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001 | video | blinding people with science.
[ you know what this network needs, denizens of the uss creepy spaceship? 100% more hipsters.
LUCKILY, chapel is here to provide. everyone please mock his cardigan—or listen to what he's got to say. either/or, really. ]
Hey, fellow space kidnappees. If anybody else is interested, I've been organizing all the scientific books I can find—well, I say book; they're more like little holographic USB sticks—and putting them in one place. A lot of 'em are pretty kiddie, but there are some college-level textbooks scattered around, too. Nobody's going to be teaching themselves doctorate-level physics off this library or anything, but there's enough here to kinda get caught up on hundreds of years of scientific development.
There's really only one rule: if you take something, bring it back—and when you bring it back, put it back where you got it. I'm not actually a librarian, and I really don't wanna have to organize all this more than once.
And I think when you close the books, they default to opening on the page they were open to last rather than at the beginning, so be kind and rewind. That's more of a guideline than an actual rule, but you should really do it anyway.
Anyway, that's about it. It's in the 25th floor rec room, right off the green lift. Can't miss it.
[ ooc: also open to action tags/moving into a log if people want. :|b
UPDATE 5/11: tags will probably be a little slow and/or nonexistent until monday. sorry, guys. :c ]
LUCKILY, chapel is here to provide. everyone please mock his cardigan—or listen to what he's got to say. either/or, really. ]
Hey, fellow space kidnappees. If anybody else is interested, I've been organizing all the scientific books I can find—well, I say book; they're more like little holographic USB sticks—and putting them in one place. A lot of 'em are pretty kiddie, but there are some college-level textbooks scattered around, too. Nobody's going to be teaching themselves doctorate-level physics off this library or anything, but there's enough here to kinda get caught up on hundreds of years of scientific development.
There's really only one rule: if you take something, bring it back—and when you bring it back, put it back where you got it. I'm not actually a librarian, and I really don't wanna have to organize all this more than once.
And I think when you close the books, they default to opening on the page they were open to last rather than at the beginning, so be kind and rewind. That's more of a guideline than an actual rule, but you should really do it anyway.
Anyway, that's about it. It's in the 25th floor rec room, right off the green lift. Can't miss it.
[ ooc: also open to action tags/moving into a log if people want. :|b
UPDATE 5/11: tags will probably be a little slow and/or nonexistent until monday. sorry, guys. :c ]
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2: that's what i was really looking for, but i haven't found anything yet. unless you count the picture books about the solar system, which i... don't.
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But are we even certain that this ship's actually traveling through space?
I've heard that the initial crew's disappeared, save for the captain and commander. Other than their word, and not to say that they're necessarily dubious or otherwise untrustworthy, is there anything else we can actually go by?
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This is going to sound silly, but. Is there anything about the gravity couches in those? Like maybe some kinda clues as to how we can make the jumps less ..gross? I would be useless in actually trying to help with this, but I thought I would bring it up. Maybe if any of you science whizzes get bored, you can invent a new jump process.
[ maybe one with less goo left in their ears after. :D! big smiles! ]
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That was actually kinda why I started looking through the books they've got onboard. I haven't found anything yet, but if I do? Trying to make the jumps less awful is on top of the list of things to do—or to propose to people who can do, at least. Wormhole physics isn't exactly my area of expertise, but I can at least point the engineers in the right direction.
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Good thinking.[ text ]
i've been known to have some good ideas occasionally.
hey, quick question: you wouldn't happen to know where the books on wormhole physics are, would you? [ THIS IS TOTALLY NOT A SUSPICIOUS QUESTION no ma'am it is not ]
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You're in a much better position to answer that question than I am.[ wow, you suck at subtlety. ]
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i haven't found any yet. seems a little odd on this ship.
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i am not calling him "megamind"says the engine shouldn't work. obviously it does, but i'd rather not just take his word for it about the math being wrong.or you could just call it professional curiosity. either/or.
