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Re: More Flood Biology
Posted By: mrbananas <dgreenwood@lacademy.edu>	Date: 2/23/05 1:14 p.m.
In Response To: Re: More Flood Biology (Slith) : No, no. What I'm saying is that if the host's brain is dead. (Which Jenkins' : wasn't.) The Flood cannot control it at all. : The neurons in the brain have decayed to the point where they are unusable by : the Flood. Thus, that body just turns into a Flood Mass. Used for whatever : purposes Flood Masses are used for. : If the Brain is still working, the Flood will sift through the information, : and use the current Nervous System to control the host body. : Think of it this way: If you were suddenly in the body of an Elite, would you : be able to move it's seperatable jaw? Humans don't have a seperatable jaw, : nothing in our brain would have information about how to control a jaw : that splits in half. : For all the adaptability the Flood have in them. There's no way they're going : to know how to control all aliens, right off the bat. Not to mention the : untold number of hormones, and enzymes, and other such things that need to : be properly controlled. (Which are probably replaced, eventually, by the : Flood Virus with its own systems.) All the information it requires for : bodily functions can be found in the Brain and Spine. If those are gone, : that information goes with it. in order to make the arm move, all the flood needs to do is send a nerve impluse to the arm through the nerves. the nervious system in the human body all conect to the spinal cord and then from there into the brain. or brain sends all these signals which is why if the connect gets severed at the head you are instantly dead. if the connect is cut on the spinal cord, depending on its location you could be come parlized from the waist down to the shoulder down. when the flood attackes, it taps into the spinal cord. rather then having the brain transmit the nerve messages, it blocks off its connect to the spine and probiliy sends its own nerve messages. this is what gives it complete control of the body. the former owner of the body however, is still inside the head trying to send messages but the connection is blocked. so while the human can't send the messages any more, both it and the flood still get feedback, which means that the human will still feel pain and still be able see (nerve transmit the image from the eyes to both. to further back up what is in the above paragraph, lets look at jenkins, at one point jenkins was able to regain control. this is how: when the flood recieved the shock of the pain, it temorarly removed some of its connect from the spine to lessen the pain, however, in doing so, it weaked some of the blockage that prevented the human mind from sending signals. jenkins took advatage of that and his strong enough will allowed him to send a message to the spineal cord which let him gain control. notice how when you shoot of the head, it takes some of the spinal cord with it. the reason why the flood can still live after wards is because none of that section of the spine was needed. the section that they loose is the part that would control most of the important interal organs like the lungs. however, it has been show that when the flood takes over, it no longer needs those organs to live so it gets ridof them (makes it into tissue) and we already know that nothing in the head is used like the eyes, ears, tongue or mouth. they don't use any of the senses cause they have there own. (they don't use the eyes cause the elites head is usally drapped over its back. also as far as learning how the jaw works. 1) they don't need it, and 2)if they don't need to know how to use it properly. I say 1) cause it is possible that all the sounds and screaming are coming directly from the floodling. I say 2) cause if you have ever noticed, if the flood do use the mouth for their call, they arn't speaking in any language. the most we have every heard come from a host is screeching howling noises, noises which are easly created if your jaw is just going every which way.

Message Index

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.