Timeline for Hard Sci-Fi Werewolf
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| Aug 31, 2021 at 22:12 | comment | added | John | @JamesMcLellan neither the tarsus nor the ankle connected to the femur, there is nothing called the tarsis. the femur is the upper most leg bone, can you clarify what you mean? | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 22:08 | comment | added | Pelinore | @John Yep, I didn't say it was ideal, easy, or even very possible, just that it was the only potential option for this question with the restrictions it has because you can't grow new bits fast enough. | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 22:03 | comment | added | John | @Pelinore unlike a transformer, meat has many things attached to it like blood vessels and nerves that cant be switched out. you can't make a transformer out of meat. muscles have really limited ranges of motion. | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 21:40 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 20:36 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | @James McLellan I recently watched the movie The Beast Must Die, 1974) that caused me to reread the story it is based, James Blish's "There Shall Be No Darkness", 1950, a werewolf story with werewolves similar to those in the movie The Wolf Man, 1941, but with science fictional instead of supernatural explanations. You might want to make your werewolvs similar to Blish's. The TV Trope Our werewolves are Diferent mentions may ways in which fictional werewolves differ, an d you might find inspiratin i the more scientifically plausible ones. | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 6:42 | answer | added | Ash | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 21:12 | comment | added | Henry Taylor | @Alexander, Whenever I write HiSci-SciFi, I tend to fall back on legendary inaccuracies and retelling-distortion for anything that I can't make work within the extended laws of physics I give my world. I rarely try to stretch evolution too far because that is where critics strike first. Unless retractable hair somehow offers a survival advantage, I'd let it go as a fake legend. That having been said, hairs standing up has evolutionary precedence (it increases threat posture) so perhaps retractable hair is just very good camouflage. Compared to what chameleons can do, it is very believable. | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 20:10 | comment | added | Alexander | @Henry Taylor there might be, sure. It's just existing depictions of werewolves don't shed hair. | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 19:38 | comment | added | Henry Taylor | @Alexander, you might be better off having the excess hair shed rather than retract. There are established biological mechanisms for that. | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 17:43 | answer | added | JBH | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 17:41 | comment | added | James McLellan | @Alexander I was hoping so | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 16:29 | comment | added | Alexander | During the reverse transformation (wolf to human), does body hair need to be retracted into the skin? | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 15:58 | comment | added | MolbOrg | Naturally evolved nanotechnology, mmm soo sweet, spiced with hard science tag, mm soo good, can't wait for answers to come, so much rep to spend, lol. What kind of hard science do you expect there? | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 15:15 | comment | added | Pelinore | @JohnO "Mitosis has some maximum rate" Yep, it pretty much means the only option here is some sort of meat transformer with all these structures tucked away somewhere ready to slide into place. | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 15:02 | comment | added | John O | Mitosis has some maximum rate, and things like teeth are even slower to generate (though perhaps those can merely be hidden/unhidden... the human jaw is pretty small though, even 3rd molars are problematic). I don't know that this is feasible from a hard science standpoint. | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 14:54 | comment | added | Matthew | "Can do the following within an hour"... pretty much that entire list is right out if you really want to stick to hard science. | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 13:58 | history | notice added | L.Dutch♦ | Hard Science | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 13:36 | history | asked | James McLellan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |