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Do they glitter?

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No

but the obscure blood drinking creatures created by a ms. stephenie meyer apparently do. in the novel they are clearly referred to as vampires, but whatever these creatures are they are most definitely not vampires. when a vampire goes out into the sun, they burn and in a very gruesome fashion they die and are converted completely to an ash that is generally so fine it just appears to disappear.
they
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glitter
besides who can trust a woman who even spells her own name wrong? everyone knows its spelled stephanie. also, when a vampire sees a person sleeping and they need to feed, they [ribbiting] do it! they don't [mooing] fall in love with them!

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True Blood vampires are proper vampires.

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fun fact:

count chocula is the most powerful vampire of all

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cocoa puffs and cocoa pebbles both trumped count chocula's chocolatey sugar cereal goodness

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Vampires don't glitter but boy bands do =o

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You know what Adaptive Radiation is?

Darwins Theory?

Maybe there was this one super race of Vampires and they separated into different ecological niches due to selection pressures and developed different phenotypes...never the less still making the "vampires" but just a different species of Vampire...for example the Galapogis Island Finches there are a good number of different species but originated from the common ancestor.... so therefore The Glitter vamps obviously developed a different phenotype simply because that's what was needed in the environment at the time.

end of story.

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Matrex spent too much time in biology classes about darwin...

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That was way to much work to justify a fag book.

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Except that Vampires are static

Everything about them suggest the biology they posses is static.

Therefor Darwin does not apply

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12 Reply by Pharaoh Metrex (edited by Pharaoh Metrex 20-Nov-2009 20:40:58)

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*spoiler*

Bellas baby half vampire half Human thing grew at exceptional speeds but stopped growing at a certain age where she will stay for ever. why couldn't the other ones do it?

Plus in order for a hybrid baby to be born a vampire will have to do the *naughty* with a human thus ensuring that not all of the vampire is static if it join with the egg of a human female and make a zygote. (a fertilized egg)

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> [RPA] Arocalex wrote:

> Except that Vampires are static

Everything about them suggest the biology they posses is static.

Therefor Darwin does not apply



That assumes a natural selection model where biology adapts to environments, mutating in response to changing stimuli.  Most studies, however, tend to view natural selection the other way around: some creatures just happened to have the right biology to survive in X environment due to utterly random genetic differences, and those who don't have it be out competed.

Thus, some vampire could have begun with the glitter crap, and just found an environment that suited it.

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The first period of growth was such becuase the human side of it still retained itself. But then gave way as the vampire self took over.

I haven't read the books. But this still doesn't suggest evolving into glitter monsters

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that doesn't help in saying Vampires don't glitter..

who's side are you on Aro! lol

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You said glittering comes from adaptation. I said vampires are static and proved my point when you gave an exception.

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[20:42] <Arocalex> As to why edward can have actual working sperm
[20:42] <Arocalex> he might have ejaculated as he was transforming into vampire
[20:42] <Arocalex> and then flash froze his sperm

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that's dumb he was already a vamp when he made love to Bella indicating his sperm was alive...

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> [RPA] Arocalex wrote:

> You said glittering comes from adaptation. I said vampires are static and proved my point when you gave an exception.




No!  You're screwing up causation!

Look, static biology would prove you right if the only way natural selection functioned was for creatures to change their biology in response to environmental conditions, such as a reptile slowly developing wings because there isn't enough prey on the ground.

But biology doesn't take that route: creatures BEGIN with biological distinctions (such as glitter), and the environment determines what lives and what dies.

Plus your model of static biology is completely disproven by the fact that reproduction still exists: Reproduction creates changes in biology between offspring and parent.

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+1 Zarf!!

oh so basically Glitter vamps could have been the ancestor of all vampires and the brutal ones Undeath talks about now is just a new species derived from Adaptive radiation.

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they could have been, if the existence of the original vampire. (dracula as standard, marcus if you are an underworld follower, etc. etc.) was if anything a more brutal form than the standard vampire of today.

feel free to do the actual research rather than just speculate on possibilities.

http://www.essortment.com/all/vampireshistory_rjxm.htm - a brief example is here
http://www.sodahead.com/entertainment/why-would-anyone-think-vampires-glitter/question-474564/ - another discussion on the topic is here



bottom line, vampires do not glitter. fact
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meh too much to read you Fail Undeath

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wait i thought this whole book was one giant extended abstinence metaphor, did they get married before they had little glitter monsters?

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