Sebacean physiology

[Firecracker]

H'm. I rather enjoyed my time living in Taiwan. I got used to the heat of SE Asia.

Does that make me a Scarran spy?

It might. But then I love the heat myself. I am like a lizard - just soak it up. Mind you - I am also Canadian - and right now we are in a bit of a deep freeze (not as bad as it was thank heavens) - perhaps I am a PK? Running around in the cold doing my best to ignore it?

[AERYNSUN]

It depends on what you would like to be!!

It's a joke.

[Firecracker]

It depends on what you would like to be!!

It's a joke.

Right now... I wanna be a lizard - like a Scarran. Soaking up the heat somewhere hot and sunny. I will take some ocean and sand too ... now that I think about it.

[Mreen]

I'll take the sun over the sniffelling cold and frozen snow and freezing rain.....

[AERYNSUN]

Well, over here fortunately we are having a warm winter over here and there's some people that goes to the beach for a sunbathe, I wish next weekend the weather continues like that, because I might be ones of those people sunbathing on the beach in February.

[littlejamie]

Well I'm one for warm weather. I love the summer time, It's the only time of the year when I'm warm on a regular basis.

So I guess I'm kind of both. Mainly a pk though.

Although when I was at Burbank last year I was warm everyday.

[TINemo]

Scarran spy? I don't know--are you scaly??????

But adaptation to a fairly extreme range of temperatures is a human trait.Desert dwellers adapt to temps in the 120F range and we who live in the frozen tundra adapt to cold pretty well. All my life parents, teachers and friends have yelled at me for going coatless or at least coat unbuttoned, no hat, no gloves even in winter. Now I claim plenty of insulation(euphemism for fat) but I was that way when thin.too.

Our summers sometimes get up in the high 90,low 100F and Lake Michigan gives us up to 95% humidity. I'm not comfortable, but I don't get sick. If I Remember my daughter's stay in Vietnam, every day was 85F,85% humidity.

How hot was Moya when Aeryn and/or the commandos were affected? And they didn't have time to acclimate., which makes a difference.

Same thing with altitude. Every time I get off the plane in Denver which as the mile high city is 5200foot altitude, I notice it immediately as I live 520 feet above sea level. I'm sort of panting at 9000 feet and positively breathless at 12000. I can't even imagine trying to breath on Everest which is 29000 feet---but the Sherpas who live there can.--

The human body is remarkably adaptible as is.

[AERYNSUN]

To be a Scarran spy it's nopt necessary to be scarran. Remeber that in Prayer nest to Aeryn was a scarran spy she wasn't scarran, well I do not really know what was her species.

But talking morr about sebacean pshisiology, I do not know what's worse, heat delirum or the failure of the paraphoral nerve.

Only for that, I'm glad of not being sebacean.

[TINemo]

True, the critter next to Aeryn was spying for the Scarrans. Don't know what she was called, but orignally they were going to have her gestate her babies in that wraparound neck thingy, but it didn't prove technically feasible.

The heat delirium drives you insane ---and then if you're with other PKs, they will euthanise the insane person. I don't believe there was really a cure for it except to live in a cold suit as Aeryn did in season four when Scorpy brought her back to Moya.Eventually she was all right.It seems odd that the Sebaceans did not have coldsuits readily available, unless Scorpy held the patent as it were.

The paropheral nerve, if injured, becmes toxic and if you are not somewhere(like on a carrier) where a tissue graft can be given, you will die within a relatively sort time of a sort of sepsis--probably painful.

Like with human illnesses, prompt and correct treatment seems to fix either wheres neglect or unavailability proves lethal.

[AERYNSUN]

If there was more Farscape, they will probably, (PK) find a cure at least fpr heat delirium. For the paraphoral nerve you have the tissue graft but not for heat delirum as you said and everyone knows.

Of not, we will have to talk to Mr. Henson and give the idea for that. We do not want to see Aeryn dying from heat delirum or even if Little D inherited the same problem as half sebacean.

[TINemo]

If you know a way of talking to Brian Henson, please tell him we really want MORE Farscape, sooner rather than later. I used to have an address for him because I wrote to request to visit the set when I was in Australia in 2002, but the answer was no due to liability. I don't remember what is was. I also had the address for the Farscape office in Sydney but one would suppose that no longer exists.

I have long felt it was a dire sign when they started auctioning off all the costumes and props--but I'm still hoping/

[Mreen]

I think Aeryn had a specific virus used to induce heat delerium, Scorpy was delaying it with a coolant suit, but they had to get the cure that Bad Villian in the Holographic Projection vehicle to save her. That's why they were bargining with him for the information, to cure the virus that was causing her body to induce heat delerium.

Typically heat delerium is from an outside source, being exposed to extreme heat for too long a time, not from a reaction to a virus - Sebacians bodies dont fight viruses with fever normally. PK's mostly avoid that by not getting exposed or to extreme heat without their grunt suits (which presumably provide some protection) unless they are Commandos who are just too tough and superior for namby pamby grunt suits <g>

[AERYNSUN]

We know it happenned like that in Promises, and we also know she had an antidote for that, but if we talk about sebacean heat delirum it includes all sebaceans in the galaxy/ies.

That's a big, big problem for them. I'm glad to be a human, not sebacean.

About talkong to Brian Henson, WE WISH WE COULD!!, TINemo, we would say to him that it was not fair that the show with Pk wars included was not enough. We want to know more about life after Wars.

[TINemo]

Yes we wish we could. The last time he came to a con he said he REALLY wanted to make a big screen movie of Farscape---but that hasn't happened.I presume funding is a problem, though I don't know for sure.

Since Firefly didn't do so well in the theatres as Serenity(except for the first week or so) I think that scared them. Farscape used to average 1.8- 1.9 million according to the Nielsen surveys---and you can't make money on a movie that draws two million people--even if they see it more than once.

And movie viewing costs have become expensive. I took my grandgirls to see Bridge to Tarrabithia(sp?)--- two children and a senior at a matinee with medium popcorn and small soda $34.

I'd rather buy a DVD I can see over and over.

[Firecracker]

I'd rather buy a DVD I can see over and over.

Interestingly enough - Serenity has made enough money that they are now issuing a 2-disc Special Edition of the DVD.

So there is still life in the Firefly 'Verse. I am not counting anything out - for Firefly or Farscape.