Kerbin Biology

[Slur]

With the recent news of the .22 update with science and specimen containers, I'm curious as to what life on Kerbin besides the Kerbals would be like, not to mention the actual anatomy of the Kerbals. Considering how you can land them on their head, or have them survive explosions via EVA. Who knows what kinds of secrets could lurk on this little blue ball in the Kerbol system.

[Dasemay]

simple answer kerbals are a type of grass.

[NASI Director]

The Kerbals are an advanced species of adamantium, hard-to-obtain-nium, and super-dense-ium. They are green so they can live in the command pod for years and produce oxygen from the CO2 they emit. I made a post about it a while back.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/34547-Apoctalyptic-KSP-Large-Picture

[EndOfTheEarth]

We know that they have trees, cacti, at least two species of grass (light and dark green), and I believe that one of the planet biographies mentions small insects getting into the telescopes. There's also whatever constitutes the 'food' from the Hitchhiker storage container, since I'm assuming that Kerbals don't eat rocks.

[NERVAfan]

The Kerbals' extreme willingness to risk their lives seems completely maladaptive for conventional organisms... so I think Kerbin's whole biosphere is a single intelligence, and the Kerbals are actually its mobile, information-gathering units ... thus explaining their extreme drive to explore space, to the point that they seem to have no other activities -- they're literally grown for that purpose and no other, so the Kerbin-Gaia entity can learn about the rest of the universe beyond itself.

[Superluminaut]

Heres my take.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/entry.php/665-The-Kerbal

Also I wonder if specimen can escape and flourish on other planets.

[magnemoe]

Far to complicated the, big head is mostly shock absorbing materials, woodpeckers has much of the same to protect the brain then hacking.

For kerbals this evolved as they once lived in trees but was not very good at climbing but fell down and landed on their heads so they evolved the light shock absorbing heads.

And as they are smaller than humans they have lower terminal velocity and can survive higher falls.

They can also enter hibernation on will, this is useful during long spaceflights.

[Rage097]

Last time Kerbal atnatomy was risen as a topic it broke into arguments.

But I belive Kerbals are asexual autotrophs that reproduce via spores. when they die in a "puff of smoke" they release spores from which more Kerbals grow. In their brain they are hardwired to spread their race through out the stars, hence all of their funding being in the Space program.

They have a brian that is protected by layers of shock absorbing materials that has evolved to use more advance techiques of spreading their kind. they use photosyntheisis for food, but can take stimulants as well, I'd assume.