Criminal Justice, Friday, Period 1

[amthenight.livejournal.com]

"Today," Batman said, pausing for dramatic effect, "we're talking about dedicating yourself to vigilantism."

( Nananananananana Bat-lecture! )

Better Living Through Technology [First Period, Thurs]

[thefearwasreal]

Today Oz's students found themselves in a discotheque straight out of the eighties, complete with neon light decorations and a mirrorball, and an expectant looking audience.

They stood on a podium, with what may have been strange and unfamiliar technology in front of them, and stacks of cardboard boxes to either side.

"The digital music revolution may have been a godsend for portability and ease of access," Oz told them. "But you just can't beat the sound of vinyl, so your mission today is to entertain these fine people with a musical selection of your choosing."

Cultural Exploration [Friday, 2nd Period]

[so_hawkward]

When the students arrived at the Danger Shop, they'd find a typed note from Clint (because spell check was a wonderful thing, as was people being able to actually decipher the note):

Hey guys, Portalocity is overloaded today with people coming for the weekend so class is cancelled. Have fun at the carnival (avoid the dunk tanks nothing good is there) and don't do bad things at the dance.

--Clint Barton

He wasn't sure anyone would listen to that last part, and he didn't really care, but he figured it looked responsible and such.

How To Steal A Princess, Friday

[icebabytoocold.livejournal.com]

Yes, there was a homecoming carnival going on. One that was probably super fun and full of games you actually might want to play. So, of course this class wasn't cancelled.

Instead, there was a Twister mat in the middle of the room. Because you all should have just skipped to go to the carnival. Congrats to the people who did.

"I don't know where all of you were last week, but were learning something now," The Ice King said. Because fall break was for losers. Losers who got to go to Italy. "Or you could go to that lame carnival. I don't care. It looks boring with its fast rides and kissing booths and I wanna go so baaaaaad."

Yeah, that did devolve into sobbing. Sorry, kids.

"Why can't I do a kissing booth and meet all the hot babes?!"

Yeah, this could go on for a while.

"I'm cool. I'm the Ice King!"

Just... just escape while you can. That carnival really did look fun.

Space!, Friday

[not_a_whiner]

"Interstellar travel," Kaidan began, "Has long since been something that fascinates us. Uh, in my time, we've found a way around them, through the mass relays-- but before that happened, we spent a lot of time trying to figure out how it could work."

"The big problem is that space is big. Really big," he continued, wryly. He pointed at the holographic image of the galaxy behind him. "This is just our galaxy. It's over a hundred thousand lightyears in diameter. A lightyear is the distance light travels in a year, meaning six trillion miles. Try finding a car that can cover that distance in less than a few thousand human lifetimes. Hell, the star closest to us - Alpha Centauri - is still 4.2421 lightyears away from us. Think about that one for a minute."

"So we had to start looking at the question: how can we go fast enough to make the trip worth it?" he asked. "Turns out, that's another problem. If we hit lightspeed - which would still mean it'd take us over four thousand years just to get to the nearest star - we run into a couple of questions. The first problem physicists thought of has been proven to be untrue, but let's consider it anyway: time dilation. They thought that the closer we got to lightspeed, the more time would get compacted for the moving object. So... you go somewhere at light speed, it might be twenty days for you and a year for everybody outside of your vessel."

He shrugged. "Turns out the difference isn't as radical as we originally thought," he said, "But we didn't figure that one out until we figured out the second problem, which is how do we get a ship to go that fast to begin with? To reach those kinds of speeds, you need an incredible amount of energy, an amount we first thought was basically infinite just to get to the speed of light." He looked thoughtful. "Of course, in my time, we discovered element zero, which has certain qualities that help us bend laws that we used to think were absolute," he said. "But most of you - all of you, maybe - don't have that yet. So... let's conduct some research today. What's the fastest object that's been created in your time and universe? What theories do people have about being able to go faster that you think are feasible?"