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Re: More Flood Biology
Posted By: SlithDate: 2/23/05 5:32 p.m.

In Response To: Re: More Flood Biology (mrbananas)

Hmm... ok, lets review the information you've brought forth:

1.)The Human host can regain control of the body if the Flood Infection Form lets it.

2.)The Flood tap into the Spinal cord, and block transmissions coming from the brain... Which would be the interneurons. I think.

To start off with. When the brain dies, there are no longer any working interneurons, a transmission cannot be sent or received by the Sensory, and Motor Neurons. Not to mention whatever the host has learned from childhood in regards to controlling the body are also lost.

So, in essence, a dead body can not be turned into a functioning Flood Combat/Worker/Incubator form or any other form with mobility, aside from the Rangers.

When a Ranger infects a human, it blocks the neural pathways in the spine. Then it likely sorts through vital information within the hosts' brain. Information like coordination, and movement. Once this is aquired, the Ranger can begin testing out all the muscles, and ligaments, to move things like the arm. This would be done through its tap in the spinal cord.

It may take a couple minutes for the Ranger to become used to it's new body, as all the new data has to be processed. Once this is done however, the Ranger now would have complete control of the body. Unless it removes its spinal tap, which is what happened in Jenkins.

To control its host, the Flood Ranger requires a center in the brain which controls movement. Humans have the Cerebellum.

A Flood Ranger has tentacles as it's natural limbs. Humans don't have tentacles, and the information for moving a Human arm is going to need to come from the host itself. The Flood Ranger is not going to know this stuff on its own.

If you could imagine trying to move a tentacle instead of your arm, you would have to figure out how to bend it, what it's maximum mobility is, and so on. You cannot just 'know' how to work something like that.

I'm saying the Flood cannot learn this information by themselves from a dead body, rather they require a living host, with a coordination center in the brain that allows them to steal said information so that they may move the host.

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Replies:

Of OP, flood and biologyZak Anderson 2/21/05 3:14 a.m.
     Re: Of OP, flood and biologymooniejohnson 2/21/05 3:17 a.m.
           Re: Of OP, flood and biologyJJMeH 2/21/05 3:20 a.m.
     Re: Of OP, flood and biologyZak Anderson 2/21/05 3:18 a.m.
     OK GOT A WORKING LINK NOWZak Anderson 2/21/05 4:32 a.m.
           Re: OK GOT A WORKING LINK NOWmooniejohnson 2/21/05 5:10 a.m.
                 Re: OK GOT A WORKING LINK NOWZak Anderson 2/22/05 2:25 a.m.
                       Re: OK GOT A WORKING LINK NOWmrbananas 2/22/05 9:37 a.m.
           Re: OK GOT A WORKING LINK NOWHawk7886 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&ASlith 2/21/05 1:40 p.m.
                                               Re: Q&AZak Anderson 2/22/05 2:20 a.m.
                                                     More Flood BiologySlith 2/22/05 3:56 p.m.
                                                           Re: More Flood BiologySlith 2/22/05 4:14 p.m.
                                                                 The Flood HomeworldSlith 2/22/05 4:35 p.m.
                                                                       Re: The Flood Homeworldpunji73 2/23/05 3:22 a.m.
                                                                 Re: More Flood Biologymrbananas 2/22/05 5:13 p.m.
                                                                       Re: More Flood BiologySlith 2/22/05 5:24 p.m.
                                                                       Re: More Flood Biologyselmack 2/22/05 6:54 p.m.
                                                                       Re: More Flood Biologypunji73 2/23/05 3:10 a.m.
                                                                             Re: More Flood BiologySlith 2/23/05 11:51 a.m.
                                                                                   Re: More Flood Biologymrbananas 2/23/05 1:14 p.m.
                                                                                         Re: More Flood BiologySlith 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.



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