Dragon Strenght

[Ragnarok]

[SkieFireYokana]

I'm under the impression that Shadow Viper was referring rather to a past life or somesuch which I won't get involved in right now because I have something on-topic to say.

Right, well, I thought had something on-topic to say. Several minutes of typing later and I'm describing the theoretical anatomy of something that might not even exist, and that I'll almost certainly never encounter even if it does, in a way that is almost but not quite entirely unrelated to this topic. I'll skip that whole bit and just say it depends on exactly what you mean when you say dragon, and what you mean when you say strong. A space-dwelling dragon would NOT need to be very strong at all, and would likely have a hard time staying strong if its muscles could atrophy the same way ours can. Strong is a very relative term. Ants are strong, and you can lift stuff a million times heavier than they can (not really, that was hyperbole), even though humans are actually comparatively weak next to their next closest relatives, the common chimps and the bonobos, about three to four times the strength of a grown man.
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[Shaprite]

I don't think thats true. They have to be strong to carry very heavy bodies. But it would have to depend on size of the dragon. I see what your trying to get at. When I mean stronge, I mean powerful. Can lift this and destory things and enemies with ease. You know, What I'm getting at? Some are pictured to be very muscular lizards.
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[SkieFireYokana]

What I meant was that it depends on the type of dragon. As I said before, a space-dwelling dragon has no need to counteract significant amounts of gravity, no need to exert itself extensively since one small push will keep it going for NEARLY (not quite entirely) eternity, while it harvests food from, say, stellar radiation, or maybe even background radiation from the Big Bang. What I mean to say ultimately boils down to this: evolution dictates that something will only be as strong as it needs to be for the job, plus some, with a small margin both ways. Dragons which, for instance, are herbivorous and live on a planet where predators are unheard of, and where there are constant winds requiring no great effort to fly as soon as they get in the air, and/or a very weak gravitational field, all would amount to weak dragons. On a planet where almost ALL large mammals are carnivorous, however, if there were dragons they would be big, dangerous, and probably able to deck anything they needed to. Supernatural strength, however, would probably not come into the picture.
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[Jasriella]

Besides that strength is only relative.
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