Timeline for Spacecraft Design of a Cold-Blooded Humanoid Race
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| Sep 9, 2023 at 5:37 | comment | added | Vogon Poet | It's also worth pointing out that a cold blooded species could not be "similar or identical to humans in all other regards" by the simple nature that everything about a warm blooded species runs faster: thoughts, muscles, metabolism, and therefore; progress. Activity requires energy; spending energy has waste; ergo the most active organisms generate heat. Every science fiction makes their lizard-people fast and powerful, never really looking at actual activity levels of cold blooded creatures. Brain activity is the important distinction here since you're creating a space-faring species. | |
| Sep 9, 2023 at 4:10 | vote | accept | hjk321 | ||
| Sep 8, 2023 at 20:17 | comment | added | JBH | It's worth pointing out that "cold-blooded species" does not simply mean "can handle the cold." Cold blooded species still require heat - they simply must obtain most of it from external sources. It also means you need to explain the nature of your cold-blooded creatures. Do they have insulation? What minimum ambient heat do they require? You might want to look up what cold-blooded creatures on Earth are like and model your species after one or more of them - then ask this question. | |
| Sep 8, 2023 at 14:06 | comment | added | Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI | Also, lots and lots and LOTS of redundancy in the life support due do much smaller failure margins. | |
| Sep 8, 2023 at 11:22 | comment | added | Anentropic | heat lamps, basking chambers | |
| Sep 8, 2023 at 9:37 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 8, 2023 at 7:11 | answer | added | Vesper | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 8, 2023 at 2:40 | answer | added | bobtato | timeline score: 10 | |
| Sep 8, 2023 at 1:21 | comment | added | AlexP | The first and foremost difference between a cold-blooded species and a warm-blooded species is that the warm-blooded species has very much greater endurance for any kind of effort. That's what warm-blooded means: the capacity to regulate body temperature both when sitting idle and when working hard. And, of course, the warm-blooded species can be active in a very much larger range of external temperatures... Your cold-blooded spacemen would need much stricter environmental controls, and would need to schedule 5 minutes breaks after each 1 minute of work. | |
| Sep 8, 2023 at 0:58 | history | asked | hjk321 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |