meme #005 | science! ( carry the 2, changing its atomic isotoner into a radioactive spider )

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do science to it! ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ a meme → COMMENT WITH YOUR CHARACTER'S NAME & FANDOM. → PICK A CHARACTER YOU WANT TO TAG AND GO FOR IT. → THERE IS NO HARD AND FAST RULE ABOUT LEAVING YOUR COMMENT BLANK. THAT'S YOUR CALL, DON'T FEEL DISCOURAGED EITHER WAY. → PLAY NICE; NO WANK, FLAMES, OR GENERAL HUMBUGGERY. ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ the deal WHEN ONE PARTICLE OF UNOBTANIUM HAS A NUCLEAR REACTION WITH THE FLUX CAPACITOR... WELL, ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE! IN A HIGH SCHOOL CHEM LAB OR YOUR OWN PRIVATE R&D FLOOR ON A MONUMENT BUILT TO THE SKIES WITH YOUR NAME ON IT, IT'S TIME TO GET DOWN AND DIRTY, NERD STYLE. BRAINY IS THE NEW SEXY, SO TURN THAT BUNSEN BURNER ON. IT'S ABOUT TO GET HOT IN HERE. ① BIOLOGY | DISSECTIONS AREN'T FOR THE FAINT OF HEART -- OH HEY SPEAKING OF HEART, POKE THAT ONE WITH THE SHARP THING SOME MORE. ARE YOU CUTTING INTO AMPHIBIANS OR HAS THE CLASS SNAKE GOTTEN LOOSE? OR MAYBE YOU'D JUST LIKE TO USE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRY OUT THAT HUMAN ANATOMY LINE YOU'VE HAD AT THE READY SINCE THE FIRST DAY OF THE SEMESTER. ② CHEMISTRY | EVERYONE'S GOT IT -- IT MAKES US GO, AND IT CAN MAKE US GO TO OTHERS. HAS YOUR CONCOCTION GONE AWRY? WHO KNOWS WHAT KIND OF EFFECTS A COUPLE OF MISMATCHED ELEMENTS CAN HAVE! ARE YOU A BRILLIANT MIND ON THE NOBLE QUEST FOR A CURE, OR JUST SCREWING AROUND WITH YOUR NOVICE KNOWLEDGE? WILL YOUR ATTEMPTS FIZZLE AND DIE, OR COME BACK TO YOU WITH EXPLOSIVE RESULTS? ③ PHYSICS | ARGUABLY THE MOST HANDS-ON OF THE SCIENCES, IT'S TIME TO MAKE GRAVITY YOUR BITCH. CONSTRUCT THE CLEVEREST CONTRAPTION TO KEEP AN EGG INTACT FROM A TWO-STOREY DROP, OR, IF YOU'RE FEELING UP TO IT, TRY YOUR HAND AT CREATING A HIGGS-BOSON PARTICLE. (CAN'T BE THAT HARD, CAN IT?) CERTIFIED NONGENIUSES, HAVE NO FEAR, THE TIMEY-WIMEY TECHNOBABBLE IS HERE. REMEMBER, BULLSHIT PHYSICS IS YOUR FRIEND. IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY WIND UP IN ANOTHER DIMENSION WHILE TRYING TO GET TWO MAGNETS OF THE SAME POLARITY TO STICK TOGETHER, WELL, IT HAPPENS. ④ PSYCHOLOGY | THE SOCIAL EXPERIMENT EXCUSE WILL GET YOU OUT OF ANYTHING ON THE INTERNET, SO HAVE AT. AND ETHICS? WHO NEEDS THOSE. FREUD DIDN'T. ZIMBARDO GAVE NO FUCKS. AND WHAT ABOUT THAT MILGRAM GUY? HE SEEMED LEGIT. SO TAKE A SURVEY, PUT CONDITIONING TO SOME REAL WORLD USE ON AN UNSUSPECTING FRIEND, PLANT MEMORIES WITH HYPNOSIS, OR TAKE A LOOK DEEP INSIDE A ROARSCHACH BLOT AND SEE WHAT YOU CAN FIND OUT ABOUT YOURSELF. JUST BE CAREFUL, THIS COULD GET PERSONAL. ⑤ ANYTHING ELSE | THERE ARE MANY AREAS OF STUDY NOT COVERED HERE; DON'T FEEL RESTRICTED TO THESE FOUR OPTIONS. THEY'RE MERELY HERE AS INSPIRATION: GO FORTH AND STRETCH THE BOUNDARIES OF BELIEF HOWEVER YOU CAN. ASTRONOMY, GEOLOGY, ZOOLOGY. I'M ONLY A SCIENTIST IN DISCIPLINES THAT END IN Y. AND REMEMBER: INERTIA IS A PROPERTY OF MATTER.

