I wa never really clear on this – what the heck IS Dayla, anyway? I always thought she looked a bit like a rag doll of some sort, but maybe she’s made of animated stone or something?
She’s some kind of living metal. Her ancestors were living stone beings, her mom was more metallic (possibly ore?), and Daylla is even more metallic than her mom.
Living Metal, and she can move, so portions of her are by turns semi-liquid. [Heh! got the density right] My guess is some variety of metal Foam, with a rigid exoskeleton, or she’d weigh more than THAT.
There is no reason she can’t be mostly empty space.
This is her humanoid form. She might be considerably smaller at 310 and solid, maybe the size of a three or four year old child.
ah, yes, Lithium. Back in high school (a long long time ago), they had a secret jar filled with a large piece of lithium (or was it Sodium?), in some sort of oil. About once a year, they’d take it out, cut off a small piece of it (very soft, cut with a knife), then they’d drop that small piece into a cup of water and get away — it would explode with a large bang. Always very fun. (Probably can’t do that now — OSHA regulations and / or general paranoia about terrorism.)
It was probably Sodium… the reaction was used as an example to teach new lab assistants at my high school to ALWAYS follow safety instructions during prep. In may second last year a to large piece was used and it broke the container and launched around the fume cupboard… really hammered home the fact that “Sh1t Happens, so be prepared for the worst!”
I have been boss of a lab in the oil business. Some years in a 120000 barrel per day production.
You need to be careful and know what you do, really.
We had an emergency flare for the gas that was produced with the oil and was usually processed into lean gas and condensate. For about 2mio Cubicmeter per day that would be roughly 70million Cubicfeet per day if that is better units for you. In the beginning they had the procedure to throw a molotow cocktail from the bundwall after the operator opened the valves. One time the one to throw the molotov cocktail was standing with the wind and when he lighted the fire he was standing up to the naval in flames. He was lucky that the safety overal protected him. Only the hands were burned and full of blisters. He got an emergency flight home and only left one stiff finger from that.
An old school of mine bordered a large pond and a stretch of woods beyond, and had an awesome chemistry teacher. Many games with Sodium, Lithium, and other water reactive chemicals were had… with proper supervision. One day he basically catapulted some sodium into the lake to see how many times it could bounce under its own explosions launching it back up.
Had a chemistry teacher who caused a nice explosion once. He was doing inventory and took the opportunity to top off the liquids for those materials that has to be stored in liquid. Thing is there are some that are stored in water and some that has to be stored in oil. After working through most of the inventory he suddenly found himself holding a glass jar containing a large chunk of Sodium under the tap and turning the water on. He said that when the water started flowing he suddenly realized what he was doing so he just dropped the jar with the Sodium and dove for cover, and then it seemed everything exploded.
He was lucky and didn’t suffer any permanent damage, that time.
Similar story. My math teacher in high school actually went to the college I ended up attending, which had a large creek wending its way through campus, with bridges crossing the creek at opportune points.
He told us before I went to college about tossing small chunks of sodium into the creek and having flames floating down the creek.
Once I went off to college (at that school) he told me the whole story, about how they cut off a small piece of sodium to drop into the creek– and promptly dropped the bigger chunk into the creek too.
30 foot high tongue of flame floating through campus (several bridges that cross the creek had flames going ABOVE them as it floated on by)
Lithium, sodium, potassium, and if you aren’t radiation averse you can step up to rubidium, cesium and francium. Technically potassium is radiologically active, but people freak if you tell them bananas are radioactive.
All fruit is radioactive. Bananas are just an exception as they require the radioactivity in order to seed effectively. And the amount of radioactive exposure you get from eating a single banana is so low that you’d die long before you ate enough to reach anything like a dangerous level.
Thats true. The natural background radiation is everywhere and on a different level. There are few areas on the earth that are not healthy to live at.
Additionally you have houses built with granit stone or bathrooms with tiles that might give light in the night (just boasting really). In some areas radon is coming from the ground and collecting in the basement. That last phenomena do have an impact so as statistically increased cancer of the lung. But all that is a joke only compared to smoking.
considering what the world grid is, it is well possible that only a near by signal could actually reach the phone (yeah know that in real world the signal goes from your phone to a tower and back to the called phone even if you are standing beside each other, but comic physics).
really, it has to have some form of shielding just for avoiding anyone tampering with it. its not like you want random people poking at this thing in random ways.
310 lbs? No wonder she shattered the door.
“300 Pounds!!!…”, no- three hundred & TEN Pounds…
I wa never really clear on this – what the heck IS Dayla, anyway? I always thought she looked a bit like a rag doll of some sort, but maybe she’s made of animated stone or something?
She’s some kind of living metal. Her ancestors were living stone beings, her mom was more metallic (possibly ore?), and Daylla is even more metallic than her mom.
Just out of curiosity, where did you get this info? I’ve been woefully uninformed about Daylla, and she’s one of my favorite characters…
She’s apparently made of metal.
Weighing 310 lbs might be somewhat *limiting* in romantic situations.
would be just my league. 300lbs here. Hehe. But I think i am a bit taller – and have more volume.
