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in my very limited understanding, unless the murders are formally linked the force whose jurisdiction it falls under leads the enquiry. Then, if they are linked normally the lead force is either the one where the most bodies are found, or the one with the most bodies.
 
I think it (the murders) will be seen by others as too much of a coincidence. So it would be realistic that the police would just sort of fob him off?
 
Perhaps there are similarities the police haven't passed on to the public -- they do like to keep some details secret, so they know when someone knows too much. Eg, if the police don't tell the public the victims all had their hearts cut out and the hearts have never been found, and Mr Celebrity says he's had threats to "cut his heart out and eat it"...

Mr Celebrity is now on the police radar either as the killer, or as the next victim.
 
That's interesting that they might suspect him.

There's three bodies so far, but the police only know of two. Celebrity fella found the third body but him and his mate don't want to tell the police as they don't want anything to do with it. Female friend they're with discovered one of the bodies, so she might become a suspect - though one murder was in London and there's no way she would've been able to do that. Then there's a guy in his entourage who's been in trouble with the law before, so they might suspect him, I suppose.
 
He knows a detail only the police and the killer are supposed to know. Unless he admits he found a body (and didn't report it to police), how does he explain away his knowledge of that secret little detail?
 
Mouse said:
That's interesting that they might suspect him.

There's three bodies so far, but the police only know of two. Celebrity fella found the third body but him and his mate don't want to tell the police as they don't want anything to do with it. Female friend they're with discovered one of the bodies, so she might become a suspect - though one murder was in London and there's no way she would've been able to do that. Then there's a guy in his entourage who's been in trouble with the law before, so they might suspect him, I suppose.
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Isn’t there a credibility problem with him hiding one body to avoid the police and phoning them with his safety concerns, which only attracts their attention?

I guess it’s OK if he’s a celebrity and his whole life is a train crash.
 
Yeah ^ See, I didn't think of that, but turns out that character did and as I was writing him, it came to me. They're not going to the police so that's that! Probably creating more problems for themselves in the long run!
 
I need a name for a medical device which accelerates healing. More specifically, this one's being used to heal a broken bone, post-surgery.

If it's any help, I've been trying to use the following terms:

osteo -- bone
clast -- the cells that build tissue
osteoclast -- see above, cells that build bone
genesis -- making stuff

I came up with osteogen, but somebody has gotten there already. If desperate, I'll end up with osteogenic accelerator.
 
You are right, but I was more thinking of Sarcophagus (Stargate), a fictional healing chamber in Stargate.


It may have taken my 5 years, but I want a party when I get to 200 posts!!!
 
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I need a name for a medical device which accelerates healing. More specifically, this one's being used to heal a broken bone, post-surgery.

If it's any help, I've been trying to use the following terms:

osteo -- bone
clast -- the cells that build tissue
osteoclast -- see above, cells that build bone
genesis -- making stuff

I came up with osteogen, but somebody has gotten there already. If desperate, I'll end up with osteogenic accelerator.
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What about Osteoblaster which is Norwegian for Osteoblasts (the cells responsible for bone formation).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoblast
 
David Evil Overlord said:
Osteoclastic generator?
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An option, certainly, if not for... (see below)

Glitch said:
Is this for a sci-fi or fantasy piece?

Ultrasound 'accelerates healing of fractures' - The LIPUS device
http://www.andhranews.net/Technolog...sound-accelerates-healing-fractures-44855.asp
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By odd coincidence, my character breaks his tibia, and your link is about broken tibias. It's sci-fi; I don't need too much detail (although the more I think about it now, the more a mechanism forms in my mind) as it's YA, but thanks for that link.

David B said:
What about Osteoblaster which is Norwegian for Osteoblasts (the cells responsible for bone formation).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoblast
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D'oh! I got my blasts and my clasts mixed up. The clasts break down tissue, the blasts form it. Other languages, hmm....
 
Parallel universes?? Stop me when I start making this up: they're less than a millimetre away from us, but if two collide they cause a Big Bang. Um. So I'm assuming that the collision happens in a different dimension from the millimetre of space that separates us? And there are 11 dimensions?

Okay -- so if you accessed a parallel universe, would that = a collision and cause a Big Bang?
 
Really really quick one. You're standing on a balcony, really cold wind, and you release from your hand some pieces of a very fine film (like the stuff your bank pin number arrives covered in), crushed. Would they go up or down, or stay in the wind for a momnet? And would they be in sight for long enough to say two short sentences?
 
I would imagine much would depend upon the strength of the wind.

Not that I would ever condone littering, but this might necessitate an experiment. Take a tissue and throw it off/out. Just be sure to pick it up afterwards, if possible.

My thought would be that if the wind was cold, but not particularly strong, it might float downwards, and sideways, long enough for one short sentence. Two if very short.

It would probably also depend upon the height of the drop, wind direction, visibility (fog, dark) for how long it remained visible.
 
If you want to have it floating about for a few moments, I don't think it would be unbelievable. After all, paper can do funny things, even without the help of moving air.


I recall a fellow engineer sitting on a desk, his legs dangling, holding a piece of 80g** A4 paper in his right hand. With a single motion of this hand and lower arm, he casually flicked the piece of paper towards the desktop to his right. The paper followed a curved path, dipping behind him only to reappear on his left side before landing in his lap. I reckon the piece of paper had travelled almost a couple of metres in all, descending about thirty centimetres in the process.



** - 80g per square metre (i.e. 5g per A4 sheet), the only type of A4 paper we used in the office.
 
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