22nd September 2006, 9:35 AM
Humans in pots? That's not how humans work! I know you want a role reversal thing like the horse island where people are the animals, but that just don't work. Also, organs decay a little too quickly. My guys will pretty much ignore all the animals as fast moving nothings, just blowing by in the wind.
Giant world would be interesting, but to really be detailed it should also show the downsides. Remember, as you scale up a creature you have to make changes or it just collapses under it's own weight (volume increases faster than area which increases faster than length). Further, the animals you transfer to weakling world would need time to adapt to lower gravity. You have to walk differently on the moon or a super heavy planet than you do on Earth. That's why everyone's hopping around in those moon landing videos; it was the only way to move around that worked.
You like your ferrets. That is all.
Giant world would be interesting, but to really be detailed it should also show the downsides. Remember, as you scale up a creature you have to make changes or it just collapses under it's own weight (volume increases faster than area which increases faster than length). Further, the animals you transfer to weakling world would need time to adapt to lower gravity. You have to walk differently on the moon or a super heavy planet than you do on Earth. That's why everyone's hopping around in those moon landing videos; it was the only way to move around that worked.
You like your ferrets. That is all.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)