Timeline for How plausible are my metal eating life forms and their impact on civilization?
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| Mar 10, 2016 at 12:59 | comment | added | Trismegistus | @WhatRoughBeast The miasma is something that i'm might just have to hand-wave since I don't know of anything real that behaves exactly as I want it to. The miasma's lethality and ability to "taint" refined-metal was inspired by radiation and radiation poisoning. To explain how the miasma imparts its toxicity to pure metals,i would posit that the miasma acts through molecular bonding it becomes a part of the metal that it comes in contact with. | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 5:08 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | The big problem with this is that, contaminated by miasma or not, metal phage bodies are concentrations of extremely high-quality ore. At the least, raiding parties would wait for windy weather, then move in on the botanicals from upwind, slaughter them and run off with their spoils. It's hard to believe that traces of miasma seeping out of the metal during reifining will be more dangerous than, for instance, refining the arsenic-bearing ores which produced the earliest bronzes. And a "miasma" which somehow spoils pure metals like iron is going to take some explaining. | |
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