Popular Science | Thursday, 3rd period

[what_the_shock]

Okay, so Miguel had spent yesterday at the onsen, reviewed the "class materials" he had, and been inspired.

"There are a lot of films about time machines," he started. "And we're not even counting whatever it is Portalocity does, just normal, travels-through-time-in-the-same-timeline stuff. There's also a lot of different ways to make one. So, here. I'll show you two different movie clips, and you can decide which one you want to go for. Use Victorian electronics, or a hot tub. Then we can discuss which one is more unlikely."

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Re: Class Activity!

[white_oleander]

...if this worked, Astrid wouldn't hesitate to go back to a time before her mom killed a guy, and then none of this would have happened, she'd have never been sent here, and then everything could go back to the way they were.

...but of course it wasn't going to work, because Astrid had no idea what she was doing and was just pretending to be trying just to get through to the end of class. But in the off-chance that her rather stylistic and now clearly just putting things together for aesthetic and artistic appeal attempts at a Victorian-style time machine actually did lead to something...that would be...shocking, but she'd take it in a heartbeat.

If anything, though, you can bet her time machine looked cool as hell.

Re: Class Activity!

[what_the_shock]

"Nice," Miguel said. "Any actual working parts in there?" Did he expect there to be? Did he sound like he cared? No. Science didn't work that way. It still looked cool.

Re: Class Activity!

[white_oleander]

"I gave it a pinwheel," said Astrid, who pushed said pinwheel and sent it spinning for a few seconds, and she shrugged. "I think if I were to paint a spiral on it, that would be the key to actually making it work."

Hey. Give her some credit, that made just about as much sense as the hot tub.

Re: Class Activity!

[what_the_shock]

"Definitely," Miguel agreed. "Though you'd have to spin it the opposite way to go into the past."

It still made more sense than the hot tub.

Re: Class Activity!

[white_oleander]

"Oh, right," said Astrid, stopping the pinwheel, giving it a half-hearted push in the other direction. "My bad. Well, I guess that's why you're the teacher."

Re: Class Activity!

[what_the_shock]

"Yeah, I know all kinds of good science," Miguel said. "That's definitely why I'm here."