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Imagine human like creatures with glands inside their forearms that can quickly produce a liquid that when exposed to air turns to a solid has hard as bone.
The liquid can be used to create and throw projectiles out of the forearm or to create a blade attached to the underside of the wrist.
How could this evolve and why?
biology creature-design natural-weapons
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Imagine human like creatures with glands inside their forearms that can quickly produce a liquid that when exposed to air turns to a solid has hard as bone.
The liquid can be used to create and throw projectiles out of the forearm or to create a blade attached to the underside of the wrist.
How could this evolve and why?
biology creature-design natural-weapons
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I don't think shapeshifters applies here. I replaced it with natural-weapons, which seems more appropriate given the question. Other tags may also apply.
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Imagine human like creatures with glands inside their forearms that can quickly produce a liquid that when exposed to air turns to a solid has hard as bone.
The liquid can be used to create and throw projectiles out of the forearm or to create a blade attached to the underside of the wrist.
How could this evolve and why?
biology creature-design natural-weapons
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Imagine human like creatures with glands inside their forearms that can quickly produce a liquid that when exposed to air turns to a solid has hard as bone.
The liquid can be used to create and throw projectiles out of the forearm or to create a blade attached to the underside of the wrist.
How could this evolve and why?
biology creature-design natural-weapons
biology creature-design natural-weapons
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I don't think shapeshifters applies here. I replaced it with natural-weapons, which seems more appropriate given the question. Other tags may also apply.
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I don't think shapeshifters applies here. I replaced it with natural-weapons, which seems more appropriate given the question. Other tags may also apply.
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I don't think shapeshifters applies here. I replaced it with natural-weapons, which seems more appropriate given the question. Other tags may also apply.
– Î± CVn♦
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I don't think shapeshifters applies here. I replaced it with natural-weapons, which seems more appropriate given the question. Other tags may also apply.
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It couldn't.
Anything that hardens that fast will have a soft interior because the inside has not been exposed to air long enough to harden. You need either slow extrusion, with each thin layer forming on top of the earlier ones, like coats of paint; or thin fibres that bind together to form a single structure, i.e., a horn. Neither one is an instantaneous process, so Wolverine claws are right out.
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It won't.
We do have liquid suspensions that solidify when they get out of the bloodstream or our glands: platelets become blood clots, gunk is left over when tears dry etc. But those are not very dense.
For a claw or projectile to be made, it would be as dense as the liquid it came from if it kept the same volume. In other words, for the volume of a 9mm bullet (a little less than 0.18cm3), you'd spend that much fluid to make a bullet as dense as the fluid itself. For the record, human blood is marginally more dense than water.
Every time you double the amount of liquid for the dame volume (compressing the liquid), you double density
To achieve the density of human bone ([1.75g/cm3), you'd need to spend just a little more blood per bullet.
How effective would that be? Get a t-bone bone (I know it sounds silly, but I can't find another name for it), break it into bullet sized pieces and toss at a friend. For science. Now imagine a creature bleeding in order to do that. In the very least natural selection would penalize creatured who used this "weapon" to hunt, or to fend off predators. If you are willing to stretch the bow past the point where it breaks, such bone bullets could be used in sexual courtship, but that's it.
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It couldn't.
Anything that hardens that fast will have a soft interior because the inside has not been exposed to air long enough to harden. You need either slow extrusion, with each thin layer forming on top of the earlier ones, like coats of paint; or thin fibres that bind together to form a single structure, i.e., a horn. Neither one is an instantaneous process, so Wolverine claws are right out.
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It couldn't.
Anything that hardens that fast will have a soft interior because the inside has not been exposed to air long enough to harden. You need either slow extrusion, with each thin layer forming on top of the earlier ones, like coats of paint; or thin fibres that bind together to form a single structure, i.e., a horn. Neither one is an instantaneous process, so Wolverine claws are right out.
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It couldn't.
Anything that hardens that fast will have a soft interior because the inside has not been exposed to air long enough to harden. You need either slow extrusion, with each thin layer forming on top of the earlier ones, like coats of paint; or thin fibres that bind together to form a single structure, i.e., a horn. Neither one is an instantaneous process, so Wolverine claws are right out.
answered 24 mins ago
nzaman
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It couldn't.
Anything that hardens that fast will have a soft interior because the inside has not been exposed to air long enough to harden. You need either slow extrusion, with each thin layer forming on top of the earlier ones, like coats of paint; or thin fibres that bind together to form a single structure, i.e., a horn. Neither one is an instantaneous process, so Wolverine claws are right out.
answered 24 mins ago
nzaman
7,89211340
answered 24 mins ago
nzaman
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answered 24 mins ago
nzaman
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answered 24 mins ago
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It won't.
