10-28-2010, 06:27 AM | #21 | |
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10-28-2010, 06:33 AM | #22 |
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Re: Would a 9 lb sapient spider producing 1/10 lb of silk a day suspend your disbelie
Don't large brains require a lot of protein? It would seem to me that weaving webs out of protein while also growing big brains is rather problematic.
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So we could say that a 9 lbs spider could carry up to 1/50th of a pound of silk protein as some sort of Silk Pool (EP), with regeneration of silk protein at 1/500th per day from eating normal proteins, or 1/50th per day if it can cannibalize old silk thread. |
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10-28-2010, 06:58 AM | #24 |
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Re: Would a 9 lb sapient spider producing 1/10 lb of silk a day suspend your disbelie
Everything Bruno said. Also:
Thank you for tonight's nightmares.
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10-28-2010, 08:18 AM | #25 | |
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That's...really horrifying. |
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10-28-2010, 08:28 AM | #26 | |
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Though for adolescents I suppose one of the ways to do this could be for the mother spider to insert eggs into a living creature's brain so that when the little spiders hatch they have enough protein available for their development. |
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10-28-2010, 10:20 AM | #27 | |
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Yesterday I had to escort outside a house centipede the size of my thumb. Turns out I'm the only person in the company who isn't freaked out by them, and of course they're coming inside this time of year for the winter. It's going to be a long six months for me and the centipedes I think. To quote the guy two cubes down after arriving to 'deal' with the centipede "You said it was a big bug, not a monster!"
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10-28-2010, 10:21 AM | #28 | |
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The latest word on the whereabouts of Amelia Eirhart, by the way, is suspected to be "in the burrows and tummies of a hell of a lot of land crabs".
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10-28-2010, 10:25 AM | #29 | |
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Oh, and thanks Ze for the brain-eating egg-laying head-spiders. I'm sure I'll sleep like a babe tonight. |
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10-28-2010, 10:28 AM | #30 |
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Re: Would a 9 lb sapient spider producing 1/10 lb of silk a day suspend your disbelie
There is at least one vegetarian spider, so that isn't a realism stumbling block.
1/500 lb per day and scaling down cost of living for status -1 by 1/9 results in the silk costing $500 per pound. Too bad Low Tech armor only gives a CF rather than breaking it down into materials and labor costs. |
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