# Technosphere! (or: Who ate Britney Spears?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 13, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107 "2002-03-13T19:54:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Robb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Robb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robb)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/41 "2002-03-20T15:36:27Z")
I put spike wheels on all of my later critters. It seemed to me that herbies with spike wheels were more likely to survive attack. The eye thing I haven’t figured out yet. Most of my carnies have compound eyes. We need to keep working on this. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/42 "2002-03-20T17:52:28Z")
Well, the rotini are still not impressing me much. Although **a\_Nutjob\_SDMB** is starting to kill, wimpy herbies like [this](http://www.technosphere.org.uk/cgi-bin/info.exe?id=2469474) are still escaping. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/43 "2002-04-04T12:39:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > I’ve had two interesting interactions: > > From **ParkwaySDMB’s events (id 2490468)**: > (1) 10.2115: Killed StraDoMeBo (id 2396591) in self defense > (1) 10.2115: Caught by StraDoMeBo (id 2396591) > (1) 10.2097: Being hunted by StraDoMeBo (id 2396591) > > Of course, he’s not necessarily _our_ Bosda, but StraDoMeBo has _got_ to be an SDer. One of mine, I’m afraid. And li’l **StraDoMeBoI** has bitten the dust too. Oh well. On the bright side, **Junkfood\_SDMB** (2393876) is up to 5.01 ms (whatever they are) and still growing. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/44 "2002-04-04T13:04:35Z")
Irk\_SDMB finally gave birth! Irk\_SDMBI made it to age .3, and was killed by it’s dinner. You win some, you lose some. Irk\_SDMB immediately ran out and knocked up [Abby\_SDMB](http://194.80.29.14/cgi-bin/info.exe?id=2586691). Woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/45 "2002-04-04T16:46:53Z")
All of my little Herbies churned out a bunch of kids all of a sudden. A few days after giving birth, my favourite of my critters, feisty herbie **Fire\_SDMB** , [perished horribly](http://www.technosphere.org.uk/cgi-bin/events.exe?id=2513406). Funeral services will be held on Sunday. Meanwhile, **Logan\_SDMB** , true to his namesake, has been [mating with everything in sight](http://www.technosphere.org.uk/cgi-bin/events.exe?id=2498387). I wish he would just get knocked up again so he’d stop being the village bicycle. Actually, a quick review of the events of all of my critters reveals that they’re all a bunch of whores. Must be springtime. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/46 "2002-04-04T17:02:36Z")
Furro\_SDMB(2379649) is up to 5.08 MS at 0.88 years old. And he’s got two grandchildren on the way! Negativland\_SDM(2549590), one of my carnies recently had sex with Munch\_SDMB(2482941). Was it good for you, too Munch? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/47 "2002-04-04T18:19:51Z")
The many decendents of my original herbivore **Bosda** still thrive in the Sphere. Haven’t run into any SDMB creatures lately. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/48 "2002-04-05T00:24:17Z")
Has anyone had a herbie killed after it reached “3ms” in size? None of my herbies that have exceeded 2.5ms in size has been successfully attacked, and that seems to be the threshold of safety. ---
**Author:** ![Spiratu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Spiratu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiratu)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/49 "2002-04-05T04:20:08Z")
Paul\_SDMB is at least 3.3 meters long now, and he’s killed at least nine carnivores. They’ve only given him credit for seven, though. He’s a killing machine!🆒 ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/50 "2002-04-05T04:43:33Z")
My ping-sdmb killed & ate one of the Stupidity\_SDMBs a while ago. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/51 "2002-04-16T09:21:09Z")
Woohoo. [Connecticut\_SDMB\_VII](http://www.technosphere.org.uk/cgi-bin/info.exe?id=2436260) has finally been born! 7 generations. Took just about forever. So please don’t eat it. It’s too cute and cuddly and oh so docile. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/52 "2002-04-16T10:13:48Z")
My carnie **something** (2396502) mated with three different **abby\_sdmb** s between 10.5945 and 10.6028. Does that make it incest, or is he/she/it just one lucky little carnivore? ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/53 "2002-04-16T11:28:17Z")
There’s a whole clan of them. I think of them as siblings if they’re created at the same time. (Usually a litter of a dozen at a time.) Separate groups are cousins or beyond. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/54 "2002-04-16T13:44:44Z")
Well, **a\_Jesus\_Freak** finally bit it, after nine kills. He tangled with a size-large herbie, and was stomped to death. He is still my most successful carnie to date. **Grazer04\_SDMB** is fat and well, and **a\_Nutjob\_SDMB** is actually killing things now and again. Has anyone had a baby carnie make a kill? ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/55 "2002-04-16T15:52:26Z")
**Tranquilis** , I was just about to reply that none of my carnies lived long enough to reproduce. As of yesterday, none had—but I thought I’d better just go check first, and it seems that Reaper\_SDMB(2583755) is a daddy now! The little tyke, BlackBushI(2595271), was just born, but he’s already been in a scrap. But the prey escaped. So no, not yet… In other news, the mighty herbivore Furro\_SDMB(2379649), now ancient, is a whopping 6.02 ms. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/56 "2002-04-16T16:24:59Z")
I’ve had three baby carnies at this point, and they seem congenitally stoooooopid. The first got stomped right out the gate by tackling an herbie 12 times his size. The next oldest hasn’t gotten killed, yet, but insists on hunting 2MS+ herbies, and has gotten either ignored, or slapped, each time. The youngest hasn’t done _anything_ yet, and may live the longest of the baby carnies. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/57 "2002-04-16T19:46:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tranquilis \* > Has anyone had a baby carnie make a kill? \*\* I’ve had three idiot babies attack much larger prey, but none of them have made their first kill yet. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/58 "2002-04-17T01:55:38Z")
I’ve had about 15 baby carnies and none have lived past 0.12 yet which generally has a size of 0.20ms. And none have killed anything. I keep hoping they’ll sneak into one of those massive baby herbie packs and go wild but no luck. Thankfully they’re born with a full stomach. And hopefully they’ll eventually stumble upon some left over meat. Or better yet be close by when one of those 8ms herbies drops dead from old age. They can eat that too. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/59 "2002-04-17T02:04:15Z")
I’ve had about 15 baby carnies and none have lived past 0.12 yet which generally has a size of 0.20ms. And none have killed anything. I keep hoping they’ll sneak into one of those massive baby herbie packs and go wild but no luck. Thankfully they’re born with a full stomach. And hopefully they’ll eventually stumble upon some left over meat. Or better yet be close by when one of those 8ms herbies drops dead from old age. They can eat that too. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107/60 "2002-04-17T07:06:12Z")
I haven’t kept up on my creatures since the board crash, but I’ve discovered that of my 12 creatures, 1 carnie has survived and done fairly well. [punkrock-sdmb](http://www.technosphere.org.uk/cgi-bin/info.exe?id=2470694) is 0.75 years old, 2.98 ms large, and has had 3 children, one of which got eaten. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technosphere-or-who-ate-britney-spears/98107.md?page=4)