Unblinded Science, Period Six [5/24]

[after-17-years.livejournal.com]

Walter was feeling a bit testy. He had had a number of fascinating ideas for this week's class only to have them shot down on safety reason. Honestly, the parasite wasn't all that dangerous when Walter already had the treatment ready. It would have been educational for the students to see a very large example of why parasitism is so efficient that it evolves even in closed systems.

But no. No playing with parasites thanks to small-minded "safety" regulations.

Walter had decided to instead talk about one of his earlier role models.
Handouts
Nikola Tesla
The Tesla coil

If, by lecture, one could call a ramble filled with tangents a lecture, then Walter did indeed lecture on Nikola Tesla. If one did not call such a ramble a lecture, then there were always the handouts to turn his words into something more linearly comprehensible.

Choice excerpts of the ramble:

"What does it say about the man that he could not abide pearl earrings? Was it a high regard for oysters? Or a higher regard for women, not wanting to see them wearing the by-product of an oyster's indigestion on their ears?"

and

"Creating Tesla's particle weapon is not the snipe hunt that some scientists believe it to be. An open ended vacuum tube with a gas jet seal that allows particles to exit, a method of charging particles to millions of volts, and a method of creating and directing nondispersive particle streams through electrostatic repulsion is not just possible, but I posit that it has been created and is in use even now."

Soon after digressing on particle weapons, Walter seemed to realize that he had either lost his audience or perhaps just lost his track on what he was saying.

"But enough of that. You're doubtless getting impatient to get on to the hands on. I know I would be." And with that, he fumbled with the remote control until the projector screen behind him lit up to display a rather unusual performance of some music some students may have seen on TV commercials for a group of entrepreneurs based out of New York City.

The students' workstations were set up rather differently this week with four booths, each equipped with a pair of small tesla coils, a computer to control the coils, a record player, a keyboard, and last.fm streaming.

The assignment this week was to break into four groups of three or four and experiment with creating music with the coils. There are safety cut-outs in effect to avoid unfortunate accidents and Walter would stop in each workstation to check with the students regarding their progress.

[ooc: The performers are Arc Attack. Cool stuff if you're a geek like me. Hang on a sec for OCD.]

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Dana Scully

Lecture

[after-17-years.livejournal.com]

Did he just say that?

Re: Lecture

[icecoldfrost]

Every class period, Walter just reminded Emma more and more of Hank. Rather than even try to take notes, she just sat back and enjoyed the show.

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[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

Tim took detailed notes, though he stopped a few times to stare at what he'd just written. Did he actually say that?

He had half a bag of marshmallows sitting on his desk and munched from it throughout the lecture.

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[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

An oyster's indigestion?

Scully had to sit back and marvel at that, and occasionally wonder if anyone had seen Walter lecture before he was hired.

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[notmyownage]

Claudia totally wasn't trying to work out how to create the particle weapon in her head.

Totally.

She kinda dug the bit about the oysters.

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[mathletenomore.livejournal.com]

Lindsay knew this class was very strange, but at least it was much more interesting and less boring than the science classes at McKinley.

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[she-sheds.livejournal.com]

Trying to keep up with the instructor in this class during his rambling lectures was a challenge. Luckily, Joolushko enjoyed this sort of challenge. That didn't mean her head wasn't starting to hurt by the end though.

Make Music!

[after-17-years.livejournal.com]

Have fun?

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[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Scully was already starting to... no, not play. Experiment. With one set-up.

Joy. To the world. Allllll. The boys and girls. Now. Joy to the fishes in the deep blue seeeeea....

TA

[after-17-years.livejournal.com]

Hello, Peter.

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[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

Peter was there, and honestly was a little impressed with Walter's creativity again.

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[notmyownage]

"See, now you have me expecting him to tell us to microwave rats."

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[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"So little faith," Peter joked, shaking his head. "You have to admit, musical Tesla coils is pretty cool."

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[notmyownage]

"Definitely cool. So's the particle gun thing. How much you wanna bet someone around here knows how to make one?"

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[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

Peter thought about that for a moment. "Someone probably already owns one," he said. "I'll have to ask Jool about it, that's for certain."

Walter

[after-17-years.livejournal.com]

Questions? WTF? What are you on?

OOC

[after-17-years.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! No fail this week. I sure could use some pie now.

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[notmyownage]

Alas, I have no pie. And alas, I haven't yet done Claudia's canon catch up which may well involve her getting her hands on a steampunk stun gun known as a "Tesla". . . .