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| Topic Started: Oct 11 2010, 12:12 AM (2,260 Views) | |
| Owl Streak | Oct 11 2010, 12:12 AM Post #1 |
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Do you think that if people used there arms enough their arms could possibly support them if we developed flight? |
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| Dragon wasp | Oct 16 2010, 06:38 PM Post #31 |
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ya i love that one... |
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| Owl Streak | Oct 20 2010, 07:22 PM Post #32 |
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yes that would be a great idea but what would they be made of? |
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| Dragon wasp | Oct 20 2010, 09:51 PM Post #33 |
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skin? |
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| Spugpow | Oct 22 2010, 06:26 PM Post #34 |
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Fudge? |
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| Dragon wasp | Oct 23 2010, 09:49 AM Post #35 |
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BANANAS |
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| Owl Streak | Oct 25 2010, 02:29 PM Post #36 |
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Um.... lets stop the food like materials please and think more realistic things!!!! espesialy you dragon wasp!!!! Now my idea is the same material as the flying siuts stretched over a light metal frame. |
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| Holben | Oct 25 2010, 02:39 PM Post #37 |
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Flying humans are implausible for several reasons. First, think how fast they'd have to beat their hearts. Second, consider the largest flying animals yet evolved- quetzalcoatlus and argentavis. Both probably weighed less than a hundred kilos while having a wing measurement of 11 and ~7m respectively. Mammalian tissue would need about a hundred million years of biological evolution to reach a point where they had as little density and appropriate physiological co-ordination, but then you might as well make them smaller.
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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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| Dragon wasp | Oct 25 2010, 10:25 PM Post #38 |
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oh!, and you get mad at me!?!?!? not "FUDGE" ? |
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| Spugpow | Oct 25 2010, 10:32 PM Post #39 |
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Do albatrosses have especially high heart rates? |
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| Holben | Oct 26 2010, 02:25 PM Post #40 |
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Rather high, but they do gliding and whatnot and they'd been preparing for 100 million years.
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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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| Scrublord | Oct 26 2010, 05:05 PM Post #41 |
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Wasn't there something like this in All Tomorrows? Of course, the Qu did things to humans that no sane human genetic engineer would. |
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| colddigger | Oct 26 2010, 06:00 PM Post #42 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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There were loads of fliers in All Tomorrows, but many of them lost their brain power and were incapable of regaining it, either they kept flight or kept their brain, most kept flight. One though had a special heart that allowed them to have both, unfortunately they had a lifespan of only about 20 years. |
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Oh Fine. Oh hi you! Why don't you go check out the finery that is SGP?? v Don't click v Spoiler: click to toggle | |
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| Spugpow | Oct 31 2010, 01:46 PM Post #43 |
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METHANE COMBUSTION ROCKET!!!! |
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| Holben | Oct 31 2010, 02:53 PM Post #44 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graboid |
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| Spugpow | Nov 2 2010, 01:27 AM Post #45 |
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That's pretty colorful .What about humans living in a rotating space environment that, over time, slowly ceases to rotate? The inhabitants need to find a way to propel themselves in zero-g, and so develop large wings made of skin. It's not quite flying, but it's pretty close. |
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