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How could I redesign my dragons to have 6 limbs and still be able to fly?
15 to 20 feet, or 5 to 7 metres with horns and teeth is quite a stretch for a flying animal in Earth's gravity and atmospheric pressure, but it is not completely impossible.
The most capable flying ...
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How could I redesign my dragons to have 6 limbs and still be able to fly?
Think Genes and Evolution
If you would like it to be scientifically plausible, you need to go back to fundamental scientific principles.
The process of evolution has produced a marvellous range and ...
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How could I redesign my dragons to have 6 limbs and still be able to fly?
NO dragons to date can plausibly fly. They all use magic/handwaving to fly. Lots of dragons don't even have wings. Your dragons can follow that time honoured theme, the number of limbs makes no ...
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Are Liquid Brains Possible or Viable?
If they do live in water, then you could say that they have a small liquid brain that acts as an interface between them and the water, and that the water acts like a "shared" brain between ...
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Are Liquid Brains Possible or Viable?
The brains of your hypothetical aliens could be fluidic computational systems. Fluidics is a technology that uses fluid instead of electricity. Turns out this can be used to make computers. Trouble is ...
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Are Liquid Brains Possible or Viable?
DNA computers
The machines we are used to, as well as our brains, rely on parts mounted in stable places with connections between them like axons, wires, or shafts. It is these solid-state connections ...
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Are Liquid Brains Possible or Viable?
Yes but it would have to be huge due to having to use water flow rather than electrical impulses.
So computers are binary, on/off, you could do the same thing with hydraulics, valves and pumps etc.. ...
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Are Liquid Brains Possible or Viable?
You might want to check out quorum sensing in bacteria. Bacteria can form a colony that behaves like a single bit more intelligent organism. Nothing would really prevent same thing happening in liquid ...
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Are Liquid Brains Possible or Viable?
In terrestrial biology, brains work by having many neurons, each with many connections to other neurons. It is thought that the particular number and position of the connections between neurons - the ...
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Where should an electric organ go in a human
Preamble: If we look at the physiology of electric eels, electric field generation requires a certain arrangement (series or parallel) of electrocytes, but these can be flexible, rather like neurons. ...
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How would a naga swim underwater?
Much like an Anaconda Swims
I'm avoiding citing Sea Snakes or similar who have adaptions specifically for swimming (e.g. flattened tails) - so primary movement would be with the tail.
The hands would ...
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How would a naga swim underwater?
Sea snakes move their tails side to side (lateral undulation) like sharks and unlike dolphins. Your naga can do the same. The human portion just uses it's arms for steering and the propulsion comes ...
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Could a creature which evolved in space using sunlight and gas for energy and propulsion, glide in our atmosphere?
If they've evolved to live in microgravity in a vacuum, then the experience of a warm planetary atmosphere would be a little like putting a human in a centrifuge, spinning them up to bone-crushing ...
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Where should an electric organ go in a human
How about the forearms or calves?
For the magnetic organs, placing the organs in the forearms or calves might be promising. There is enough room to place the organs without major body changes.
The ...
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Could a creature which evolved in space using sunlight and gas for energy and propulsion, glide in our atmosphere?
If the sails are also human-scale...
Not a Chance
A solar sail's force per square meter is 9.08 micro-newtons per square metre at Earth's orbit. Even assuming you could get sunlight through the ...
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Alien mobile plant life
This all comes down to two aspects:
how fast you want them to move, and
in what stage of their development you want them to move.
Note that the vast majority of Earth plants already move! Almost all ...
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Where should an electric organ go in a human
In the abdomen, easily
I disagree with the various posters that there isn't a lot of free space in the human body: the abdominal cavity is spectacularly flexible, and can comfortably accommodate your ...
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Where should an electric organ go in a human
Make the humans a bit bigger or fatter.
In a big belly there would be enough place for these organs and humans have proven to be able to live with that. Alternatively the humans could also be taller ...
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Where should an electric organ go in a human
This is a Frame Challenge
You appear to be setting the size of the organ without first deciding how the organ operates. Unless you have a reason for such a large organ that you've not explained, ...
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Where should an electric organ go in a human
Along the skin with fat
Though not quite in the description, I've looked at electric eels (a knifefish species) for inspiration. Their electric organs (main, Sach and hunters) consist of stacked nerve ...
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