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Rosepetal the Caitian is talking to Mightnight about some serious buisness but Starwalker Nimbus is not so serious while playing in space.This is for the cover of Bernard Doove's next book which collects
various stories from his Chakat Universe, featuring foxtaurs, Caitians,
chakats, and Rakshani, on new worlds, space stations and starships.
Great fun to work on this ^^ it kept me busy for weeks
characters belong to Bernhard Doove goldfur
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In space, nobody realizes that space is so freezing cold you would actually freeze solid.
anyways, pretty nice drawing.
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Starwalker breed, Stellar foxtaurs. Herm species, (as with all stellar foxtaurs), specially designed for activity in space, sans space suit.
Their skin, eyes (transparent eyelid, like many other species have) and other orifices are able to seal shut to prevent heat loss due to rapid evaporation of water in vacuum. (which is >90% of heat loss in space, leaving the remaining heat lost through radiation, equivalent to a chilly morning at worst)
Their skin is tough and able to sustain a safe internal pressure, even in a vacuum. Their fur is also dense, and full of radiation absorbing proteins and pigments like melanin!
The only issue that leaves is oxygen supply and CO2 removal. They're supposed to be able to safely go for an hour in space without any equipment or protection, and can slip into a hibernation state to conserve oxygen if for some reason they can't reach safety, (presumably meant for surviving adrift in a ship/escapepod with no life support or potentially no air)
(if you're still stuck on the "freezing to death in space" thing, remember that of the 3 methods of heat transfer, we all learned in elementary/junior high, radiation is the slowest at typical temperatures. And in space, there's nothing to convect or conduct the heat away to. The only reason you WOULD freeze to death in space, is because the lack of pressure forces water to evaporate, and breaking the water molecules apart into a gas requires energy, which the water steals from you. This is why their bodies are designed to keep any water away from the surface of their skin.)
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Dude, that post was from more than 3 years ago, why reply now?
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Better late than never
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Actually science has shown that it would take quite awhile to get frozen due to the lack of matter to conduct thermal energy to. The usual issues are being cooked by solar wind and swelling up to look like an ugly space potato from the lack of pressure.
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and then all that goopy foxtaur mess would ruin the windows of that space station which somehow has gravity but it's probably because it uses magnets to magnetically keep everything in place.
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oh he had an explenation for that XD but I forgott
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something about the fur being insulating or something, but that still wouldn't be a good excuse, since it would reach the skin and start to freeze it right off. Also, the blood would boil and her(hir, if you prefer that) eyes out. Space is brutal.
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Lobo could do it why not furries
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