using a flame attack, the Pokemon releases a portion of the chemicals, which mix together to form a combustible mass which is to be depleted after the attack. The Pokemon exhales a great deal of air in order to set the mass ablaze and direct the fire in the desired direction. Some Pokemon should have the ability to inhale while also exhaling, owing to their apparent ability to sustain fire-breathing for long periods of time. The inside of the mouth or, I guess Skuntank's butt, should be lined with resilient epithelium that resists the intense heat given off by the attack or regenerates at a rate faster than it can be destroyed.

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For Regice, Regirock, and Registeel, I think it would be reasonable that they have some sort of conductive material inside that functions like the human nervous system, but not necessarily an entire body inside. The Pokemon should also have an energy-filled core from which it draws power from during times of need. Otherwise, it would draw from magnetic fields around the world, explaining the fact that it can use Zap Cannon, and other electrical attacks.
This is a good response. Scientific. You other guys are just copying the pokedex and sprites.


As for my question, how do pokeballs work? How do you shrink a 1,000+ pound pokemon(like Groudon) into a baseball-sized capsule? And how do they shrink and grow?
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I believe that they've somehow mastered the science of matter to energy transfers, and the reverse. However, seeing as the pokeballs also involve light and sound (forms of energy) it means that theoretically, each time a pokemon was released or returned, it would lose some energy/matter and thus change its shape...

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kangaskahn isnt born w/ a baby it goes through a very long cycle. at the age of birth to the age of two they have fun like human babies. At age three they are are taught parenting skills till the age of twenty. Then they are let into the wild to breed. finding a mate is very easy for a kangaskahn because they are all so close. They then breed and the female is left to care for the baby. If the male happens to ever come across the path of that kangaskahn, they must take responsibility for the child, hence male kangaskahn.

kangaskahn arent born with babies they are allowed to be free until age three and are taught parenting skills until age twenty. They go through many tests of parenthood one including taking care of a poke doll(kangaskahn baby of course). They are then let out into the wild and the females must find a male. They then breed and the male leaves, just as polaar bears do. If that same male were to cross paths with that same female, the male must take the baby if the mother allows it to, and raise the child, hence male kangaskahns.

Fire breathing: great assumption gymnotide but it is wrong. fire breathing is caused by the grinding of iron pyrite and flint. a pokemon that has the ability to breathe has two sacs located on the pallet and lower jaw. They take the metals and store them seperately in each sac, flint on top. when the pokemon breathes fire, it uses its tongue to release the metals and they fall into its back teeth used for grinding and grinds the flint and iron pyrite to ignite it. The pokemon has a large amount of hydrogen stored in a third lung that is smaller than the other two. It breathes outward very hard to get to fire to spurt out of its mouth. Fire type pokemon have very large amounts of saliva that it uses to cover the teeth, tongue, and inner mouth to protect its mouth from be burned or melted. However, there is not enough saliva to douse the fire. once then pokemon stops breathing out, the fire stops.

Remoraid is similar to kangaskahn, but instead it forms a very close bond with the mantine. They were very close friends until the remoraid had a very large growth in population and made closer friends with each other. It's sort of a tribal kid of thing. Mantine and remoraid are still friends, but they no longer travel in pairs together.

A slowpoke's tail is made of pure muscle, skin, bone, and meat. The tail is skinned, deboned, demuscled(if that's even a word) and wella, slopoke tail. It has been said to taste similar to a ham.

A thundershock is much more serious in reality and can cause paralasys, skin cancer, and even death.

Porygon is created by a series of very difficult computer codes. It is then transferred through pure energy through energy conversion to a poke'ball, just as a pokemon is released and called back into a pokeball(description of a poke'ball is very long and will be answered in another post).

Pokemon are a species of mixed species(keep that in mind) For example, bulbasaur is a mix of a plant and an animal and golduck is a mix of a reptile and a duck. So those pokemon aren't full mammals, I guess you could say. They have the ability to lay eggs by having the same reproductive system birds do. I'm not going to get into that for several reasons.

Like cloyster, pokemon have an inner body The metals on pokemon are naturally made by a very complex mixing system and create an outer shell, though it's not always made of metal.

