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Unblinded Science, Period Six [5/24]
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:
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.]
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."
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.
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