I’m becoming reminded of a scene in Terry Pratchett’s “Reaper Man” where Ridcully the Brown when asked about wizards pointed out the Dean as typical of them in having a sense of urgency inferior to that of a paperclip. Our friend in the sun glasses would probably fit right in at Unseen University. ^_^
Think fast! Science nitty-gritty!
Time running out, gotta save the city!
Good thing that we’re all so witty!
Put our heads together, forming a committee!
Alfven waves and turbulence in plasma,
Things emitting photons, Ruby really has ’em, ah!
What we’ve got is a bunch of nerds
Who don’t need dumb ol’ words!
This calls for an Experiment!
We need to find where Victor went!
Got a plan, and we got a good slogan!
Gotta get … some t-shirts as well!
We’re so nerdy
And so wordy,
Way too wordy
’Cause we’re nerdy …
W/out written should be (theoretically) easy – TRACE the power cables – OPEN every breaker you find. Keep going until you find the only thing powered (inside the last layers of breakers) and unplug it.
BTW – since most power plants (Oil, Gas, Nuclear) are self powering – you open enough breakers and they turn themselves off. Admittedly not always safely, but when
If it follows the same design as the SH model, is a pull module.
ARE power plants actually self-powering, though? One major factor in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was loss of power to the coolant water pumps, and in 2006 Forsmark in Sweden had an incident that if not for luck could have resulted in complete loss of cooling power as well (and they couldn’t blame it on a tsunami). Of course, it’s a lot trickier with nuclear plants as they keep generating heat even after they’re turned off.
Power plants could be self-powering – and it would certainly make a lot more sense than running power lines from the next nearest plant. But there has to be a backup power source of some kind (I would think a backup generator). What happens if the plant has to be shut down for any reason? They need to still have internal power for lights & equipment.
Why do I get the feeling by the time these guys agree on the team logo, G.O.D.O.T. will have used Victor to turn the entire train inside out, upside down, and going through six extra dimensions that it wasn’t really designed for?
Time for a montage of all the Sparks doing science while an upbeat, 80’s pop song plays in the background.
It occured to me that since the portable fusion generators have names (Beni, Victor and Luigi) they might turn out to be sentients eligible for help from Skinhorse. Maybe the one that Mustachio used just wasn’t in a talkative mood (or can’t talk).
What part of “without written words” did he not understand?
GODOT will change them into TEAM DOOFUS
I’m becoming reminded of a scene in Terry Pratchett’s “Reaper Man” where Ridcully the Brown when asked about wizards pointed out the Dean as typical of them in having a sense of urgency inferior to that of a paperclip. Our friend in the sun glasses would probably fit right in at Unseen University. ^_^
Baby, show me your photon emitters! Woo woo!
You mean “lights”, right?
Pshhh, that’s nothing. Here we’ve got photon emitters in every ROOM you know. Usually in the center of the ceiling… 🙂
Ninja-ed
Did she just ask her if she’s “got a light?”
Probably meant a l.a.s.e.r., but in mad science, that’s like a retoric question.
Incandescent, fluorescent, or room-temperature plasma? -_^
(Cute Halo avatar, btw!)
(TUNE: “Summer In The City”, The Lovin’ Spoonful)
Think fast! Science nitty-gritty!
Time running out, gotta save the city!
Good thing that we’re all so witty!
Put our heads together, forming a committee!
Alfven waves and turbulence in plasma,
Things emitting photons, Ruby really has ’em, ah!
What we’ve got is a bunch of nerds
Who don’t need dumb ol’ words!
This calls for an Experiment!
We need to find where Victor went!
Got a plan, and we got a good slogan!
Gotta get … some t-shirts as well!
We’re so nerdy
And so wordy,
Way too wordy
’Cause we’re nerdy …
A skin-horse t-shirt design competition revolving around nerditity:
Geek is Sheik
High I.Q. I Do
My other T-shirt is too smart for you
My Commodore 64 has 80 gigs of ram.
You know how they have those t-shirts that look like tuxedos, how but one that has an iron-on of a pocket protector.
“Geek is Sheik”
When did geek become the Arab honorific for “Elder”? I think that what you probably mean is “Geek is Chic”.
I laugh at your Commodore 64 with 80GB of RAM, and raise you a Sinclair ZX81 with a 24TB ZFS pool.
In the context of fetching a camera, would “photon emitters” mean flash bulbs?
We have one sweeeet photon emitter not far from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Photon_Source
W/out written should be (theoretically) easy – TRACE the power cables – OPEN every breaker you find. Keep going until you find the only thing powered (inside the last layers of breakers) and unplug it.
BTW – since most power plants (Oil, Gas, Nuclear) are self powering – you open enough breakers and they turn themselves off. Admittedly not always safely, but when
If it follows the same design as the SH model, is a pull module.
Just make sure you pull the breaker on the carnelian circuit before the ones on the magenta or burgundy circuits….
Detonation will end the operation of the unit, but I’m not sure that even the St. Charlie residents would call that turning itself off.
ARE power plants actually self-powering, though? One major factor in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was loss of power to the coolant water pumps, and in 2006 Forsmark in Sweden had an incident that if not for luck could have resulted in complete loss of cooling power as well (and they couldn’t blame it on a tsunami). Of course, it’s a lot trickier with nuclear plants as they keep generating heat even after they’re turned off.
Power plants could be self-powering – and it would certainly make a lot more sense than running power lines from the next nearest plant. But there has to be a backup power source of some kind (I would think a backup generator). What happens if the plant has to be shut down for any reason? They need to still have internal power for lights & equipment.
Why do I get the feeling by the time these guys agree on the team logo, G.O.D.O.T. will have used Victor to turn the entire train inside out, upside down, and going through six extra dimensions that it wasn’t really designed for?
Time for a montage of all the Sparks doing science while an upbeat, 80’s pop song plays in the background.
It occured to me that since the portable fusion generators have names (Beni, Victor and Luigi) they might turn out to be sentients eligible for help from Skinhorse. Maybe the one that Mustachio used just wasn’t in a talkative mood (or can’t talk).
WANT TSHIRT OF THAT!!!