Dr Stone

You gotta wonder if the petrification beam wasn't actually supposed to save people before the experiment got off the rails…

That's an interesting thought. And kudos for finding a (potential) way to save Tsukasa that still ties into the plot.

Actually I've always thought that's what the petrification was all about, although the village surviving from just after that time threw me off. I was expecting a giant solar flare or something.

I've got good news for you guys:

Dr. Stone will receive its anime adaptation following the WSJ's 51st issue's cover page. Not surprising but hyped for that. I just hope David animates this despite they are working for Fire Force.

Edited by ElfenLiedFan90 on Nov 14th 2018 at 9:26:26 PM

To the surprise of absolutely no one.

Now it's time for exploration.

Plus, Senku literally fridges Tsukasa.

Wait… Isn't freezing gonna kill him even faster?

Apparently they somehow created cryo-freeze like something out of a sci-fi.

So it doesn't hurt him.

Edited by slimcoder on Nov 16th 2018 at 11:09:06 AM

It did kill him. We now know that depetrification can even heal brain death, as long as the body is intact, so Senku froze him to keep him fresh until they figure out how to do it

Yeah thats why he said it won't work if it takes years, by time he would figure out petrification process he would be too dead to revive

Edited by SpookyMask on Nov 17th 2018 at 8:58:47 PM

Y'know what I really liked about this chapter, though? The way Senku has thought though practical uses for the petrification, like preserving food during travel. That's a great little illustration of the Scientific mindset right there.

New chapter:

Fuck yeah People power...

...except they would have all turned on each other in real life.

And now here's to hoping the next step isn't stumbling upon another native people and colonizing them. >.>

I wonder, if someone was in a completely enclosed space where light doesn't reach when the petrification beam struck, would they have survived it?

If they did, I doubt they would had lasted 4 millennia, or that they would be enough to start a civilization (then again 6 people was enough for a small village to live though that timeframe). I'm certain that the only people Senku and co would meet on their voyage would had also been petrified.

Nice to See Boichi still loves to draw his women Curvy. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I assume Homura collapsed the cave entirely. Do some of the landlubbers stay behind in Japan to try to catch her and/or look for another similar cave?

Also, the boat should have engines. We can't have a crew this dysfunctional out at sea for months getting Norovirus and scurvy.

PS: some interesting character development for Magma. He has his smartest and stupidest moment in the same chapter.

Edited by Sailor11sedna on Nov 26th 2018 at 2:05:32 AM

New chapter out and a new character introduced. I like him.

Gib me da spoiler for new chara pls

Ahahaha I love this guy.

Also we drilling for oil now.

Well… Good luck with that. ô.Ô I'd kinda like part of the story to be about finding new energy sources, but I guess they have to settle with the "dirty" ones for now…

Well, it's been a few centuries right?

Maybe the planet has had time to replenish itself without humanity sucking up all the oil...or whatever.

Its been around a thousand years.

So digging up a little oil won't hurt anyone especially since they can't do it on a mass scale anyway.

I think 3 thousands years is what it's been? That not enough time for a significant amount of new oil to be formed. That's more of a 'millions of years' kind of process.

But, like, they're hardly gonna be able to make a solar or nuclear powered engine that can do what they need.^note Well, actually, now that I say that, they might have an easier time finding the parts for a nuclear engine. But building one safely is probably beyond their current means. And they're certainly not going to invent an entirely new energy source. So fossil fuel is the only practical option here.

The question, of course, is 'how the heck are they gonna find oil when they're stuck on an island that didn't have huge oil stores in the first place'?

I'm assuming plate tectonics is also on a similar timescale to fossil fuel regeneration, so I doubt that they're currently close to currently known sources of oil deposits.

I wouldn't put it past Senku to build a nuclear reactor, but he'd have a hard time getting the fluorine needed to enrich uranium. Once they get to China, they could salvage nuclear weapons for fuel (the cores will still be intact, and that's the only thing they're concerned about). Even so, for all Senku's genius, he's still only a high school student. Nuclear engineering is a completely different monster than chemistry and material science.