Did the Polynesians not have rats?
Police procedure has changed since I was little.
Wash ,'The Message'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
Betsy HP - Dec 30, 2004 11:25:26 am PST #47 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Zenkitty - Dec 30, 2004 11:47:14 am PST #48 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I wonder if, on the terraformed worlds of the Firefly 'verse, there are Earth creatures that no one would have wanted to bring, but got there anyway, like rats, or cockroaches.
I'm sad that I missed the thread change.
lori - Dec 30, 2004 11:52:28 am PST #49 of 10001
Topic!Cindy - Dec 30, 2004 11:53:58 am PST #50 of 10001
What is even happening?
Yeah, this is the creepy part. It's not caused by anything that is alive. It's caused by a new kind of protein that corrupts the other proteins. Like that new kind of water in the Vonnegut story that freezes at room temperature, and also transfoms ordinary water into its own form on contact, so if you touch your tongue to it you freeze solid.Prions or something, right Rick? My cousin's m-i-l died of probable vCJD (I don't think they allowed an autopsy, which is the only way to prove it--by looking at the brain) a few years ago, and I googled a lot, at the time. They didn't know what hit her at first. They thought she had a stroke, and then nothing fit the expected prognosis. It was heartbreaking, because they knew she was dying and in so many ways was already gone.
-t - Dec 30, 2004 11:56:34 am PST #51 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Tthere's more than one mammal native to Hawaii? I'll never be able to remember two. Oh well.
I might be able to remember that Hawaiian bats exist, though, 'cuz that's just cool.
lori - Dec 30, 2004 12:12:00 pm PST #52 of 10001
This USGS paper pretty much covers all the bases on Hawaii's critters.
Theodosia - Dec 30, 2004 12:20:25 pm PST #53 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
It's 'mongooses' because the -goose part of the word is from an entirely different root word than goose/geese.
JenP - Dec 30, 2004 12:58:49 pm PST #54 of 10001
I've learned a startling number of new things in these first few posts.
And, while the you may be tired of hearing it by now, I really LOVE the subscribe/unsubscribe function. It's beautiful.
Consuela - Dec 30, 2004 1:24:35 pm PST #55 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Bats are native? Okay, weird. Because dood, that's a long way to fly when you're a bat.
Birds I get. Bats, not so much.
Una - Dec 30, 2004 1:31:39 pm PST #56 of 10001
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
Prions or something, right...?
I'm not Rick, but: yes.