Game of Thrones Season 7 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]

[Clueless Morgan]

Now who's the nerd?

Nitpicking... dragons exist?

Um... clearly if you buy into the premise of the show then dragons exist.



This is an argument about whether they can fly.

We can build some pretty heavy flying machines with much smaller wing to body ratios than those dragons....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-5...tofortress
- 160,000kg?! O.o (360,000 pounds)
- plus 32,000 kg of weapons!?! (70,000 pounds)

I wouldn't have a problem with those beast being able to actually fly...
http://tabletopwhale.com/img/posts/09-29-14.gif

Taking off, however... never a vertical ascent. I like it that they sometimes just plunge off a cliff on the show... at least that may give them enough boost for the wings to start working!... or just to glide.

You're seriously putting up a fixed-wing plane as your evidence that dragons would be able to fly?



The problem isn't just in the weight, it's also in the biomechanics of how the wing muscles could get that weight into the air and keep it up there through flapping, since the dragons aren't gliders.

(hehehe, this is fun)