ow I fear that RTD is purposely making us like her so he can kill her off. He's evil that way.
Yes. He is evil that way.
And it was oh so convenient that it broke around him and didn't tear him to bits
I asked my husband, the concrete expert about this. For real. He's a structural engineer and works with concrete every day. Basically, it boils down to this: It is very, very easy to break concrete with a sheared force (hard vertical force). Anything contained within that concrete should survive mostly in tact. Since a human body is a rather gelatinous substance, it will flex quite easily when the block was dropped. A normal person would probably end up with broken bones. But this being the immortal Captain Jack Harkness he would recover when he came back to life.
So, there you have it. The physics of concrete as applied to Torchwood. :-D
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Date: 2009-07-08 01:44 am (UTC)Yes. He is evil that way.
And it was oh so convenient that it broke around him and didn't tear him to bits
I asked my husband, the concrete expert about this. For real. He's a structural engineer and works with concrete every day. Basically, it boils down to this: It is very, very easy to break concrete with a sheared force (hard vertical force). Anything contained within that concrete should survive mostly in tact. Since a human body is a rather gelatinous substance, it will flex quite easily when the block was dropped. A normal person would probably end up with broken bones. But this being the immortal Captain Jack Harkness he would recover when he came back to life.
So, there you have it. The physics of concrete as applied to Torchwood. :-D