Packing
We learn something about Kai today. He’s very very strong. Just look at him lifting that sofa.
We also learn that his dad has an Hawaiian shirt.
Twin Dragons
The daily life of two dragons in a human world
We learn something about Kai today. He’s very very strong. Just look at him lifting that sofa.
We also learn that his dad has an Hawaiian shirt.
“We also learn that his dad has an Hawaiian shirt.” Well, there’s no accounting for taste. LOL.
Jacob is famous for his Shirts-of-Questionable-Taste in “Precocious”. 🙂
Hi Robin! I just discovered your comic today and I am really liking it so far!
Hi, I’m glad you like the comic. I hope you stick around ^^
I do have it bookmarked now! 🙂
This indicates that hybrids have far deeper changes than human (on top of tails and fire-breathing). “Stronger” is actually more complicated than people think. Denser bones, denser muscle tissue, optimizations of skeleton… I wonder what the “price” is for them.
Like black people who are well defined they most likely sink as a rock when in water. Meanwhile I float like a dead fish. Glub Glub.
“Price” as in what differences does the greater strength require, not necessarily personal sacrifices to appeal to some sort of game balance. For example, increased base calory uptake, increase in need of certain nutrients, different developmental timelines are not an issue for a well-off city family.
Every change in an organism and/or machine has conseqvences and changes. I’m just wondering what those changes are if you were to compare the twins to regular humans.
I would definitely guess exstra calories, the change could actually be quite minor. Normally the body adjusts to it’s environment for maximum survivability, for exsample when someone has a low physical exertion environment the body reduses muscle mass and lowers power to the brain because the muscles arent necessary and when people were evolving the brain only needed to be at full power when muscles were working. Changing things so the body adjusts for the modern high calorie avalabity instead of optimising for efficiency shouldn’t be hard relative to the other changes. Also a little known fact is that humans are endurance hunters by nature, while humans aren’t strong relative to many other animals a human in their natural lifestyle could run for literal days untill the animal being chased collapses from exhaustion, changing that you could add immense strength. Also with a tail that big I imagine they have a different running style, their spine will probably straiten out at a full sprint.
Yeah, no. Persistence running is only worthwhile in a wide open area, which precludes most of Africa’s wilds today… much less the lush Africa of the past. Once you get to vegetation, that hunt is OVER. Additionally our early prey was very fast, precluding the need for persistence running.
We do have some ability in this regard, but even in tribes that have always used it, it’s pretty rare. Even with people that have trained since birth and are from stock that have practiced it for generations, it’s incredibly taxing. You cannot rely on it.
The fact is that Liebenberg staged the filmed hunts, which didn’t reveal refilling of water bottles, or that most of the hunts weren’t even successful.
If you want to know what we’re really geared for? Learning and adaptation, as well as an incredible talent for throwing. This isn’t to say that we haven’t developed other abilities, but the model of the human species that evolved specifically as persistence runners is highly suspect.
Days? Deer who can’t really sweat can’t run that long in Africa temperatures. It’s not exhaustion, our prey cooked itself alive.
Marco: “Kai, would you put the car down, please?”
Maybe the kid just gets a lot of exercise.
Dang, that kid’s strong. I love the Hawaiian shirt!