Thread:Mr.Robbo/@comment-5870856-20150126033221/@comment-5135903-20150214132302

Gases and liquids are clearly defined states of matter. A substance might only be thought of as being like a liquid and a gas under certain extreme circumstances, such as past a liquid-vapour critical point (even then the definition of appearing as a liquid and a gas at the same time isn't technically correct).

I wouldn't exactly call luftbodens floating islands, and I doubt there would be any major fauna living on them. They are, after all, basically just a tangle of plant roots with a few chunks of dirt trapped within them. Rather than the 'floating mountains' from Avatar, which rely on the magnetic properties of the fictional superconductor 'unobtainium', I would compare luftboden to the mysterious living island from Life of Pi, which is actually very similar to a luftboden, but floats on the sea instead of in the air.

Nubisviventids is a bastardisation of a Latin phrase referring to living clouds. Taxonomic names on Quinoa include a mixture of Ancient Greek, Greek, Latin and Esperanto.