The X-Project

Aw, no quarry?

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If you fall and break your neck, don't come running to me.

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Eh, I'm not desperate enough for something to blow up that I'd go out there in that much rain anyway.

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Everybody has to get their fair turn at going splat, sir. We don't allow hogging around here. It can be your turn again once it stops raining, promise.

And I just earned myself another essay, didn't I? :)

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We can retroactively blame today's essay on you and call it even, yeah?

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Hey, unless Kyle gets back to me, the only person I've thrown a basketball at lately is Doug. Who isn't telekinetic, nor does he assign essays. Pick your targets, is what I'm saying. ;)

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Hey, the basketball was in the name of science, and he had fair warning. It's not my fault he's unstable and reactionary.

Oh man, we're never getting out of History today, are we?

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He'll have to pee eventually. And isn't there some rule somewhere where if the teacher's gone for more than fifteen minutes, you can leave? I'm sure I heard that somewhere.

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Urban myth, Mr. Madrox.

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Worth a shot. :)

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Unstable and what?

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Clarification: I speak purely in terms of data collected, sir. Comparing a kinetic damping field effect (the "catch") with an impelling force generation (the "throw"), the spillover you mentioned seems to happen only when you're consciously directing the TK. Trust me, that's good news, at least from an engineering standpoint. Now if only I could find the darn diamond carbide chisel, I could facet these crystals properly. Do you know how difficult it is to cram the basics of gemcutting into your head in three days?

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Only consciously? Interesting...

You know, I might be able to give you a hand with the crystals. Crystals are one of Moira's favorite TK-training tools.

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That's likely because they resonate at specific frequencies, many of which fall along the psionic spectrum. Cut and arrange them right, and they can act like a sort of tuning fork - which is a really crude analogy but it's kind of the idea of what you drew. Which by the way is still giving me the heebie-jeebies, since I'm having to invent parts to MAKE the parts that haven't been invented yet. Thank god we have a sub-micron operating press in the shop.

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Okay, between the talk about focusing crystals and the artificial-hand icon, I kinda have to ask . . . are you building Nathan a lightsaber? Because the Star Wars geek in me wants to say he's supposed to build it himself.

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Oh god, don't even BEGIN to bring up those movies. Awful, horrible abominations. Worse than most science fiction, they don't even BEGIN to try and put any kind of science into it. I've seen fairy tales with more coherent internal logic to their worldbuilding and suspension of disbelief vis-a-vis universal physics.

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Not even going to begin to argue whether or not George Lucas is smoking crack, because as is clearly shown by the new movies he gets it delivered to his house by the truckload. But whatever their other failings, they have:

1. Han Solo.

2. Lightsabers.

3. Yoda.

And 4. Young Carrie Fisher in a skimpy bikini.

Crappy the science may be, but come on, there's plenty to enjoy. :)

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I guess podracers kind of lose their appeal when you can figure out nineteen ways that the blond toddler should have lost the race with obviously shoddy equipment and little to no idea of how to fly those things.

And why, with technology that can propel ships through space and create artificial gravity, do the fighters still have wings? There's no aerodynamics in space!

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Well, that's the new movies, and see above re truckloads of crack. Just about the only good thing about the new movies is they got actual fight choreographers to come in and handle the lightsaber fights, instead of "Old Creaky Man vs. Guy In Stiff-Jointed Rubber Suit."

The X-Wings do operate in atmosphere too, y'know. Although once you start talking atmosphere you have to start asking very pointed questions about the TIE fighters.

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My point exactly! The A-Wings are quite possibly the only logical inter/intra-atmospheric fighters, and so they give them NO movie time and hardly even any good missions in the video games!

I also refuse to believe in the superiority of any military force, Empire or Rebel, whose entire defensive strategy could be defeated by the invention of a BULLET.

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Aw, I love the A-Wing missions in the games. Zooming around faster than anydamnthing and tossing missiles up the butts of anything that gets in your way.

My favorite is when you buzz capital ships in those things. "Ahahaha, three million giant turbolaser batteries and you can't hit crap!"

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Heebie-jeebies for everyone... it's very creepy to know how it works yet not really know. The memories feel like mine at times and not, at others.

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What, you think I'm some kind of essay-assigning maniac over here?

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