Well, light is just electro-magnetic vibration… and springs are really good at vibrating… so I guess lotsa itty-bitty magnetized springs assembled just right… easy! Oh, and for the record, I’m totally sane. The voiced assured me I am, so it must be true.
Considering how free electron lasers work (the “undulator” that determines photon frequency is a huge stack of magnets basically) this isn’t entirely out of the realm of possibillity. The fact that something like the FEL exists otoh points to their being mad scientists IRL. The entire concept basically boils down to “lets whip electrons around in a cyclotron til they reach .99c then fire them between a set of alternating pole magnets in hopes the magnets manage to translate it’s kinetic energy to photonic by shaking the electron back and forth till a photon falls off it”
They might have been impressed if she’d thought to mention that. Forty-foot hologram? Meh. Forty-foot spring-powered hologram? I’d say that would deserve a golf clap at minimum.
You guys are missing the obvious, which is that she’s using late 60s-early 70s light show technology, which involved chemistry, physics AND bendy pieces of plastic, which could certainly double as springs. I’m not counting out mad science, either, since one of the light show outfits in southern California was made up of Caltech students.
Get a load of Wegner, believing things aren’t possible! Next he’ll say hamsters aren’t possible, or bicycles, or eight-thousand-year-old talking plesiosaurs!
They have learned to work with “mad.” Speaking of evil… the “heh heh” meme has spread: http://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2016/09/26
The holograph is SOMEHOW manufactured by springs. Which I do not concede is possible.
If it were possible, it wouldn’t take a mad scientist to do it.
Well, light is just electro-magnetic vibration… and springs are really good at vibrating… so I guess lotsa itty-bitty magnetized springs assembled just right… easy! Oh, and for the record, I’m totally sane. The voiced assured me I am, so it must be true.
Yeah, I figured something similar was behind her tractor beam.
Oh, everybody has voices in the head, don’t worry.
Considering how free electron lasers work (the “undulator” that determines photon frequency is a huge stack of magnets basically) this isn’t entirely out of the realm of possibillity. The fact that something like the FEL exists otoh points to their being mad scientists IRL. The entire concept basically boils down to “lets whip electrons around in a cyclotron til they reach .99c then fire them between a set of alternating pole magnets in hopes the magnets manage to translate it’s kinetic energy to photonic by shaking the electron back and forth till a photon falls off it”
They might have been impressed if she’d thought to mention that. Forty-foot hologram? Meh. Forty-foot spring-powered hologram? I’d say that would deserve a golf clap at minimum.
I think gears and rubberized friction are involved.
You guys are missing the obvious, which is that she’s using late 60s-early 70s light show technology, which involved chemistry, physics AND bendy pieces of plastic, which could certainly double as springs. I’m not counting out mad science, either, since one of the light show outfits in southern California was made up of Caltech students.
When you can make a teleporter out of coathangers, the world is at your wrench tip.
It is powered by springs. That doesn’t mean there isn’t other mechanisms involved (lenses, clear photos, and several light sources come to mind).
Given the opening KChunk, it must be based on 8-track technology.
Get a load of Wegner, believing things aren’t possible! Next he’ll say hamsters aren’t possible, or bicycles, or eight-thousand-year-old talking plesiosaurs!
Gotta hand it to Tip. Captain Beyond is wearing clothes that match very well with the outfit that the hologram of Tigerlilly has.
All according to tip’s plan
Lookin’ mighty Garnet there, Tigerlily.
That was my thought!
Her Fro isn’t square enough
Look, even Garnet herself can’t be Garnet *all* the time.
[SU spoilers in rot13] Shfvba wbxr!
It’s a sign of how jaded they’ve become from years of working in Annex One that they’re quite underwhelmed by Tigerlily’s 40 foot hologram…
Good thing she said “hologram.” ‘Cause if she’d grown herself to forty feet, she’d be quite a challenge, even for Tip.
50 feet, it’s obligatory.
True, but only for people that subscribe to the Man’s ideas of dramatic size scaling tropes, as I imagine Tigerlily would put it.
Are you saying that she’d limit herself to *less* than the man?
Well, he’d probably feel like a prick doing it…
One I’m sure he’d be happy to take on.
Hell yeah, I’m basking!