Timeline for Hard Sci-Fi Werewolf
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| Sep 3, 2021 at 4:47 | comment | added | JBH | @John Have you tried to write a story before? That statement strongly suggests you haven't. | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 21:50 | comment | added | John | @JoinJBHonCodidact and if an explanation does not actually work it is not necessarily better than a handwave. | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 3:10 | comment | added | JBH | @John You might be missing the point of this site. The goal is not to help the OP create a fictional world ruled over by the Scientific Truth of the real world, but to help the OP create their fictional world's rules. I believe James was looking for scientifically-based information that would help him rationalize a completely fictional and frankly "unbelievable" (from the perspective of Scientific Truth) creature. That being said, the fangs give him insight into how he can explain his fictional creation - nothing more. | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 22:00 | comment | added | John | A small note the snakes that rotate their fangs are not rotating the teeth but the premaxilla they are embedded it, it won't work for that many teeth. it also means they will have large areas of the jaw with no teeth and pretty pathetic bite strength. also the finger and toe thing won't work because to make it you need to use the fingerbones that exist meaning they end up with only a single joint in the fingers when "retracted". Also the muscle needed to lock your ankle will have to be massive bigger than the thigh muscles, and you don't have enough bones to make an extra joint. | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 4:33 | comment | added | JBH | @JamesMcLellan I can't see fur being pushed by muscle through the dermis. It would need to be so rigid you could almost sand wood with it or so short that it's nowhere near the length you want. But, more to the point, you've asked for a hard-science solution, and no real-life example of that (or even feathers) exists that I could quickly find. The density of muscle structure needed is mind boggling. Humans are born with about 5 million hair follicles. | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 21:50 | comment | added | James McLellan | For fur, I was thinking of a thicker dermis where possible ranging from the usual 1.7mm to maybe 5mm. The coat of fur might be pushed up by some kind of muscle action. Just don’t know if half a cm of fur is good enough. | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 17:43 | history | answered | JBH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |