Timeline for What ways could flight evolve besides the wings of bats, birds, and bugs?
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| May 1, 2018 at 6:18 | comment | added | Belle | Bernhard Hennen has an explanation for Overlord-like creatures in his Drachenelfen books. He calls them cloud-gatherers. They float by heating air, much like living hot air balloons. See: de.elfen.wikia.com/wiki/Wolkensammler | |
| May 1, 2018 at 1:18 | comment | added | Amoeba | @notstoreboughtdirt I'm so happy someone finally mentioned Pratchett on World building, I've been waiting for this day for a long time, you sir made my day! | |
| Apr 30, 2018 at 22:36 | comment | added | rackandboneman | That is the perfect fictional exception to prove the rule: Generating thrust while airborne means either losing a lot of reaction mass (rocket) or turning air into reaction mass (jet engine, pulsejet, propeller) - all these methods tend to need speeds and temperatures that biological tissues are not well suited for... | |
| Apr 30, 2018 at 22:08 | comment | added | user25818 | if you count fiction Pratchett's Guards! Guards! has a dragon using jet propulsion. | |
| Apr 30, 2018 at 16:30 | history | answered | PlutoThePlanet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |