Dragons & Planets...

[Daragon]

I have been veeeeerrrrry curious as to know, what do the other worlds we used to live on look like? We've only had dreams to go by, and strange experiences. Wouldn't a dragon be heavier or lighter on other planets? Not to mention air composition. How could we fly, eat, or even live in those conditions, considering some of us didn't live on live food. How do we know conditions weren't right for some of us to fly? Who knows what else lives there, and (Of course) species differ, but my point is, where did we live, what did it look like, and how did we live?

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I'm pretty sure most of us were on seperate worlds...But, again, my point.
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[Shaprite]

I see your point. Basicly the planets needs the right traits to support life. The gravity, air composition, and other things would effect, but we should have adapted to it the planets conditions. I'm don't really know much about planets.
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[Solid]

I'm not completely sure, but if I was to hazard a guess I would say the gravity on what ever planet a dragon would be on, might be lighter then earth.

The reason I say this is because of eastern dragons. No wings and yet they still manged flight. Some speculate that they used lighter then air gases to do this, but study says that due to their size and weight no known gas that could do that.

So if eastern dragon are real, the planet they lived on, or live on, gravity should be lighter then ours. But this is all based on earth dragons. God knows if there's any real fact behind them.
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[Moonclaw]

I guess the planet would be similar to Earth and it may have had lighter gravity, like Solid said, to sustain a dragon in flight. Different types of flightless dragon may have lived on planets with heavier gravity. Although, based on mass, dragons are not suppose to be able to fly but bee's are not suppose to be able to fly either, yet they still do. So I think dragons may have flown on many different planets, including Earth.

The planet would be able to support life if it had dragons, so food would not be an issue and wherever the dragon lived it would probably have some source of nourishment or it would not survive on that perticular planet.

It's a mystery alright! I think if I lived on any other planet in my past lives it would have been a very beautiful planet.
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[ANightmaresDream]

I'm a little late, but whatever.

Lighter gravity is almost certain, but the air would have to be MORE dense to allow "greater" flight.

Think of water. In fresh water, it is harder to stay afloat than in salt water because salt water is more dense.

On the other hand, the takeoff and flight speed would be faster with a less dense atmosphere, however, it would be harder to glide and/or maintain flight.

It could go either way.
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[Jasriella]

I can remember bits of my old world from the couple memories. From what I could tell it was quite similar to this world if Earth had never been tainted by the hands of man.
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[MythRat]

What I can remember of my world, it was pretty much like earth only not quite as diverse ecosystem-wise. The whole thing was pretty much various densities of green (deep jungle-forest-grass plains), three pretty impressive mountain ranges, a couple big oceans with only a few small islands, a huge glacial northern pole with the south a considerably smaller glacier, and only one desert (that I know of, although I spent two lives there both of them spent doing an awful lot of traveling so I think it's safe to say that's a fairly good grasp of the world as a whole). I get the feeling it was slightly smaller than earth... like somewhere between earth and mars in size, but I don't really have any way to be sure, the place wasn't terribly advanced that I can remember. So it's possible that it had slightly less gravity.
There was only one kind of dragon there, though. Big (a good sized male would be about 35ft long nose-to-tail with wingspan about 65ft), four-limbed (as in wings also being arms), generally dark coloured, western-ish types with both fire and acid. Non-magical as far as I've been able to figure between what I can remember and what I know about physics and biochemistry it's taken me several years to get as far as I have with it.

It's entirely possible that there's more than one world that's inhabited by creatures that qualify as 'dragons'. My roommate remembers entirely different dragons of the definitely magical sort, of course the world he remembers around them is also completely different from what I remember. It stands to reason that instead of one of us being right, we're all right, just not all in the same place.

[DragonStar]

Surely if a dragon lived on another planet, it would be adapted to live in those contition of the planet, Eg. Stronger Gravity= Larger Wingspan or Larger Flight Bladders.
Then again, if a dragon had to adapt differently on another planet, it would look different and therefore be a whole different species.

...... Outer Space is confusing, lets leave it at that.