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[Question] [ General Urk is commanding an army of orcs in a pseudo-medieval low-magic fantasy world. Orcs are basically like humans in terms of smarts and toughness and equipment, but with one key difference: culturally, and biologically, *they are completely okay with cannibalism and anthropophagy*. Eating victims,...
[Question] [ To put it simply. How would the color an eye affect what one could see? I ask this due to watching some of an anime called, "Somali and the Forest Spirit" If I remember correctly in episode 2 the main characters come across two members of an Oni clan. Now, these two Oni visually had eyes similar to human...
[Question] [ So in my fantasy world, my Emperor has recently come into control of a declining empire and managed to restore its control over the continent he lives on. This empire, a continuation of previous empires, has had a long history of its armies. This Roman-style army has existed throughout since the founding...
[Question] [ This is a question regarding my little critters that hijack of their victim. By doing so they get direct access to a steady flow of nutrients through the bloodstream and get shelter with optimal temperature and humidity with the added protection of a ribcage. What's terrifying about these little bugs is ...
[Question] [ **Background** In a medieval society with minor fantasy elements, a scientifically minded and not-very-ethical character is looking to acquire some strong acid for a "project" of his. He is particularly looking for acids that could burn skin and leave disfiguring scars, such as the concentrated sulfuric ...
[Question] [ In a story that I am building, I want to have an elite force of cavalrymen who are *totally mute*. In typical fantasy settings, soldiers in an army loudly announce their presence on the battlefield (The Ride of the Rohirrim in LOTR, for example. Theoden's army blow horns and yell and scream as they thun...
[Question] [ So, here's the premise- in this alternate 'woodpunk' historical timeline, primarily focused upon Japan, someone stumbles across this development far earlier on, in the mid to late 19th century (as opposed to only doing so in the last few years, as they did in real life)- first, through the discovery of '...
[Question] [ One of the plotlines, I'm currently working on, is about a dragon who is forced to serve a settlement to "pay" for some of his past "crimes". For clarity's sake, we call the dragon Gyvaris. Gyvaris is a roughly horse-sized, six-limbed creature with both reptilian and avian features. His intelligence is h...
[Question] [ In a setting where hundreds of scientists and engineers from around the world embark on an international mission to colonize a distant Earth-like planet (the ethics thereof are out of the scope of this question), and the unifying language happens to be Esperanto, to what extent, in what manners, and at w...
[Question] [ For a story I have, modern civilisation must be destroyed by a worldwide disaster. The objective is roughly something that: * Could be man-made or aided (if not now, maybe in the future) * Decimates, but not eliminates, land-based life * Directly destroys most buildings and technology, traces ok * Allows...
[Question] [ The premise here is that a government is already secretly using satellite imagery to record every surface of the Earth and automatically catalogues probable military assets and movements using image recognition software. **Given the below constraints, could this technology already exist and be in use as ...
[Question] [ A radical shift in the Earth's orbit has made the Earth much colder, with all the oceans freezing over, and the atmosphere liquifying and falling as rain. Humans live deep underground in areas of high geothermal potential, such as the Ring of Fire around the Pacific. Apart from tunnels, they also want t...
[Question] [ In my fantasy world, unicorns have pearly horns, teeth, and bones. I didn't write it, but I am hoping to write a fanfiction in which it is explained. [Answer] [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kSI38.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kSI38.jpg)You could do it the way bivalves do...
[Question] [ If a planet were to have a gravitational acceleration of .7g, how different would it be from walking on earth, assuming this is not someone born outside of earth. Would it be a slight bounce in your step or more noticeable than that? Sorry if this has been asked, I couldn't find anything when searching,...
[Question] [ *The year: Sometime a long time from now* *The place: Mars* Little Bobby Colonist is going to play out in sand dunes beyond the edge of the domed city where he lives. Terraforming efforts over the last century have made the Martian atmosphere livable, but the air is still pretty thin and it gets deathly ...
[Question] [ ## Parallel-Universe Portals A solid material has been discovered that, when shaped into a ring and activated (by lowering its temperature below some critical point, let's say), it forms a parallel universe on the other side. This isn't a gateway into an existing alternate universe, but rather a duplicat...