Dunder Mifflinite. First of all I have to use to pokedex info to get my facts straight. Second the description of a pokeball will take up an ENTIRE PAGE OF POST INFO. So please be more specific. ask questions about specific parts and I'll answer them bit by bit. Okay.?

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Ummm...Inkfingers, not to be rude, but Kangaskhan are born with babies. Hatch one yourself and you'll see. Plus, how exactly do you know that you are the one who's right about fire-breathing? Surely, this is really just a thread of speculation and theorizing, so you can't say that something is definitely right or wrong :S.

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[email protected] is right, after all. We can only come up with something logical (or logic+forces of nature as deities+ nonexistent technology+the confirmed existence of ghosts) with which to answer a given question.

[email protected] hee hee. I tickled myself.
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Okay guys I'm sorry about that fire breathing thing. I mixed it up and didn't do enough research. Here's the deal, all pokemon who have teeth use the grinding technique and those who are absent of teeth use the flame sac method. Here are all of the fire pokemon in order:

Grinding Flame Sac Other
Charmander Vulpix Slugma
Charmeleon Ninetales Magcargo
Charizard Ponyta Torkoal
Growlithe Rapidash
Arcanine Magmar
Cyndaquil Flareon
Quilava Moltres
Typhlosion Magby
Houndour Ho-oh
Hoiundoom Entei
Numel Torchic
Camerupt Combusken
Chimchar Blaziken
Monfernape Chimchar
Heatran Monferno
Infernape
Magmortar

Okay Dunder. Here's how the pokemon shrinks. Let's say you're call ing back a pokemon into its ball. You swiftly stroke your thumb back on the bottom of the ball activating motion sensor, opening the pokemon conatainment area. The pokemon is then transferred into the ball by using energy conversion(the pokemon is converted into pure energy) and stored into the pokemon containment area. There its particles, that were once broken down, are then reassembled into a miniature pokemon! This process is similar to Wonkavision Featured in Charlie and the Chocolate factory. A DNA analyzer quickly scans the room around for the pokemon, and identifies its type and living conditions and projects a holographic enviroment for the pokemon. The process of being let out will be discussed later.
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Ummm...Inkfingers, not to be rude, but Kangaskhan are born with babies. Hatch one yourself and you'll see. Plus, how exactly do you know that you are the one who's right about fire-breathing? Surely, this is really just a thread of speculation and theorizing, so you can't say that something is definitely right or wrong :S.
I think they aren´t. Well, they have that baby in the games of course, but the games show only a very small part of a functionable world. Why don´t need Pokemon food or why don´t you have to feed them? Why don´t they have to, well, go to the toilet? Why could baby Pokemon hatch eggs already? That are some logical mistakes which are indebted by the fact that the game should be as small as possible (because it´s still huge enough). I think to program a sprite for a baby kangaskhan without a baby (lol...) would be too much work and, by the way, stupid, because nearly every other pokemon would need an own baby sprite then, too. I think in Kangaskhan´s case we are requested to think of a logical solution and not to stick as close to the games as possible.

But, after all, that´s only my personal opinion. You may have, of course, your own.
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Thanks Wrrylok. I like the way u think. He's exactly right. Now look at it this way guys. The baby kangaskahn in the game is just a fluke, that's all. In reality, they cannot be born with a baby. The explaination I gave is logical and makes sense. Plus, when you think about it, Why is it that when a kangaskahn is hatched, it is an adult kangaskahn, not the baby in the pouch? All it is is a game thing.

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Wyyrlokk - I'm fully aware that in a logical world, Kangaskhan wouldn't give birth to babies that already had their own babies...because that's kind illogical >.< I was just pointing out that we have only ever seen a kangaskhan hatching with a baby in its pouch, so we can't say for sure that it doesn;t happen like that.

