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Post by Amethyst on Dec 4, 2006 14:44:51 GMT -5
not sure if this counts but...
cars breath ( Lightning panting) but with no muscles they don't need "blood" to flow around the body. So I think breathing keeps the engine cool or something... my idea so probably crud p:
also what would happen if a human drank oil or petrol... would they die? or just get bad tummy ache. My "gangsta" friend Callum wants to know for a jackass style stunt... I'm worried.
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Post by Volksdragon on Dec 4, 2006 16:05:47 GMT -5
Even if you didn't die, I wouldn't recommend anyone drinking oil xD
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Post by RMS Oceanic on Dec 4, 2006 16:15:42 GMT -5
Cars need to breathe because Oxygen is an important part of the combustion cycle, ne pas? They couldn't go anywhere without it.
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Post by Kayota on Dec 4, 2006 20:23:11 GMT -5
yeah. si.
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Post by Amethyst on Dec 5, 2006 14:41:09 GMT -5
oh ok... *not good at science*
random thought: If the tongues are fleshy that must been they could have tongue peircings * imagines a car with a peircing*
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Post by Reiji Neko Mitsukai on Dec 5, 2006 21:44:59 GMT -5
That was actually in a deleted scene... A semi had a tounge piercing that was a blinking light.
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Post by Amethyst on Dec 6, 2006 14:09:45 GMT -5
That was actually in a deleted scene... A semi had a tounge piercing that was a blinking light. I remember that ^^ " hey if you want lights check out these"*clicks lights on* " no way he'd like these" * more lights* *pfft...* clicks on, sticks out magical light bulb peircing* 'ow a'out 'i'? (translation: how about this?)
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Post by Evangeline on Dec 7, 2006 4:07:49 GMT -5
That would have been hilarious
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Post by danni on Dec 7, 2006 10:42:41 GMT -5
I think their bodies are flexible enough that they can withstand blunt force with less damage than cars from this planet would, not to mention their suspensions are built stronger than cars from Earth. Mater's jump over the moon would've destroyed his suspension if he'd been an ordinary tow truck, and when he smashed through the fence he didn't dent anything. Lightning never got dented falling off Willy's Butte or when Chick knocked him off the track. But the cacti stuck into Lightning, which makes me think the cars' "skin" retains some flexible qualities. Really great way to put it, I always thought the same way, too, but I just couldnt' put it into words that well. They're not really cars in the sence of cars in the real world, but creatures that are a lot like cars.
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Post by RedFan on Dec 7, 2006 14:34:37 GMT -5
Oil must double as saliva, because Mater blows a bubble during the court scene, and when he wales up to a new road, he 'dribbles' oil from his mouth, like some people do when they sleep.
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Post by Evangeline on Dec 8, 2006 1:19:10 GMT -5
Sort of in the same way that the Companions in Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books are creatures that look like horses but really aren't.
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Post by raine on Apr 28, 2007 13:18:54 GMT -5
LOL Danni!! We found the "Look and Find" Cars book at the library today and get this -- Sheriff is depicted in it drinking from a can labeled Jelly Doughnut Flavored Fuel. So if there's fuel flavored like donuts, can cars also eat donuts? They'd have to, or how would they know what a jelly donut tastes like? I know it was probably just a cop & donut joke and not canon but it was an interesting idea... Anyway, I think somewhere along the esophagus the parts change from soft to rigid metal. If they do eat any solid food, having a flexible esophagus would help move food to the stomach...which would be the gas tank? I'm not sure. Yeah, the stomach would definitely have to be the fuel tank since they already made a Cars version of pepto-bismol (Tank Coat) so they would have to have an espohagus to move food material down to the tank. (of course, in my stories, the tank is located where an animal's stomach would be- in the mid section abdomen etc. makes it sound more realistic plus the fuel and oil IS actually digested in the tank which has the same functions as the stomach such as contracting muscles, hydrocloric acids, enzymes, etc. )
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Post by pookydoc on Apr 28, 2007 16:07:35 GMT -5
same here raine or they could always have more then one tank..i dunno..like in some herbivore animals
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Post by Evangeline on Apr 28, 2007 17:08:35 GMT -5
Perhaps there is a multi-chambered tank/digesting center which can also handle some solid foods (but liquid fuel is shunted right through) There is also the alternate fuel opening on the side for pumps, where the fuel can go directly into the final holding tank.
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Post by raine on Apr 28, 2007 18:23:01 GMT -5
now, regarding the tank... I would picture it as what a human or mammalian somach would have. Such as smooth muscles that assist in grinding solid food material as glands secrete enzymes and acids to aid in the breakdown of proteins and lipids. which also brings up the subject of digestive health, seeing that cars DO use a fiber source for proper digestive balance. problems of the fuel tank can be : impaction, norovirus, ulcers, cancer, colic, bacterial infections, etc. which brings up the subject of regurgitation. because vomiting is caused by a nervous system function in the middle of the brain (engine) which signals the muscles to contract from the lower part of the tank, I would believe that cars can indeed regurgitate food. nasty subject, I know.... but all those years of studying medicine DOES come in handy.
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