[Question] [ *I'm no scientist and my poor brain box is on its last legs; I was wondering if any of you smart beans out there would be able to help me figure this out? Here are the specs of my system;* Kereiol is a 2 billion year old quiescent carbon-rich M star with a temperature of 3,100 kelvins. If it flares at al...
[Question] [ I'd like to create a story in which a genetically modified man has Aromatase Excess syndrome. For example, if a man has a genetic mutation where he produces a lot of aromatase that turns 10% of his testosterone levels into estrogen (specially estradiol), what would happen to his body? Consider that the f...
[Question] [ How could a mammal produce milk which resembles blood? The *blood milk* should keep as many properties of milk as possible, curding for example, while resembling blood as much as possible. The mammal does not have to exist or eat earth food, but if it doesn't what would that food be like? By the propert...
[Question] [ This question is similar to [What would happen if there was no wind?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/61267/what-would-happen-if-there-was-no-wind), but the lack of wind is confined to a small portion of the planet. To make things concrete, the affected region is roughly circular with a...
[Question] [ In my world, officials dealing with sensitive information have their tongues amputated. Naturally writing and a special, government-only sign-language are the main forms of communication, but creating complex audio signals may also be very practical. **What sounds may they use to communicate?** The depen...
[Question] [ A launch loop <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop> is a proposed way to put lots of things into space at lower unit cost than rockets (only need to pay the energy cost in electricity for each payload) without needing very strong materials (the exoatmospheric-height structure is supported by electr...
[Question] [ I need an explanation for how one could be immortal and still age. If one was truly immortal one would remain an infant forever. How could this be explained? I'm working on a character who is supposedly immortal, but is also in his later years (an old man). How would that work? Keep in mind he's been imm...
[Question] [ I'm no rocket scientist, but I've been reading up on some basic concepts of rocket science (including some great talks here). As far as I've gleaned, there's two extremes of rocket thrusts: high speed/low mass (like ion engines) and low speed/high mass (like chemical rockets). While an ion engine, fer in...
[Question] [ **So let's say someone has telekinetic powers.** He can move a bunch of things at once with his mind as long as the objects aren't too heavy. One day he's walking through a dark secluded alleyway and, oh no, he gets shot, and even worst the bullet hits a major artery. After snapping his assailant's neck ...
[Question] [ Could humans permanently live off a single food-like block, made of various edible materials, which contains all their daily requirements of calories, vitamins, and minerals? Preferably is there a way for this food block to be in a dehydrated state, allowing it to be as portable as possible (only requiri...
[Question] [ ## I have a town, the capital of an empire. It covers 560 Hectares. ### What kind of natural barrier conforms to the following requirements: * Is both heavily defensible and does not hinder trade all too much. * The technology is of 1200 AD Europe. * A large (Rhine sized) River either runs through this t...
[Question] [ In my world, zombies are quite common, and are considered a part of the wild life. Most of the usual flora and fauna are similar to those in IRL. I have three key questions, but I'll put the other two on their own separate posts to prevent being too broad. This post's question is: * how could the wildlif...
[Question] [ Let's say a group of people live on icebergs. They want to shape them - e.g., let's say they want to add a pier to their iceberg, how do they "grow" the ice. Prefer a primitive answer, but if there is no "primitive" way, then get as advanced as necessary. [Answer] Those people can **"harvest" ice fro...
[Question] [ Previous parts here: [Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 1: Skeleton](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/106292/creating-a-scientifically-semi-valid-super-soldier-part-1-skeleton?rq=1) [Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 2: nervous system](https:...
[Question] [ Okay, so I was working on making a sapient creature that lives underwater ended up with what was basically a two-hundred pound crab. They have human level language skills, and I decided to justify this social skill by making them build structures to protect themselves and their young from predators. Over...
[Question] [ The civilization I've built has developed the technology for near limitless, sustained power generation. Through this advancement it's been possible for them to solve for Alcubierre's Bubbles and traverse short distances (less than 1 light year) through artificial breaches into subspace largely through a...
