On 16/12/2008, Rupert Boleyn <[email protected]> wrote: > All Hail Discordia wrote: >> Clinton N. Fell wrote: >>> I like the armor, but it makes me wonder about the bugs. DR 200 >>> means that those bugs would have to have a 3e strength of at least 50 >>> with a rather generous armor divisor of 5 on specialized swinging >>> marine opener appendages. Those are going to be some nasty bugs. >>> >>> Clint >> >> For a bug to lift all that natural armor it would need to be 99% >> muscle anyway. Exoskeleton is heavy which is why no bug like that can >> naturally exist on Earth. They would have to have come from a world >> with a much lower gravity. > > Actually it's because insects don't have 'proper' lungs and thus can't > be larger than a certain size and still have a sufficient CO2 exhaust > rate. Exoskeletons are actually stronger for their weight than > endoskeletons in the same way that a pipe is stronger than a rod of the > same weight. The downside of an exoskeleton is that it's difficult to > grow because the exoskeleton gets in the way and making it easy to > expand it tends to require making it weaker. > > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l >
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