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Re: More Flood Biology
Posted By: mrbananas <dgreenwood@lacademy.edu>	Date: 2/22/05 5:13 p.m.
In Response To: Re: More Flood Biology (Slith) : Now this has got me thinking about what the Flood can infect. : It's clear that Flood can infect 'dead' bodies before they decompose. But : what makes a living host an actual moving Flood Form? I think it would be : the brain. : How fast do the synapses in a brain break down after death? (For instance if : they stopped getting O2) If we can answer this, we will know how long a : body can be 'dead' before it is no longer a viable form for movement. : You see, the Flood are a completely alien lifeform, there is no way in hell : they'd know how to control another alien's body. Unless they infect the : victim's brain and, more importantly, it's movement control center. In : Humans this is the Cerebellum. : So, Flood which infect a dead body will be pretty much benign. They will have : no ability to move the body, and will only be able to convert it into a : Flood mass. These masses probably grow into incubators for Infection Forms : (Not like the ones that walk around.) : Vectors that are infected while alive however, are much more dangerous. The : Flood form now has the host's knowledge, and can move itself around. This : allows it to incapacitate other vectors and consume them as well. i don't think any brain is required, remember how in the infected host the head has become unneeded so it just flopps agianst the shoulder, and remember how you can shoot the head off of the flood and they wouldn't even flinch. all it needs is the spinal cord to transmit movement nerve messages. the infection from becomes the new brain.

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Of OP, flood and biology	Zak Anderson	2/21/05 3:14 a.m.
Re: Of OP, flood and biology	mooniejohnson	2/21/05 3:17 a.m.
Re: Of OP, flood and biology	JJMeH	2/21/05 3:20 a.m.
Re: Of OP, flood and biology	Zak Anderson	2/21/05 3:18 a.m.
OK GOT A WORKING LINK NOW	Zak Anderson	2/21/05 4:32 a.m.
Re: OK GOT A WORKING LINK NOW	mooniejohnson	2/21/05 5:10 a.m.
Re: OK GOT A WORKING LINK NOW	Zak Anderson	2/22/05 2:25 a.m.
Re: OK GOT A WORKING LINK NOW	mrbananas	2/22/05 9:37 a.m.
Re: OK GOT A WORKING LINK NOW	Hawk7886	2/21/05 5:12 a.m.
Here's a better one.	Louis Wu	2/21/05 5:22 a.m.
Re: Here's a better one.	Jillybean	2/21/05 7:25 a.m.
Re: Here's a better one.	MC vince	2/21/05 10:26 a.m.
Re: Here's a better one.	Jillybean	2/21/05 1:23 p.m.
Q&A	Slith	2/21/05 1:40 p.m.
Re: Q&A	Zak Anderson	2/22/05 2:20 a.m.
More Flood Biology	Slith	2/22/05 3:56 p.m.
Re: More Flood Biology	Slith	2/22/05 4:14 p.m.
The Flood Homeworld	Slith	2/22/05 4:35 p.m.
Re: The Flood Homeworld	punji73	2/23/05 3:22 a.m.
Re: More Flood Biology	mrbananas	2/22/05 5:13 p.m.
Re: More Flood Biology	Slith	2/22/05 5:24 p.m.
Re: More Flood Biology	selmack	2/22/05 6:54 p.m.
Re: More Flood Biology	punji73	2/23/05 3:10 a.m.
Re: More Flood Biology	Slith	2/23/05 11:51 a.m.
Re: More Flood Biology	mrbananas	2/23/05 1:14 p.m.
Re: More Flood Biology	Slith	2/23/05 5:32 p.m.
Re: Here's a better one.	Gil Galahad	2/21/05 4:02 p.m.
Re: Here's a better one.	Jillybean	2/21/05 4:27 p.m.
Re: Here's a better one.	Finn	2/22/05 6:54 p.m.
Excellent work. Good reasoning. *NM*	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	2/21/05 11:20 a.m.
read Starhammer? *NM*	Anonymous Cowardly Fool	2/21/05 7:40 p.m.