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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Christopher Lambert" data-source="post: 1843103" data-attributes="member: 25412">[OOC] Okay, I'm going to have to speak scientific gibberish for a second. Not entirely sure how much of this was in Moran's research.Vertebrate nerves are covered with myelin (which insulates them from electricity) but there are gaps in part of the myelin (which electricity jumps from over the myelin from gap to gap). This enables the nerve impulse to travel faster than if there had been no myelin or if the nerves had been completely covered in myelin. And no, I can't answer why "gaps" make the electricity travel faster, even though I've had to study that three times. Eek. If the genetic treatments used a "fake myelin" or some other kind of insulator to protect the nervous system, it would have to be controllable, to allow fast nerve impulses to function. [/OOC]Lambert is wondering if this ability could be used as a weapon... but like anything involving biology, it's also very exciting to him. He talks animatedly and very quickly. This is very interesting work. I haven't been to any planets with lightning (except Earth) but I suspect Titan would have very common lightning storms. This would be very useful for any colonists or visitors there. It's very delicate, very complicated, certainly more so than uplifting an animal.Okay, that's obvious flattery, but hey, it might work.Obviously electricity causes damage by burning, not to mention the havoc it can wreak on the nervous and muscular systems... How do you keep the organism's brain functioning? If you were to "seal off" their nerves from electrical impulses, that should really slow down their nerves, but clearly that isn't happening. Alas, I didn't quite understand that part of your latest report, it is quite beyond me.My reasoning: suppose you could somehow electrify a ship to knock out the crew. Mutants that can resist electricity could easily hijack such a ship, and could be hired out to the highest bidder for covert operations - they could even get stronger, if the reports are accurate. It could also be used as some kind of combat stunner if you found out how to insulate unaltered people from it's effects.</blockquote>

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