Timeline for Can I have a giant tortoise?
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| Dec 27, 2016 at 4:12 | comment | added | John | I can't see a way, not if it is made of cells and in roughly tortoise shaped. just handwave it like they do godzilla who has some kind of supposed biological nuclear reactor supplying metabolic energy, and they never even try to explain how he stays cool. | |
| Dec 26, 2016 at 18:39 | comment | added | Mendeleev | @John it is not hard science just science based, and is there no possibility of low gravity or dense gases or heat absorbents making it possible? | |
| Dec 26, 2016 at 18:17 | history | edited | John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2016 at 18:11 | history | edited | John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2016 at 17:59 | comment | added | John | @Mendeleev you can't, a living thing has to many built in constraints, even if you use exotic materials or move the creature into microgravity you still run into problems of gas and nutrient exchange, and simple thing like body heat. An organism that size is generating heat faster than it can shed it just becasue it is tortoise shaped. There is just no way to do it using hard science. | |
| Dec 26, 2016 at 17:57 | history | edited | John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2016 at 17:53 | comment | added | John | The issue with the lungs becomes the surface area of the lungs compared to the volume of the lungs, and the volume of air that needs to be moved, friction starts to exceed the forces the lungs can withstand/generate so you can't get fresh air into the lungs. | |
| Dec 26, 2016 at 17:49 | comment | added | Myrdden Wyllt | While I cannot comment on other issues right now, the surface area of a lung is almost fractal, and thus not usually an issue in scaling animals up. | |
| Dec 26, 2016 at 17:28 | history | edited | John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2016 at 17:27 | comment | added | Mendeleev | Yes I know all this as I said, but how could I make it work without magic? | |
| Dec 26, 2016 at 17:24 | history | answered | John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |