Problem Solving through Science! | Tuesday, 3rd period

[what_the_shock]

When the students stepped into the Danger Shop today, it was less of a shop and more of a...farm? Fields of wheat on the edge of an ocean. Work with him.

Miguel greeted them in his usual sunglasses, but also a hat this time, because it was really sunny out. (It was a baseball cap. It said "Richmond Spiders". Somewhere, Morph thought he was hysterical.) "Welcome to the sort-of-outside. Each of you gets one section of farm." He waved vaguely at the sections they were in. "Water your crops. In such a way that they won't die. Figure out how to get that water any way you like. As usual, use the shop to give you any equipment you want, but you can't just reprogram it to rain." Because he knew some of you would absolutely try that, yes.

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[what_the_shock]

Water your crops! Find the water any way you can.

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[white_oleander]

And it also helped that this was a fairly easy problem for Astrid to tackle right now, nothing too complicated or new for her to get frustrated at. The problem was clearly that the saltwater available wasn't good for the plants, but it was easy enough to seperate salt from water by boiling it and distilling, even she knew that.

So she soon had a large burner, a large pot, a large glass, and a lid. Set the glass in the pot, fill the pot with just enough water from the ocean, set it on the burner, turn the lid over upside down so the condesation from the boiling water dripped down the slope of the lid to gather in the cup, and, ta-da, the salt was left behind, she had some water to give to her crops, and she'd actually done a Science.

Thank you, vague recollections of doing something like this in grade school and a faint memory of one of her mother's boyfriends being big on teaching her little survivalist tidbits as they travelled up and down the coasts.

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[what_the_shock]

"Nice one!" Miguel grinned at her. "Those crops'll be great."