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Cogito ergo dubito.
"How happy are the astrologers if they tell one truth to a hundred lies, while other people lose all credibility if they tell one lie to a hundred truths." - Francesco Guicciardini
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Originally posted by jonnosigpic
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Originally posted by Dr WeirI thought of something similar a while ago, that the wraith might need to extract ATP/ADP from humans (life force) in order to survive but as you say in the post the ATP just drives the metabolic processes which involve vitamins, fatty acids and minerals. These would still have to be required somehow. Otherwise a lot of coenzymes would be missing (made up of vitamins and minerals) including iron in the blood for eg (it has been shown that wraith have blood). Lipids which have fatty acids chains make up the bilayers in cell membranes. Even if all vitamins could be produced in vivo where would the resources come from? Plants produce all fatty acids and vitamins from the sun's energy and CO2 but they also must gain minerals from the soil and nitrogen in the form of ammonia to produce amino acids which make up proteins in plants and animals. You say the wraith don't excrete but in conversion Dex for some weird reason checked out some iratus bug excretion. That's my opinion.
One way of explaining some of it would be if the Wraith, once they hit adulthood undergo no further cell division - for regeneration, they could have many specially adapted cells in the blood, which, when the Wraith is injured, quickly differentiate to produce an appropriate tissue.
Either that, or they've developed complex metabolic pathways which means once one metabolite is broken down, it is quickly regenerated in amother metabolic pathway.
Or, they've evolved to make use of Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide, and possible water vapor in the air (or just normal water), to create the essential compounds (obviously, something we've not managed).
As for ions, such as Iron and Calcium ... I can only think they're stored as a young wraith and constantly recycled.I'm not Weird, I'm Gifted!
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Originally posted by jonnoHmm - very good points (there are the holes). I just don't see where they could get all those things from, unless they remove more than life force from their victims.One way of explaining some of it would be if the Wraith, once they hit adulthood undergo no further cell division - for regeneration, they could have many specially adapted cells in the blood, which, when the Wraith is injured, quickly differentiate to produce an appropriate tissue.
Either that, or they've developed complex metabolic pathways which means once one metabolite is broken down, it is quickly regenerated in amother metabolic pathway.
Or, they've evolved to make use of Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide, and possible water vapor in the air (or just normal water), to create the essential compounds (obviously, something we've not managed).
As for ions, such as Iron and Calcium ... I can only think they're stored as a young wraith and constantly recycled.sigpic
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Originally posted by SqueeG-1Hmmm. Technobabble. Biology babble. Key word - babble.
I'm so confused.Cogito ergo dubito.
"How happy are the astrologers if they tell one truth to a hundred lies, while other people lose all credibility if they tell one lie to a hundred truths." - Francesco Guicciardini
An escalator can never be broken, it can only become stairs. You never see "Escalator temporarily out of service." It's "Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience." - Mitch Hedberg
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Originally posted by Dr WeirThat's because you're not familiar with it.Cogito ergo dubito.
"How happy are the astrologers if they tell one truth to a hundred lies, while other people lose all credibility if they tell one lie to a hundred truths." - Francesco Guicciardini
An escalator can never be broken, it can only become stairs. You never see "Escalator temporarily out of service." It's "Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience." - Mitch Hedberg
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Originally posted by SqueeG-1I think my last biology class was in Grade 9 or 10 - somewhere around 1842 I think.Cogito ergo dubito.
"How happy are the astrologers if they tell one truth to a hundred lies, while other people lose all credibility if they tell one lie to a hundred truths." - Francesco Guicciardini
An escalator can never be broken, it can only become stairs. You never see "Escalator temporarily out of service." It's "Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience." - Mitch Hedberg
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