View Single Post Old November 30 2012, 04:27 PM   #5 Re: How
could the "First Contact" Borg operate in space?  I don't see
why anything would need to boil and freeze. Surely the Borg
would simply modify the skin to be just a teeny weeny bit
tougher than ours is? It wouldn't take much, really: skin is
very good armor against most things, including exposure to
vacuum. All the Borg would need to worry about would be thermal
regulation with internal sources of heat and cold - plus keeping
their mouths shut and eyes covered, so that the vulnerable
mucous membranes and eyeballs would not face the vacuum. Some
sort of contact lenses would do the trick.  Timo Saloniemi Timo
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