Yeah but it’s very unlikely they’d fine anyone else alive.
The basal metabolic rate of a adult human body is about 80 watts. This energy is taken from chemically burning sugar and fat, that’s why you gotta eat and that’s why you breathe in O2 and breathe out CO2.
But a kettle crab’s victim does not only need to just keep their own metabolism active, they also serve as an energy source for the crab. And they can’t get out to eat more. The crab cannot keep their victim alive beyond the victim’s own reserves because otherwise the crab loses in the exchange, instead of winning; and that defeats the purpose of eating people in the first place.
So anyone who’s been captured by a crab for ore than a few days is already dead.
Right. If a hard sci-fi movie can get away with it, gross $27.8 million during its opening weekend and break a record for selling DVDs, why couldn’t fantasy webcomics.
(The “matrix rules” didn’t actually make sense. It wouldn’t work. Humans SUCK as energy source and biosphere is powered by the same sun they couldn’t see though that “burned” sky. But hey, maybe someone hacked machines though process.)
The Kettle crabs don’t want humans as physical energy source, but MAGICAL energy source.
Now, regarding magic and the law of conservation of energy … or, as magic users say it, the polite suggestion about conservation of energy … https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2016-03-11
EAT FIRE, SEAWEED BREATH!!!!
You know, it IS technically possible there is someone else in one of them, who wasn’t part of your group but may still be usefull …
Yeah but it’s very unlikely they’d fine anyone else alive.
The basal metabolic rate of a adult human body is about 80 watts. This energy is taken from chemically burning sugar and fat, that’s why you gotta eat and that’s why you breathe in O2 and breathe out CO2.
But a kettle crab’s victim does not only need to just keep their own metabolism active, they also serve as an energy source for the crab. And they can’t get out to eat more. The crab cannot keep their victim alive beyond the victim’s own reserves because otherwise the crab loses in the exchange, instead of winning; and that defeats the purpose of eating people in the first place.
So anyone who’s been captured by a crab for ore than a few days is already dead.
Wow, thank for putting the scientific analysis into this.
Uhh… The Kettle Crabs work on Matrix rules. Yeah, that’s it. That’s how they keep they’ve victims alive so long.
Right. If a hard sci-fi movie can get away with it, gross $27.8 million during its opening weekend and break a record for selling DVDs, why couldn’t fantasy webcomics.
(The “matrix rules” didn’t actually make sense. It wouldn’t work. Humans SUCK as energy source and biosphere is powered by the same sun they couldn’t see though that “burned” sky. But hey, maybe someone hacked machines though process.)
The Kettle crabs don’t want humans as physical energy source, but MAGICAL energy source.
Now, regarding magic and the law of conservation of energy … or, as magic users say it, the polite suggestion about conservation of energy … https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2016-03-11
Just a little off the top if you don’t mind