ryos
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Post by ryos on Nov 17, 2012 6:05:02 GMT
You know, I'll bet if Jones took a handful of enriched uranium and squeezed, she'd be able to both compress it past critical mass and contain the resulting reaction. Also, I doubt Jones can become radioactive. That's because this requires external radiation to knock atoms into unstable configurations, and it's pretty clear that Jones' atoms (if she even has those) are immutable. ...Actually, one could say that Jones is an atom, in the original sense. I was thinking of contamination rather than inducing jones to emit radiation. Decontamination is just a chemical shower away.
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Post by Nnelg on Nov 17, 2012 6:23:53 GMT
I was thinking of contamination rather than inducing jones to emit radiation. Decontamination is just a chemical shower away. Heck, she could take a dip in sulfuric acid just to be sure. ;D
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Post by seaofalchemy on Nov 17, 2012 6:36:33 GMT
So, yes, she can still walk. She even says in the next panel, "My movement and senses fall well within human boundaries..." But I think she was referring to (and I, too, was referring to) her body not being able to be damaged in anyway. It's a mouthful-of-a-sentence. I could still be reading it wrong despite my attempt to understand it by re-wording it. Perhaps someone can better explain what Jones is trying to say. Yeah, you're right -- my apologies. (I also didn't mean it to come across as harshly as it may have.) No worries. :)
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lukaswhite
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Post by lukaswhite on Nov 18, 2012 0:46:32 GMT
Perhaps I misunderstood, but in Panel 4, Jones states:
Wouldn't this imply that Jones can feel pain? I wonder how molten lava feels to her. Like a bubble bath, perhaps?
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Post by aaroncampbell on Nov 18, 2012 1:31:32 GMT
Two thoughts occur to me: 1) Jones is the perfect candidate for manned space exploration. She has no life support needs, could walk on Mars without a space suit, could withstand accelerations that would turn us into jelly. Years alone would not faze her. 2) Jones REALLY needs to start writing. Her first-hand observations of every period of the Earth would be invaluable to historians, archeologists, evolutionary biologists, and various other -ians and -ists. But, well, then again, first they'd have to accept her and what she is, and I think she'd have an uphill battle there. I love these ideas! Also, it would make me smile if she found an analogue on Mars, someone like her physically but of course different in experiences. What if one such creature is the natural result of planetary creation? Also, I too would love to read what Jones would write (or has written.) Since her memory is eidetic, she could really write any time. The only people to lose out are those who are her contemporaries. :-)
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Post by Weeaboo on Nov 18, 2012 2:56:05 GMT
Am I the only one that suspects that Annie will have to use Coyote's tooth against Jones someday?
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Post by emanon on Nov 18, 2012 6:03:43 GMT
Frankly I think the whole Coyote vs Jones thing is a fairly moot discussion really. Just because Jones appeared powerless doesn't mean she is. She's obviously very capable of understanding not needing to react to something if there is no reason to, so why play her hand unless there's a pressing need?
Not to mention I think far too many people readily believe everything she's saying, for all we know she could be utterly lying. Very possible, given that perhaps telling the truth would suggest a very dangerous weakness that might be her undoing.
Assuming the narrative as presented is truthful though, perhaps she is the concept of eternity personified. Perhaps she's some alien race. Perhaps she's a fallen angel. It's pretty impossible to speculate really. I'd suggest maybe the concept of Mother Earth but I think she'd be far more emotional and ever-pregnant and the like.
To be honest, she's somewhat depressing to me and I feel bad for her, although she probably wouldn't even understand the sentiment, hah. It also makes me wonder if anything concerning her/Eglamore is genuine or merely her just killing time. Scarier to think Eglamore doesn't even know this story of hers and if he learned it, would take it very poorly.
Part of me wonders if maybe she _is_ the mysterious seed Bismuth... and _everything_ (Earth included) began and came from her.
The most curious thing to me about her I'd ask if she were a real thing is simply what is her motive for doing what she does, or anything at all as opposed to merely standing there as a stone forever? With no needs, emotional or otherwise, standing there immutable is just as much a valid existence as taking up tap-dancing and juggling geese.
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notacat
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Post by notacat on Nov 18, 2012 21:47:57 GMT
As was already said, her human shape (with human movement limitations?) probably was just Annie's imagination of her story. She may be capable of mimicry not only in behaviour. Or just reflecting her environment. Where is the evidence for this suggestion?
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maximkat
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Post by maximkat on Nov 19, 2012 8:43:53 GMT
By the way, remember this?
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Post by 0o0f on Nov 19, 2012 17:59:00 GMT
Perhaps I misunderstood, but in Panel 4, Jones states: Wouldn't this imply that Jones can feel pain? I wonder how molten lava feels to her. Like a bubble bath, perhaps? Honestly it gets my mind in the gutter. >_<
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Post by xheralt on Nov 20, 2012 17:40:06 GMT
Her body "cannot bend, or break, or manipulate like wet clay." You really need to re-read that panel. If she can't bend, how does she walk? The key qualifier in the phrase is "like wet clay". Even if she doesn't have bones and knee joints, like a human, by design her leg structure *moves* and functions the same way. Human knees move, but cannot be "manipulated like wet clay" by humans. Why should the same principle not apply to Jones? Her "skin", while impervious, does have some "give" and flexibility to it, otherwise people would be profoundly creeped out and/or discomfited touching her. Superman has the same paradoxical flexibility-plus-invulnerability. As to her Homo Sapiens appearance waaaay before any such existed, well, clearly it is by design. And she was meant to "fit in" most closely in our (modern) time frame. Otherwise, she'd have looked like a Neanderthal. Or a T-Rex. Either she was created as such by an omniscient g/God who knew what humanity would become, or she was built in the modern age and sent back through time. The arbitrariness of the time of her appearance/arrival suggests accident or mischance. Device malfunction or wonky spell. Cast by whom? Built by whom? Unanswerable, at this point.
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Post by alexh on Nov 21, 2012 8:33:10 GMT
Jones would make an okay superhero.
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Post by Søren on Nov 21, 2012 22:58:19 GMT
Jones would make an okay superhero. Okay? She'd make a great superhero, she's way overpowered. Almost like the original Superman in the '50s and '60s, or Dr. Manhattan.
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