Random thought/invention/invocation I came upon. Has to do with dragons... <3

[Cyan]

Thinking about this some more.

If i had maybe 50 million to make this super detailed and wel built, it could probably survive entirely without maintanance for 10-15 years on its own and be entirely self sufficient requiring absolutely no human intervention at any part in its 10-15 years lifespan.

With 2million maybe a year.

With half a million maybe make it a very large horse sized 1 year or less survivable dragon. But with proper maintanace after building at cost of under 10 thousand a year probably push it over 20-30 years total survivability.

So. 500k now 500k over lifespan would produce a dragon with 50 year lifespan that has the intellectual capacity of a superhuman...

Amazing the stuff people come up with.

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Make it less menacing, and less leathery, more shimmery such as

(pic from www.heroicfantasygames.com

this one has perhaps the feel of the animal in a better quality, the horns i believe i may make more decorative and elbaroate (think, slight radar dish shape or such).


pic from deviantart used name Vashesgal

Some thing perhaps, like this.


pic stored on etsystatic.com (no idea of maker)

The shimmering effect is rathe easy to make if the exterior is made from titanium alloy and the surface layer has a layer of not paint but rather something like shaded titanium with various refractive impurities similar to some metal.

That would give it a shimmering glow that changes depending on the light conditions.

The butterfly wing shape is also marvelous. If it is made so that the solar panels are like these:

(image from www.top-alternative-energy-sources.com)

Such a wing could be modelled to have butterfly like "this has solar panels" and support struts that are "this does not have solar panels" and some of it would be transparent some of it not.

All in all, it would be, as i envision it, A dragon that slowly develops its sentience and eventually culminates in superhuman intelligence. With a skin that can take a 20cal DU-AP round at point blank and shrug it off with the ability to breath fire and will thrive in a condition of +15 to +40celcius in the shade as long as it has access to semi-pure water (heavy metals and uranium is near impossible to filter out in a safe way easily, that will last indefinently).

If the front and rear paws are designed with the same fidelity and attention to detail as human artificial limbs are the creature should also be able to climb up any vertical pole that isnt super slippery or super easy to break.

I can imagine this creature climbing up the poles of the various parliamentary greek columns and causing a stir.

Gosh, i wish i had money to build it! nothing like accumulating energy, such hard work it is.

PS: this would be the size of the commercially available fuel cells. All you need + this is a water to hydrogen system that exhales the produced oxygen as "gas" and stores the hydrogen.

Then Solar + battery + water/hydrogen/oxygen reaction + release oxygen + compress hydrogen for later usage. Store enough in battery for 12 hours (nighttime) and have enough solar panel power to gather in normal conditions from 0% battery to 100% battery plus charge more hydrogen than is consumed in the night time under sleep conditions, what ever those are. And you have a positive energy generation system - expenses.

Also, someone laughed when I said it should have the option to be recharged off of conventional landlines. They laughed because they thought it could be used as a walking energy generation system for stuff like if you go camping and need a shaver.

"oh hey, drago, wait a bit, i need to shave" *plugs in shaver to side of dragon to a plug under the dragon scale armor* *deep murmurring voice* "this is so embaressing"