Subject: *puts on biology hat*
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Posted on: 2009-04-29 20:24:00 UTC

...What? I can steal Trojie's hat if I want to. :P

How long you live is determined by your cells' ability to regenerate, if memory serves. They keep replacing themselves throughout your life but as you get older they get less good at it. That's a really bad way of explaining it, but most of the details are buried in either a) the back of my brain or b) one of my books downstairs which I can't be bothered to go get. But basically if your cells could always regenerate perfectly then, barring illness, you could live pretty much forever.

Decomposition is more about bacteria and such eating you when you're dead. Would bacteria like the taste of Sue? Can bacteria discriminate like that? Could Sues perhaps be poisonous to bacteria? Or extra tasty? Who knows.

At a guess I'd say the only nourishment they take from normal human food is the sugar (for that special saccharine sparkliness), and possibly such things as aspartame and monosodium glutamate. So unless they're living on chocolate and junk food, calorie intake would be minimal, thus explaining the gaunt physique.

Also on the drinking front, the idea of getting absolutely trashed as a means of being sociable and not to facilitate angst is clearly utterly alien.

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