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Harry, Time Travel and Sue
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: Rasins on November 13, 2017, 06:07:50 PM ---Yeah, I've stood beside sue, and she's really not that big. Bigger than an Elephant, but not THAT much bigger.
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Natural land animals, or at least vertebrate tetrapods, can't get much bigger than the dinosaurs got, for various reasons of physics and biology. Even the prey animals that the carnivorous dinos fed upon rarely got much over 100-140 tons. That's substantially bigger than Sue, but they wouldn't have made good combatants for Harry, either.
wardenferry419:
Because prey animals lack agression?
Kindler:
--- Quote from: LordDresden2 on November 29, 2017, 05:04:26 AM ---Natural land animals, or at least vertebrate tetrapods, can't get much bigger than the dinosaurs got, for various reasons of physics and biology. Even the prey animals that the carnivorous dinos fed upon rarely got much over 100-140 tons. That's substantially bigger than Sue, but they wouldn't have made good combatants for Harry, either.
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Conservation of mass-energy kind of gets in the way. It's one of the plot holes in Jurassic Park; a T-Rex simply couldn't have eaten enough to get that big in the amount of time since Hammond had cloned it.
wardenferry419:
Well, you just gotta suspend that disbelief or be ignorant like me!
Kindler:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on November 29, 2017, 10:49:20 PM ---Well, you just gotta suspend that disbelief or be ignorant like me!
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I honestly wish I could. I had to write a shapeshifter novelette to fulfill a publisher obligation a few years back, and simply couldn't ignore the physics problems. I wound up hamfistedly explaining the Square-Cube Law and Conservation of Mass just to point out that I recognized they were problems, but that there was something about shapeshifters that allowed them to ignore it.
Except the Square-Cube Law. I had to limit the shapeshifter to blatantly ignoring Conservation of Mass-Energy and turn into spiders and ants rather than just shrinking down when he needed to. A person the size of an ant would suffocate in minutes, or freeze to death in seconds.
The story would've been paced better if I didn't feel the need to shove the explanations in there, but I refused to let it go.
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