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  • HotAtForty [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    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

    • egg1918 [she/her]
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      4 months ago

      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.