Recent content by Necronox

Interesting that the fat, bone and muscle is the same, surprising really, but this particular bird would almost require a high power to rate ration wouldn't it? especially for take-off. In terms of your second last phrase, this bird is an apex, obviously predatory bird. they'd be pressure from...

that's what i thought, or at least that is my logic, but anyway, back to the original topic, how light could such a creature become? assuming a wingspan of roughly of 15 meters? (out of curiosity, what about 30 meters?)

what do you mean?

so, they have bones made of some wooden-like structure and some of their cells are not strictly organic, but simply neutral compounds that don't degenerate but carry out the same similar role? Interesting idea, but wouldn't a result of this allow for prolonged life expectancy? All thought that's...

okay, I've got no idea what your second paragraph means, went straight over my head.

but isn't water kind of necessary for the almost any animal being? how could an animal simply not need as much? would there be another lighter substitute to take on the roll of whatever water does in the animal body?

0.0 there's some good ideas there. On a side note, what would good substitute for keratin (which is used in nails, hair, scales, etc...)?

well that makes sense. =)

i see, but gliders don't "flap" wouldn't that generate more lift? since you're actively spending energy to fly, instead of just gliding where you're not spending energy to keep flying? It seems that something that big or heavy will simply not be able to fly because of so many different reasons...

What kind of effects would result from the Coriolis effect? besides, just how fast would the planet need to spin for the centrifugal force to affect flight? I'm not sure what other effects would that result in other then a faster day-night cycle? but in any case, I'm reluctant to be changing...

I suppose so, even by a small fraction it would help, but then again, i can't really explain that the planet, which is already a little bigger then earth, has similar gravity (i've chalked up the difference to a lighter planet - not as dense) I expect that sooner or later, i will have to make...

fair enough, so, in short, there no simple way to scale thing up realisticly? eventually, if i want to use those sizes, i would have to use stronger-but-lighter-then-bone replacements and muscles that give out more power, and to explain all this, give the said creature larger lungs, two large...

Any input is good input, at least that's what i think. Making the atmosphere denser would screw up some other parts of my world. As for making humans smaller, then that's also a little screwy since that put human out of proportion to everything else, i suppose it wouldn't be that far fetched...

well, it is a fantasy world. So that is the general idea, but as i said, i like, and want, to have something that is able to fly physically speaking, be realistic and not use typical fantasy things like magic. (no magic in my world - there are thing that people call magic, but it isn't - it is...

Fair enough, i did think it would be more biology orientated, but I've never done biology beyond high school, and I've never done biomechanics, so I'm at a loss there. according to 256bits' link, it seems to be some correlation between weight and speed. but that doesn't necessarily mean they...