Angel [any] to vegan • 5 months agoHaha, you can't give an ENLIGHTENEDCENTRIST take on veganism, that would be impossi-imagemessage-square15 fedilinkarrow-up165file-text
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minus-squareegg1918 [she/her]hexbear8·5 months agoI wonder how much surface area of skin a person would need to sustain themselves through photosynthesis (assuming the skin can photosynthesize). link
minus-squareHotAtForty [he/him]hexbear7·5 months agoSome very rough back of the envelope calculations with major engineering math (eg consider the human to be a cylinder and efficiency is 100%, even overnight and ignoring the fact half of you is not facing the sun at all) https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/posts/38400/revisions 12x human surface area is a very generous lower bound link
minus-squareegg1918 [she/her]hexbear4·5 months agoLmao fantastic, this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you! I'm trying to picture what that abomination would look like. We'd need like giant leaf wings basically. link
I wonder how much surface area of skin a person would need to sustain themselves through photosynthesis (assuming the skin can photosynthesize).
Some very rough back of the envelope calculations with major engineering math (eg consider the human to be a cylinder and efficiency is 100%, even overnight and ignoring the fact half of you is not facing the sun at all)
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/posts/38400/revisions
12x human surface area is a very generous lower bound
Lmao fantastic, this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
I'm trying to picture what that abomination would look like. We'd need like giant leaf wings basically.
Or a nice big warm rock to sleep on