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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
06/06/09

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Which dummy is Dr. Doom?
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The_Thing
06/06/09

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Also they apparently strapped one of these dummies to the outside of the International Space Station. For some reason that sounds like the start of a horror move, like Chucky in Space.
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Palmerlime
06/06/09

@The_Thing: That's how the Reavers started.

(Browncoat cred increased by +1...)
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
06/06/09

@Palmerlime: No, that's how they continued, but not how they started. As we learned in "Serenity".

(Browncoat cred increased by +10)
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Raven
06/07/09

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.:

I would've thought the bodies on the exterior of ships would be more like a figurehead or a physical way of showing possible status? More or less, a decoration.
How they continued was through a sort of mental conditioning in some cases. If you remember Bushwhacked, that's one possible way of Reaver continuity.
Now incrase my Browncoat cred by however much you see fit.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
06/07/09

@Raven: + 25. I'm correct, but you are more correct.
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The_Thing
06/06/09

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If by turn super elastic you mean melt all over the floor then it's certainly possible if they turn the beam up too high.

Also, I don't know why they don't do this test on a model organism. You are going to get results much closer to those of a human if you work in vivo. You'd probably have to find something with similar weight to a human but really the response to intense radiation is going to be pretty similar across mammals.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
06/06/09

@The_Thing: Pigs are always good human analogs.
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