Random Hypothetical Musing Thread

[Merrick]

For example, I was just wondering - if Paris Hilton got decapitated by a train, would she drop dead right away, or would her body continue to go about shopping, drinking, urinating in taxis and getting paid to appear in chic dance clubs for awhile (like days or even weeks) the way chickens do.

What kind of garbage do you think about all day other than what you're supposedly being paid for?

[Debi]

1. I was thinking more like cockroaches.....

Q13: Lara Beatty of Calgary, Canada writes:

A friend and I were discussing cockroaches the other day, and she claims that a cockroach can live for about 6 years without it's head. Is this a true fact?

A:
Not true, but your friend is correct that a cockroach could live a long time, perhaps a month, without its head.

<snip>

All this along with a cool temperature could allow the cockroach to last about a month without need for their head, as long as they did not get infected with a mold, bacterium or virus, which could kill them prematurely

http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/cockroach_faq.html#Q13

[Merrick]

4. Must be hard on their relatives

seeing a loved one bumping around with no head. Especially since you know they'll be gone within a month. How sad.

[Debi]

5. If none of them have heads then they cannot see the others

:eyes: duh.

[XNASA]

2. I think her body would perish.....

...but that her head would continue to live for some time.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Well, I See No Evidence There Is A Brain In There!

So, I don't know she needs the head!
The Professor

[txwhitedove]

6. Like a cockroach or a snake, her body will still be moving through ...

the motions. She's already brain dead.

Not currently being paid to think, so it's a free-for-all!