Hijacker: Beta List

[runenklinge.livejournal.com]

It has been brought to my attention (thanks jynx ) that perhaps a list of possible beta readers is in order. With the relative activity we will hopefully have until January next year (and just you wait what panda and I have in store for you*evil laugh*) I think a list of people willing to beta would help everyone.

So, if you want to be a beta-reader, please comment here!
I´ll create a beta list with all of our resources.

Our comm will be bigger, smarter and mor resourceful than ever!

Also, if you have other talents (like...a gazillion foreign languages and a doctor in medicine, martial art skills and  profound knowledge of the Norse Gods...or possibly the Skrulls) tell me to add those.



...why do I want a picture of either Steve or Tony (or both) all intellectual with glasses?

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The joy of Marvel pseudo-science

[dorothy1901]

"[Extremis] hacks the body's repair center -- the part of the brain that keeps a complete blueprint of the human body. When we're injured, we refer to that area of the brain in order to heal properly. Extremis rewrites the repair center." Maya Hansen to Tony Stark, Extremis.

Discuss. *g*

Re: The joy of Marvel pseudo-science

[smilingskull.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I do love this one. :D Starting with the fact that there is no part of the brain that keeps a 'blueprint' of the body. That's all in the DNA, which happens to be happily existing all over the body. There's a reason we can get DNA from someone by just swabbing the inside of their mouth.

Also, again with the random made up parts of the brain, there's no repair center, either. When the body's injured, the local vascular system and the immune system send immediate and unconscious signals to the correct cellular components that deal with correcting/healing an injury. For example, you get a paper cut. The first thing that you get is your pain receptors telling you that you have a cut, AKA, go wash it out so that it's got less of a risk of getting infected. Next, the body moves onto the three stages in the healing process: inflammation (also called the acute stage, the body's way of trying to remove any foreign bodies or pathogens from the tissue/blood), the proliferative stage (can be called the sub-acute stage, this is when the body starts to regrow cutaneous tissues, connective tissues, capillaries, etc, depending on how deep/bad the cut was) and then the chronic stage, which really deals with scar tissue. This can take anywhere from 4 days to a really long time (very scientific, no?), although on average most of the process lasts about 2 weeks for your basic cut. Obviously, if you pop a broken bone out of your skin, you've got a lot more happening, and for much longer. Also, more pain receptors are triggered, and man are they.

SO! Meaning, that NEITHER of those processes are directly controlled by a 'center of the brain', but rather by DNA and the vascular/immune system. Then again, there's no way for the whole body to be an open wound, the way Extremis is described. You'd be perma-dead, not a whole new human being. While you do slough off the lining of all your organs/hair/top layers of the dermis from time to time (the exact timing differs between each) it takes a while and you're not gonna come out with a computer brain and a new heart. It's just a normal process that the body goes through.

Then again, Ellis is famous for this craziness. He dropped something about 'a triple helix strand of DNA' in his current run on whatever X-men book he's currently on. DNA's a double helix, a triple helix cannot occur, and if it ever did, there's no way you could end up with cellular ANYTHING, so no human outta that one. No nothin'. Then again, they are mutants. Again, oh comic book science. :D

Re: The joy of Marvel pseudo-science

[pandanoai.livejournal.com]

*nerdgasm*

i am a little bit in love with you right now