Hey wardenferry:
4) Murphy tags along with Sue/? in TT event.
I like this because Sue is millions of years old. She has metaphysical mass. If she is used in Time Travel, it could explain how some of the juice needed to go pack into the past gets paid. Also, it can allow some characters of ours, to include Bonnie, to venture very far back into the past and become something.
Bonnie becomes prehistoric origin of the Archive and brings some more modern literature "shakespeare, scarecrow, movies, etc) into the distant past where it becomes the basis for the forms of the faeries, their speech, etc.
Murphy becomes Mab, Mister accompanies her.
Mother Murphy goes further into past to become a Mother Winter.
ETC.
Sorry. You are mistaken. Harry put some juice into it. It gathered the rest by itself, not by Harry, by defeating it's opponent's as the fight went on. So you might want to get your facts straight first as it wasn't Harry who put all of it there.
You presume that the next time it's resurrected it starts at level 0 again. I don't. Erlking says "Wizard. Called you forth a mighty hunter tonight. One that has not walked this earth since time gone and forgotten." (It's not lvl 0, we will see next time its summoned/resurrected)
Sue can get more juice, energy prior to any time traveling plot by defeating enemies in our time, particularly say on Halloween or any conjunction, etc. At that point, Harry can use her as a battery to assist him in time traveling into the past. Note, the extra juice I'm talking about is the amount that is stored within her, as you so capably argue is immense due to her age.
I also argue a thaumaturgical link can be created between Sue's bones and Sue's living form that can facilitate time travel in some way, either by making it easier to time travel into the past generally, time travel to her time specifically (may only be able to send something tiny like Bonnie to reduce energy needed).
WOJ: QAre we ever going to see Sue again?
A: Yes. But it might be a while.
So Jim has already done a necromancer book with Sue, why not include Sue in a Time Traveling plot since both Sue and Time Travel will both appear later in the books.
When I heard that WOJ, I thought Sue would help fight the Kaiju that was going to appear.
I hope the dinosaur doesn’t return. That whole thing was just so stupid. Maybe it’s a guy thing... I just found it worth skipping on the re-read as it really brought the story down to a “why am I reading this crap” feeling for me. Sorry. :P
You... You MONSTER.How funny!
(I feel that way about the porn star coven in the book previous. One of the few Files my wife actually read the back copy to, and I have had no satisfactory retort to "This is just Harlequin for boys, isn't it?"
Harry does not get lucky enough to consider the series a romance for men.Jim would write a series staring Thomas for that.
It could be called the Penthouse Papers.
Yeah, I've stood beside sue, and she's really not that big. Bigger than an Elephant, but not THAT much bigger.
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Natural land animals, or at least vertebrate tetrapods, can't get much bigger than the dinosaurs got, for various reasons of physics and biology. Even the prey animals that the carnivorous dinos fed upon rarely got much over 100-140 tons. That's substantially bigger than Sue, but they wouldn't have made good combatants for Harry, either.
Well, you just gotta suspend that disbelief or be ignorant like me!
I honestly wish I could. I had to write a shapeshifter novelette to fulfill a publisher obligation a few years back, and simply couldn't ignore the physics problems. I wound up hamfistedly explaining the Square-Cube Law and Conservation of Mass just to point out that I recognized they were problems, but that there was something about shapeshifters that allowed them to ignore it.
Except the Square-Cube Law. I had to limit the shapeshifter to blatantly ignoring Conservation of Mass-Energy and turn into spiders and ants rather than just shrinking down when he needed to. A person the size of an ant would suffocate in minutes, or freeze to death in seconds.
The story would've been paced better if I didn't feel the need to shove the explanations in there, but I refused to let it go.
I read a series, I forget what it was, but the main characters were shapeshifters, and they could not ignore the conservation of mass/energy.That... sounds kinda stupid imo, just cause for real, basil? I rather liked the Animorphs explaination, the extra mass was shunted off into zero point space(z-space, which they're currently trying to wrap their heads around to create warp drive) and could in theory be hit by a ship if it were to pass through the same space. it never happened but one time
In this one, he's tried to shift into the form of a spider, to escape something I think, but he still had the same size and mass and it mess with his breathing and everything.
Oh, and they were addicted to basil.
I read a series, I forget what it was, but the main characters were shapeshifters, and they could not ignore the conservation of mass/energy.
In this one, he's tried to shift into the form of a spider, to escape something I think, but he still had the same size and mass and it mess with his breathing and everything.
Oh, and they were addicted to basil.
Conservation of mass-energy kind of gets in the way. It's one of the plot holes in Jurassic Park; a T-Rex simply couldn't have eaten enough to get that big in the amount of time since Hammond had cloned it.
Sue is big. But, she is not Godzilla big. Even when you toss in 1950s Godzilla. I think that is when the battleship or aircraft carrier comes in.
How long did it have to grow? T-Rex reaches full size at around 18 to 20 years of age according to scientists.
I was most interested in the chaos theory parts than the genetics.
To really mess with the physics, imagine a herbivorous brachiosaurus getting to be that size on only plant matter. You're talking about adding, what, a forty, fifty pounds a day to their mass for a decade or two? They're something like thirty-forty metric tons, if memory serves. You also have to deal with thermodynamics, as there's no way to prevent loss of energy during digestion.
Alright first off we are obviously discussing a fictional book/movie. We can all agree on that. Second the dinosaurs being cloned could not grow to that size because the oxygen today is much thinner than it was at that time, which allowed for their massive growth. That being said you trying to use physics, and thermodynamics doesn't calculate. We are talking about biology. A blue whale adds sometimes over 200 pounds a day as it grows, and reaches full size in most cases around the 20 year mark. That's 4 times the weight being added that you cited as going against physics. Now the diet is different, it's not plant based. Still that doesn't matter. Animals can grow very quickly from plant based food. A bull will go from 50 pounds to over 2000 pounds in a few years while a human by comparison isn't even remotely close to that kind of growth. A bull isn't capable of reaching 100 tons, but another plant eating animal that has evolved to reach that size would absolutely put on the amount of weight you cited, in the distant past. Today? No because of the oxygen, and different climate.
I will also add that although it is absolutely impossible with current technology to bring back dinosaurs, in this fictional world there was major genetic manipulation. Combining frog dna for example. If other alterations were done to increase the dinosaurs growth rate by sacrificing it's life span, and if they were exposed to growth hormones then it is conceivable albeit not very likely that there may be a chance an animal like this could reach incredible sizes in 15 years.