Salkafar

OMG, that never occurred to me. "Who are you, mysterious masked stranger, and what do you want from us?" "I want you to clean up your room!"

That's beautiful!

The Iron Patriot was... um... Thing is, it was an armor worn by Norman Osborn, not James Rhodes at all; basically, it was his attempt at filling the roles of Iron Man and Captain America all in one go. And while he possessed all of Iron Man's armors, it's never clear whether he just repainted one of them or built one of his own based on them. This seems more like they retro-fitted the technology of War Machine to create an entirely new suit.

Have you actually read Iron Man?

So many pages! And no action. Meanwhile, Chronos is now aware Guyot is alive and working with the Femguyv.... I wonder what countermeasures they'll come up with since Enzyme-III clearly didn't cut it before (it kinda did, but they don't know that).

The difference is that the Autobots are his enemies. If your brother, a warrior, clashes with an Autobot, also a warrior, and perishes, you might want to avenge him, but you won't be insanely furious, because, after all, there is a war on. But if it turns out your then-commander defiled his corpse, and your current commander, whom you worship, decides to cover it up because aformentioned despicable individual might be of some use to him, you just might feel a little betrayed - especially since the people you think of as your enemies have never treated you with such disdain. I think Dreadwing just might be wondering whether he is actually on the right side.

So, Ryuki, in short, you can't have a self-contained system.

Humans have never yet rewritten the laws of physics. We have only used what is available.

The second law of thermodynamics, Ryuki! In a closed system, the total amount of disorder only increases. Usually this is waste heat - it cannot be turned back into usable energy. Energy transfer is based on a difference in energy potential; labor is provided by (partial) correction of the difference. But once all energy is transformed into a kind that cannot be turned back into another form, and the energy is distributed evenly, all activity ends. That's what was expected to happen to the universe in the end, but now they think it's probably going to be torn apart by dark energy first. I can't believe I just typed that sentence. It's like something out of a bad science fiction novel.

The 'odds against' example is bogus. How do I know? By the distinct lack of creationist biochemists. Biologists, as a group, have the lowest proportion of religious people among their ranks. The highest? Mathematicians. Which seems odd, until you realize they live in an intangible, invisible world most of the time anyway.

I prefer the gold one.

Hey, that's interesting... it must be an old model, it sports the original body mod for Guyver II! Neatly painted, might want a little touching up to bring out the details and give a little more life to it. And maybe a little more shine?

Yes, Ryuki. By 'our earliest ancestors' I mean literally the first living things. By 'they were part stone' I mean they were basically part of a system of chemical processes that could only take place inside large, sponge-like structures made or iron sulfides. There were no cell membranes - the boundaries of each 'cell' were the boundaries of the microscopic chambers in the foam-like structure of the stone. It wasn't until much, much later that our ancestors started to incorporate solidified minerals in their bodies again - something like three and a half billion years.

Reading a book on evolution and abiogenesis and the guy posed the very real possibility that life began inside what I shall call 'white non-smokers' because they are similar to 'black smokers', except they don't expel black plumes. They're deep-sea hydrothermal vents, but unlike 'black smokers' they are not acidic based but alkalic; the distant 'ancestors' of these vents, in primordial, acidic, iron-rich, anoxic waters could very well have formed the very first biotope ever. As it turns out, they provide the raw materials, the energy and the environment, because these vents are spongy and the vessicles are the right size for cells. The iron sulfide of the ancient smokers (modern ones don't have iron in them because iron doesn't dissolve in oxidated water) would have provided a catalyst, while the temperature gradients in the 'chimneys' would have promoted the creation of an 'RNA world'. Our earliest ancestors might well have been part stone. I don't know about you, but I am pretty moved.

Pointless remake.

I saw it last night. It was wonderful, it had the same feel as the early-season episodes. "It's a moose!"

Thank you, as ever, trusty Durendal. Interesting... Libertus know they are subservient at the genetic level... but they chose that. And what does this mean for the relationship between Sho and Agito?

del Toro! Now THAT would be interesting...

Domo Arigato, G-4! Hmm, nice and contemplative issue. The American Graveyard (Alas Billy Perkins, we hardly knew ye), Guy with the Glasses (who the heck is he?), Shizu deshabillé, flashback to Sho's return to the mansion...

Ramotith (Ramociss?) is not popular, it's easy to manufacture. It's been stated that any human being could be turned into a Ramotith. But it really is the Joe Schmoe of Zoanoids. Strength and manufacturing efficacy. That's it. No beam weapons, no special powers, no extreme strength, speed or armor. It's really just an upgraded human.

The depths of nature... somewhere in the jungle? Animals are not subject to Zoalord mind control, are they? Maybe Apollyon's base is somewhere in a forest, impossible to find amidst so much life...

That don't look like the island. Hmmm. Maybe it'll zoom in a lorry, and next to the driver there's a nervous guy with a suitcase... MIND BLOWN!

Soo... when next chapter?

I don't agree that Guyver needs a big director. The key term of 'Guyver' is defiance. Ryuki is right - life is uncontrollable. The Creators had forgotten that. The Zoanoids represent the failure of defiance, but Guyot, dr.Odagiri, the Guyver itself, Aptom, and even Archanfel himself represent rebellion.

I don't think this is a good idea. It would not access well with the mainstream public because of the high degree of visceral death, not to mention the philosophical issue (We were not created by God OR evolution, but by aliens who made us as the ultimate biological weapons. Unfortunately, we were a failure and they tried to get rid of us. All humans have the seed of a monster inside them. Our only hope is... um... not becoming what we were designed to be). Unless you make the message "We were designed to be killers. We're failures. Then we can try to be something else."