Next time you feel bad about yourself, pent up or at a loss for perspective, do yourself a favor: find the obituary page, look up the oldest deadie and revel at all the interesting and boring things you can do in a lifetime and still kick the bucket.
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Todd, the word 'deadie' is almost too good to be true. More posts like this please.
By the way, I also find it unbelievable that I will one day stop breathing. It's inconceivable.
Did Aquaman have gills?
No. He had great hair though, particularly for a guy who was in and out of the water all the time.
aquaman did not have gills. Here's an excerpt from his debut.
The story must start with my father, a famous undersea explorer — if I spoke his name, you would recognize it. My mother died when I was a baby, and he turned to his work of solving the ocean's secrets. His greatest discovery was an ancient city, in the depths where no other diver had ever penetrated. My father believed it was the lost kingdom of Atlantis. He made himself a water-tight home in one of the palaces and lived there, studying the records and devices of the race's marvelous wisdom. From the books and records, he learned ways of teaching me to live under the ocean, drawing oxygen from the water and using all the power of the sea to make me wonderfully strong and swift. By training and a hundred scientific secrets, I became what you see — a human being who lives and thrives under the water.
I suppose he may have gills, but I think it is mostly chi-leverage and muscle control.
And great hair.
Atlanteans had great hair.
Someone on an online forum said that Aquaman's lungs perform like gills.
They also said Superman could hold his breath for 90 minutes, up from a mere 20 minutes no too long ago. Apparently he has been practicing.
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