Dead and buried

[MAGolding]

I recently saw the ending part of "All Our Yesterdays" on Heroes cons and on MeTV.

At the end, Spock assures McCoy that he is back to normal:

SPOCK: There's no further need to observe me, Doctor. As you can see, I've returned to the present in every sense.
MCCOY: But it did happen, Spock.
SPOCK: Yes, it happened. But that was five thousand years ago. And she is dead now. Dead and buried. Long ago.

And some people have wondered how Zarabeth would have been buried.since there doesn't seem to be any other people around where she lives. Zarabeth does complain about how lonely she is, after, all, and nobody else was seen there.

But maybe Spock assumed that Zarabeth would be buried naturally after she died.

On Earth, air is full of dust particles drifting around in air currents. And dust particles eventually settle out of the air and land on horizontal surfaces. Thus dust builds up on surfaces. So the dust on a surface will build up to one inch deep after some number of years or decades. And after five thousand years the dust might get a few feet deep.

And dust and pollen from outside might blow into Zarabeth's cave where her corpse will presumably be, and settle out of the air faster than it would outside.

And when the ice melts a lot of muddy water might flood Zarabeth's cave, and dry out after a while, leaving a large layer of mud.

And when plants grow in the arae after the ice age maybe dried leaves will blow into the cave and settle on the floor, piling up.

So Spock might assume that Zarabeth's skeleton was deeply buried by their time five thousand years later - to say nothing about being vaporized with the entire planet within a few minutes of his statement.

 

[BK613]

Or, you know—since the conversation was about Spock returning to the present—he is referring to the feels being dead and buried.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

I just took 'dead and buried' to mean 'gone and that's the end of that'. It's a metaphor, Drax.

 

[1001001]

I recently saw the ending part of "All Our Yesterdays" on Heroes cons and on MeTV.

At the end, Spock assures McCoy that he is back to normal:



And some people have wondered how Zarabeth would have been buried.since there doesn't seem to be any other people around where she lives. Zarabeth does complain about how lonely she is, after, all, and nobody else was seen there.

But maybe Spock assumed that Zarabeth would be buried naturally after she died.

On Earth, air is full of dust particles drifting around in air currents. And dust particles eventually settle out of the air and land on horizontal surfaces. Thus dust builds up on surfaces. So the dust on a surface will build up to one inch deep after some number of years or decades. And after five thousand years the dust might get a few feet deep.

And dust and pollen from outside might blow into Zarabeth's cave where her corpse will presumably be, and settle out of the air faster than it would outside.

And when the ice melts a lot of muddy water might flood Zarabeth's cave, and dry out after a while, leaving a large layer of mud.

And when plants grow in the arae after the ice age maybe dried leaves will blow into the cave and settle on the floor, piling up.

So Spock might assume that Zarabeth's skeleton was deeply buried by their time five thousand years later - to say nothing about being vaporized with the entire planet within a few minutes of his statement.

Are you seriously explaining how dust works?

You keep posting these threads that have almost nothing to do with the show, and then going into incredibly long and unnecessary explanations of natural phenomena.

In this particular case, it's obviously just a manner of expression.

I'm drawing the line here. Please Stop with these threads.

Closing.