2013-03-04, 10:02 AM
Interesting theory on the origin of the snails theme, credit to apforums for the theory;
The phone snails or transponders snails or whatever, i have a theory that oda was insipired to create these due to a frenchman who was convinced that after a male and female snail mated, they could communicate telepathically. to test this theory he glued 24 male snales on a sort of dish and 24 females on other dishes. He sent the males to new york and kept the females in France. And he basically thought that if he wiggled the snails in new york the mate of that snail would wiggle just the same. He called it the passic lalinic sympathetic compass, using escargothic vibration. He actually got someone to fund this. And of course it didn't work. I duno if its just oda's fantasy or he heard of this guy, that make him end up on transponder snail. Just something to think about
The phone snails or transponders snails or whatever, i have a theory that oda was insipired to create these due to a frenchman who was convinced that after a male and female snail mated, they could communicate telepathically. to test this theory he glued 24 male snales on a sort of dish and 24 females on other dishes. He sent the males to new york and kept the females in France. And he basically thought that if he wiggled the snails in new york the mate of that snail would wiggle just the same. He called it the passic lalinic sympathetic compass, using escargothic vibration. He actually got someone to fund this. And of course it didn't work. I duno if its just oda's fantasy or he heard of this guy, that make him end up on transponder snail. Just something to think about