My own personal theory is that it isn't actually a baby, but more of a smaller pokemon which shares some kind of mental connection with the big version. in a way, the small one is like a brain to the larger one which is separated from the body...if that makes any sense at all :P But hey, its pokemon. It doesn't have to make sense XD

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If that's not good enough for you guys though here you go: Kahngaskahn's baby isn't actually a baby, It's a part of its body. Like an angler fish, kangaskahn controls its extra attatchment, just as humans control their arms and legs.
hey, your idea's like mine but the other way around...kinda XD

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Now I have an answer to the regis too. Every one of them is not completely an element. In fact, what you see on the outside is like a very hard shell. Inside each regi, there is a nervous system that controls every part of the body.

sorta ya. oh and for that egg laying question, It's like a platypus, it's a mammal(though the platypus is the only mammal to lay eggs) A mammal that las eggs.

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How about things like potions. Although I think I can probably describe it I wana see If your theory is different, here's mine. The potion Is somthing on the lines of nanotechnology, the stuff inside of the potion imideietly(sp?) healing the organic matter that it touches.
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Okay this is kinda tricky. The potion. Very good assumption. another way of doing that is by having a healing type medicine with a steroid in it, but not so much that it's like an illegal drug, just enough to speed up the healing process. Kinda like how sometimes babies are born w/ certain problems and need steroids to survive, you know?

Muk.Muk's body is composed of a more jelly like substance. It's kind of like a jelly fish that can move on land, is made up of a thicker jelly like substance and has eyes.

I haven't given potions a lot of thought.
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Muk could also be a giant unicellular blob, a giant amoeba.

Oh, and judging by how fast potions heal, they could be some kind of nanomachine spray that stitches together wounds and accelerates healing on the molecular level, it's the only way I can imagine a totally topical medicine healing the most greivous of wounds.
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Fire breathing: great assumption gymnotide but it is wrong. fire breathing is caused by the grinding of iron pyrite and flint. a pokemon that has the ability to breathe has two sacs located on the pallet and lower jaw. They take the metals and store them seperately in each sac, flint on top. when the pokemon breathes fire, it uses its tongue to release the metals and they fall into its back teeth used for grinding and grinds the flint and iron pyrite to ignite it. The pokemon has a large amount of hydrogen stored in a third lung that is smaller than the other two. It breathes outward very hard to get to fire to spurt out of its mouth. Fire type pokemon have very large amounts of saliva that it uses to cover the teeth, tongue, and inner mouth to protect its mouth from be burned or melted. However, there is not enough saliva to douse the fire. once then pokemon stops breathing out, the fire stops.
lol. I like how you completely refute my completely plausible theory with that... Well.

The problem is that given the nature of glands and / or sacs in the body, they would need to be comprised of muscular tissue, lined with heavy epithelium. The palate is hard and impervious to most substances, due to the proximity of the mouth cavity to the upper skull. The bottom is laden with salivary glands, which cannot afford to be displaced for other structures. Since the glands you mention are located in the palate and the jaw, your theory is an impossibility. The top is simply too hard and neither side has enough room to store such glands.

In addition, the material mentioned would be completely out of question, given their natures. Bodies cannot produce flint nor pyrite, and therefore must consume it from an outside source. In addition, flint is very easily degraded, and over time will become powdery and inefficient in making a fire. The Pokemon would need to continually consume flint to renew its fire-breathing ability. Both grainy substances would harm the vital glands, the brain, or otherwise. Not all Pokemon eat such materials. Furthermore, flint and pyrite cannot be placed further back in the mouth or else they will cut the spinal cord, thyroid, etc. Flint maybe, but definitely not pyrite. It would function like a gizzard.

Hydrogen gas is completely implausible. Since hydrogen is half as light as oxygen gas, it will float. The lung within would rise and the body would also slightly elevate. This also limits the amount of hydrogen gases present in the body, since if the lung was a large enough mass, the body would be unable to keep itself grounded. Given the fact that Pokemon can sustrain flame-based attacks for long periods of time, it is improbable that such an organ exists, since it would require a large amount of gases (and therefore a larger lung). Since you describe the substance as a "lung," it must continually exchange the hydrogen gas, which there simply isn't enough of in the world - 1 part per million in air. If it were a hydrogen-filled sac, the same problem arises. There is just simply not enough hydrogen to refill the sacs. In addition, the amount of gas released would only cause a small EXPLOSION, not a stream of flames. The Pokemon's head would explode. Hydrogen gas also spontaneously combusts at 560 degrees - Pokemon living in volcanoes and those hit with flame-based attacks would surely explode.

