06-07-2015, 01:49 AM
(06-07-2015, 01:31 AM)The-Wolfster Wrote: ...Actually yeah that's a weird question which my friend brought up. Hydrogen(H2) has no dipole, which is useful for the binding and unbinding of molecules when carried through the bloodstream. Some other questions which lead further up and down the line are thing such as "what's the exchange organ" and "what's the waste product". With ammonia-based blood, how exactly does this work?
Gawd, I had this worked out at some point but I don't remember off the top of my head now or where I put the information, their full biochemistry I havn't worked out in full and I doubt it's particularly sound. But in principle Avali are methanogenic is the main thing to note and exhale methane, I have a feeling the mechanism I had in mind back then involved hydrogen/nitrogen -> acetylene/hydrogen cyanide dissociation and so get a major portion of their energy just from breathing. Food is mostly for building materials so to speak. (Huh... so their blood is toxic as hell to humans, hadn't considered that detail.). I have never fully formalised their internal anatomical structures (Let' just call it squeedly spooch and move on), though you can safely surmise there's a lung, heart and digestive system analogues
I think sometimes people over-focus on the little details and miss the greater premise of the race, that it was an examination of how an alien species might approach familiar things in a different way, rather than a complete analysis of biochemistry, astrophysics etc. generally if something is mentioned in detail it's because I have a good idea I wanted to try out, if it's passed over then I didn't have any particularly novel details to add to the topic.