Comments on: Daredevil #1-8: A Medical Review

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:49:42 +0000

What cold? Vacuums are not intrinsically cold. (Case in point: the solar corona is effectively a vacuum compared to the photosphere, but it has a MUCH higher temperature… in the millions of kelvins, compared to the photosphere’s 5800K or so.) They do eliminate heat transfer by conduction and convection, but last I heard babies were not ectotherms (and radiative transfer still works through a vacuum). I realize that the temperature regulation system in infants and young children isn’t fully developed yet, and that could potentially be an issue, but overheating is just about as likely as being too cold.

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:37:49 +0000

I’m sort of embarrassed I inspired you to reread this, and it was the pregnancy and sterilization that bothered me most about the science. I mean, if Mysterio’s drugs were so great, why not drug Foggy and just not give him the stupid story about sterilization, or some more plausible one? It was just crazy that all sorts of stupid things had to happen to make the story work, and it wasn’t a very good story to begin with.

By: David Lawson

David Lawson — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:26:19 +0000

In regards to point #2, an EKG is probably the only visual thing that the avarage person would associate with a heartbeat. So it was probably that or putting “THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP” on the panel.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:00:46 +0000

That makes more sense vaccum-room wise, but Smith still missed that the dangers of vacuum not only include the lack of air pressure, but also the cold. That didn’t look like a very pressure-resistant or warm box the baby was in…

By: matthew rossi

matthew rossi — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 04:02:45 +0000

I think the vacuum chamber was supposed to be around a smaller chamber with just enough air for the child to breathe for 20 minutes, but that was far from clear. I liked the story when it came out, up until Bullseye appears, and from there it just went to hell for me. And the Mysterio as serial killing asshole bit I never liked.