Furahan Biology and Allied Matters

Please visit the accompanying website: Life on Nu Phoenicis IV, the planet Furaha. This blog is about speculative biology. Recurrent themes are biomechanics, the works of other world builders, and, of course, the planet Furaha.

Thursday, 25 December 2008

The Cycle of Cyann

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The title should more properly be 'Le Cycle de Cyann ', as this is a series of ' bandes dessinées ' (the word 'comics...

Monday, 8 December 2008

Why there is no 'walking with tentacles'... (4)

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So the 'Walking Tentacle, Mark II' developed last time has a stack of elements able to withstand compression and still has considera...

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Sunday, 30 November 2008

Why there is no 'walking with tentacles'... (3)

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Last time I argued that using tentacles to walk on would require wasteful amounts of energy. To withstand bending forces you would need very...

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Thursday, 27 November 2008

Why there is no 'walking with tentacles'... (2)

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Well, it took a while to write a new chapter. The reason is called 'work'. Anyway, to continue with the 'Not walking on tentacle...

Monday, 6 October 2008

Just some tree designs

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Real life has a habit of getting in the way of more creative endeavours, so any trusty reader will have to wait a bit for me to write some m...

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Tuesday, 23 September 2008

Why there is no 'walking with tentacles'...

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Tentacles are cool: they look sleek, effective, a bit mysterious, and also slightly repulsive, particularly when covered with lots of sucker...

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Sunday, 7 September 2008

Ballonts II

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(No, there is no 'Ballonts I', but there is an entry on 'The Interplanetary Zoo III', and that could have been called 'B...

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