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** If your sensors are strong enough, it wouldn't actually be that hard. You look for a mass of interconnected heat with both the rhythm of a heart near the first heat center and a secondary heat center where the brain should be. |
** If your sensors are strong enough, it wouldn't actually be that hard. You look for a mass of interconnected heat with both the rhythm of a heart near the first heat center and a secondary heat center where the brain should be. |
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*** Yet when they first encounter the Borg, they fail to detect lifesigns from them, and the Borg presumably have hearts and brains. |
*** Yet when they first encounter the Borg, they fail to detect lifesigns from them, and the Borg presumably have hearts and brains. |
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**** As it is possible to ''un-''Borg someone and get back an intact original (paging Captain Picard, paging Captain Picard), they most definitely still maintain their original biological functions. At this point we're going to have to assume they use some kind of sensor masking. |
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** Bioelectrical signals. Heartbeats. Heat signatures of a certain size that are within a typical range for living creatures. Certain types of motion. Particular chemicals or substances that mostly only show up in life forms. Basically they're scanning for all of it and when you start getting hits on multiple factors you figure that's probably a life sign. Also the Borg might have hearts and brains but they no longer work like a normal life form's. The heart might only beat when it needs to pump repair nanites through the body, or it might have been replaced by a pump that's just constantly cycling blood through, like a fishtank filter. In essence the Borg don't show up because despite their biological parts they function like machines. That's why they sometimes show up as "Possible lifesigns". Besides, by ''First Contact'' they've clearly figured out how to scan for Borg lifesigns as well, as Data's able to determine the Earth's Borg population. |
** Bioelectrical signals. Heartbeats. Heat signatures of a certain size that are within a typical range for living creatures. Certain types of motion. Particular chemicals or substances that mostly only show up in life forms. Basically they're scanning for all of it and when you start getting hits on multiple factors you figure that's probably a life sign. Also the Borg might have hearts and brains but they no longer work like a normal life form's. The heart might only beat when it needs to pump repair nanites through the body, or it might have been replaced by a pump that's just constantly cycling blood through, like a fishtank filter. In essence the Borg don't show up because despite their biological parts they function like machines. That's why they sometimes show up as "Possible lifesigns". Besides, by ''First Contact'' they've clearly figured out how to scan for Borg lifesigns as well, as Data's able to determine the Earth's Borg population. |
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** The second part of this question answers the first: they look for signatures of [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|humanoid]] (often enough to count as [[Human Subspecies]]) lifeforms. |
** The second part of this question answers the first: they look for signatures of [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|humanoid]] (often enough to count as [[Human Subspecies]]) lifeforms. |
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== I claim this planet in the name of... == |
== I claim this planet in the name of... == |
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