User blog:Kat2wind2archer/thoughts

You know

I have been wondering about this for a while; the since of phantoms.

You see, Phantoms are only a ball with 8 legs, so are they actually possible to survive if they where actually real? Well, here are my thoughts:

The closesed animal that could be a phantom-is a jellyfish.

Jellyfish don't have hearts nor brains, and can sting- kind of like a phantom.

The Jellyfish has a mouth, Bell, Gut, Muscle ring, tenticles, Gondas and 'arms' with stinging cells.

therefor; a phantom should have a Muscle ring, tenticles (in this case it's arms) with stinging cells.

But, as every animal, it has to eat. But its lack of mouth kinda stops that.

Phantoms are found to be more compared to fish-like creatures- octopuses or Jellyfish for example. And of course- they are actually found to perfectly breath underwater, there for they can also breath perfectly underwater.

But, for phantoms to breath, they must have a nose or gills.

And of course we don't see that.

But. like I said before, they are compared to fish-like animals- therefor, like the jellyfish or Manta Ray, they can have their mouth and gills under them, on the side we don't see.

Yet, after we have that figured out, we know they should have tenticles- but how do they walk if it's just a muscle without bones?

Well, seeing as they don't have fingers or anything, just black limbs, theres a possibility they actually have got bones, exept-once again, fishlike.

Their bones aren't as thick as a normal mammal bones, letting their limbs not be stiff or hard like a humans bones. (and altho the bones should brake after some time then we'll keep that out)

Now, your probably like; BUT IT HAS JUST ONE EYE WHAT R U SAYING, NO ANIMAL HAS ONLY ONE EYE

Well then fellow random person; theres actually a few animals born with one eye- and although they are very small, they still have only one eye, their called Copepods.

Copepods are small water creatures, born with only one eye.

So now that we've got that covered, let's see the fact that it has black skin.

it's actually quiet normal for animals to have black skin, like the Gorilla, Polar bear, and Zebra (yes it's white on black, not black on white)

so we've got that covered.

Exept the fact that, the phantom, indeed actually has a brain-or some parts of it.

a normal mammal has these parts of a brain:

(if your lazy you can skip ahead to the *** which is showen after the brain parts.)

The hippocampus-navigation in fishes, birds, reptiles, and mammals

The medulla-motor functions such as vomiting, heart rate and digestive processes.\l "

The pons-acts such as sleep, respiration, swallowing, bladder function, equilibrium, eye movement, facial expressions, and posture

The hypothalamus-sleep and wake cycles, eating and drinking, and the release of some hormones.

The thalamus-action-generating systems, behaviors such as eating, drinking, defecation, and copulation,

The cerebellum-doesn't prevent an animal from doing anything in particular, but it makes actions hesitant and clumsy, 10% of the brain's total volume consists of the cerebellum and 50% of all neurons are held within its structure

The optic tectum-allows actions to be directed toward points in space, most commonly in response to visual input, direct eye movements, It receives strong visual inputs, but also inputs from other senses that are useful in directing actions, such as auditory input in owls and input from the thermosensitive pit organs in snakes. In some primitive fishes, such as lampreys, this region is the largest part of the brain.[43] The superior colliculus is part of the midbrain.

The pallium -is a layer of gray matter that lies on the surface of the forebrain -including smell and spatial memory,

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The phantoms probably has the cerebellum, which makes it a bit clumsy (example: it falls strait into the chomper plants, doesn't take the 'ruit' to our animal if we're farther away, they just keep trying to push through the rock/tree or whatever if blocking the way to us)

They also have The hippocampus, which lets them navigate their way.

But, they don't have the parts of the brain that control the sleeping cycle, eating, vomiting, drinking, swallowing etc.

Then, the only 'action generating' part of the brain they need is the The optic tectum, which would seam like the largest part of their brain.

Therefor, it doesn't need a lot of space to place the brain, making room for the eye 'mechanics'.

Therefor- we've got our answer to the question.

Could a phantom survive in real life?

...No, let's face it, if a human was to see a one-eyed gigantic spider they'd call someone to kill it.