How do the Turtles use keyboards?
 

I mean, aren't their fingers too thick and few?

I've wondered. A keyboard is big enough that I imagine most versions can handle it, but either they never learned to type and stick with the two finger method or had to learn to compensate. (The PD guys however have big enough hands they probably just get frustrated and throw it across a room. :tlol:)

Imagine trying to hit the apps and letters on smart phones nowadays with those chunky fingers (any TMNT version). Hard enough sometimes with my skinny hands. lol But at least in that case they could make use of the stylus.




Bonus hands comment... I've always kinda laughed at the fact that they could never flip anyone off either. I mean, Are you trying to give someone the middle finger or just pointing up?

How do the Turtles use cell phones and send out text messages with those big unruly fingers of theirs?

https://ytimg.googleusercontent.com/.../mqdefault.jpg
Perhaps Donnie made them so they work on Morse code, tap in the Morse code and the letters appear in screen...

Nah that wouldn't work with Raphael who gets frustrated or with Mikey who would find a rhythm in the Morse code screwing up whatever message he was about to send.

Now, I'm a guitar player and I wonder, how can Leonardo play guitar with those huge fingers of his?
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6a/52...d950f30411.gif
https://images.equipboard.com/upload...g?v=1536508300
And for those who don't know, that particular guitar Leo plays here exists for real, it's a Rickenbacker 325 and it is seen here with its most famous user: John Lennon of the Beatles
https://tilonlysilenceremains.files....3_10.png?w=882

At that point it isn't even worth it, just dial the number. lol

I still have a little flip phone and each key has like three letters associated with it, plus a number, which is time consuming enough... morse code would be madness. :tlol:



Those poor guys. Definitely a wonky result of mutation that they lost digits in the process, considering their species of origin probably has the same number of digits we do.

Peter Laird and Sophie Campbell got you covered.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bLaSJk-pyF...omputer+sm.jpg

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca88...26d7f27b26.jpg

:D

Hmm... In order to play Chopsticks on the piano, would they literally use chopsticks if the keys are too small?

Krang and Utroms
 

How do Krang or the Utroms handle keyboards?

Their exo-suits have normal human hands.

Fair question, but this would feat the random thoughts thread better. :trazz:

Krang was seen using his tentacles, usually when in his bubble walker, to activate pushbuttons of computers.

I love that episode. :lol:

I have to say I'm always impressed if bewildered whenever I see someone texting so fast with a thumb. :o

Now I understand why in The Mean Machines when Raph says "we're not going down, we're going up" he uses his thumb and not a finger. :lol:

I almost feel like the turtles using chopsticks/wands or whatever is close to over thinking it. How can I take seriously that they can wield weapons with superior skill yet can't dial a phone number?

How often do you expect a talking turtle to use a phone?

How don't the Turtles die when the weather gets cold and they have to go out in the snow? I mean, they're reptiles. They have cold blood. Shouldn't snow and very cold weather kill them?

You would think so, or at least knock them out.

Personal opinion, but I've always just taken them to be moderately warm blooded (at least room temperature) since they can withstand the cold as well as humans. Esp based on the fact that just about every version is capable of sweating, so their system and flesh presumably has at least some degree of mammal-like qualities added in.


On the same note, if they weren't like us in these ways and couldn't sweat then they'd also risk dying of the heat in the summer. :ohwell: I'm sure a nice cool liar underground is a plus, but can't stay down there forever.

They'd probably use touch-typing or specialized keyboards, the way most people would if they had missing fingers/MS/various disfigurements I've noticed as I went to google search parallel scenarios with humans. Because there ware probably plenty of humans who have missing fingers, stunted movement, conditions like ectrodactyly, complete Syndactyly and so forth, and thus would only be able to use three fingers instead of the full five.


Maybe they'd have something like this if they wanted to try something different


Same going for Utroms. Who have also just used touch-typing when their own technology was unavailable.

Apparently they do it like this:

https://media.giphy.com/media/2A4bV0...GQXx/giphy.gif

lol So basically they type like my dad did.


