[ Qubit raises a hand again, urging patience. ] No, no, hear me out.
[ He rewinds the footage to the deer's arrival and plays through it again, accelerated, taking note of several more details. Whatever they're calling this process, he can see three distinct phases within it - to unconsciousness, then to death, then after. Instability in body heat, followed by slow decline, and finally rapid decline. That's worth digging into, later, but for now the overall trend is what he wants to emphasize. ]
See how quickly its temperature drops here? We can estimate how much energy you absorbed by measuring how much the environment lost - and this one deer lost more energy in an hour than the entire area lost in a day.
[ If he sounds weirdly excited about all this, that's because he is. He faces Carlisle, grinning eagerly. ]
no subject
[ Qubit raises a hand again, urging patience. ] No, no, hear me out.
[ He rewinds the footage to the deer's arrival and plays through it again, accelerated, taking note of several more details. Whatever they're calling this process, he can see three distinct phases within it - to unconsciousness, then to death, then after. Instability in body heat, followed by slow decline, and finally rapid decline. That's worth digging into, later, but for now the overall trend is what he wants to emphasize. ]
See how quickly its temperature drops here? We can estimate how much energy you absorbed by measuring how much the environment lost - and this one deer lost more energy in an hour than the entire area lost in a day.
[ If he sounds weirdly excited about all this, that's because he is. He faces Carlisle, grinning eagerly. ]
Carlisle, do you know what this means?