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| A flying animal for humans to fly on? | |
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| Topic Started: Aug 6 2010, 03:57 PM (2,724 Views) | |
| Dean | Aug 6 2010, 03:57 PM Post #1 |
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Do you think an animal that humans can use to fly on could have evolved? If so, what kind of animal would be the most suitable for this purpose and what divergence would a world containing this animal would need to take from ours, in order for this animal to evolve? If humans began flying on this animal about the same time humans in our world started riding horses, how would this affected human history? Obviously, this animal would need to be strong enough to achieve powered flight with an average adult human riding it, tame enough in it's undomesticated state that humans would even try riding one, and it would need to be at least as smart as a horse, or at least as smart as to co-operate with the human who rides it. What are your ideas? |
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| lamna | Oct 9 2010, 11:08 AM Post #46 |
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Indeed. Much of falconry is stopping the bird doing it's thing. |
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| Flisch | Oct 9 2010, 11:22 AM Post #47 |
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Maybe we should start breeding giant parrots. Or pigeons, breed some usefulness into them vermin! |
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| Holben | Oct 9 2010, 12:08 PM Post #48 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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I want the urban peregrines to have something to eat though. Hey, if you get an 80kg bird like a teratorn, which is pretty much the biggest bird you can get that can take off, and sit on it, you're doubling its weight. I'm not, but you probably are. Probably. How heavy are you? Anyway, birds that size have weak limb bones. They counldn't take off unless they were dropped by helicopter or something. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Owl Streak | Oct 9 2010, 12:34 PM Post #49 |
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well what if you could have platformy thing supported by birds? |
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| lamna | Oct 9 2010, 01:44 PM Post #50 |
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Or one of those cannon the shoot chickens at plane with the check if they will be ok in a bird strike. |
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| Toad of Spades | Oct 9 2010, 02:17 PM Post #51 |
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Clorothod
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You could ride on it if you were a jockey or a little person. |
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Sorry Link, I don't give credit. Come back when you're a little...MMMMMM...Richer. Bread is an animal and humans are %90 aluminum. | |
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| Holben | Oct 9 2010, 02:25 PM Post #52 |
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If you weighed 20 kilos then maybe. Much more... |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Carlos | Oct 10 2010, 05:02 AM Post #53 |
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Adveho in me Lucifero
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As I always say, hollow bones =/= weak bones. Azdarchids had bone walls that were milimeter thick, but were surprisingly resistent; the dromeosaur tooth discovered in a canadian azhdarchid bone not only barely penetrated it, but was broken. |
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| Kamidio | Dec 4 2010, 01:02 AM Post #54 |
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Facepalm Lamna, just facepalm. The Mythbusters proved they don't do that. |
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| colddigger | Dec 4 2010, 01:25 AM Post #55 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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We can dream can't we? |
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| lamna | Dec 4 2010, 02:03 AM Post #56 |
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What did I get wrong? That people don't use chickens in bird strike tests? That planes can survive birdstrikes? |
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