Very few gamma-rays make it through the atmosphere. The atmosphere is as thick to gamma-rays as a twelve-foot thick plate of aluminum.
YAY!
Harrow: You didn't have to wound that man. Mal: Yeah, I know, it was just funny.
'Shindig'
Heroes 1: We Could Be Heroes
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Sue - May 22, 2007 9:35:14 am PDT #1338 of 5028
hip deep in pie
DCJensen - May 22, 2007 9:35:19 am PDT #1339 of 5028
All is well that ends in pizza.
edited to add: Ah, about 46 grams, which could either be irrelevant if taken from specific unused portions of the body, or could have serious fuck-you-up consequences if removed evenly from all the body's cells.
Hopefully it was just a big lunch, and it used up the contents of his stomach. With that equation, a little over a pound (1.01) would yield a 10 megaton explosion.
Whee.
Micole - May 22, 2007 9:41:06 am PDT #1340 of 5028
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
Gamma radiation is cosmic rays. Atomic bombs release neutron radiation.
However, the Heroes world is clearly one step to the left of Spiderman 2, in which you can save New York from an atomic bomb by dropping the bomb in the East River, so presumably Heroes-world me isn't dying of radiation sickness even as this-world me types.
Heroes science is not our science. That is why a geneticist does not recognize the building blocks of DNA but makes a perfectly good EMT.
Frankenbuddha - May 22, 2007 9:42:19 am PDT #1341 of 5028
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I kind of want to watch the whole season over again.
No "kind of" on my end. I've already pre-ordered the DVDs.
Tom Scola - May 22, 2007 9:44:38 am PDT #1342 of 5028
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Atomic bombs release neutron radiation.
The show never gave any indication that Ted emitted anything but EM radiation.
-t - May 22, 2007 9:59:59 am PDT #1343 of 5028
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What about Ted's wife getting radiation sickness?
Sophia Brooks - May 22, 2007 10:14:19 am PDT #1344 of 5028
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Well, I sure hope Peter will be back, because I have been selling my cow-orkers (all nurses) on the show based on the fact that Peter is a non-lame, non-effeminate, male hospice and palliative care nurse whose "superheroness" comes from the same qualities that make him a good nurse.
Theodosia - May 22, 2007 10:15:55 am PDT #1345 of 5028
'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"
You know, with the actual medical background, Peter would have made a better EMT than Mohinder.
Sophia Brooks - May 22, 2007 10:21:57 am PDT #1346 of 5028
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I was thinking that, too, Theo, but then I thought maybe he was too busy becoming radioactive to take care of the others! In some ways I am a little disappointed (right now) on how the world was saved, because I did want it to be Peter saving the world by being a caretaker rather than Nathan by being a capital "H" hero.
Also, I thought it was funny that they kept Peter and Claire separated for great chunks of this episode. It is almost as if they were trying to avoid the chemistry!
Vortex - May 22, 2007 10:46:52 am PDT #1347 of 5028
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Sylar's powers were pretty office in the season finale.
I cannot for the life of me figure out what "office" is supposed to be.
I thought that the stuff on the floor of the studio was paint, not blood, left over from painting Kirby Plaza.