"What's My Line?' -- Again
David Milligan
again. The first thing I noticed was how YOUNG everyone looked (it couldn't
have been more than 5 1/2 or 6 years between WML and Chosen), especially
Willow. Of course she was wearing her hair in pigtails and wearing overalls.
Buffy was still wearing a thigh-high miniskirt. Cordy was the only one who
looked about like I remember, but it's been a while since I watched the last
few Angel eps with 'older, more mature' Cordy in them.
The episode could have been sub-titled "Coupling." Willow and Oz
finally got together. Cordy and Xander started their --- smooch-athon thing.
Buffy and Kendra connected for a bit. Dru was made well and carried off a
damaged and unconscious Spike. And Giles -- well, this could have been a
good ep to introduce Jenny.
Since Dru was Spike's sire, I was wondering if she could have
"restored" him by repeating the process -- she could feed from him a bit and
then let him feed from her.
And speaking of turning a human into a vampire (sort of) --- I was
trying to think of a more 'scientific' way of it happening. There seems to
be a lot vamps being sired and digging themselves out of their graves, but
why would a vamp want to make more competition for "people walking around
like Happy Meals with legs"?
So, I've concocted a (rational) scientific possibility. And it goes
something like this --
Vampirism is caused by a virus, and for a lack of a better name,
call it the 'vampovirus'. These vampoviruses are very weak and are easily
killed by white blood cells.
When vampires WANT to sire someone, they suck out most of the
blood, then they let the person drink some of their blood. And when the
person does, there are now more vampoviruses flooding the body than the
white cells can kill. And in just a few (or more) hours -- another vampire.
But most of the time when a vampire sucks out enough blood to
satisfy his hunger, which also kills the person, there are still enough
white cells left to destroy any vampoviruses he leaves behind.
But what if he happens to suck out SO much blood that there aren't
enough white cells to kill the invading vampoviruses? Two or three days
later, the vampoviruses have reproduced enough of themselves that a new
vampire is created, and he digs himself out of his grave. (Also applies to
females.)
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David E. Milligan
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Michael Ikeda
news:hdvc7a$qa5$1...@news.eternal-september.org:
> And speaking of turning a human into a vampire (sort of)
> --- I was
> trying to think of a more 'scientific' way of it happening.
> There seems to be a lot vamps being sired and digging themselves
> out of their graves, but why would a vamp want to make more
> competition for "people walking around like Happy Meals with
> legs"?
Mostly vampires seem to sire vampires when they want minions.
(Or sometimes when they see a hot guy or gal and want to keep them
around for a while.)
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Michael Ikeda mmi...@erols.com
"Telling a statistician not to use sampling is like telling an
astronomer they can't say there is a moon and stars"
Lynne Billard, past president American Statistical Association
David Milligan
"Michael Ikeda" <mmi...@erols.com> wrote in message
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> "David Milligan" <david...@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:hdvc7a$qa5$1...@news.eternal-september.org:
>
>> And speaking of turning a human into a vampire (sort of)
>> --- I was
>> trying to think of a more 'scientific' way of it happening.
>> There seems to be a lot vamps being sired and digging themselves
>> out of their graves, but why would a vamp want to make more
>> competition for "people walking around like Happy Meals with
>> legs"?
>
> Mostly vampires seem to sire vampires when they want minions.
I wonder if that's how Harmony got hers.
Ben Morrow
Quoth "David Milligan" <david...@yahoo.com>:
>
> "Michael Ikeda" <mmi...@erols.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns9CC7C1038F33D...@207.246.207.166...
> > "David Milligan" <david...@yahoo.com> wrote in
> > news:hdvc7a$qa5$1...@news.eternal-september.org:
> >
> >> And speaking of turning a human into a vampire (sort of)
> >> --- I was
> >> trying to think of a more 'scientific' way of it happening.
> >> There seems to be a lot vamps being sired and digging themselves
> >> out of their graves, but why would a vamp want to make more
> >> competition for "people walking around like Happy Meals with
> >> legs"?
You do realise the same question applies to parents of human children?
> > Mostly vampires seem to sire vampires when they want minions.
>
> I wonder if that's how Harmony got hers.
At least one of them, yes.
Ben
Morgoth's Curse
<david...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> And speaking of turning a human into a vampire (sort of) --- I was
>trying to think of a more 'scientific' way of it happening. There seems to
>be a lot vamps being sired and digging themselves out of their graves, but
>why would a vamp want to make more competition for "people walking around
>like Happy Meals with legs"?
> So, I've concocted a (rational) scientific possibility. And it goes
>something like this --
> Vampirism is caused by a virus, and for a lack of a better name,
>call it the 'vampovirus'. These vampoviruses are very weak and are easily
>killed by white blood cells.
>
> When vampires WANT to sire someone, they suck out most of the
>blood, then they let the person drink some of their blood. And when the
>person does, there are now more vampoviruses flooding the body than the
>white cells can kill. And in just a few (or more) hours -- another vampire.
>
> But most of the time when a vampire sucks out enough blood to
>satisfy his hunger, which also kills the person, there are still enough
>white cells left to destroy any vampoviruses he leaves behind.
>
> But what if he happens to suck out SO much blood that there aren't
>enough white cells to kill the invading vampoviruses? Two or three days
>later, the vampoviruses have reproduced enough of themselves that a new
>vampire is created, and he digs himself out of his grave. (Also applies to
>females.)
Not a bad theory, but wouldn't we also need to explain why sunlight or
a stake through the heart destroys vampires? I also cannot think of
any scientific explanation (to borrow your phrase) to explain how
vampires morph between human demon faces.
Morgoth's Curse
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Don Sample
And then there's the problem of what happens to all that mass when the
vamps turn to dust when they die. (And anyone who thinks that all the
water in the vamp's body suddenly evaporates, I refer to the
Mythbusters, to see what a hundred or two pounds of water turning into
water vapour in under a second looks like:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmJoyuUJj2Q>)
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David Milligan
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Still working on the other items. Until then -- it's magic
(related).
scenario_dave
> In article <pf4cg5t6takg4idm78gr35fitfnopup...@4ax.com>,
>
> - Show quoted text -
All the mass goes into a pocket dimensions, where is just bleeds out
slowly atom by atom over the next few years. The dust is the few
pieces of matter that are accellerated away from the pocket dimension
because they happen to fall outside the Roche Limit of the collapse.
The vampires heart is actually a special organic type of compressed
strange matter almost at a black hole density. A wooden stake can
pierce the organic strange force field to allow the field to
collapse. Sunlight adds more energy to the heart field which tends to
overload it and also causes a collapse. That's why vampires sometimes
can be exposed to sunlight for short periods and die and some die
instantly. People nearby are not affected becuse only strange matter
is affected. The stakes is part of the slayers hand, hense it is
regular matter, When a vampire is converted it changes partly to
strange matter.
:) Total nonsence but it sounds good.
David Milligan
"scenario_dave" <scenar...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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is affected. The stakes is part of the slayers hand, hence it is
regular matter,
When a vampire is converted it changes partly to strange matter.
But when the stake is in the vamp's heart and not in the
Slayer's hand then it, too, is converted, right? (ditto wooden crossbow
bolts)
:) Total nonsense but it sounds good.