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Re: Can flood feel pain?
Posted By: opie301Date: 5/22/06 5:06 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Can flood feel pain? (Jillybean)

: I find the question of the Flood feeling pain very interesting. Maybe they
: are in pain, terrible pain because their bones are broken and their organs
: are being transformed. Might be the reason they're so grumpy.

Hmmm... an interesting question.

As someone pointed out above, pain is the result of the way certain stimuli are processed. In a human, these stimuli are usually ones that would result in injury. The human body, for all its complexity, is a fairly fragile machine. A flood infected human on the other hand can withstand massive trauma without much ill-effect. For example, the loss of an arm would be quite painful for a human, but appears to be only an inconvenience for the flood.

So, given the severity of injury a flood-infected host is able to withstand, what would actually have to happen to register as pain in the flood consciousness.

: "Jenkins expected the other to lunge forward again, but having shared in the
: human's pain, the aliens conciousness chose that moment to retreat." pg. 275

Keep in mind, what we see from Jenkins point of view is not the flood, per se, but the human consciousness continuing to process stimuli from its original nerve endings. So the flood consciousness, feeling Jenkins's pain, reacts quickly.

What I think we can take from all of this, is that the Flood is quite capable of feeling pain and reacts as expected when pain is experienced. Unfortunately, given what we've seen, there's not much that actually stimulates significant pain in a flood-infected host.


