[John]

Yeah, it pretty much a given that the fusion of two planets would kill off most surface life, but the idea is to have a race to develop the escape ship before the situation becomes deadly. Like I said the two are in high speed orbit, so their inertial speed is probably going to slow down the collision some . I’d expect an initial mess or explosion, but then it could just slowly squeeze together over time, causing unusual rock formations and cracks but an overall spherical shape due to the new center of gravity. The days and nights of the new planet may be very short since the orbit speed would be converted into rotation about the axis.

[John]

Big? Yeah you can see the muscle, but it isn’t much as far as size. Okay for a mainstream game, I guess.

[John]

This one’s twice the size, but the quality isn’t as good (more visible blemishes). The original photo as it was stored on my HDD wasn’t very big.

[John]

Matrix + Dances with Wolves + Return of the Jedi = Avatar

I liked the foreign planet, with the floating mountains, rain forest and creatures ranging from cute to mega-predator.  Plus the movie reminded me of books by Erich von Daniken and Zacharia Stichen that talk of advanced civilizations from space mining gold out of the earth and creating lifeforms compatible to the climate of this planet when the earth was pretty primitive and the ape men like neanderthals were the highest thing on the planet.  The references to "sky men" and "demons" were obviously parallel terms to "gods" and "demons" as von Daniken theorized that the indigenous inhabitants would have seen these beings.  I know much of mainstream science scoffs at the ideas put forth by these men, but they have had a great effect on science-fiction post 1960.  Star Wars, Stargate, Battlestar Gallactica and Avatar were influenced by von Daniken, and his famous "Chariots of the Gods" book and the books that followed. 

It seems like a realistic scenario that this would be what humans would do once we get the technology to go to planets outside this solar system for mining resources.  The old stories of advanced technological civilization crashing down on the more spiritually-focused and shamanistic tribal people is more than likely to repeat itself.  This tale of technology smothering the true energy and nature of man is as old as time, and is in the oldest mythologies of this planet.  This same theme was a focal point of Lord of the Rings with the Orcs being a careless machine culture led by Sauron while elves and the men, hobbits, and dwarves that followed them were after the order of Iluvatar, the giver of life – LOTR's "God".

[John]

There are no stock photos of FBBs that I know of.  Stocks are usually made for common subjects, that can't easily be exploited for money.  FBBs are rare human beings, and photos of them are centered around profit-driven photographers who probably care less about a picture of the human physique and more about what gets people to buy their product.  I would consider morphing fair use.  It's not like you are reproducing the photo and counting it as your own.  What is your own is the modifications, and quite frankly, some advanced morphs take more skill than drawing a picture from scratch, so I would consider morphs to be work from the morpher, not the photographer's camera.  But alas, my opinion and that of the courts are two different things.  That's why I just try to fly under the radar of what I view to be an unjust aspect of legal code.  Good thing there are millions upon millions of acts of copyright infringement daily on the internet to make the law practically impossible to enforce. 

[John]

OK, thanks.  I tried Googling the answer and it was just one of those searches that yields results totally unrelated to the question I was going for.  Like I said, the relative speed is practically non-existent; they aren't going right at each other, but slowly meeting.  I guess if they got within a certain range the g*M[1]*M[2]/r^2 value would skyrocket, and would cause a great deal of gravitational acceleration and a big crash.  I was fearing something to the scale of millions of years. for fusion into a stable planetary body.  Time travel is an option, but not one I'm crazy about using in this case.

Maybe I'll work it so the two planets with another one in between, kind of like the Venus-Earth-Mars set up.  It would kind of mess up the symbolic idea I'm going for, but I want to make the story somewhat plausible.

BTW, they are supposed to be pre-space stage, but need to develop a vessel to escape the planetary doom – both planets.  I haven't put much thought into their techs beyond that.

[John]

What program did you do this in?  I like the look.

[John]

She may need a bigger brain to control all those muscles.   😮 Otherwise, pretty cool.

[John]

The email said something about transferring my account to Yahoo web hosting, which costs $4.95/year with a domain.  I guess sites like MySpace and Facebook rendered Geocities obsolete from a business perspective

I just hope they don't pull the plug on Yahoo Groups as well. 

[John]

Uploading copyrighted videos can definitely work as publicity.

Except it seems that the dudes who upload these videos never, EVER state where they came from or where you can buy them.

Google isn't that hard to use.  Besides, I think the real reason many don't post that info is because then they'd be admitting to Youtube that they are not copyright owners (which Youtube asks when you upload a vid).  Most viewers have the sense to know that a fan video poster isn't WPW or some other "major" producer.  Most of the stuff I posted on my channel, when I had one for that purpose, were small clips and many were free samples off of a site, and montages with many small clips put together.  I was just posting them on Youtube to enhance visibility of obscure Tina Lockwood clips, like the one where she is posing and being measured very early in her career.

Yeah, I get the point that a few entrepreneurs run the "schmotog" business, and not big money corps, but I still find "copyrighting" some classic FBB like Tina Lockwood or Cory Everson, for mere profit, just kind wrong in some ways.  Sure their photographic and videographic work should be appreciated and protected, but at the same time, these types of instances represent rare specimens in female muscular development.  Since the media capturing these bodily sculptures is limited to small e-businesses and rare (now extinct) ESPN show footage, the only instances of these "specimens" is via some form of copyrighted work.  You start to ask the question: what is being copyrighted, the pixels and film, or the athlete?  Can real people be copyrighted?  If the only way one has to see a classic FBB is through a copyrighted photo or video shoot, then the accessibility, at least by strict letter of the law, of that FBB's likeness is controlled by the photographer or videographer that shot the person.

The "this is a small niche business" argument can be used both ways.  The fact that a small few  control rights of the visibility of a small number of elite physique athletes and models is what I think it boils down to.  In Hollywood, in addition to movies, talk show appearances, and numerous publicity shoots, a star can be shot by paparazzi, as well as millions of fans that may happen to run into these stars on the street.  A typical A-List star has literally tens of thousands of video clips and photos  of themselves circulating, so that fans and anyone else can have a wide variety of outlets to turn to to access a certain individual's form and personality. 

As one who likes drawing muscular women, it is nice to find as many examples as I can find to use as a reference.  I don't go to shows or have a bunch of money to spend on paysites.  I usually have to find what I can here and there.  On the other hand, I have no immediate intention of charging for anything I make (partly because few would pay…), so at least I give something to schmoedom besides money. 

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