Comments

[staysangry]

Fine, I'm watching.

[It's just about over, anyway. The evil red-light Hal-like robot thing is evil and no one was surprised.]

[fe_male]

[ Good. You do that. Watch the movie.

It's a cartoon though, stop analyzing it. Be surprised and enjoy yourself. ]

JARVIS, you wouldn't do something like that would you?

I would never dare to misappropriate Asimov's clear judgement on such matters.

Did I tell you to read that or just program it in when I wasn't looking? Actually, probably both. Nevermind. That little cleaning bot reminds me of one of the Roombas. Maybe Lucky.

[staysangry]

Maybe Pixar's a fan of your work.

[fe_male]

I think I'd be okay with that, actually. They wouldn't be the only ones.

[staysangry]

I'd just be interested as to why your cleaning robots were what they were most interested in replicating.

[He quiets down again for the end, and yes, okay. That was very emotional. You got him.]

[fe_male]

You say that as though anybody else has the capacity to replicate anything I've made more complicated than they are.

[ Although really at this point, they're not the most simple of creatures anymore. Even Tony stops playing for most of the end. It's a good movie okay.

Nudge. ] So?

[staysangry]

Animating isn't the same as replicating, Tony.

[Nudge back.]

It was good.

[fe_male]

Excuse you, they each have distinct personalities that require more than a passing understanding to distinguish.

[ No they don't. Well, sort of. They're a hivemind, mostly. Hard to distinguish, but there are some subtleties. ]

'It was good'? You are a terrible reviewer. Or possibly Times-worthy, it's hard to tell sometimes whether it's a year for beat poet type cool or if it's more of a be-angry-tell-everyone year.

[staysangry]

If that's genuinely a reviewing style I'm surprised The Other Guy hasn't been offered a job yet.

[fe_male]

To be fair, he does sort of blend both styles together - he might be a little too cutting edge for most people.

[staysangry]

I don't know if anyone's called him a beat poet before. I'll have to add that to the list.

[fe_male]

Really? It seems like such an obvious pun.

[staysangry]

I guess no one else is at your level of wit.

[fe_male]

Like we weren't already well aware of this, please.

[staysangry]

I did like it, though. Very... moving.

[fe_male]

[ squint.gif ]

Are you being Buddhist on me?

[staysangry]

Am I being what?

[fe_male]

Buddhist. I know you're familiar with the concept, don't try and intimate that you haven't seen the inner workings of a monastery before, okay, because you [ what is the correct and appropriate argument here ] must have. [ there we go ]

[staysangry]

I was more asking what that has to do with how much I liked the Pixar movie we just watched.

[fe_male]

It was a very 'middle of the road' kind of answer.

[staysangry]

Was I supposed to get more enthusiastic? I live in the middle of the road, Tony. Most of the time.

[fe_male]

You seriously don't get enthusiastic about anything?

[ how can you do that ]

[staysangry]

I never said anything about that. Just - not all of us wear all our emotions on our sleeves, Tony.

[fe_male]

[ Was that... cautionary? Or disparaging? Insulting? He can't actually tell. ]

It's not a bad thing.

[staysangry]

Not for you, it isn't. It's just not really... me.