While I have never been the type to obsess over dragons, I do find them very interesting in the perspective of whether or not they truly existed. However, I DO have a very good friend who is a true dragon fanatic and he ran across a dragon theory that I had never heard before.

This is the brief summation he passed on to me, unfortunately he couldn't find the resource where he had initially read this theory.


=Dragons existed
=They did indeed breathe fire as a result of a certain body/blood chemical makeup that allowed them to expell this "solution" and it created intense flames upon contact with the open air.
=As a result of this chemical makeup, as the dragons died and as they decomposed the chemical was exposed to the open air as a result of decomposition and the dragons and their bones were basically cremated. This is the reason we find no remains.



While I see no way this could EVER be proven (or disproven for that matter), I do find the theory quite fascinating.

I was wondering if any of you have also heard this theory and may possibly be able to provide me with a resource to read further into this. I have tried google with little success.



Jasn

I have never heard that before. To me it sounds like a theory that was created out of a need to explain why the bones haven't been found. It is a tad convenient if you ask me.

I agree, seems to prefect that no bones have not been found, the fact is that we probably have found dragon bones, just discarded them as something else or another species.

My opinion is that dragons existed world wide, they did breath a 'hot something' that could have been confused with or was similar to 'fire'. And the ones in China did fly.

I few years ago I had lunch with a guy who knew all about dragons and had some very interesting theories.

I will look around today and see if I can find him and get the details of all of this.

I have always been fascinated with dragons and I have them all over my den in pewter, clay, glass, silver, brass and on letter openers, stationary, key chain and a bunch of other stuff. Man, they are all over the place.

Thanks for starting this thread.

I read an article a while ago about Alien contact, and it went onto say that humans dig up bones from ancient skeletons that are actually Alien, but they put them together to make dinosaur skeletons 'because it makes more sense to us.' That was told by somebody who had apparently spoken to Aliens in secret bases.

We could be mistaking Dragon bones for dinosaurs, but then who would really know anyway?

Cremating a human body takes alot of time , and a lot of sustained heat. Must be one heck of a fire to burn something that size to ash that fast. Although I doubt it, I would love it to be right, if only to find out which artistic interpretation of dragons was correct.

Wayne...

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.......

No sorry, that is not what I was going to say but it was a long time ago that I read somewhere, and I can't remember where, that the reason dragons could breath fire and fly was that they produced a super lighter than air gas such as hydrogen.

The dragon was very lightly built like birds with hollow bones and the body having many cavities acted like a gas bag, the gas being flammable could produce fire, not sure what the ignition source was though.

Why the heck did I remember that.

How about this....

Some guy finds dino bones, and being the dark ages, or some ancient time period or location of your choice where peole were generaly ignoant to the past existance of large reptile creatures, he uses the bone to proclaim himself as a "Dragon Slayer" to score free food and glory to survive?

Dragons were...dinosaures bones used to make a living. Much like fake carnival shows of the 1800's.

Then again I subscribe to the notion that the simple solution is usually the correct one.

I mean, if you find a car crashed into a tree at 3:00 a.m. it is most likely that someone fell asleep at the wheel, had too much to drink, and they dodged a animal that came from the darkness.

I doubt that the blinding lights of a UFO, or boogfoot, or some trans dimentional portal casue the road accident. Sometimes I think you all try to find the most outlandish reason first, then debate how that reson would be "real".

Yes, I've heard of something similar to what you posted. Not sure if I fully believe in them beyond just being reptiles, reflected as myths. Though, I am open to finding out the reality behind them.

Originally posted by sherpa

No sorry, that is not what I was going to say but it was a long time ago that I read somewhere, and I can't remember where, that the reason dragons could breath fire and fly was that they produced a super lighter than air gas such as hydrogen.

The dragon was very lightly built like birds with hollow bones and the body having many cavities acted like a gas bag, the gas being flammable could produce fire, not sure what the ignition source was though.

Why the heck did I remember that.

I believe that that is exactly what the guy said.

That is a little weird.

No I like to talk about things that may lead to real progress, like the development of BWB technology.

Topics like this are best left for 3rd graders.

Originally posted by MrKnight

No I like to talk about things that may lead to real progress, like the development of BWB technology.

Topics like this are best left for 3rd graders.

Thanks for the post MrKnight. I disagree. I think many myths and legends have a real life foundation.

Its only our education system that limits our knowledge.

I believe that that there is a secret division of the Smithsonian Institution that deliberately and skillfully hides any knowledge of this type.

If you are predisposed to BWB technoolgy I respectfully invite you to those threads.

But thanks for dropping in, your comments, as uninformed as they are, are greatly appreciated.