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I couldn't tell you about the math. If the computers were up, our jobs would be much easier.[ no way in hell is she trying to figure that shit out longhand. ]I can't explain most of the things that have happened on this ship. You're not the only one looking for answers. When I find them, I'll tell you.
Many of the ship's books aren't located on portable drives. That might be your problem.
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no, really, this is more professional curiosity than anything. i'm a physicist, and you have an engine that generates closeable singularities. i just want to know how it works. answers are kind of a secondary bonus.
really? where are they?
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I might be an engineer, but monitoring the jump drive wasn't in my primary job description. It utilizes the kind of physics that we had actual physicists onboard for.[ sorry. but not really. ]Along with the blueprints and other buried data.[ text | private ]
huh. is it normal to have physicists on your engineering team?
and by "buried" i'm assuming you mean "lost".
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It is when there's a jump drive involved.[ don't think she can't hear your sass, even if it is text. she knows the basic theory, but that's what it is: b a s i c . slow your roll. ]No, I mean buried. Once it becomes absolutely clear the data was deleted off of this ship's systems, I'll agree, but I don't think it's gone. I just think it's beyond our current reach.[ text | private | those keywords are weirdly ironic given this thread... ]
YOU'RE NOT HIS REAL MOM.]okay, amending "lost" to "inconveniently missing". that's a lot of missing, though.
ps: off-topic, but how much do you know about what's in the number tattoos? i'm assuming they're nanites, but i could also be completely wrong.
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So she heads for it, fluttering out of the lift as a blue jay and heading for the nearest perch, looking around with little bobs of her head. ]
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not that he minds, exactly, since he's pretty sure the only animals on board so far are space-bees and those giant wolves, but the sudden flash of blue in the corner of his eye is enough to get him to glance up from his current holobook and hook a thumb towards the door. ]
You know, I think the oxygen garden's the other way.
[ chapel is... also one of those people who talks to animals and babies like they know exactly what he's saying to them. ]
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Of course, Jaye's not planning on staying at her current perch. There's no sign of her brother, so she flutters over to some of those "little holographic USB sticks". There's a moment of more headbobbing before one is plucked in between her beak and she's back in the air. ]
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[ No, she likes science. And she's already planning to read as many of them as she can. ]
Your organization is appreciated, sir.
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I'm not sure I'd really call it organization—and I'm definitely not a 'sir'. Just Chapel's fine.
You know what you're interested in... reading about? [ help. how do talk to children. ]
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Finally, someone's made themself useful. Well done!
[Here comes the tricky part; sacrificing his abundant pride as an engineer in order to understand the workings of the world sans fonons. It doesn't matter how prodigious he once was if it all works differently on a fundamental level.]
I don't suppose there's any basic information about electricity and the like?
I'm, ah, feeling generous, and thought I'd look over it to ensure its accuracy.
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I didn't look for electricity, specifically, but there ought to be. If there's not anything just on electricity, there'll be stuff in basic textbooks, and I don't think anyone's going to mind if you write in the margins of those.
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...For the rare opportunity to earn my gratitude!
[For your trouble you get out of place devious laughter, and a statement Dist doesn't even realize is terribly convoluted.]
I'll set to work straightaway, then. Thank you for being a good boy and cooperating.
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I'm on my way.
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Hello! So, what do you have in store?
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the filing system right now is pretty much putting things into four categories: biology, chemistry, physics, and pretty much everything else. [ except for physics, which may or may not be sorted into condensed-matter, atomic/molecular/optical, particle physics, astrophysics, and bio-geophysics.
chapel just has a lot of feelings about physics, okay. ]
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Can I loan Chemistry?
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[ Yes, Chapel. He means all of it. You mentioned giving you a heads up and he'll put it in it's proper place eventually. ]
[ Sherlock has a lot of chemistry feels. Come join the Sherlock+Spock science dates, Chapel. ]