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Applied Science - Thursday, Period 2

"Hello there!" The man was dressed in an open-collared white shirt and slacks. "I was meant to be here a few weeks ago, when your teacher had to leave, but my boat ride here was side tracked. That seems to happen to me a lot. I'm the Professor, and I'll be your substitute this week.

Applied science is a fine discipline. Science is a wonderful thing, and to apply it to real life situations is something I've found to be very handy over the years.

At the front here, you'll find all the supplies you would normally find on a small, deserted island. Coconuts, pieces of shipwreck, basic electrical supplies and natural materials. Consider yourselves stranded. Now use your knowledge of basic science, and your ingenuity, to build something that will help yourself and your fellow castaways during your island stay. I'm here if anyone needs any help."

[OOC: Feel free to mod the contents of the box, but keep it simple and as believeable as the supplies were on Gilligan's Island.]

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Shawn Farrell.

Zack Addy

Conner McKnight

hikaru hitachiin

Alphonse Elric

Z Delgado

Alex Krycek

Hermione Granger

Janet Frasier
OOC: I hadn't realized a sub had shown up for this class. Sorry!

It's quite impolite, but the Professor won't mind too much.

The supplies are all here. Have at it. Coconut telephone? Bamboo lie detector? Just don't fix the hole in the boat.

Shawn, not really having any grand ideas, just starts digging through the possible components in the hope that something there will give him a sudden spark of ingenuity.

"Having trouble thinking of something?"

Shawn shrugged and gave a half nod. "Yeah, but I'm sure something will come to me eventually," he said pulling out some string and trying to disentangle it from a piece of something resembling a telephone reciever.

Zack picked up a several coconuts, some copper tubing, wires and a few batteries.

And a notepad. He was going to have to work the math on this very carefully.

"What have you got going there, son?"

"An alternative power source," Zack replied, since he got the feeling that 'coconut fireworks' would be considered the wrong answer, as he carefully scraped the insides of a battery out and started mixing it with milk from the coconut.

"That's some ingenuity. You're a natural."

Since Conner was really not a scientist of any kind, in any way, he picked up some coconuts, tubing, and vines and ended up . . . well . . . with a coconut-shell bra.

That he so was not going to model.

Z glanced over at Conner's project and giggled. "Nice."

"Thanks," Conner said, his face as red as his shirt. "I'm not putting it on, though. It's not my size."

"Oh, come on," she teased. "How else are you gonna know if it works?"

The Professor grinned. "I know a few ladies who would appreciate your hard work, son."

Conner held the all-natural piece of lingerie at arm's length and squinted at it. "I know of a few I would appreciate it on, myself."

Hikaru pokes around inside the box, looking for supplies to make a little catapult. You know, to scare away the natives..

"How are you going there?"

Gee, there sure were a lot of coconuts in this box...

After some digging and some thinking, Z took some coconuts, bamboo, and wiring and started trying to build a ray gun. She wasn't Bridge, though, so it probably wouldnt' work.

"Well, that's an admirable effort. I never tried that."

There was something about this topic being familiar territory that made Alphonse sigh. Well, no matter, at least he had a head start. He began shifting through things, wondering where to start at. A better hut than last time was, oddly enough, taking priority over most things, even if he knew he should have been thinking out of the box.

"What have you got in mind?"

Alphonse looked up, temporarily distracted from his train of thought. "I think finding an electrical anything on a deserted island is kind of slim," he said. "I think, at the very least, a safe place to sleep and a way to capture or collect food is what you'd need most." He lifted up a piece of wooden... something, rather, it didn't seem useful in the least. "I guess coconuts help with the food bit, though."

"They do, but they're hardly a healthy, balanced diet. To be honest, I'll be happy never to eat a coconut ever again."

"No, they're not," Alphonse agreed, tugging at a rope with a hint of amusement on his face. "Lucky for us, they're not the only edible thing on most islands." He began twisting the rope in a certain way-- what he could of it, anyway, it was a bit small for what he was aiming for. "If there's wildlife, at least traps are incredibly easy to make." Satisfied with the rope, Alphonse set it aside, rolling a smallish coconut around the table with one finger. "I can't really think of anything mechanical you could build using natural materials, unless you're really lucky. Otherwise, trees and plants can be used for most things you'd need."

He's quite personable.

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip...

And why did I never think of this class for Shop?!

I don't know, but I'm sure it would have been fun!

*sings this to the tune of Amazing Grace, whee*

Nice version :D

I tried it the other way around once. My mother wasn't terribly amused. :/

Aww. I like the other way around too. I've done that one before.

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