[Question] [ If all the power plants of an industrialized country like (Germany, France, Italy, Korea) are destroyed how long would it take for the country to rebuild its power grid and get back to normal functioning? Under assumption that foreign countries are willing and able to help the devastated country with bot...
[Question] [ From a climatic point of view, what if Earth went through a radical polar shift that would place the geographical pole right where the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau are? (No matter if southern or northern pole.. let's say southern). These are some of the driest regions in the world, so I wonder if there ...
[Question] [ Suppose NASA, SpaceX or any other aerospace company has managed to build a technology that allows them to fire a rocket to the moon, from "space". Basically, they have created a huge weather balloon that can reach altitudes so great that atmospheric pressure is effectively zero compared to ground-level -...
[Question] [ In this mostly hard-science universe I am using a theoretical "Hyperstable Gateway" to travel between planet X and Y; The wormhole has a ~5m diameter, The *"Bridge"* itself is negligible and a physical ring is used to seal it for use, and there is no *"Barrier"* or other film over the edge/plane or other...
[Question] [ From what I've read, planets orbiting red dwarf stars would most likely be tidally locked. Under what circumstances might this change? For example, if a planet had been the recipient of some kind of large impact over the course of its existence? We theorize that in the Solar System, Venus's reverse orbit...
[Question] [ How would the human eye have developed differently on a planet with two suns? One sun will be a yellow star functionally the same as Sol and the other will be a red dwarf. The planet will be earth-like and orbit around both stars. I am curious about the impact to: * Eye and component part size * Eye and...
[Question] [ After circumstances make the shallow water in the oceans uninhabitable, great white sharks retreat to the deeper parts of the ocean, about 600 feet down (182 meters) to survive. The sharks can not go more than 450 feet up, as the water up there is uninhabitable. My question is, could sharks adapt to surv...
[Question] [ I'm writing a story that involves the protagonists opening the gates of a medieval city to allow an attacking army through - and I need to know how long it would be before the city's garrison realizes what is going on and arrives with enough troops to stop them. Here are some details: * The gate will pr...
[Question] [ I'm currently working on a semi-aquatic humanoid race of aliens, the Soliil. The majority of the race has proportions, anatomy and heights close to that of humans, however, I am working on a much younger subspecies that grows significantly larger than the average Soliil while retaining almost the same pr...
[Question] [ I was thinking about how we differ from crocodiles and sharks in terms of teeth. Now of course we don't have carnivore teeth but we also don't grow new teeth unless you are talking about a young child losing his/her baby teeth. But it seems like an omnivore diet, especially one that includes bones would ...
[Question] [ In my post-apocalyptic iron age world meant to be a sci fi twist on fantasy tropes, wyvern like creatures simply known as fliers were said to have been originally created by a crazy billionaire as a gift to his son, but later modified by bioterrorists to instill fear in the population. Some things to not...
[Question] [ Is it possible for an asteroid belt to form around a sun? Think of our asteroid belt, but instead of where it is now, it would be where Mercury is. Also, and I didn't have enough room to put this in the title, but what effect would this have on the solar system? How would this affect eclipses, astronomy...
[Question] [ I am writing a sci-fi novel, set in a *1984-style dystopia*, so a society which is obsessed with order and surveillance where non-predictable behaviour is punished. My protagonist is a person with a mild form of *autism*: 1. How would such a society treat people with this and other mental illnesses? I as...
[Question] [ It seems to me like one of the major obstacles to terraforming a planet is to give it a magnetosphere. In our solar system, this is accomplished naturally either by a hot iron core (for example, Earth), or by a heavy, thick atmosphere (for example, Venus). Neither of these things are easy to produce on a...
[Question] [ I've been looking for information on this, but I haven't come upon an answer that could actually help me figure this out: Imagine a planet, inhabited by somewhat "human" beings, that has one sun-like star (a source of light and such) and two moons. Now, that "Sun" and one of the moons work in cycles kind...
