You are correct about the ethanol; it also leaves them with a terrible
headache which is the reason they have those ridges in their foreheads.
So why do they drink it? Klingons respect anything that can knock them down.
--
Gor, and I ain't even a Trekie!
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Don Williams wrote:
The Klingon metabolism differs from that of humans in many ways. Despite
the fact that both
races were 'spawned' by a primitive carbon based life from that landed
on their home worlds
billions of years ago. The reason for the Klingon's resistance to
methanol is astonishing. The
optic nerve in humans as we know leaves the back of the eye and enters
the brain just below and in
front of the pituitary gland. It travels to the optic chiasm through the
optic tract all the way to the
visual cortex. But in the Klingon's brain the pituitary gland encases
the optic nerves all the way
from the eye to the visual cortex. The gland is encased in a gelatinous
sheath that is impervious
to any molecules larger than water. Furthermore, the breakdown products
of methanol degradation
(formaldehyde and formic acid being the most toxic) are rapidly absorbed
and rendered harmless
in minutes by a mechanism that is not well understood.. The main reason
humans can't drink Klingon
cocktails, is because they are almost always made with methanol. Ethanol
is not well tolerated by the
Klingon -- they become delirious and fall about immediately. The effect
wears off after 24 hours
or so. The huge, ramifying, pituitary gland of the Klingon has been the
subject of much research.
graywolf wrote:
He does seem a bit turned around.
However, Cotty, I understand methanol is ok for the Klingon
metabolism. No wonder you guys are always wanting to fight all you
have to do is stick a bucket out the airlock in passing.
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Cotty wrote:
On 8/4/06, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed:
No need for any assumptions at all. I can confirm absolutely and
without a
shadow of doubt that I was asking the people of the PDML to send me
an olive
so that I could travel to the constellation of Cassiopeia, on my own
(except
for the aforementioned olive and an extremely large cocktail glass) and
drink the 463 million km of free ethanol to be found there.
Luckily for me, before I had even pulled on the gloves of my space
suit and
fired up the engine of my rocketship, Don Williams pointed out that
ethanol
is dangerous.
So I've changed my mind I and won't be going there after all.
However, I'm a generous spirit, and liberal with it, so if anybody else
wants to avail themselves of the said alcohol, they're quite
welcome. I have
not staked a claim on it.
CHILDREN OF THE PDML!
Some of you may have decided that you'd like some of that free booze
for
yourself and your little chums. Take my advice. By the time you get
there
you may still be below the legal age for drinking alcohol in your
community
- don't drink it without permission from your parents. And never drink
ethanol in your home constellation.
I want some of whatever Bob's drinking tonight.
Cheers,
Cotty
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