Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160117163823/@comment-25396609-20160118171520

Shadow at Morning wrote:Penny. She's fine. Why are people thinking she's either dead or going to lose her memories? That's nonsensical. No sane design would put her processor/neural net in the abdomen, which was the only thing damaged (besides the arm). She's just in a coma, and can be rebuilt good as new. Being bisected can't kill her; her mind would have its own backup power source which'd last long enough to let her shut down safely.

Thank you, science man. It should be painfully obvious to anyone with basic knowledge of computers that at worst some of her secondary systems would be damaged and shut down. Like, say, her battery system, which would cause a temporary death-like state and at worst short term memory loss as anything in her buffer waiting to be written to the hard drive is lost.