[Question] [ Let's say we came across a new species of moderately intelligent birds. Like [Alex the parrot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)), these birds are able to learn a few words and simple concepts. But once we teach these birds the words for different numbers, we are astounded by the fact that... *...
[Question] [ I'm imagining an intelligent race of beings with only one major difference from humanity: that they share one mind. Biologically speaking, they're identical to humanity, and their world is, by all practical means, identical to Earth as well. However, each of these people have access to every memory and t...
[Question] [ Alien AI DoomFleet has a mission: Destroy threats to their creator. They do this by detecting the signature of FTL drives, going to the system, and blowing everything up, up to and including the homeworld. For thematic purposes, I want the worlds to be stripped of their atmosphere. I'm not sure where to ...
[Question] [ In my story, there is a city which has fallen from grace and is embroiled in gang wars, drug cartels, and other generally high crime rates. How can I plausibly explain this transition? What causes these conditions? If my question is too broad, I am most interested in this: how can I explain the formation...
[Question] [ So. This has been something I've been tossing up for a long time. Let's say you have a world that has a broad availability for magic power and mages are a normal part of life. Like DnD 3.5 worlds or what have you. Not everyone has magic, but you'd know someone who does to some extent. This includes stuf...
[Question] [ Ok, quick overview of the situation: An alien planet, reaches basically the same stage we are at now in regards to fossil fuel reserves and environmental loss, a major war breaks out, and after both sides suffer basically equally, they decide to merge forces and revert their damage on the planet. buildin...
[Question] [ Imagine you've somehow tranquilized or tied up Superman with a kryptonite rope or something, and the military wants to do a stress test so they can start building a series of anti-Superman bombs. So they drop increasingly large nuclear devices on him, upping the yield until they can noticeably injure Sup...
[Question] [ The concept of concealed carry of weapons has been with us since ancient (prehistoric, even?) times, and is a common trope in medieval-fantasy universes as well. Characters in various stories have used a wide variety of means of concealment, and there are several common tropes surrounding placement of co...
[Question] [ If your blood pressure ever falls below the ambient atmospheric pressure would it be possible for you to bleed. Because if blood pressure was less than that of atmosphere air would move in if you get cut, bleed or something rather than blood moving out as it normally does. So ultimately will it be possi...
[Question] [ Could a chemical compound change a human body in a way that a regular quantity of that compound is needed to stay alive after the first dose? The short answer would be yes, there are already such chemicals (and they are more common than I thought, for example alcohol), however those chemicals require an ...
[Question] [ Assume there is a point in time when every planet in our Solar System consists of colonies. Each colony is inhabited with civilians that primarily serve the purpose of its colony. Some colonies may specialise in manufacturing, some in resource extraction, some in research etc. Technology would exist to a...
[Question] [ All work and all play makes Jack a distributed boy: Jack is at the hotel reception with his wife. Jack is also in the office, meeting with unspecified forces for inscrutable purposes. Jack is also in his smithy, forging a perfect Damascus-carbonite blade. **All at the same time**. The basic question her...
[Question] [ **This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information. As p...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [How do I keep a language shared by two separate peoples, static for as long as possible? The lower tech-complexity the better?](/questions/29908/how-do-i-keep-a-language-shared-by-two-separate-peoples-static-for-as-long-as-p) (9 answers) Closed 7 years ...
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[Question] [ In this world I'm building, a bunch of previously inactive genes in humans have started expressing, and changed newborns' metabolic system dramatically. As a result, a portion of population **cannot digest regular food**, but **can eat synthetic food** (let's call this population *Type S*, as opposed to ...
[Question] [ How do I define the Classical Elements with Science so that it agrees with science? According to a single property of a substance. So, no Fire = Energy, Water = Liquid, Earth = Solid, Air = Gas... as I'm quite sure that Energy is not a state of matter... --- For example, > > Specific Gravity ranges for ...
[Question] [ I'd like to know if a planet without any animals except humans can exist. The cause of this absence of other species could be anything but the humans should not have any social interaction with something else than humans for centuries. What would be the effects on the society? I guess that humans can liv...
