Hi jp,
Great idea! I didn't take time to real all the posts but some were pretty interesting. Hopefully I'm not about to regurgitate something that's been said already.
Of course the real world issue here would be human nerve impulse speed, or nerve conduction velocity compared to rifle or pistol bullet velocity and distance traveled. So you could cook up a real world solution to it, as nearly every good lie, and absolutely every great fiction, has many elements of truth.
Nerve conduction velocity in normal humans runs from about 3 to 390 feet per second. The important signals, "your finger is being burnt, move it" are the fastest types. The fastest conducting fibers have the fatty substance myelin for insulation, providing up to 20 times increase of electrical signal speeds. In the disease ms, most people know the myelin insulation around the axons breaks down so the nerves can no longer efficiently carry the electrical signals. What they don't know is a properly engineered virus could be used to go in and splice the genes that make the myelin with new genetic code for a super insulator 2000 times faster instead of the normal 20. That would take the nerve impulses from the normal max velocity of 390 fps to 780,000 fps, over 250 times faster than a high speed rifle bullet. Drugs would actually be required to slow heartbeat and other processes down or they'd likely over-speed. Sex, unfortunately, might be out of the question. The hyperaxon individual would either need great restraint, or decide if the act would be good enough to die for. Everything else, senses, perception, muscle activity and thought process would be greatly enhanced.
When you get it figured out, sign me up for the program. I'd do it in a heartbeat.
God and country.
Steve.3
Great idea! I didn't take time to real all the posts but some were pretty interesting. Hopefully I'm not about to regurgitate something that's been said already.
Of course the real world issue here would be human nerve impulse speed, or nerve conduction velocity compared to rifle or pistol bullet velocity and distance traveled. So you could cook up a real world solution to it, as nearly every good lie, and absolutely every great fiction, has many elements of truth.
Nerve conduction velocity in normal humans runs from about 3 to 390 feet per second. The important signals, "your finger is being burnt, move it" are the fastest types. The fastest conducting fibers have the fatty substance myelin for insulation, providing up to 20 times increase of electrical signal speeds. In the disease ms, most people know the myelin insulation around the axons breaks down so the nerves can no longer efficiently carry the electrical signals. What they don't know is a properly engineered virus could be used to go in and splice the genes that make the myelin with new genetic code for a super insulator 2000 times faster instead of the normal 20. That would take the nerve impulses from the normal max velocity of 390 fps to 780,000 fps, over 250 times faster than a high speed rifle bullet. Drugs would actually be required to slow heartbeat and other processes down or they'd likely over-speed. Sex, unfortunately, might be out of the question. The hyperaxon individual would either need great restraint, or decide if the act would be good enough to die for. Everything else, senses, perception, muscle activity and thought process would be greatly enhanced.
When you get it figured out, sign me up for the program. I'd do it in a heartbeat.
God and country.
Steve.3
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