How to Build a Kraken

[KAL 9000]

So, as all KSPers know, the Kraken is a huge monster that lives in interplanetary space, devouring passing ships and causing bugs. Also,

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A dead one has been found on Bop.

 

So, my question is: could such a creature exist? I.E. one that can live in open space without any equipment? And if so, how?

[lajoswinkler]

I could certainly not form in space because vacuum does not allow it.

Living there... it would need nutrients. Lots of nutrients have a nasty tendency to coalesce into balls that exert considerable gravity so the creature would need to expell some of its matter to get away and that is a high price to pay.

 

It's highly unlikely.

[todofwar]

It wouldn't evolve, but if we assume it's engineered it makes the problem easier actually. Lots of creatures use electricity for offense, so maybe it has the ability to weave conductive webs and charge them. Also, pretty much all eukaryotes have proton pumps, all you need is a biological cathode gun and you have the ingredients for an ion engine. It would probably be photosynthetic, and direct itself through nebula with a large open mouth to collect hydrogen particles.

[PB666]

10 hours ago, KAL 9000 said:

So, as all KSPers know, the Kraken is a huge monster that lives in interplanetary space, devouring passing ships and causing bugs. Also,

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A dead one has been found on Bop.

 

So, my question is: could such a creature exist? I.E. one that can live in open space without any equipment? And if so, how?

Could such a creature exist, we could be that creature, if the graviton proves to be true, and you could uncouple two quantum entangled and recouple many of them at once, then it could be possible to send a directional gravity pulse at a craft in space that tears it apart, much like a ship passing very close to the event horizon of a black hole. You would have to be in space, the device could be on a moon or asteroid, with some sort of pointing device. Like many things, it might be possible to show that you could do something on a very small scale, making it work on a grand scale, more difficult. Another way would be to send a very intense EM pulse, though this somewhat depends on the magnetic responses of the elements in the ship.