- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: TheLaughingManic
Posted by: Redoubt
Posted by: Killer of You
Couldn't the radiation from the fuel rod gun play a big part in the Hunter's inability to be taken over? Radiation is what saved Johnson, so isn't it possible that the gun that shoots radiation save the hunters as well?
There's scores of different radiation, and it's incredibly unlikely that the radiation emitted from plasma grenades is the same as the fuel rods. It's possible, though.
You might be a biologist, but you obviously are not a physicist. There are three types of radiation, alpha particles (helium nuclei), beta particles (electrons) and gamma rays (highly energetic electromagnetic waves). Now considering that alpha particles are stopped by a few centimetres of air, and beta particles are stopped by a thin sheet of metal, I would expect that the most likely candidate is gamma radiation.
Besides, hunters cannot be taken over by the flood, due to their worm nature, even if they do have some form of central nervous system. Otherwise you would think we would have seen some hunter flood by now wouldn't you?
There is infact, many different types of radiation, as I stated. Gamma rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation, as is light, x-rays, radio waves, infra-red, ultraviolet, yada yada yada, and the antiparticle equivilent of the others you stated. For example, electrons are emitted in beta minus radiation, but there's also beta plus radiation which emits positrons.
Off topic, but had to be said.