Discovery & Invention, Period 5, 16 Jan '08

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The Danger Shop appeared to be set up as a normal classroom, bits and pieces of technical equipment lying around. It was only on looking up that would show any difference - an almost pitch black space, scattered with stars.

"We are all insignificant." Mohinder looked enthused at the idea, as he continued, "Occupying only a little space and time on a minor planet, under an ordinary star which is itself one among many, in one of innumerable galaxies. On such a scale our actions are unimportant." He paused, "Though I doubt that will work as an excuse for a missed class."

"But five hundred years ago the most common view was of an earth-centric universe." Mohinder briefly covered the leading figures, behind that change of thought. He picked up a handheld telescope from the desk at the front of the classroom. "The invention of the telescope finally meant there was the opportunity to back their claims with evidence."

"There are, in front of you, all you need to build a refractive or reflective telescopes. Pair up, and take a closer look at the stars." Mohinder pointed up.

[OCD is up]

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Sign In #2

[offthelisthero.livejournal.com]

Collapsibly.

Re: Sign In #2

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Coraline Jones

During the Lecture #2

[offthelisthero.livejournal.com]

Listen, notes, throwing of paper airplanes.

Re: During the Lecture #2

[advicefrommice.livejournal.com]

Coraline listened closely, though her notes were part notes, part doodles, and part random meaningless squiggles.

She couldn't help but feel disappointed in Galileo for recanting his idea, though she decided she was quite fond of the word heliocentric.

In large letters in the centre of a clean page, she wrote HELIOCENTRIC, then drew a little sun spinning around it.

"And yet it moves," Coraline said under her breath. She liked that, too.

Re: During the Lecture #2

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

See, this was the kind of class that Mac could get into.

She was definitely with the notes-taking.

Re: During the Lecture #2

[my-names-max.livejournal.com]

Max was taking notes.

Re: During the Lecture #2

[wanna-be-lucas.livejournal.com]

Lucas had a blue retractable pen. He was clicking it in patterns.

*clicky click*

He was considering the noise it made and what kind of story he could write about people who clicked pens.

Re: During the Lecture #2

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

Naomi took detailed notes.

Re: During the Lecture #2

[smartestone]

Hermione took notes, barely managing not to shush anyone who might be talking, or say, clicking pens, though she did glare a few times.

Re: During the Lecture #2

[keds-champion.livejournal.com]

Pam took a lot of notes, carefully tuning out any talking or irritating pen-clicking that might be going on.

It's entirely possible that her margins had a few little portraits of people in the class, too. Maybe a couple of the teacher. He really was awfully pretty.

Re: During the Lecture #2

[practicaldevice.livejournal.com]

Anathema took careful notes and considered breaking the clicky pen.

Re: During the Lecture #2

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka took lots and lots of very detailed notes. Still, something wasn't sitting right with him.

"Uh... The universe is really, really big. I get that. REALLY big. But, uh... I'm not sure why you think that means we're unimportant. 'Cause... I think we are, you know? Everything's important."

Re: During the Lecture #2

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

Rodney took detailed notes on the lecture while he daydreamed about throwing something at the annoying kid with the pen. He was good at multitasking like that.

Re: During the Lecture #2

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

As he took notes, Peter was keeping a running tally of pen clicks that he heard. Somebody would think of something good to do with those statistics later on.

Experiment #2

[offthelisthero.livejournal.com]

There are all the things you need to make your telecopes, as well as handwavey instructions. Also spectrometers and cameras set up for the night sky above your heads.

Re: Experiment #2

[advicefrommice.livejournal.com]

Coraline considered the options, then chose the instructions (http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/informal/features/F_Build_a_Telescope.html) for a refractive telescope, and everything she'd need to make it.

The lenses were a bit fingerprinty, so she was carefully cleaning them on the edge of her shirt.

Re: Experiment #2

[my-names-max.livejournal.com]

Max was pretty good with machines.

She decided to build a reflective telescope, gathered all the materials she needed and set to work.

Re: Experiment #2

[smartestone]

While not exactly great at building things, this really couldn't be that hard, right? And there were instructions, and it wasn't possible to misread instructions at all.

Re: Experiment #2

[practicaldevice.livejournal.com]

Anathema got everything she would need and started putting it all together. The scary part was that she had already built a telescope before.

Re: Experiment #2

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka read through the instructions, and took notes on them, and fiddled with all the parts, deducing a few principles of optics as he went along. Then he "borrowed" materiel off other people's desks and cobbled together a three-foot-long monstrosity that showed, at 1000x magnitude, a piece of dust that had gotten caught somewhere in the middle.

Re: Experiment #2

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

Since they'd just heard about Galileo, Rodney decided to build a refractive telescope. He assembled his quickly and was soon examining the image of the sky above him. One of these days, he was going to have to take this room apart and see what made it tick.

Re: Experiment #2

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

Naomi got what she needed and started building her telescope.

Talk to the TA #2

[offthelisthero.livejournal.com]

When she's here.

Re: Talk to the TA #2

[my-names-max.livejournal.com]

Max still wasn't sure what exactly her duties were, but she was around if anyone needed anything.

Talk to Mohinder #2

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He's around after class.

Re: Talk to Mohinder #2

[practicaldevice.livejournal.com]

Anathema stopped by afterwards.

OOC #2

[offthelisthero.livejournal.com]

So why'd you wanna go and put stars in their eyes?