Living Metal, and she can move, so portions of her are by turns semi-liquid. [Heh! got the density right] My guess is some variety of metal Foam, with a rigid exoskeleton, or she’d weigh more than THAT.
Or, her interior is composed mostly of lithium, which is about as massive as an equal volume of pinewood (density about half that of water).
Of course, it’s rather pyrophoric, but that might account for her “volcanic temper”.
The foam is an interesting idea.
If memory serves, Jeph Jacques explains the AI brains in his universe as using some sort of foam lattice.
I really need to get more sleep.
The AIs I mentioned are specifically from the webcomic Questionable Content.
I think we know about QC and AI’s, gyrre. 😉
There is no reason she can’t be mostly empty space.
This is her humanoid form. She might be considerably smaller at 310 and solid, maybe the size of a three or four year old child.
ah, yes, Lithium. Back in high school (a long long time ago), they had a secret jar filled with a large piece of lithium (or was it Sodium?), in some sort of oil. About once a year, they’d take it out, cut off a small piece of it (very soft, cut with a knife), then they’d drop that small piece into a cup of water and get away — it would explode with a large bang. Always very fun. (Probably can’t do that now — OSHA regulations and / or general paranoia about terrorism.)
It was probably Sodium… the reaction was used as an example to teach new lab assistants at my high school to ALWAYS follow safety instructions during prep. In may second last year a to large piece was used and it broke the container and launched around the fume cupboard… really hammered home the fact that “Sh1t Happens, so be prepared for the worst!”
Does it ever! For nearly 50 years, my dad was a research chemist in the field of peptides. He lost a few teeth due to a project exploding in his face.
I have been boss of a lab in the oil business. Some years in a 120000 barrel per day production.
You need to be careful and know what you do, really.
We had an emergency flare for the gas that was produced with the oil and was usually processed into lean gas and condensate. For about 2mio Cubicmeter per day that would be roughly 70million Cubicfeet per day if that is better units for you. In the beginning they had the procedure to throw a molotow cocktail from the bundwall after the operator opened the valves. One time the one to throw the molotov cocktail was standing with the wind and when he lighted the fire he was standing up to the naval in flames. He was lucky that the safety overal protected him. Only the hands were burned and full of blisters. He got an emergency flight home and only left one stiff finger from that.
An old school of mine bordered a large pond and a stretch of woods beyond, and had an awesome chemistry teacher. Many games with Sodium, Lithium, and other water reactive chemicals were had… with proper supervision. One day he basically catapulted some sodium into the lake to see how many times it could bounce under its own explosions launching it back up.
Had a chemistry teacher who caused a nice explosion once. He was doing inventory and took the opportunity to top off the liquids for those materials that has to be stored in liquid. Thing is there are some that are stored in water and some that has to be stored in oil. After working through most of the inventory he suddenly found himself holding a glass jar containing a large chunk of Sodium under the tap and turning the water on. He said that when the water started flowing he suddenly realized what he was doing so he just dropped the jar with the Sodium and dove for cover, and then it seemed everything exploded.
He was lucky and didn’t suffer any permanent damage, that time.
Similar story. My math teacher in high school actually went to the college I ended up attending, which had a large creek wending its way through campus, with bridges crossing the creek at opportune points.
He told us before I went to college about tossing small chunks of sodium into the creek and having flames floating down the creek.
Once I went off to college (at that school) he told me the whole story, about how they cut off a small piece of sodium to drop into the creek– and promptly dropped the bigger chunk into the creek too.
30 foot high tongue of flame floating through campus (several bridges that cross the creek had flames going ABOVE them as it floated on by)
I had a pretty cool math teacher.
She’s one smart cookie.
Lithium, sodium, potassium, and if you aren’t radiation averse you can step up to rubidium, cesium and francium. Technically potassium is radiologically active, but people freak if you tell them bananas are radioactive.
All fruit is radioactive. Bananas are just an exception as they require the radioactivity in order to seed effectively. And the amount of radioactive exposure you get from eating a single banana is so low that you’d die long before you ate enough to reach anything like a dangerous level.
*die of old age or food poisoning, or being hit by a bus, etc.
Thats true. The natural background radiation is everywhere and on a different level. There are few areas on the earth that are not healthy to live at.
Additionally you have houses built with granit stone or bathrooms with tiles that might give light in the night (just boasting really). In some areas radon is coming from the ground and collecting in the basement. That last phenomena do have an impact so as statistically increased cancer of the lung. But all that is a joke only compared to smoking.
Hopefully when Daylla slammed into Dustin, she didn’t break his phone.
Less yapping, more tapping!
You didn’t think you needed to prepare?!? You don’t just waltz into the championships unprepared!
Wait, so noone in the past two months tried calling Daylas phone?
considering what the world grid is, it is well possible that only a near by signal could actually reach the phone (yeah know that in real world the signal goes from your phone to a tower and back to the called phone even if you are standing beside each other, but comic physics).
really, it has to have some form of shielding just for avoiding anyone tampering with it. its not like you want random people poking at this thing in random ways.
Considering they assumed she was dead, what possible reason would anyone think to phone her?
They didn’t know she was dead, though, just that she disappeared. So you’d think they’d at least try her phone…