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*However, many dwarven physicists theorize that matter is not truly destroyed when the bridge is lowered, but rather, an inter-dimensional portal is formed, transmitting the items into a separate parallel universe. While the exact details are not known, dwarven physicists state that in this universe, items are randomly spawned whenever drawbridges are raised, cats pose no threat to fortress frame rate, and water pressure travels only diagonally. | *However, many dwarven physicists theorize that matter is not truly destroyed when the bridge is lowered, but rather, an inter-dimensional portal is formed, transmitting the items into a separate parallel universe. While the exact details are not known, dwarven physicists state that in this universe, items are randomly spawned whenever drawbridges are raised, cats pose no threat to fortress frame rate, and water pressure travels only diagonally. | ||
− | Dwarves also currently appear to run on a metabolism that annihilates matter, as they are capable of consuming large quantities of alcohol and food without producing any sort of waste product, aside from an infrequent, but seemingly inexhaustible supply of vomit. | + | Dwarves also currently appear to run on a metabolism that annihilates matter, as they are capable of consuming large quantities of alcohol and food without producing any sort of waste product, aside from an infrequent, but seemingly inexhaustible supply of vomit. The mass of food and booze, once consumed, simply ceases to exist. |
*This may rather than matter annihilation simply be a symptom of extreme efficiency in the dwarven system an ability to digest and use for energy ALL of whatever is consumed, a system perhaps developed to provide enough energy to feed the countless symbiotic beard hair organisms dwarves possess. | *This may rather than matter annihilation simply be a symptom of extreme efficiency in the dwarven system an ability to digest and use for energy ALL of whatever is consumed, a system perhaps developed to provide enough energy to feed the countless symbiotic beard hair organisms dwarves possess. | ||