Well, he didn't literally say he thought Puff the Magic Dragon would be created, but that's pretty much what I gathered from it, lol.Nile McMorrow said:
Strange argument last night...
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Honestly, there's not much point in genetically engineering any more of us. Your damn SAMs and heavy artillery have driven us underground already. We were unstoppable a few hundred years ago, true, but dreaming of invincible dragons these days is just wishful thinking. Only the last of us who are too stubborn to worldwalk away are left, waiting for you lot to bomb yourselves back to the stone age.
wait wait wait, the problem you have with this conversation is that when a person creates a dragon the power will be used irresponsibly? Not with the fact that create a completely new species from scratch like a freaking dragon?! Where the hell would we begin to create something that has never existed?
I would unfriend you both.
I would unfriend you both.
yep, pretty much my feelingsYosharian said:
I've gotta admit, some part of me would love to see some crazy ass guy with long jet black hair, eye shaow and red-nails controlling a black dragon as he claims he's gone to fix/rule the world and someone stands up with his/her dragon and proclaims he/she will stop him and save everyone as they have a huge Dragon battle.
Well, yeah, the idea of it was a little ridiculous to begin with, but if we could find a way to mix a bird and a lizard, then it's technically a dragon (or a pterodactyl, whatever). My original comment on it actually was "why would anyone even *want* that?" and then someone decided to comment back to me, then this former friend decided to join in. Though I agree, the idea that a dragon that they would want (yes, they literally want a medium sized, fire breathing dragon that spews fire that doesn't melt anything...yeah...) is a little ridiculous.funksobeefy said:
Heh, your friend was right about the argument for the wrong reasons.
Specifically, it would be REALLY inefficient to engineer and then subsequently raise and train dragons. You could make a gunship that does twice as much for a quarter the cost in an eight of the time.
But that doesn't mean he wasn't being REALLY immature about it. I mean, it IS a hypothetical isn't it?
Specifically, it would be REALLY inefficient to engineer and then subsequently raise and train dragons. You could make a gunship that does twice as much for a quarter the cost in an eight of the time.
But that doesn't mean he wasn't being REALLY immature about it. I mean, it IS a hypothetical isn't it?
lol, I just linked the other guy to this discussion (the guy who was helping my former friend out). He might make an account and post, but whatevs, hilarity will ensue, so who cares, lol.
Genetically engineering a dragon, while I suppose is as possible as a stegosaurus wandering down my street, is still unviable as far as natural selection goes, and many attributes of a dragon simply are not found in nature.
Breathing fire is a good example of this. You can't splice this aspect onto a dragon because it doesn't exist into nature. A dragon, assuming it's more reptilian in nature than anything, its instincts would be primal and uncontrollable. Natural selection frowns upon vetibrates with 6 appendages (4 legs and 2 wings) and to actually be able to fly a dragon 5 feet long would need to have an incredibly huge, and therefore impractical, wingspan.
tldr; Nowhere in the future will it be possible to engineer a dragon. Both you and your friend's opinion therefore don't matter, so you both should find a way to get over it.
Breathing fire is a good example of this. You can't splice this aspect onto a dragon because it doesn't exist into nature. A dragon, assuming it's more reptilian in nature than anything, its instincts would be primal and uncontrollable. Natural selection frowns upon vetibrates with 6 appendages (4 legs and 2 wings) and to actually be able to fly a dragon 5 feet long would need to have an incredibly huge, and therefore impractical, wingspan.
tldr; Nowhere in the future will it be possible to engineer a dragon. Both you and your friend's opinion therefore don't matter, so you both should find a way to get over it.
I've never seen dragons depicted in a world with modern assault rifles, it would be interesting to see how bulletproof those scales are.
Besides, there's nothing a dragon can do that humans haven't figured out some method of doing on our own. We can fly (planes) and spit fire (flamethrowers) by ourselves, thank you very much.
Besides, there's nothing a dragon can do that humans haven't figured out some method of doing on our own. We can fly (planes) and spit fire (flamethrowers) by ourselves, thank you very much.
Wall-o-text it burns, it burns my eyes!
Anyway I presume you and your friend are fairly young? At early ages hotheadedness is to be expected.
Simply move on to new friends and let him cool off.
Anyway I presume you and your friend are fairly young? At early ages hotheadedness is to be expected.
Simply move on to new friends and let him cool off.
Your friend seems like those guys in the Aliens novels that worshipped them like gods, or like one of the 'genius' guys running the multi-billon dollar corporation that wants to weaponize them.
I think that arguement was a good clue that he wasn't very smart.
I think that arguement was a good clue that he wasn't very smart.
Please structure your text better next time. It's somewhat hard to follow when it's just a huge blob of text.
Now on the matter at hand: It's so stupid. The premises for the argument were stupid and it's stupid that you actually had an falling out because of this stupid argument... about dragons. It's all just very stupid.
Now on the matter at hand: It's so stupid. The premises for the argument were stupid and it's stupid that you actually had an falling out because of this stupid argument... about dragons. It's all just very stupid.
Agreed about the wall.Mr.K. said:
But if that "friend" actually said those things, I would not recommend having any contact with him/her. Even because of possible young age. Or at least I would loose respect for that person totally.
But naturally we only saw another side of the story here