And the saliva thing. Don't be silly. Saliva cannot possibly ward away a fire. It would heat up like boiling water and sear the inner membrane of the mouth. Then, it would evaporate and the hot fumes would bombard the upper membrane of the mouth, some passing through nasal passages and rupturing that epithelium. If there is enough, the saliva would douse the flame.

Okay this is kinda tricky. The potion. Very good assumption. another way of doing that is by having a healing type medicine with a steroid in it, but not so much that it's like an illegal drug, just enough to speed up the healing process. Kinda like how sometimes babies are born w/ certain problems and need steroids to survive, you know?

Muk.Muk's body is composed of a more jelly like substance. It's kind of like a jelly fish that can move on land, is made up of a thicker jelly like substance and has eyes.
1. That is not what a steroid does. Steroids are regulators, not activators (er, they can activate, but only indirectly). The healing process requires inflammatory response, followed by clotting and repair. A steroid could not possibly perform these functions, though they can regulate them. The only steroid which can possibly maintain this function is an anabolic steroid, but those cannot work as quickly as the Potion. Moreover, steroids would stimulate the body to repair itself, but they cannot speed the process up faster than the body can already regenerate.

2. If it were jelly, it would need constant bathing in liquid or else it would dry out and become crusty. More likely, Muk just secretes a mucous substance.

A slowpoke's tail is made of pure muscle, skin, bone, and meat. The tail is skinned, deboned, demuscled(if that's even a word) and wella, slopoke tail. It has been said to taste similar to a ham.
You overlooked the fact that muscle IS the meat that we eat. Pork chop? That's thigh muscle.

Muk could also be a giant unicellular blob, a giant amoeba.
Not enough surface area. Can't be single-celled.
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I wonder if maybe Muk has a solid body underneath the goo, whihc then (as gymnotide suggested) then secretes...the goo :P It would explain how Muk is, y'know, able to eat solid food and all.

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I wonder if maybe Muk has a solid body underneath the goo, whihc then (as gymnotide suggested) then secretes...the goo :P It would explain how Muk is, y'know, able to eat solid food and all.
I could imagine it being slug-like under the ooze, the flat area underneath it being like a slug's "foot."

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Ok, explain to me how Team Galactic gets their Pokeballs if they have no belt around their waist or any pockets or anything to carry them with in that tight uniform, please :3



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Ok, explain to me how Team Galactic gets their Pokeballs if they have no belt around their waist or any pockets or anything to carry them with in that tight uniform, please :3



They can convert Poke Balls into energy, like Poke Balls do to Pokemon.
They store them in their fingertips within a mechanical device.
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Gymno I'm really sorry for that thing about you being wrong and all. but listen. I'll prove you wrong. W/ The sacs, let me expand. If you were touch your pallete and go back, not far enough to touch your uvula, but near or in front of it, you would notice a softer area. For fire pokemon, that is where the sac is on the top. Now before you correct me on how you need that softer area that is in the back, not in the throat, but moreso near it. Fire pokemon do not have tonsles, leaving room for that area. The lower area is not there though, you got me there.
The bodies do not produce flint or pyrite, they find and store it. The sacs have a lining on the inside, preventing any harm to the body. They do not consume the minerals, they use and grind them. The grainy material is burned through the fire, actually strengthening it. And yes, they do go and find more flint and iron pyrite when they run out. The pokemon rids of any harmful material by simply just washing & spitting it back out just as a human dumps waste products. Also the mineral sacs do not lead to the brain or any other part of the body. It is a thin flap with just enough room to store the minerals, meaning it is closed off.
Okay I didn't think of the hydrogen build up. So sue me. But the pokemon releases oxygen, nitrogen,argon,and carbon dioxidea.k.a. airand a pretty big amount. You did get me on that one.
Let me change the saliva thing. That was my first thought(I've thought about fire breathing before) and that was my first guess, but here's what really happens. It's simple, the pokemon opens its mouth wide enough so that a slender jet of fire exerts from the mouth and grows.
There you go man.


I don't know much about muk and potions so ya but that slug idea is really good

Gymno said it all on that one. Late on typing