[Question] [ What would happen if an extremely advanced race removed the metal (everything beyond H and He) from a star. Would the star still function? Would it change in appearance or properties at all? [Answer] Unfortunately, there is no good way to give particularly accurate comparisons to the real world with t...
[Question] [ In a sci-fi world that I am making, an infantry held launcher is one of the many weapons developed to counter increasingly tough armor protection, brought on by the advent of advanced materials and systems that could tank a modern 50. multiple times while keeping the user alive and functioning. What make...
[Question] [ Q:**Can EM waves naturally create sonic waves?** For example, could a natural antenna (e.g. a seam of conductive metal or the right kind of rock)receive em radiation and through thermal/mechanical or piezoelectric effects re-emit low-volume sound? **Background**: In some esoteric internet rabbit holes th...
[Question] [ While researching [Kwak'wala](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwak%CA%BCwala), because I think the languages of the Pacific Northwest have this amazing aesthetic I want to mimic in some languages in my world, I came across the fact that the Kwakwak'awakw built [clam gardens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
[Question] [ Humans are stranded on a world with .75 Earth gravity. How would that affect their physical evolution? Specifically, would they be taller, thinner, and have less bone mass? [Answer] This is similar to the following closed question: [How can lower gravity affect evolution?](https://worldbuilding.stacke...
[Question] [ So, humans have colonised this planet. It is of Earth-mass and volume and so has Earth-like gravity. They are now building a dome to accommodate the population. The question is, how big can they make it? ## Background info: The dome is made from three-inch thick panes of synthetic diamond (built by nanot...
[Question] [ As of 2021, global electrical production was [about 7 TW](https://www.statista.com/statistics/267358/world-installed-power-capacity/). And the largest single power plant is the [Three Gorges Dam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam) at a capacity of 22.5 GW. My hero needs a single power plant ...
[Question] [ For purposes of realistic, but otherworldly visualisations of foreign worlds I'm wondering what the fastest speed is that a moon will track through the visible sky, as observed from the body of a planet (or other moon). As in, the moon rises, the observer watches it move across the sky, and the moon sets...
[Question] [ I am trying to create a boreal, alien ecosystem loosely based on Northern Siberia. Liquid rain never falls here, since snow and hail fall instead for most of the year, and the short, hot summers- the only time temperatures rise above freezing- are arid and without any precipitation whatsoever. Terrestria...
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[Question] [ I'm creating a sort of fantasy world that I'm still trying to keep scientifically accurate (it's more alternate history than anything since I'm having it take place in our world with a few points of divergence) and I want to justify the evolution of mermaids from hominids, which gives me a time frame of ...
[Question] [ There has been a fair bit of previous discussion about how high mountains could get. I'm currently thinking about a different question: assuming the existence of a very tall mountain, how high would it be feasible to climb? In all of this, I'm assuming gravity, atmospheric composition and sea-level atmos...
[Question] [ In our world [bark beetles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_beetle) can bring serious damages to forests which they infest, by killing the tree which they attack when they feed and breed between the bark and the wood of their host. I am trying to design an alternative bark beetle which, instead of dam...
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[Question] [ **This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information. In m...
[Question] [ The Leviathan is an ancient deity that exists outside the mortal plane. It seeks to enter the human world, which is separated from him by an all-enclosing barrier protecting it. However, the Leviathan is not just another typical demon or eldritch god bent on world domination. It is formed as the manifest...
[Question] [ **Would pleopod-based swimming locomotion seen in animals like giant isopods work at much larger sizes, or would drag (or something else?) be too much of a problem?** The pleopods, also known as swimmerets, are the paired olive green flaps shown lower right: [![Pleopod model showing dorsal and ventral si...
[Question] [ A bit of a further expansion of my last question. I am looking for alternatives to regular bone of earth (hydroxyapatite) because my superearth would have about 50% more gravity than that of earth. While 50% probably isn't enough to force animals to use other bone compositions, I'd rather take an "odd" r...
