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Dsarker

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Re: Real-Life Cotton Candy
« Reply #105 on: December 01, 2011, 05:41:27 pm »

I hope that people realize in order to manufacture one of these (efficiently) we have to stick with one.
 
I think we should stick with nano tubes and not this- nanotubes have applications in space elevators and civilian armor.  This thing here is too light to do anything, and the information is not detailed enough for me.

Also, strength is done by weight/mass, which means that spider silk has more strength.  They really don't have strength for size, which worries me.
Your statement makes no sense at all. We do not have to 'stick with' one thing or another. We as a species are perfectly capable of manufacturing more than one thing at quite high efficiency.

Adaptability and specialisation are some of the few only things we as a species have going for us. Other then that, pretty apocalyptic, and humanity is really screwed. Also strength falls under hardness (scratch resistance), malleability, ductility and what-not.

What do you mean, few things we as a species have going for us? We have a high enough endurance that one way we can do hunting is chasing down our target until they die of exhaustion. We're no real slowpokes, either.
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Re: Real-Life Cotton Candy
« Reply #106 on: December 01, 2011, 05:46:16 pm »

Don't know about you, but with current world problems hunting isn't much of a solution :d

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Re: Real-Life Cotton Candy
« Reply #107 on: December 01, 2011, 05:48:13 pm »

Yeah, we've sorta moved beyond hunting prowess.
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« Reply #108 on: December 01, 2011, 07:24:26 pm »

Regardless, you can go for several days without consuming or drinking anything. That's a huge advantage. Hell, you know what made the dinosaurs such successful beasts? They didn't excrete as much.
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Re: Real-Life Cotton Candy
« Reply #109 on: December 01, 2011, 07:37:26 pm »

Regardless, you can go for several days without consuming or drinking anything. That's a huge advantage. Hell, you know what made the dinosaurs such successful beasts? They didn't excrete as much.

Yeah well they were cold blooded. We require much more energy. Consistently go without food and water and you'd die very quickly. 'Sides, we farm better then we hunt.

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« Reply #110 on: December 02, 2011, 07:56:33 am »

Regardless, you can go for several days without consuming or drinking anything. That's a huge advantage.
Not really sure how this helps humans in the modern world, and I know most people don't take advantage of it just by looking around at all the overweight balls of fat.
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Re: Real-Life Cotton Candy
« Reply #111 on: December 02, 2011, 08:04:31 am »

Regardless, you can go for several days without consuming or drinking anything. That's a huge advantage. Hell, you know what made the dinosaurs such successful beasts? They didn't excrete as much.

Yeah well they were cold blooded. We require much more energy. Consistently go without food and water and you'd die very quickly. 'Sides, we farm better then we hunt.

actually... they were warm blooded, as are birds.
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Re: Real-Life Cotton Candy
« Reply #112 on: December 02, 2011, 01:42:30 pm »

Regardless, you can go for several days without consuming or drinking anything. That's a huge advantage. Hell, you know what made the dinosaurs such successful beasts? They didn't excrete as much.

Yeah well they were cold blooded. We require much more energy. Consistently go without food and water and you'd die very quickly. 'Sides, we farm better then we hunt.

actually... they were warm blooded, as are birds.

I was generalizing >_>

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Re: Real-Life Cotton Candy
« Reply #113 on: December 02, 2011, 11:17:25 pm »

Regardless, you can go for several days without consuming or drinking anything. That's a huge advantage. Hell, you know what made the dinosaurs such successful beasts? They didn't excrete as much.

Yeah well they were cold blooded. We require much more energy. Consistently go without food and water and you'd die very quickly. 'Sides, we farm better then we hunt.

actually... they were warm blooded, as are birds.

I was generalizing >_>

A similar generalization to "mammals are cold-blooded" >_>

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« Reply #114 on: December 02, 2011, 11:25:41 pm »

You're technically wrong when you say that dinosaurs are warm blooded like birds. More like dinosaurs are warm blooded, as are their descendants, the birds.
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« Reply #115 on: December 02, 2011, 11:31:02 pm »

You're technically wrong when you say that dinosaurs are warm blooded like birds. More like dinosaurs are warm blooded, as are their descendants, the birds.

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« Reply #116 on: December 03, 2011, 12:28:14 am »

You're technically wrong when you say that dinosaurs are warm blooded like birds. More like dinosaurs are warm blooded, as are their descendants, the birds.

"Do dragons have raspy tongues like cats?"
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Re: Real-Life Cotton Candy
« Reply #117 on: December 03, 2011, 02:51:51 am »

I never use Fus Ro Dah against dragons, partially because they never live long enough against my Daedric Sword (legendary) with a 15-point fire damage enchantment.
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Re: Real-Life Cotton Candy
« Reply #118 on: December 03, 2011, 05:02:28 am »

You're technically wrong when you say that dinosaurs are warm blooded like birds. More like dinosaurs are warm blooded, as are their descendants, the birds.
That's not technically wrong. Both dinosaurs and birds are warm blooded. These aspects of their nature are similar.
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« Reply #119 on: December 03, 2011, 07:45:22 am »

I never use Fus Ro Dah against dragons, partially because they never live long enough against my Daedric Sword (legendary) with a 15-point fire damage enchantment.

Pfff nub, I punch dragons to death on master difficulty.

I'm no biologist or anything, but I find it hard to believe birds evolved from dinosaurs just like that, there is just such an immense size difference in most other then the smallest dinosaurs.. Maybe large birds like emu and the like, but to me it's more seemly they would have shared a common ancestor.
That's what my first thought would be anyway but like I say I'm no biologist.  :(
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