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Can flood feel pain?Mordrorru 5/21/06 8:59 p.m.
     Re: Can flood feel pain?j41m3z 5/21/06 9:05 p.m.
           Re: Can flood feel pain?j41m3z 5/21/06 9:16 p.m.
                 Re: Can flood feel pain?Chryton 5/21/06 9:18 p.m.
                       Re: Can flood feel pain?j41m3z 5/21/06 9:27 p.m.
                             Re: Can flood feel pain?Speedhuntr 5/22/06 2:43 p.m.
                       Re: Can flood feel pain?TRIARI 117 6/7/06 8:53 a.m.
                             Re: Can flood feel pain?Raging Aura 6/7/06 10:08 p.m.
     Re: Can flood feel pain?Hikaru-119 5/21/06 9:09 p.m.
           Yes they candiablo98188 5/23/06 3:05 p.m.
           Re: Can flood feel pain?Halofan1991 5/26/06 5:23 p.m.
                 Re: Can flood feel pain?Halofan1991 5/26/06 5:30 p.m.
                       Re: Can flood feel pain?BeastIce 5/26/06 10:34 p.m.
                 Re: Can flood feel pain?Master NOODLE 5/28/06 5:28 p.m.
     Re: Can flood feel pain?Peptuck 5/21/06 9:45 p.m.
           Re: Can flood feel pain?Glovguy 5/23/06 2:37 p.m.
     Re: Can flood feel pain?halofreak1991 5/21/06 9:58 p.m.
     Re: Can flood feel pain?LostRock11 5/21/06 10:28 p.m.
           Like Rambo. *NM*DarkSim 5/21/06 11:14 p.m.
                 Re: Like Rambo.halofreak1991 5/21/06 11:43 p.m.
                       Re: Like Rambo.Sparkamus 5/21/06 11:58 p.m.
                             Re: Like Rambo.Exiled Zealot 5/22/06 12:11 a.m.
                                   Sounds a little like Chuck Norris... *NM* *NM*Coldstream 5/22/06 4:12 p.m.
                                         Pfft. Arnie eats green berets for breakfast. *NM*Barcode711 5/28/06 6:29 p.m.
           Re: Can flood feel pain?Slith 5/22/06 3:18 a.m.
     Re: Can flood feel pain?Metalnight 5/22/06 7:17 a.m.
     Re: Can flood feel pain?Vironex 5/22/06 8:29 a.m.
           Quote: 343 Guilty SparkSF Legend 5/22/06 9:51 a.m.
           Re: Can flood feel pain?Peptuck 5/22/06 9:54 a.m.
                 Re: Can flood feel pain?Mordrorru 5/22/06 12:26 p.m.
           Re: Can flood feel pain?Jillybean 5/22/06 1:05 p.m.
                 Re: Can flood feel pain?opie301 5/22/06 5:06 p.m.
                       Re: Can flood feel pain?Jack Marsh 6/10/06 12:46 a.m.
     Re: Can flood feel pain?Hookedonhalo 5/22/06 3:12 p.m.
           Re: Can flood feel pain?Ryan Broxterman (NO CAPS) 5/22/06 4:41 p.m.
     Only if you break their heart... *NM*Gryphonosiris 5/22/06 4:33 p.m.
     Re: Can flood feel pain?Darth_Marty 5/22/06 5:08 p.m.
     Re: Can flood feel pain?Omega 5/22/06 5:17 p.m.
           Ahah, but . . .Jillybean 5/22/06 5:36 p.m.
                 Well...BS Halo rks 5/22/06 6:57 p.m.
                       Re: Well...opie301 5/22/06 7:33 p.m.
                             Re: Well...Omega 5/22/06 8:03 p.m.
                                   Re: Well...UrsusArctos 5/22/06 8:11 p.m.
                                         Re: Well...Oscar Gordon 5/22/06 9:00 p.m.
                                               Re: Well...Omega 5/22/06 9:42 p.m.
                                                     Re: Well...Jacob Lowe 5/22/06 10:20 p.m.
                       Re: Well...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 5/22/06 11:18 p.m.
                             Re: Well...UrsusArctos 5/22/06 11:51 p.m.
                             Re: Well...hnc 5/23/06 10:50 p.m.
                 Re: Ahah, but . . .UrsusArctos 5/22/06 7:35 p.m.
                       A litttle OT, but how big is Gravemind? *NM*SPARTAN-034 5/22/06 9:16 p.m.
                             Re: A litttle OT, but how big is Gravemind?UrsusArctos 5/22/06 9:46 p.m.
                             Difficult questionJillybean 5/23/06 4:49 a.m.
                                   Re: Difficult questionStephen L. (SoundEffect) 5/23/06 4:11 p.m.
                                         Re: Difficult questionUrsusArctos 5/23/06 9:38 p.m.
                                               Re: Difficult questionStephen L. (SoundEffect) 5/23/06 10:51 p.m.
                                                     Re: Difficult questionUrsusArctos 5/24/06 12:33 a.m.
                                                           Re: Difficult questionStephen L. (SoundEffect) 5/24/06 3:15 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Difficult questionSPARTAN-034 5/26/06 3:24 p.m.
                       Re: Ahah, but . . .Cain 6/10/06 12:58 a.m.
                             Re: Ahah, but . . .Sparkamus 6/10/06 1:39 a.m.
                 Re: Ahah, but . . .floppysoup 5/24/06 2:53 p.m.
     Re: Can flood feel pain?Mordrorru 5/23/06 3:10 a.m.
           Re: Can flood feel pain?Jillybean 5/23/06 4:57 a.m.
           Re: Can flood feel pain?opie301 5/23/06 11:02 a.m.
     Re: Can flood feel pain?The First Spartan 5/23/06 6:58 p.m.
     Re: Can flood feel pain?hnc 5/23/06 11:28 p.m.
           Re: Can flood feel pain?j41m3z 5/23/06 11:44 p.m.
           Nice *NM*Jillybean 5/24/06 6:47 a.m.
     Retard Strength *NM*floppysoup 5/24/06 2:39 p.m.
           Re: Retard StrengthOmega 5/24/06 2:50 p.m.
                 Re: Retard Strengthfloppysoup 5/24/06 3:03 p.m.
                       Re: Retard StrengthSparkamus 5/24/06 3:07 p.m.
                             Re: Retard StrengthShortRoundMcfly 5/24/06 4:07 p.m.
                                   Re: Retard StrengthLee 113 5/24/06 7:27 p.m.



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