Activity for Xivote
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Photosynthetic hair for a plant based spine? Because I need a spine that works for massive and small creatures I'm thinking of making a plant-based spine (which has its own DNA). The spine acts kind of like a cucumber, in that when it sucks up more water it becomes sturdier, but when it loses water it becomes soft and malleable. A system of mus... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Teeth and mouth evolution in a species that only drinks fluids? I'm thinking of making a species that evolved in a planet that has a type of algae that secretes a nutrient rich sludge that the species only has to drink to survive. I know that this would make their digestive tract and internal organs vastly different than a humans, but what about how their mouths ... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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With Vanadium Dioxide muscles, is it plausible for a creature to have many small muscles for finer control than with a few large ones? Because vanadium dioxide experiences a sudden phase change at 67° C, instead of trying to make small changes to gradually contract or expand muscles, could an alien instead have many smaller muscles, like a bunch of separate smaller muscles connected to the bone, each one is a little weaker than ... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Internal micro-heating and Vanadium Dioxide muscles So Vanadium is present in fossil fuel reserves, and in present in some organics on earth, I figure that if a planet was rich enough in Vanadium a species could ingest it, then the vanadium could be oxidized and turned into strands inside their bodies. Now with that out of the way, I was wondering i... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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How to make human-like muscles more efficient? So our muscles run off of oxygen, but I heard from my brother when posing this question (he's a bio major in college) that using phosphorus instead of oxygen to power our muscles would make them far more efficient. Is this true? Also, because calcium ions in our muscles cause them to constrict, is t... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Creating a sturdier spine I've been spending a lot of time developing aliens for a comic I'm working on, in the skeletal structure department I've run into a bit of a roadblock, how to design a spine for a species that is kind of humanoid, but weighs several hundred pounds more. The spine also needs to be transferable to memb... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |