Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!hammer.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: phobos2@hotmail.com (phobos) Newsgroups: japan.anime.evangelion Subject: Re: Possiblity of Eva Date: 19 Jan 2003 02:26:54 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <3e29a09f_2@corp.newsgroups.com> <20030118183629.20514.00000090@mb-fo.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.77.11.142 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1042972014 24277 127.0.0.1 (19 Jan 2003 10:26:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jan 2003 10:26:54 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.anime.evangelion:3637 freepltier@aol.comdiedie (m.davis) wrote in message news:<20030118183629.20514.00000090@mb-fo.aol.com>... > Bird bones are very strong and light. There are solutions to the engineering > aspects. The real issue is financing the research needed to create the > technologies that would allow the creation of such a thing. Chances are we'd still need new materials to build an Eva; such materials _are_ in the pipeline, but they're a fair way off. Another major use that such materials would be put to would be the space elevator - which would be perhaps the single most amazingly useful structure ever built. I was wondering about how far bone could be taken, too - I thought I might have been too dismissive. You're right about bird bones being lighter than mammal bones... but the largest land birds are not much bigger than us, while the largest land mammals are elephants and rhinos. Even so, take a look at an elephant's legs: they're proportionally much thicker than ours. Then again, though, birds today aren't that big - but they had some pretty damn big ancestors. Maybe the best way to go about building an Eva would be... Step 1. Clone a T-Rex Step 2. Armour plate it and hack into its brain Step 3. Profit!