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:: They either drink the paste as is, or mix it with tastier human food and booze depending on the chapter. While the Space Wolves also like to ferment it to produce SUPERBOOZE. But if a Human were to ever consume the paste, they would die rather slowly of a vitamin D overdose, and acute liver failure. [[User:Evilexecutive|Evilexecutive]] ([[User talk:Evilexecutive|talk]]) 21:09, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
:: They either drink the paste as is, or mix it with tastier human food and booze depending on the chapter. While the Space Wolves also like to ferment it to produce SUPERBOOZE. But if a Human were to ever consume the paste, they would die rather slowly of a vitamin D overdose, and acute liver failure. [[User:Evilexecutive|Evilexecutive]] ([[User talk:Evilexecutive|talk]]) 21:09, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
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::: First thing, Evilexecutive, I'm new to wiki editing so if I'm fucking up the discussion format be sure to let me know and I'll try to figure things out. Second, the character you're thinking of is named Haegar "The Mountain." I've read that book, but it's been a few years, so I don't remember it too well. Thinking about Haegar is actually what brought me onto the topic. Third, this ambrosia paste still really wouldn't work too well, which I go into at length above.[[User:Josman|Josman]]
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:::: Discussions are normally done with increasing colons. You use one more colon than the guy behind you, and keep all of your paragraphs on the same level. Also, you can sig your posts by hitting the Tilde(~) key four times. [[User:Evilexecutive|Evilexecutive]] ([[User talk:Evilexecutive|talk]]) 00:18, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
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::::: Cool, thanks. So now that this discussion is more or less done do I erase it and edit my original post based on the current consensus? [[User:Josman|Josman]] ([[User talk:Josman|talk]]) 00:31, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
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:::::: Never delete content from discussion pages. It's a very, very strong taboo on this wiki. People will be livid with you if you do. [[User:Evilexecutive|Evilexecutive]] ([[User talk:Evilexecutive|talk]]) 01:32, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
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::::::: Seriously, even with my own discussions? How are the discussion pages not filled up with a series of increasingly page-right oriented rage? Can I delete this conversation with the mutual agreement between us, the participants, agreeing that it's sloppy and shouldn't be here? [[User:Josman|Josman]] ([[User talk:Josman|talk]]) 02:05, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
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::::::::Deleting the discussion isn't a thing people here tend to do, even if the issue at hand gets solved. I don't know, it's technically a conversation - you may say something you didn't mean to, but it stays nevertheless. If for example you posted something in the actual page and another used refuted it ''and then'' you were to engage in repeated edits trying to one upp each other, that'd be an Edit War and that's a rather detrimental thing - better to solve that in the Talk page, even if it becomes 82 pages long xD. Sometimes it's a good thing to look at an article's talk page to know the answers to questions you may have never asked. I mean, I never bothered to think about the nutritional needs of a space marine, I thought whenever they were hungry they ate whatever was at hand and digested it, tiger shark style. But now I know, thanks to you. -- [[User:Zerghalo2|Zerghalo2]] ([[User talk:Zerghalo2|talk]]) 21:38, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
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::::::: On another somewhat unrelated note where do plot wholes go? A lot of the time I see them in the discussion section but in other places they're put in the actual wiki page itself. I'm planning on condensing the food problems with marines into a more compact, tidy version. Does that go on this discussion page or the main page? What's the rule here?
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::::::::Plot holes, or whatever you don't agree with should go on the talk page. Sometimes people make edits based on what they alone percieve to be, and it's easy to skip things when you have a biased opinion. I'd say making edits based on opinions without discussing it first can hurried, but it's not like you're making an irreparable scar on the page - someone will sooner or later contribute their own point of view to the article, it's what makes wikis grow. About adding new sections like Space Marine nutrition or something like that I'd say does amerit a previous talk, as well as opinions that aren't immediately related to a page but that still have something to do with it. -- [[User:Zerghalo2|Zerghalo2]] ([[User talk:Zerghalo2|talk]]) 21:38, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
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== Scientific basis for the Omophagea? ==
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Does anyone know where the inspiration for the Omophagea geneseed-organ came from? To those who are unaware, the Omophagea is an organ implanted into the upper spinal cord and nervous system that allows a space marine to learn by eating. For example a marine could kill and eat a world's local herbivores and over time he might begin to instinctively learn about the world's plant life or weather patterns.
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Most of the space marine implants are based off of real science to at least some degree. Things like hormone controlled muscle growth and strengthening bones with artificial substances can actually be done today. Most of the geneseed-organs appear to be inspired by some real-life process. My question is if anyone knows if there is a precedent for diet based learning in complex multicellular organisms. There are types of single celled life forms who do something somewhat like this, but it's simpler, smaller scale, and takes its "information" from almost infinitely simpler food than what a marine would eat. [[User:Josman|Josman]] ([[User talk:Josman|talk]]) 19:16, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
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== Dark Angels and Wolves? ==
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In the six books starring [[Ragnar Blackmane]] particularly the fifth book, Sons of Fenris, the space wolves don't have a "friendly rivalry" with the dark angels as this page suggests, they have a feud that sometimes breaks out into open warfare. Lexicanum and the Warhammer wiki support the idea that they're blooded rivals, not friendly competitors, but at the same time I don't want to just throw out what the previous author created. Thoughts? [[User:Josman|Josman]] ([[User talk:Josman|talk]]) 03:10, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
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:If it's verifiable and trustworthy (Which does describe Lexicanum, but not so much warhammer40k.wikia), go for it. All wikis when you come down to it are about removing or changing old work if you think you can make it better. Just for the love of the Emperor don't strikethrough the old to put in the new.--The Forgefather
== And here we are again ==
== And here we are again ==