Thread: Winged Humans
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Old 18th September 2007, 06:16 AM   #9 (permalink)
Flag Pole Sitta
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Re: Winged Humans

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Originally Posted by Giovanna Clairval View Post
John Varley, who is a physicist, described winged humans with great precision in the series Titan (book 3, I think).
They are tiny, about fifty-centimetre tall (!) and have eight-metre-long wings (each wing, now you see the span).

You could reduce the size of everything in your world.
That seems really weird to me, there are some lare hawks that are about that height, arn't there? And no bird has a wing span that massive.
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Originally Posted by Giovanna Clairval View Post
The only way of wearing a shirt when you've got wings is to tightly fold your wings against your back.
Each time that you fly, you strip!

Or else the sheer strength of the unfolding wings tears the shirt apart, which would be inconvenient... but dramatic.

I hope this helps you.
If there were wing holes it should work out, right? It's so cheap to have an attractive male character wander around shirtless...
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