She probably started out with a higher limit. But, bit by bit, day by day, the sheer number of freaky situations that she has had to deal with on the job have eaten away at her defenses. Like water wearing a hole through stone, and just as irreversible.
On the off chance that this wasn’t resolved 10 parsecs ago (it’s hard to keep up on news when the site’s uptime rivals Atlantis’), I claim violet for volume 5 in honor of Violet Bee. We had red for Rodesko (Red Shoes) and green for Mr. Green and given the limits of my memory and language knowledge, I might guess I overlooked the other two.
So the next one will be pink? I’ve never heard of these books, but I see that the whole series is available as a $.99 ebook, so I’ll have to check it out.
CPR does not work that way. At all. I could just start listing reasons, by panel, and probably run out of space. Did Jeff and Shannon mess up HORRIBLY, or is this part of Sweetheart’s personal weirdness?
Or just the fact that anybody to whom Unity administers CPR automatically wakes up as their brain comprehends exactly what’s likely to happen to their internal organs (and limbs, for that matter) if things continue in the way they’re going. Liquified chest followed by theft of limbs.
Based on the pictures, she is actually doing CPR correctly, it isn’t a pretty process, real CPR is going to end with cracked bones, and other damage to the chest cavity, which is a small price to pay for, you know, surviving. Though it also doesn’t have as high a success rate as TV would have you think.
And having a supersoldier zombie do it to you when you’re just in shock from the insanity of the world is likely to get you out of that state really really quickly.
Also, it looks to me like Sweetheart is just overacting, so even fake tv CPR, which would still probably hurt, would force her to stop it.
She’s performing it correctly, but:
*Sweetheart’s symptoms don’t match a heart attack
*CPR doesn’t actually restart a heart, just keeps you alive until paramedics arrive
*3-4 chest compressions wouldn’t accomplish anything helpful
*Especially without accompanying assisted breathing
*Getting her heart started wouldn’t wake her up again, just move her from ‘somewhat dead’ to ‘stable’
*If she did wake up she certainly wouldn’t jerk up and shout with a bunch of cracked ribs
*No seriously try doing anything from those last 2 panels when half your ribs are freshly broken and see how well it works
And that’s off the top of my head at 3 AM, I know I’m missing things.
Some of your points are valid but other stuff is not, at least according to the CPR instructors I’ve had. In the US they typically don’t even teach rescue breathing anymore – it’s been found that it provides no appreciable benefit for the first 10 minutes or so. Also, contrary to popular belief, you won’t break any ribs unless you’re doing it very, very wrong. You almost certainly will break loose some cartilage but not ribs. In any event the likelihood of successful resuscitation with just CPR is pretty remote – but some chance is better than none.
Right, but remember, Sweetheart’s the product of mad science. For all we know, she has a pacemaker that kicks in when it detects CPR. (Why not have it start up in response to the heart stopping? SCIENCE, that’s why!)
Han Solo was using a unit of length as a unit of length. Kessel is near numerous extremely dangerous astronomical phenomena, most notable being a cluster of unstable co-orbiting black holes, and is behind a near permanent Imperial blockade. All routes around those obstacles are extremely long.
Short routes which avoid the Imperial patrols have to run insanely close to that cluster of black holes, which is the actual reason he uses it as evidence that his ship is the fastest in the galaxy: he’s asserting that anyone else wouldn’t have been generate enough thrust to survive the close encounter with a rather terminal crush.
That’s just a dumb explanation made up after the fact, by people who think that kind of contrived crap makes more sense than just saying “Han was talking out his ass”.
Given that the oinks are sort of following Cunningham around, it would appear that the sound is produced automatically in his/her joints, separate from his/her voice box.
Actually, according to the novelizations, it’s a description of how close to a network of back holes he was running the ship. Smuggles ran as close as possible to the event horizon because larger ships, like the Imperials used, wouldn’t be able to produce enough thrust to navigate the area and would be destroyed by the black holes when they ran out of fuel.
According to Alec Guinness’ expression, Solo’s claim was utterly ridiculous and not worth rebuttal.
I have a theory about Cunningham’s oinks: They were inaudible before he turned on the lights because they’re black text, and thus weren’t visible in the black panels.
You’d think the creation of a mad scientist would have a higher weirdness limit.
Well, CANADIAN mad science.
She probably started out with a higher limit. But, bit by bit, day by day, the sheer number of freaky situations that she has had to deal with on the job have eaten away at her defenses. Like water wearing a hole through stone, and just as irreversible.
From Unity’s reaction, I assume that this has happened before.
Damn you world, why do you have to be so freaky?
(Not that there’s anything freaky about a talking dog or her nano-tech zombie sidekick.)
On the off chance that this wasn’t resolved 10 parsecs ago (it’s hard to keep up on news when the site’s uptime rivals Atlantis’), I claim violet for volume 5 in honor of Violet Bee. We had red for Rodesko (Red Shoes) and green for Mr. Green and given the limits of my memory and language knowledge, I might guess I overlooked the other two.
They’re in the color order of the old “The {Color} Fairy Book” series.
So the next one will be pink? I’ve never heard of these books, but I see that the whole series is available as a $.99 ebook, so I’ll have to check it out.
CPR does not work that way. At all. I could just start listing reasons, by panel, and probably run out of space. Did Jeff and Shannon mess up HORRIBLY, or is this part of Sweetheart’s personal weirdness?
