Dragons???

[Chaosmaker]

One example of a highly combustible gas is Hydrogen. It makes a big boom and also helps with the flying as it lift's up. But the only thing is getting those gases to ignite. I'd say plutonium on their teeth. When Hydrogen meet's plutonium it makes a fire ball. Or at least I think it was plutonium. I forgot which one. Something that ends in -nium. O well. :/

[Stanhead]

Well, I belive in the alternate universe theory, which says there are an infinite number of universes for every single outcome for every single event.

 

So in an infinite number of universes, dragons exist, and in an infinite number of alternate universes, dragons don't exist.

 

Also, in an infinite number of alternate universes, I am ruler of the universe in question. I just wish I wasn't in this one... :*(

 

 

I think it was plutonium. I forgot which one. Something that ends in -nium. O well. :/

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Potassium? Calcium? Ibuprofen?

[Abramul]

One example of a highly combustible gas is Hydrogen. It makes a big boom and also helps with the flying as it lift's up. But the only thing is getting those gases to ignite. I'd say plutonium on their teeth. When Hydrogen meet's plutonium it makes a fire ball. Or at least I think it was plutonium. I forgot which one. Something that ends in -nium. O well. :/

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Platinum wire. It's how some lighters work, although they use a hydrocarbon.

[MDRud216]

don't the chinese dragons have legs that make a sideways L coming out of their bodies? you know like crocadiles, not dinosaurs that have tree stump legs.

 

i have more sense than to try to argue that humans and dinosaurs did live at the same time, and that who knows, maybe they did breath fire.

[Abramul]

If beetles can shoot fireballs out of their butts, why couldn't larger animals have chemical glands on their face, and use breath to propel them? It would be silly to shoot fire out of the stomach or lungs, though, as that would require heatproofing...and make hiccups lethal.

[Darnoc]

i have more sense than to try to argue that humans and dinosaurs did live at the same time, and that who knows, maybe they did breath fire.

 

I already explained the principle of living fossils on the other page, so I will not repeat it here. It is possible that in some remote locations dinosaurs continued to live on after the Cretaceous period, but they were no longer present in fossil layers.

 

If beetles can shoot fireballs out of their butts, why couldn't larger animals have chemical glands on their face, and use breath to propel them? It would be silly to shoot fire out of the stomach or lungs, though, as that would require heatproofing...and make hiccups lethal.

 

Exactly my argument. I heard one a hypothesis that the gases could be stored in some hollow room inside the head which is connected to the mouth. The hollow horn of the Parasaurophulus, for example, would be perfect.

 

http://www.dinostoreus.com/parasaurolophus-skull-lg.jpg

[weaver]

i dont necessarily believ that dragons EXIST today, sitting in some cave somewhere roasting a boar for its young.

 

but they possibly DID, once exist, in the past..... a long time ago....

 

nearly every ancient culture, or medieval for that matter, have dragons in their mythology. This could not happen by meer chance. I know dragons in each culture are different, but so are humans.... think of that.....

 

if humans look and act differently in different part of the world then other animals.... even dragons could aswell...

 

 

well, thats what i think anyway

 

lol

 

PS... i read, or saw somewhere that their saliver was (or could have been) flameable, and that their front teeth were rubbed together to create sparks.... and thus, fire was produced

[KzinistZerg]

Hmmm... can you list what cultures had them and when?

[Zmid]

Do dragons exist today?

 

Unlikely, unless they have somehow adapted to live in the deep ocean, as this is about the only place left on the planet humanity has not explored to any great degree.

 

Did dragons exist?

 

Perhaps not exactly as the legends tell, but I do believe it is at least possible some kind of giant flying lizard existed at some point in the past. After all, there is one theory that some species of dinosaur evolved into birds. If this is true, there would, at some point, need to be a species that was somewhere between dinosaur and bird. Perhaps this occurred at the dim, distant dawn of humanity, and this made so much impression on early man, the stories got passed from generation to generation down through the ages.

[Malchik]

There are also legends of birds like the phoenix that are connected to fire. It sounds to me as if this is an interpretation of what people thought they saw. As White Wolf points out, this becomes varied slightly in each repetition (chinese whispers anyone) in a society with oral history. If what later became 'dragons' inhabited areas where volcanic activity was commonplace it is easy to see how they could be associated with the smoke from fumeroles and hence fire.

 

Interestingly ancient Japanese and Chinese mythologies had dragons that could change into birds at will.

 

Other interesting facts are that many myths have dragons and serpents (non-winged) as interchangeable and that crocodiles were also regarded as dragons.

 

Food for thought.