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Dragon Mythe
Jan 29 2012, 7:49 AM EST | Post edited: Jan 29 2012, 7:49 AM EST
The leagend of dragons came up in nerly all culters about the same exact time every country has its own legand and myth so they must be real there is a documentry on what if dragons exsisted they say by now they would be extinked from us killing them or that thay would live up in the mountins because of us forcing them to live in new teratory. 0  out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?    
x-wolfhunter
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1. RE: Dragon Mythe
Jan 29 2012, 8:21 AM EST | Post edited: Jan 29 2012, 8:21 AM EST
Bud . . . If dragons were real, we would've discovered something that would help us deduce that they were.

But it's not even possible anyway. Dragons would be too large to get enough to eat. They'd be a black hole in the ecosystem.

To explain, here is a list of how things work, in something called "trophic levels." The units of power I'm going to just call "power."

  1. One blade of grass needs 10 power a day to survive. It gets this by photosynthesizing. No biggie.

  2. One squirrel, say, needs 100 power a day to survive. It gets this by eating ten blades of grass a day. No problem.

  3. One owl needs 1,000 power a day to survive. It gets this by eating ten squirrels a day. That's fine.

    • Now we're going to say that a deer needs the same amount of energy as ten owls do a day, since deer don't eat owls.

  4. One bear needs 10,000 power a week. It gets this by eating one deer a week. Cool.

  5. Now let's say that a dragon, this gigantic behemoth, needs 100,000 a week. It gets this by eating ten bears ever Saturday while watching its cartoons.



So if the dragon eats ten bears a week, the bears each eat a deer a week, a deer equals ten owls, an owl eats ten squirrels a day, and a squirrel eats ten blades of grass a day. This roughly means that every day, 1.5 acres of grass are being eaten to feed the dragon. A couple of points I need to get across:


  • Dragons would demolish an ecosystem in a week, even if it only stayed there for that long.

  • There's not enough grass in any one place to sustain a dragon through its lifetime. It'd starve to death while bringing the ecosystem with it.
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x-wolfhunter
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2. RE: Dragon Mythe
Jan 29 2012, 8:21 AM EST | Post edited: Jan 29 2012, 8:24 AM EST
All in all, dragons = no.

It's not a perfect example, I know, and it's not the exact example that is right, but it is essentially the same thing and explains it just as well. While that's not exactly how it would work, it's very similar.
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freedragon10022
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3. RE: Dragon Mythe
Jan 29 2012, 7:38 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 29 2012, 7:38 PM EST
ah, well that is for the classical European dragon anyways. Those were the behemoths really. There are stories of smaller ones, which might have been exaggerated (likely were, as is the nature of humans). COULD there have been something similar to dragons at some point in time? yes, many believe so. Could they have been the gigantic 10 story tall massive beasts that spit fire and scour the land for millennia? no... chance are not. Do you find this valuable?    

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