According to what my dad once told me about his childhood in Chicago, the bigger and less likely to warm up the item you get stuck to is, the harder it is to get unstuck. Apparently big metal sign-posts were a VERY bad idea to lick (though why he wanted to do it in the first place is a puzzle to me anyway. Eeew.)
I may have set a record by trying to lick a 300 gal. propane tank.
The choice was either to use a raw flame to heat up the tank or peel the skin off my tongue.
My tongue lost.
Well, it’s an AG-I operation on a ship in the employ of AG-I. Skin Horse isn’t supposed to be involved. Sweetheart just can’t resist. She has that whole ‘control freak’ thing going on.
Tip is most likely trying to get it on with crew members who are not so concerned with the emergency while UNITY is wandering around – waiting to stumble on some deeply hidden secret that is somehow stranger than all we’ve seen so far!
I wonder if this story is going to include Jonah tuning a nuclear reactor by hand. Just seems like the sort of thing he’d do. (Alternatively: missing Nora at the opera, stealing from someone sleeping in grasslands, riding a giant bird, that sort of thing.)
yeah that seems about right.
“Exceptional” can have more than one meaning. Shelby is not using the obvious one.
Why don’t they switch over to inebriac?
It seems they already have.
Punch drunk, anyhow…
I do believe that Robert Nowall was the one who called it on Jonah getting recruited by AG-I.
They turned him down when he applied, though.
Well, there doesn’t seem to be an intelligence test. Or maybe a “don’t do anything stupid” test…
He may not have had his “super power” when he applied.
No, he applied because he had a superpower. Why else would he apply to an organisation for humans with superpowers?
He’s a teenager.
Did I miss something? When did Jonah ever apply to AG-I? Unity applied and got turned down, but I don’t remember Jonah ever applying.
I think it might have been in a prose story?
I hope someone can give me more to go on than that. I like reading side stories.
Oh, “ithe” = “ice”. I don’t want to admit how much time I spent trying to figure that out.
Don’t feel bad about it, it was for the greater good – you spared me at least half that much of doing the same…
I did basically that at age 8 or so. OTOH I was 8, not 18. I hope Bubbles has some hot water handy.
According to Mythbusters, the heat from your tongue melts it pretty quickly by itself.
Assuming I’m remembering the episode correctly.
That depends on a few things, actually. Like the heat conductivity and size of the object you get stuck to as well as the ambient temperature.
According to what my dad once told me about his childhood in Chicago, the bigger and less likely to warm up the item you get stuck to is, the harder it is to get unstuck. Apparently big metal sign-posts were a VERY bad idea to lick (though why he wanted to do it in the first place is a puzzle to me anyway. Eeew.)
I may have set a record by trying to lick a 300 gal. propane tank.
The choice was either to use a raw flame to heat up the tank or peel the skin off my tongue.
My tongue lost.
Not when the ice you were licking is on a metal fence post, in my case. Or, presumably, a pykrete aircraft carrier.
I wondered when someone from the Skin Horse crew was going to get involved. Where in the world are Tip and Unity?
Well, it’s an AG-I operation on a ship in the employ of AG-I. Skin Horse isn’t supposed to be involved. Sweetheart just can’t resist. She has that whole ‘control freak’ thing going on.
Point.
Tip is most likely trying to get it on with crew members who are not so concerned with the emergency while UNITY is wandering around – waiting to stumble on some deeply hidden secret that is somehow stranger than all we’ve seen so far!
My guess is Tip is trying to upgrade to a more stylish parka (or accessorize) while Unity is making snow cones out of the Habbakuk’s hull.
He should have seen that coming. (badum-tish)
Quick, Tip, grab the therapy puppets!
Well, Jonah Yu, ice wouldn’t work if it wasn’t cold.
Hey, Jonah, did you know ice-cold flagpoles taste just like peppermint?
I was gonna say that they taste like bacon.
It’s anvils that taste like bacon. But give me a nice chocolaty bulldozer!
I wonder if this story is going to include Jonah tuning a nuclear reactor by hand. Just seems like the sort of thing he’d do. (Alternatively: missing Nora at the opera, stealing from someone sleeping in grasslands, riding a giant bird, that sort of thing.)