We do have liquid suspensions that solidify when they get out of the bloodstream or our glands: platelets become blood clots, gunk is left over when tears dry etc. But those are not very dense.
For a claw or projectile to be made, it would be as dense as the liquid it came from if it kept the same volume. In other words, for the volume of a 9mm bullet (a little less than 0.18cm3), you'd spend that much fluid to make a bullet as dense as the fluid itself. For the record, human blood is marginally more dense than water.
Every time you double the amount of liquid for the dame volume (compressing the liquid), you double density
To achieve the density of human bone ([1.75g/cm3), you'd need to spend just a little more blood per bullet.
How effective would that be? Get a t-bone bone (I know it sounds silly, but I can't find another name for it), break it into bullet sized pieces and toss at a friend. For science. Now imagine a creature bleeding in order to do that. In the very least natural selection would penalize creatured who used this "weapon" to hunt, or to fend off predators. If you are willing to stretch the bow past the point where it breaks, such bone bullets could be used in sexual courtship, but that's it.
answered 15 mins ago
Renan
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It won't.
We do have liquid suspensions that solidify when they get out of the bloodstream or our glands: platelets become blood clots, gunk is left over when tears dry etc. But those are not very dense.
For a claw or projectile to be made, it would be as dense as the liquid it came from if it kept the same volume. In other words, for the volume of a 9mm bullet (a little less than 0.18cm3), you'd spend that much fluid to make a bullet as dense as the fluid itself. For the record, human blood is marginally more dense than water.
Every time you double the amount of liquid for the dame volume (compressing the liquid), you double density
To achieve the density of human bone ([1.75g/cm3), you'd need to spend just a little more blood per bullet.
How effective would that be? Get a t-bone bone (I know it sounds silly, but I can't find another name for it), break it into bullet sized pieces and toss at a friend. For science. Now imagine a creature bleeding in order to do that. In the very least natural selection would penalize creatured who used this "weapon" to hunt, or to fend off predators. If you are willing to stretch the bow past the point where it breaks, such bone bullets could be used in sexual courtship, but that's it.
answered 15 mins ago
Renan
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up vote
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It won't.
We do have liquid suspensions that solidify when they get out of the bloodstream or our glands: platelets become blood clots, gunk is left over when tears dry etc. But those are not very dense.
For a claw or projectile to be made, it would be as dense as the liquid it came from if it kept the same volume. In other words, for the volume of a 9mm bullet (a little less than 0.18cm3), you'd spend that much fluid to make a bullet as dense as the fluid itself. For the record, human blood is marginally more dense than water.
Every time you double the amount of liquid for the dame volume (compressing the liquid), you double density
To achieve the density of human bone ([1.75g/cm3), you'd need to spend just a little more blood per bullet.
How effective would that be? Get a t-bone bone (I know it sounds silly, but I can't find another name for it), break it into bullet sized pieces and toss at a friend. For science. Now imagine a creature bleeding in order to do that. In the very least natural selection would penalize creatured who used this "weapon" to hunt, or to fend off predators. If you are willing to stretch the bow past the point where it breaks, such bone bullets could be used in sexual courtship, but that's it.
answered 15 mins ago
Renan
36.8k1184188
It won't.
We do have liquid suspensions that solidify when they get out of the bloodstream or our glands: platelets become blood clots, gunk is left over when tears dry etc. But those are not very dense.
For a claw or projectile to be made, it would be as dense as the liquid it came from if it kept the same volume. In other words, for the volume of a 9mm bullet (a little less than 0.18cm3), you'd spend that much fluid to make a bullet as dense as the fluid itself. For the record, human blood is marginally more dense than water.
Every time you double the amount of liquid for the dame volume (compressing the liquid), you double density
To achieve the density of human bone ([1.75g/cm3), you'd need to spend just a little more blood per bullet.
How effective would that be? Get a t-bone bone (I know it sounds silly, but I can't find another name for it), break it into bullet sized pieces and toss at a friend. For science. Now imagine a creature bleeding in order to do that. In the very least natural selection would penalize creatured who used this "weapon" to hunt, or to fend off predators. If you are willing to stretch the bow past the point where it breaks, such bone bullets could be used in sexual courtship, but that's it.
answered 15 mins ago
Renan
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answered 15 mins ago
Renan
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I don't think shapeshifters applies here. I replaced it with natural-weapons, which seems more appropriate given the question. Other tags may also apply.
– Î± CVn♦
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