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  • @amm019 To answer your third question: 1) it's "Thimble", not "symbol". And 2) it is most likely a small protrusion in the dragon's mouth consisting of iron and other conductive metals within the body of the dragon. Since they consume limestone, they also probably consume flint, which gets caught in/near the thimble. Vibrations from the dragon belching would cause the Thimble to hit the stone and send sparks flying, thus lighting the hydrogen and producing fire.

  • @soraos21 As far as I understand the Thor's Thimble is a nerve cluster that discharges a static charge much like an electric eel.

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  • I just want to make sure that everyone understands that - FUS RO DAH!

  • Yay for John Ritter, the dragon's voice.

  • When the dragon said "for crying out loud" I thought he was going to say "oh f**k"

  • @luchao

    Like the special effects James Cameron used in Avatar? And if they do make it into a live-action film, who would be the best one to film it?

  • @OceanFire9 Did I write hundreds of thousands? I meant tens of millions. It's been a long time since college.

  • @OceanFire9

    Diamond forms in the earth's crust under great heat and pressure, it is unknown how long they take to form but they are very rare and hard to get to. Limestone is the compacted sediment made from the skeletons and shells of tiny animals, it is very common but does that hundreds of thousands of years to form. Point being, there are better ways of getting calcium than chewing up rocks -- e.g. dragons might break up and swallow the bones of animals they eat as well as the flesh.

  • @RossSimsProductions Read up on the formation of diamonds and limestone first, please, before you go making any hypothetical correlations of similarity to a trendy-to-talk-about "non-renewable resource." You just might be amazed at what you learn.

  • If dragons relied on limestone and diamond for their flying and fire-breathing abilities then surely they would reach a point of "peak" diamond and limestone -- much like we're reaching a point of "peak" oil, where we've used up oil supplies far faster than it can form naturally.

  • XD

    

  • @TheDreamCavalcade That would be awesome.

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