[Question] [ This is the first of two questions. Same introduction. A civilization on Earth has just begun expanding with a Dyson swarm, which is a [Dyson sphere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere) but made with many satellites, to prevent structural problems a sphere would have. This will generate a lot of ...
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[Question] [ I'm writing a fantasy story with a race of intelligent dragons who can increase the growth rate of/manipulate plants. If we pretend this is possible, **what methods could these creatures utilize to keep the ships alive despite the lack of available soil nutrients and constant exposure to high salinity wa...
[Question] [ As humans, we're incredibly lucky that we only see in three primary colors. It makes the development of color displays quite easy. We only need to squeeze three subpixels into a single pixel! What if, instead, our eyes had evolved to be more like an optical spectrometer than a CCD camera, so each photore...
[Question] [ So this is something I've recently started to think about lately and it's honestly a case of genuine curiosity more than anything else. Many fantasy/adventure-oriented video games usually feature a level defined by flowing rivers of lava, active volcanoes and long stretches of barren, rocky land to trend...
[Question] [ I've been reading up on coilguns and railguns, and it got me to thinking about space combat with railguns or coilguns. I assumed that such space combat would involve ships in somewhat circular orbits around each other. Such ships would experience angular momentum. To keep combat distances plausible, I as...
[Question] [ I want to know if this is scientifically possible in the real world. When you take vast expanses of deserts (the sandy hot ones, not the icy ones) like the Sahara, life in general is restricted to near whatever small rivers or oasis/lakes there are or close to the oceans. But these places can become vast...
[Question] [ Okay, so here's the deal; every time dragon blood is shed, it hardens on contact with the air, forming crystals of 'bloodstone.' Bloodstones are infused with the magical essence of the dragon it originates from, and due to humanity's connection to the Earth element, they can absorb bloodstone and by exte...
[Question] [ In my story's world, dragons have been living alongside humans for some time now. Of course, there are hospitals and other medical facilities variable to them. Now, as some of the staff of said facilities are humans, how can they protect themselves from aggressive/panicking/delirious patients? An upset c...
[Question] [ This is going to take some explaining, but the basic idea is thus: In the world I'm creating, if matter is exposed to enough magical energy it ceases to respect the laws of physics and becomes known as "eldritch matter." Eldritch matter vaguely retains it's original shape and but on a microscopic level i...
[Question] [ I'd like to create a realistic starscape for an extant planet, ideally with seasonal tilt change like on Earth. While I realize I can just make it up (and will probably do so if I can't figure out how to do it for real), I'd really enjoy a re-creation based on known star data. Is there a way for me to do...
[Question] [ My story has a group of androids that have enough processing to split their focus and exist in multiple VR simulations, this will then lead to them being able to control multiple battle droids in the real world. At first the battle droids will accompany the original androids into battle and almost work l...
[Question] [ I would like to create a world with a temperate habitable zone as well as very hot and very cold zones. The hotter and the colder the better, but I don’t want it to be tidally locked. How can I do this? [Answer] How about having a planet with an extremely high degree of obliquity/axial tilt- say, 75-8...
[Question] [ I am trying to figure out **how large the population of supernatural beings can be in a stereotypical urban fantasy setting before their numbers stretch the suspension of disbelief**. I.e., your standard setting where supernatural beings live among humans under some sort of masquerade system. Figuring ou...
[Question] [ I want to have Washington, DC have a militarized defensive wall (called the Federal Wall) somewhat similar to the Hoover Dam but with artillery, air, and infantry support stationed on its (imagine something like this from Fallout (<https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/d/db/FNV_concept_art_H...
[Question] [ If you took a giant drill (~one hundred meter circumference) and bored down two kilometers into the moon, what would it look like (assuming the lighting was good)? Is there a gradient, or is it a uniform type of rock? Assume the viewer is inside of the hole, at some point in the middle, floating and look...
[Question] [ So, in my previous question, the two most popular weapons for a dragon were wings and the tail. The core concept is that my slightly-larger-than-a-draft-horse dragon, who still only weighs a mere 500 kilograms, uses his tail as a whip. Dragon tails are long, but usually sleek and laterally compressed, so...