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Monday, 13 August 2018
What to do if a centaur has a heart attack
You don't think that if the human heart arrests, the horse heart would be able to maintain adequate cerebral perfusion by itself? I honestly don't know. I've been thinking about this all week.
A bigger problem is the lack of lung space. If centaurs have human lungs, they can gallop anaerobically for a few seconds, but would underventilated - the metabolic output of a horse, mediated via 5 litres of alveolar volume?
If they have horse lungs, what's in the human torso? Are they hollow?
James Garry No, solid muscle. Those dudes can draw a crossbow with their bare fingers and head-butt their way through a concrete wall. (At some risk of a concussion, of course.)
Lucky for them, their genetics whet with the horse junk, and not the alternative. That would have looked ridiculous. Well. I assume. The centaurs shown appear to be geldings.
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A bigger problem is the lack of lung space. If centaurs have human lungs, they can gallop anaerobically for a few seconds, but would underventilated - the metabolic output of a horse, mediated via 5 litres of alveolar volume?
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James Garry No, solid muscle. Those dudes can draw a crossbow with their bare fingers and head-butt their way through a concrete wall. (At some risk of a concussion, of course.)
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Greg Roelofs
ReplyDeleteThat makes much more sense.
So the trachea runs all the way to the equine thorax - through the abdomen.
Ta!
Lucky for them, their genetics whet with the horse junk, and not the alternative. That would have looked ridiculous. Well. I assume. The centaurs shown appear to be geldings.
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