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Post by sparrowhawk on Feb 26, 2004 21:03:16 GMT
What do you all think of the new female gfx? I say: Pretty excellent!  A big thankyou to Wayne (Valen) for drawing these, and apologies for taking soooooo long to incorporate them. |
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Post by Matija on Feb 26, 2004 21:12:54 GMT
They're great.
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Post by Perun on Feb 26, 2004 22:50:33 GMT
What female gfx? ;D
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Post by Ringthane on Feb 27, 2004 8:59:05 GMT
Awesome work  BUT female dragons could have, you know, milk bottles. |
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Post by queex on Feb 27, 2004 9:44:25 GMT
Or big crests. Or whacking great horns.
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Post by Ringthane on Feb 27, 2004 10:03:40 GMT
I sense brit humor ;D
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Post by celebaglar on Feb 27, 2004 15:21:09 GMT
Awesome work BUT female dragons could have, you know, milk bottles. I hate to spoil the fun by pointing out the obvious, but reptiles don't have umm.. milk bottles. If they did, they'd be mammals.  |
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Post by Ringthane on Feb 27, 2004 15:57:32 GMT
Dragons are as big as whales. They could be mammals. Or something like the platypus. Is that how it's called in english? ;D
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Post by celebaglar on Feb 27, 2004 16:57:07 GMT
Dragons are as big as whales. If they were, they wouldn't be able to walk on land, never mind fly, at least if we stuck to some semblence of real-world physics. I tend to picture them more like the size of large sauropods (although those wouldn't be able to fly either) Well, every dragon depiction I've seen and every description I've read indicates a reptilian creature, not a large mammal. Yes, that's what it's called, but the platypus is also a mammal. Besides, the platypus doesn't have mammaries either. |
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Post by Matija on Feb 27, 2004 17:26:27 GMT
Milk bottles are an improvement of egg. So, only one version is present. And dragons are recorded to have eggs.
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Post by Ringthane on Feb 27, 2004 20:19:59 GMT
Physics is my game. If Dragons used their mammaries to send tons of electroweak bosons to interact with excitable ore deposits down below, they could in theory overcome the gravitational field around their body area. How they propel forward is another matter, but I remind that even sauropods possess an evacuation system where a chemically unstable gaseous phase could transit and perhaps even ignite.
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Post by Perun on Feb 27, 2004 23:39:12 GMT
Just to correct Celeryburglar: platypus is primitive mammal - it lays eggs, but feeds the pup with milk.
So, Fernando could be right here. Mommy dragon (dragoness? dragonetta?) lays eggs (or egg, if it's like ostriches') and after they hatch feeds the babies from her, er, milk bottles. Yeah, sounds OK to me. ;D And if the milk is cold, she can warm it in no time!
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Post by celebaglar on Feb 28, 2004 5:13:27 GMT
Just to correct Celeryburglar: platypus is primitive mammal - it lays eggs, but feeds the pup with milk. Just to correct the correction: the platypus does feed its young with milk, but it has no milk bottles. The milk just oozes from the skin - there's no specialised equipment as in most other mammals. Ahem. ;D Except that the only two mammals to lay eggs have no milk bottles as such. Both are too primitive for such luxuries. |
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Post by queex on Feb 29, 2004 9:23:53 GMT
Perhaps we should cross-post this conversation to alt.science.pedantry?  |
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Post by Perun on Feb 29, 2004 9:51:55 GMT
Perhaps we should cross-post this conversation to alt.science.pedantry? I agree ;D Milk glands, in shape of milk bottles or not, are still milk glands. Mommy dragon could have them in horns or tail spikes. |
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BUT female dragons could have, you know, milk bottles. 
