Reports of My Demise

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Have been greatly exaggerated.

I'm back, children. Miss me?

Of course you did.

As for where I was, well, remember when I used to say that I had the longest drama-free streak? Not so much anymore. Powers trauma. And that's all I'm going to say on the subject. As for my stunning new physique, when Mr. Summers gives his "Energy manipulators need to eat a lot for a REASON" speech, there really is a reason. It's why I no longer have boobs. The doctors say I will regain all the weight within a few weeks. Which is good, because being 5'7" and weighing 95 pounds? Not fun.

Also? I drop off the face of the planet for two months and suddenly we're crawling with new students. Who are all you people and what are you doing here? For those that don't know, I'm Jennie Stavros. When I put the weight back on, I'm the pretty one.

Comments

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

Has anyone ever asked you if you were in a Terminator movie by the by? Because the icon you're using? Completely reminding me of the bit where Sarah Conner gets Arnie to rip off his arm for the poor Scientist guy.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Horribly inaccurate movie. Putting a powered endoskeletal system under layers of organic muscle and skin generates enough heat to basically parboil that organic tissue from the inside. Trust me, I know.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

See, it's future tech(tm) though. Wouldn't they have built a better coolent system by then? Say, coolant blood vessels or something?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

There's no such thing as "future tech". All the technology that will ever be possible can be invented now, if someone just comes up with the idea.

The trouble with an internal coolant system is that the heat needs to go SOMEWHERE. Laws of thermodynamics, you can't just make energy go away, it has to go somewhere. With the amount of power needed to move an endoskeletal system of that complexity, even if you evenly distribute heat through a system covered by about 90 pounds of skin and muscle (assuming only a thin musculofascial layer), the Terminator's body temperature would have been above 150 degrees, hot enough to start blistering the skin and causing muscle tissue to cramp and sprain.

Either that or he'd have needed to fart boiling steam every ninety seconds or so. Which would have made for a more realistic, but less dramatic movie.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

*ponders* We sweat as a way of regulating temperature, right? Why wouldn't something like that work with machine type tech? Although, I suppose machines can generate more heat then the human body can.

Although, the farting boiling steam would have made for a much more interesting movie. If nothing else, he could have used it against some of the baddies. Killed by flatulence!