And some vertebrates, such as goldfish and certain turtles seem to lack upper limits to their lifespans. They simply do not die of old age, at least not within a couple of hundred years.
Is being long the only qualification necessary for being an epic? I mean, Alan Moore can write graphic novels that will take you several days to read (not counting The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), whereas you could read all six Akira books in one day and not care if you never read them again. Akira has a lot of action and very little substance (the Lord of the Rings pops to mind here) and you can have a lot of fun for the money it would cost you to own the entire series.
The Akira story is much better suited to the motion picture format (though not necessarily live action).
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Shouldn't the topic be "bugs"?
The best implementations have the faucet "hanging" from a string. This makes the fact that it hovers in midair look less suspicious.
This does not mean that individuals cannot get by with less
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Of course you can get by with less:
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Yeah, but the early ones costed like $10 a piece and leaked like rusty buckets. They didn't really catch on until the fifties.
We've already got large sectors of the population randomly leaving the letter "P" out of words... Not "c" then?
And some vertebrates, such as goldfish and certain turtles seem to lack upper limits to their lifespans. They simply do not die of old age, at least not within a couple of hundred years.
Is being long the only qualification necessary for being an epic? I mean, Alan Moore can write graphic novels that will take you several days to read (not counting The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), whereas you could read all six Akira books in one day and not care if you never read them again. Akira has a lot of action and very little substance (the Lord of the Rings pops to mind here) and you can have a lot of fun for the money it would cost you to own the entire series.
The Akira story is much better suited to the motion picture format (though not necessarily live action).