Re: Obsession

Phillip Thorne wrote:

On 17 Apr 2008, nebusj-@xxxxxxxxx (Joseph Nebus) wrote:

- I guess the salad forks are to make this look more like
geology.

Are there any metals that react badly to human skin? Well, sodium
metal and its kin, but anything that reactive that remains in a
boulder-sized lump exposed to an oxygen atmosphere isn't going to
react with human skin. Or maybe it's super-hydrophilic? Or maybe it
was the newly-exposed surface that they needed to avoid touching.

I think it's the fact that Spock had just phasered it off. It
wasn't still glowing, but still...

Body count this episode was... what? Five redshirts? And you wonder
why the ship has 432 crew and what most of them are for.

Five onscreen. One more died when the cloud got in the impulse
vent and headed for the ventilation system. Scotty reported it,
so I suppose you could put him in red, too.

And that's why you need 430 spares.
--
-Jack

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