08-24-2015, 03:29 AM
More doodles added to front page
As has been explained several times before, I'm no xeno-biologist. The methanogenic reaction process was recommended by another self professed expert, like yourself. I don't remember the exact details other than they required hydrogen to breathe, exhaled methane, and somewhere in the reaction pathway it involved synthesizing acetylene, which a cursory glance online brings up NASA discussing a similar reaction pathway as a viable option for life on Titan. So if you have a recommendation for a "better" biology that would operate in sub-zero temperatures I'm all ears (Literally in the case of Avali), I'm not exactly married to the idea (You could almost call it 'early access' an incomplete project that suddenly snowballed in popularity)
I'm also quite aware that such a metabolism would not provide anywhere near enough energy to fuel a creature so complex as an Avali, even _with_ the adaptations for energy storage and information co-processing, nonetheless both are interesting ideas that arise form a constrained energy budget.
Frankly both topics go way beyond the scope of the original thought exercise and stemmed from people like yourself demanding a scientific answer to every little thing (and the answers used, were derived from their research) even when it went way beyond my own plans for them. I only ever settled on them being from an iceball world, largely to illustrate and play with the paradoxical way that we (humans) perceive ice, snow and liquid water, as being different to regular solids, sands and molten materials.
(07-27-2015, 05:17 AM)SharpTeeth Wrote: *snip*
As has been explained several times before, I'm no xeno-biologist. The methanogenic reaction process was recommended by another self professed expert, like yourself. I don't remember the exact details other than they required hydrogen to breathe, exhaled methane, and somewhere in the reaction pathway it involved synthesizing acetylene, which a cursory glance online brings up NASA discussing a similar reaction pathway as a viable option for life on Titan. So if you have a recommendation for a "better" biology that would operate in sub-zero temperatures I'm all ears (Literally in the case of Avali), I'm not exactly married to the idea (You could almost call it 'early access' an incomplete project that suddenly snowballed in popularity)
I'm also quite aware that such a metabolism would not provide anywhere near enough energy to fuel a creature so complex as an Avali, even _with_ the adaptations for energy storage and information co-processing, nonetheless both are interesting ideas that arise form a constrained energy budget.
Frankly both topics go way beyond the scope of the original thought exercise and stemmed from people like yourself demanding a scientific answer to every little thing (and the answers used, were derived from their research) even when it went way beyond my own plans for them. I only ever settled on them being from an iceball world, largely to illustrate and play with the paradoxical way that we (humans) perceive ice, snow and liquid water, as being different to regular solids, sands and molten materials.