I’m guessing personal wierdness.
Or just the fact that anybody to whom Unity administers CPR automatically wakes up as their brain comprehends exactly what’s likely to happen to their internal organs (and limbs, for that matter) if things continue in the way they’re going. Liquified chest followed by theft of limbs.
I’d definitely agree with personal weirdness. After all, Sweetheart once restarted her own heart, so obviously she’s not exactly normal.
Based on the pictures, she is actually doing CPR correctly, it isn’t a pretty process, real CPR is going to end with cracked bones, and other damage to the chest cavity, which is a small price to pay for, you know, surviving. Though it also doesn’t have as high a success rate as TV would have you think.
And having a supersoldier zombie do it to you when you’re just in shock from the insanity of the world is likely to get you out of that state really really quickly.
Also, it looks to me like Sweetheart is just overacting, so even fake tv CPR, which would still probably hurt, would force her to stop it.
More or less correctly at least.
She’s performing it correctly, but:
*Sweetheart’s symptoms don’t match a heart attack
*CPR doesn’t actually restart a heart, just keeps you alive until paramedics arrive
*3-4 chest compressions wouldn’t accomplish anything helpful
*Especially without accompanying assisted breathing
*Getting her heart started wouldn’t wake her up again, just move her from ‘somewhat dead’ to ‘stable’
*If she did wake up she certainly wouldn’t jerk up and shout with a bunch of cracked ribs
*No seriously try doing anything from those last 2 panels when half your ribs are freshly broken and see how well it works
And that’s off the top of my head at 3 AM, I know I’m missing things.
Some of your points are valid but other stuff is not, at least according to the CPR instructors I’ve had. In the US they typically don’t even teach rescue breathing anymore – it’s been found that it provides no appreciable benefit for the first 10 minutes or so. Also, contrary to popular belief, you won’t break any ribs unless you’re doing it very, very wrong. You almost certainly will break loose some cartilage but not ribs. In any event the likelihood of successful resuscitation with just CPR is pretty remote – but some chance is better than none.
None of my CPR classes covered dog CPR. How do you know its right?
Hmm… There’s a nice article at http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/02/physicians-tend-decline-cpr-heroic-measures.html that talks about doctor’s attitudes towards “heroic” rescue methods, based on the Radiolab show “The BItter End” (http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2013/jan/15/bitter-end/). In it, doctors describe the effects of CPR as they’ve experienced it, and it definitely involves broken ribs….
Right, but remember, Sweetheart’s the product of mad science. For all we know, she has a pacemaker that kicks in when it detects CPR. (Why not have it start up in response to the heart stopping? SCIENCE, that’s why!)
i thought sweetheart was faking it, which is why this happens “all the time”
So long, suspension of disbelief. He’ll miss you.
I’d wager that Unity thinks she’s helping, but it’s just Sweetheart’s regeneration kicking in.
Really? She doesn’t look all that much different to me.
Bah dump, CHSSSHHHH!!
That little guy is such a ham.
I TOLD THEM WHAT WOULD HAPPEN!! BUT THEY DIDN’T BELIEVE MEEE!!!!
Yeah well, welcome to the club, Cassandra said…
…anyway, aren’t parsecs a unit of LENGTH…?
Han Solo was just making stuff up to impress the rube farmboy.
Han Solo was using a unit of length as a unit of length. Kessel is near numerous extremely dangerous astronomical phenomena, most notable being a cluster of unstable co-orbiting black holes, and is behind a near permanent Imperial blockade. All routes around those obstacles are extremely long.
Short routes which avoid the Imperial patrols have to run insanely close to that cluster of black holes, which is the actual reason he uses it as evidence that his ship is the fastest in the galaxy: he’s asserting that anyone else wouldn’t have been generate enough thrust to survive the close encounter with a rather terminal crush.
That’s just a dumb explanation made up after the fact, by people who think that kind of contrived crap makes more sense than just saying “Han was talking out his ass”.
(TUNE: “ABC”, The Jackson 5)
We went to see the Little House,
But the place is fallin’ apart!
All Sweetheart does is moan and cuss,
But the cuteness stops her heart!
Now if she’s feeling peaky
When her pulse comes to a halt,
It’s ’cause the world is freaky!
It’s the freaky world’s darn fault!
We’re giving her
CPR!
Save her, or
Au revoir!
Here in the
Secret Star
Chamber far!
Puppets are
Just too bizarre!
Given that the oinks are sort of following Cunningham around, it would appear that the sound is produced automatically in his/her joints, separate from his/her voice box.
Sweetheart’s gonna get cataracts and brain tumors if she doesn’t dress up again soon.
She can probably regenerate from that.
Sorry, but the pouty Sweetheart at the end is WAY cuter than you, pigthing =P
Actually, according to the novelizations, it’s a description of how close to a network of back holes he was running the ship. Smuggles ran as close as possible to the event horizon because larger ships, like the Imperials used, wouldn’t be able to produce enough thrust to navigate the area and would be destroyed by the black holes when they ran out of fuel.
According to Alec Guinness’ expression, Solo’s claim was utterly ridiculous and not worth rebuttal.
I have a theory about Cunningham’s oinks: They were inaudible before he turned on the lights because they’re black text, and thus weren’t visible in the black panels.