Re: Question about Hypothetical Type of Thermal Injury. Explained

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From: Radium
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:27

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tressure@gmail.com wrote:
> It's actually rather difficult for chemists to come up with a
> reasonable
> discussion of what would happen chemically to an invulnerable person
> (along the lines of Superman, if I read your post correctly), since the

Invulnerable only to anything other than the injury I describe.

> supposition of such invulnerability defies chemical logic.  Therefore,
> chemical logic doesn't really apply in this situation.

How doesn't the chemical logic apply?

> If you set the rules (ie, decide what bits can be affected by high
> temperature),
> then you get to decide the results.  You're the author/cartoonist/game
> master.

Not entirely. This is a hypothetical situation. I know the injury I
describe could not occur [unless we had some intense nanotechnology
going] but what if it could? What if we did have the technology to make
that injury occur? Then what?

What symptoms?

What change in skin color?

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Subject: Re: Question about Hypothetical Type of Thermal Injury. Explained
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