Now that Yukari is feeling more Neko, she'll actually USE the dang eye thing.Fred said:There are some traits from the nekovalkyrja like the 4 incisors instead of 8, the eyes that can adapt visual spectrums, the furred mobile ears, the four fingers/toes, the generally oriental cast to their features and the colored streak over their backbone that represents their SPINE interface that set them out in a tasteful "I'm not human" fashion.
Fingernails also can be used during torture. Peel them off and such.The lack of fingernails on the latest neko is stretching it. I really don't buy the rationale, which was to not damage the HS inserts when inside a power armor (which would probably insta-regenerate anyways). Fingernails are just too useful otherwise. But I've worked my way into thinking that the tips of their fingers was bony enough to achieve most of anything a fingernail could do for a human.
This I agree with.The lack of skin oil and sweat is also counter-productive. Skin oil is important - it gives us water permeability while still allowing our skin to breathe (what happens to your fingers after you stay in a bath for too long shows the job skin oil does for you). Skin oil also contributes in your skin staying soft. Skin oil buildup does bring up complications, but where the nekovalkyrja body could shine is simply in regards to regulating the degree of skinoil present over a select portion of the skin.
This I'm not as sure about.Sweat helps your body cool. Basically, the process of moisture getting on your skin and then evaporating releases a lot of body heat. Our bodies don't sweat for fun, they sweat because we need them to. The bad part of sweating is the odor, and I figure that if we wanted the nekos 'improved' someplace, it'd be in the lack-of-stink department.
While this might be a little unpleasant to think about ... Neko blood is hemosynthetic fluid, which is an organic nanomachine material.Right now, the lack of heart - besides the semi-amusing possibility of accusing a nasty neko that she's heartless, which will be literal - implies, from what I've heard in the past, that each and every vein in a neko's body can sort of behave like a worm/intestine by undulating and forcing blow to keep flowing through the body.
Can you imagine what sort of quivering mess that would make a neko look like? The only real use I can find for this is the lack of heart pump to damage... but that in itself isn't an immunity to death from torso wounds: the lungs are just as vulnerable. In a way it'd make more sense to have a redundant cardiovascular system than making it entirely absent in favor of something that doubtfully would be spread over the whole body.
Only if it required replacement. What if the Neko has larger lungs? Maybe it has a redundant "brain?" Because the blood is so important, maybe it has a second liver or another pair of kidneys?This also brings up the question of what happens with the space vacated by a missing heart? Hearts take considerable internal real-estate in a human's body - even if nekos are diminutive, the absence of it would be hard to replace with something else.
I would prefer explaining the current NH-29 — give it an actual anatomy! There's no need for a retcon if we can explain things in a sensible fashion.It's one of the thing I'm wondering if a retcon would be possible, rather than the creation of a wholly new nekovalkyrja type.
Sometimes, making something too nice or advanced under the excuse of making it better is not always a good idea.
Kokuten said:
Doshii said:What if the blood moves itself?
Neko, as well, might pant. It's unknown, but they could. Big steamy clouds puffing in front of a Neko's face as she lets her tongue loll out and her incisors are showing ... bweh heh heh.
Thermoregulation in humans
As in other mammals, thermoregulation is an important aspect of human homeostasis. Most body heat is generated in the deep organs, especially the liver, brain, and heart, and in contraction of skeletal muscles. Humans have been able to adapt to a great diversity of climates, including hot humid and hot arid. High temperatures pose serious stresses for the human body, placing it in great danger of injury or even death. For humans, adaptation to varying climatic conditions includes both physiological mechanisms as a byproduct of evolution, and the conscious development of cultural adaptations.
There are four avenues of heat loss: convection, conduction, radiation, and evaporation. If skin temperature is greater than that of the surroundings, the body can lose heat by radiation and conduction. But if the temperature of the surroundings is greater than that of the skin, the body actually gains heat by radiation and conduction. In such conditions, the only means by which the body can rid itself of heat is by evaporation. So when the surrounding temperature is higher than the skin temperature, anything that prevents adequate evaporation will cause the internal body temperature to rise. During sports activities, evaporation becomes the main avenue of heat loss. Humidity affects thermoregulation by limiting sweat evaporation and thus heat loss.
The skin assists in homeostasis (keeping different aspects of the body constant e.g. temperature). It does this by reacting differently to hot and cold conditions so that the inner body temperature remains more or less constant. Vasodilation and sweating are the primary modes by which humans attempt to lose excess body heat. The brain creates much heat through the countless reactions which occur. Even the process of thought creates heat. The head has a complex system of blood vessels, which keeps the brain from overheating by bringing blood to the thin skin on the head, allowing heat to escape. The effectiveness of these methods is influenced by the character of the climate and the degree to which the individual is acclimatized.
In hot conditions
Note: Most animals can't sweat efficiently. Cats and dogs have sweat glands only on the pads of their feet. Horses and humans are two of the few animals capable of sweating. Many animals pant rather than sweat because the lungs have a large surface area and are highly vascularised. Air is inhaled, cooling the surface of the lungs and is then exhaled losing heat and some water vapour.
- Eccrine sweat glands under the skin secrete sweat (a fluid containing mostly water with some dissolved ions) which travels up the sweat duct, through the sweat pore and onto the surface of the skin. This causes heat loss via evaporative cooling; however, a lot of essential water is lost.
- The hairs on the skin lie flat, preventing heat from being trapped by the layer of still air between the hairs. This is caused by tiny muscles under the surface of the skin called Arrector pili muscles relaxing so that their attached hair follicles are not erect. These flat hairs increase the flow of air next to the skin increasing heat loss by convection. When environmental temperature is above core body temperature, sweating is the only physiological way for humans to lose heat.
- Arterioles Vasodilation occurs, this is the process of relaxation of smooth muscle in arteriole walls allowing increased blood flow through the artery. This redirects blood into the superficial capillaries in the skin increasing heat loss by convection and conduction.
These ideas both are officially stolen or set to be stolen. Utterly brilliant as all hell.Fred said:Well, that's what I referred to when I said the nekos could be more efficient about sweating - beyond making perspiration odorless. Simply don't sweat where it's not convenient. That sort of body control is probably where the neko would improve on the human.
You just wait: one day, one neko will have the crazy idea to adapt her sweat to smell like perfume. She gets to go on a date, be really nervous about it, and smell like wildflowers for her trouble. =P
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