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[Sibling DavidH]

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[Swatopluk]

Still waiting for a true tartan squid

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[Sibling Qwertyuiopasd]

Vikings?

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[Swatopluk]

Vikings?

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I fear kids from now on will believe that Vikings had a Scottish accent after watching How ro train your dragon

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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2175/2080916003_e78aa5fe2e_m.jpg

[Sibling Qwertyuiopasd]

Yes, and I also think that Dragons are real.


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[Swatopluk]

There is no (known) law of nature that says that there could be no real dragons

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*although there was consent** that Hungarians are aliens in disguise.
**among nuclear physicists at Einstein's time

[Aggie]

Flying dragons would be a bit fragile, but possible (and have existed), but what about fire breathing?  Chemical-blasting has more natural precedents.


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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

A pterosaur would've been a pretty close image for a flying dragon.

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[Sibling Qwertyuiopasd]

Dragons forelegs would probably be more like birds hind-legs, "retractable" and all, making them look stranger than just a winged lizard.

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[Aggie]

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[Sibling Qwertyuiopasd]

Gaseous emissions, and some sort of spark being made in the mouth?

fire/sparks can come from certain materials being essentially smashed together. Couldn't those be sort of teeth, or otherwise grown by the dragon for use of sparking the flammable breath?

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[Swatopluk]

The trick used by some animals is to have two separate ingredients that react violently when mixed. With the right components it would be possible to create a flamethrower effect (but beware of hiccups!).
There once was a paper (on an April 1st) that claimed that the real (unintended) method of the dinosaurs was swallowing flintstones*. When those smashed as a result of stomach peristaltics the flammable gases produced by the imperfect digestion could ignite and exit via the mouth as flames.
The bait was immediately taken by young earth creationists that cited the story as proof that dinosaurs must have lived together with man and that the dragon myths came from this.

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*dinosaurs (and iirc some animals still alive today) did/do indeed swallow stones to help grinding the food in the stomach

[Sibling Qwertyuiopasd]

Grind their bones to make our bread!

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