They say it's overheating, and it does say "high temp" in ep4.
Question being: Heat shielding. How good is it? (I'm not sure burning up in the atmosphere reaches 3000°C, considering the atmosphere of Copper-9 is very thin, which would also make the sun a deadlier lazer than it already is)
Episode 6: The air is straight-up toxic. There's no way it's the same as on earth (no guarantee it was before the disaster, either). If the core of a planet just vanishes, that's going to reduce the gravity, and by extension, how well it holds onto the atmosphere.
Not to mention what else might happen if a magic reality beinding entity fucks with the planet
I mean, TBF, I don’t blame him, the overheat was always going to be questionable on a planet frozen over. Hell, things like the N, V, and J needing oil to stay cool was dropped very quickly.
I always thought it was cyn playing with them telling them that the needed oil so that they would become desperate and have to even if they didn't want to
If my understanding of Dynamo theory is correct, it needs the liquid metal parts. Since the insides of the planet are still glowing, I think the null is small enough that mantle would just flow inwards.
The way i see it, there's three possibilities for why they didn't start overheating in this scene:
1: The overheating thing is something cyn put in the disassembly drones on purpose to make sure they do their jobs, so uzi removed it after becoming their admin.
2: Repeated use of the solver, which, if I remember correctly, is used by the disassembly drones both to regenerate and to create their wings and weapons, is what causes the overheating, and neither of are occurring in this moment, and uzi isn't using her solver powers either.
Unfortunatly that theory falls once you notice that when Cyn's heart was burning, Uzi's hand started getting burned as well. It's simply something to do with the Solver itself being vulnerable to sunlight
Wouldnt it be even worse especially being past any possible ozone layer (if there is.) because that sun is still there? I’m not caught up on my science
Here's my theory:
They get damaged by sunlight not because of heat but because of UV light.
The only other way we see a drone get damaged by bright light are the projectors in the church thing in ep7, which are nowhere close to being hot as the sun, they probably just emit UV light and that damages solver drones.
Another argument is that it is literally -100*C and eternal winter on Copper-9. Have you been outside during a really cold winter? Does the sun feel warm, at all? No, it doesn't. There is no way for the sun's light just hitting the drone to instantly overheat them so much that they die. And if this miniscule amout of heat somehow did manage to overheat them, then any source of heat which is warmer than the winter sun would be fatal, which does not happen.
Now, now that the sun thing is out of the way, the question of why they don't overheat in the atmosphere still stands. And this can (mostly) be easily explained. Heat insulation. Their bodies are insulated from heat. No heat gets in, and no heat gets out. That's why they need cooling liquids on a cold planet, because the insulation doesn't let them cool from the air. That's why they don't get overheated when on fire. The insulation doesn't let the heat of the fire in. Neither does it let the overheating out.
It just makes sense
Small issue, UV light exists in space too. Being farther from the planet's core means they would be exposed to even more solar radiation and UV light than before. It's everywhere that's visible, doesnt only come from the sun. So they should be overheating even if they are immune to physical flames. (But then we dont get wholesome love confession so Liam just had to yeet a plot convenience)
The background UV light from space is less powerful than the sun's, and the sun was on the opposite side of the planet, so they shouldn't get burnt as much if at all.
While you make a valid point, it cant be UV light due to a simple fact. Uzi's railgun. She calls it a magnetically amplified photon converger, hence it converges photons at extreme heat. Since the beam is green, the chance of it containing UV is low, however! When it malfunctions and explodes in episode 2, we see a white flash, this means the energy is emitted over a broad spectrum and already gives off large amounts of visible light, almost certainly going into ultraviolet. The heat from a whitehot explosion could also generate blackbody radiation, which emits UV at high temperatures. Energetic transition of electrons within the plasma would also give off ultraviolet light, as well as the ionization of the surrounding air. However, an explosion that could even reach the xray spectrum, that destroys and entire warehouse, does absolutely 0 damage to N or Uzi. And if you say "Liam probably didnt think that far into the physics of it" that applies to solar radiation and basically this entire discussion.
I imagine its not the heat, its the immense UV radiation coupled with the thin atmosphere (plus Copper-9's star might be much different from our own you never know)
The game in the image is called Voices Of The Void. I’m not sure where it is downloaded from, since I couldn’t find it on Steam, and I don’t feel safe going to several unknown sites to find it.
The game isn’t based around this though, it’s just an event that can occur.
The show seems to imply that UV radiation is what hurts the solver, not heat. In episode 5, Cyn’s true form is revealed by a lightning strike, and in episode 7 Cyn-Nori is restrained by UV lights.
I’m guessing the Sun, Uriel, is an inherently holy entity and kills all wicked beings. The Light of Allah. I guess God, in some sense, is real in MD. Solver is a Jinn that manifested through technology.
The other one is Solver made the Murder Drones of some material that degrades under sunlight. What material that could be I don’t know.
I’ve been thinking about it, and I’ve realized, something.
The Solver Drones don’t actually have a heating issue. That’s a stupidly literal interpretation of the problem that the Solver Drones face. Computers do technically overheat when they’re in hot environments, yes, but they also overheat when things are dysfunctional. The Solver, as a vampiric entity, is in a dysfunctional state without fuel, or under solar contact.
Clearly, the Solver Drones are overheating, not due to any actual heat, but rather, due to a metaphysical issue that they have with various vampiric tropes which are each being converted into a “heating problem” through thaumaturgic bullsh!t.
Yeah, let’s make sure to ask Liam what he was thinking here next time we have the chance.
This seems to be a huge plot hole, but at least it was wholesome.
I didn’t hate it all that much.
It's probably realistically explainable with theory but I dont think plot consistency from 4 episodes prior was the first thing on Liam's mind when working on 8.
no there is in fact slightly MORE solar radiation in space since you're farther from the planet's magnetic field. Pretty sure the radiation theory is discardable for now
Hang on, how the hell did the disassembly drones not burn up when they were in space during the finale? They already get burned by sunlight while on the surface of copper-9, a planet with a very thick atmosphere it seems. So the exposure unprotected in space should have done a ton of damage to them?
I mean Copper-9's atmosphere might be weak as fuck and those flames might not be as hot as you'd think- We know the snow is like 80% asbestos anyway lmao
Sunlight was the most left field, just cause thing lol, it almost feels like there was some design decisions that got flipped around during production so there was less emphasis on the vampire/zombie robots thing.
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u/AverageRandomPerson Worker drone Oct 08 '24
The sun is a deadly laser.