Cool "keyboard" in that video, Utrommaniac, I could definitely see something like that being a good option for them.

Like this guy:
https://i.imgur.com/hWIp4.gif

If we're throwing in a few extra random questions related to their physical form and function... What the heck do the skulls of the various versions look like?

Would be interesting to see a realistic lineup by an artist who's good at sort of thing and figuring it out.

Look up Buslady's old DA work. She did some TMNT anatomical studies that were pretty good- and probably as accurate as we will ever see. It was under the name LadyRSanti. Her skelatal and muscular studies are very good, and she even did one to explain the matter of TMNT "junk". My go-to's for anatomy research!

Cool, I'll try to look it up, thanks. :)

Only as many times as they actually end up doing. :lol:

I headcanon that the turtles are either legit warm blooded, or the effects of mutation trump any reptilian short comings like being cold blooded if going by the "mutagen makes super soldiers" route. Which in that case, in my mind, means they might as well be warm blooded.

Or are they really?

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20170704031703
"Tastes like leather and Sweat!"

I don't know if Peter Laid and Kevin Eastman were consciously aware of this but even in the original Mirage Comics they gave some pretty strong hints.
https://www.miragelicensing.com/comi...01/02/0204.gif
Donnie and April working side-by-side to disable Baxter Stockman's Mousers, sweating bullets as they do so.

The "Return of Shredder" saga from the Mirage comics has Leo fighting the Foot on his own in the snow, which is recreated in the 2012 series, he falls into the water and emerges with steam coming from his body and out of his mouth.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20150607192915

In the IDW comics, after Bebop and Rocksteady broke Donnie's shell, nearly killing him, Fugitoid operates Donnie in a industrial freezer to slow down his metabolism, after he does so, the other turtles attend their fallen brother and have steam coming out of their mouths.
http://www.snappow.com/wp-content/up...rat85i64fc.jpg
Which leads to only one logical conclusion: They are Warm blooded.

Which also explains why Splinter could have them live in the sewers.

In the FW cartoon there's an episode where Shredder and Krang have this missile or wtv that senses the heat in a person's blood. It doesn't chase the Turtles because they're cold blooded, and even Donatello tells that to Shredder. The missile naturally then begins chasing Shredder and his goons at the end.

Napoleon Bonafrog: Colossus of the Swamps
 

Napoleon Bonafrog: Colossus of the Swamps

But the FW cartoons also state that Krang is not an Utrom while he is in every other version of the franchise.

Their fingers would be perfect for the keytuairs from COTS

This is why TMNT is such a confusing property. Each universe is quite different from each other. How's to say what version is accurate or not anymore? Maybe then, the Turtles are cold blooded in the FW series but warm blooded in others? And Utroms don't exist in the FW toon, so I guess that's why Krang is not one in it.

Krang never says he is not an Utrom. We saw his species in Four Musketurtles (even if I'm aware with the continuity errors), and I wouldn't be surprised if they were called the Utroms.

Seems a little varied from comments. In 2012, didn't Rockwell tease Donnie about warm blooded mammals being more intelligent than cold blooded?

Definitely one of those many things probably better left to personal interpretation I guess, esp with conflicting details or dialogue to point out.

No..?

The term Cold Blooded doesn't mean they have cold blood, being in a cold environment won't outright kill a turtle. Cold Blooded is just a informal term for creatures that adjust their body temperature with the environment. Like Ectotherms primarily gain heat through their environment.

Yeah, icold-cblooded basically just means their body temperature changes according to the surrounding environment, which is why reptiles bask or hibernate. They need heat to be active, but they don't automatically freeze in cold weather like warm-bloods do. They just go into torpor. (Though my theory is that while being cold-blooded, the TMNT CAN'T go into torpor without starving, due to their more human-like digestion and metabolism. So they wouldn't freeze, but they'd waste away from starvation if they hibernate, so they HAVE to stay active and warm... )

The Nick CG series tried to remedy this but created more problems with the FW continuity.

I think I saw Krang using the keyboard controlling his android during Fred Wolf season 1.

Let's be happy they had thumbs