TWENTY ONE ✖ VOICE

[wedonot]

[Private to Tony, backdated to the end of the flood]

I'm afraid I'm going to need my wheelchair back, Mr. Stark.

[Private to Morgana, present dated]

Are you alright?

[Private to Erik, present dated]

I'd like to speak with you, please. [He doesn't sound angry or disappointed or too depressed, really, he just wants to talk to you re: his encounter with Wanda during dat flood. :|]

[Public, present dated]

[Charles has holed himself up in his room with a couple books for a while, because man, that flood was intense and he needs a break from everyone. :| But he's had some time to wind down and feels like saying something, so, good afternoon, everyone.] I've always enjoyed watching people try to put science in perspective to things that are a bit easier for most people to wrap their mind around. It grounds it, and does make it a bit more approachable for those with only a casual interest in the subject.

Because while I could bore you all for hours with scientific jargon, it never hurts to have a few interesting factoids on hand to catch people's interest instead of just letting them drift off to sleep in the back of the classroom wishing they were still enjoying their lunch period.

For example, while there are differences in the total number of cells in a human body, the number should be around 100,000 billion, and if the entire DNA from all nuclei in the human body were to be arranged lengthwise, it would measure around 180,000 million kilometers. The DNA length would thus be a thousand times greater than the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

It's interesting to think about, that within each of us, there's something that - in theory, obviously - could stretch that far. [He's quiet for a moment, almost a little distracted or maybe considering switching off the feed before continuing.] If anyone has some interesting facts they'd be in the mood for sharing about their own world, I'd appreciate it. It doesn't have to be about science if there's something they'd rather discuss.

Comments

[youwillgotohell]

[DOES IT MATTER, SCREW YOU, YOU SUCK LEAVE ME ALONE >(]

Fine. [Go away. :c]

[Private]

[wedonot]

[No, sorry. :v]

I spoke with Arthur. He's agreed to avoid the dining hall as long as you're working there.

[Private]

[youwillgotohell]

Maybe if I work often enough, he'll starve.

[Private]

[wedonot]

[Charles sighs, and really just sounds. Tired. :|] Morgana, how is that going to help anything?

[Private]

[youwillgotohell]

It will make me feel better.

Voice

[knowsaboutanger]

Oh, oh! Did you know a single human would take around 50 years to write up the entire human genome if they typed 60 words a minute during 8 hours a day?

[DID SOMEONE ASK FOR A SCIENCE NERD]

Voice

[wedonot]

[Charles chuckles a little.] I did, actually. Are you a geneticist as well?

Voice

[knowsaboutanger]

Not really, just a science lover. But my father specialized in it- kind of.

Voice

[wedonot]

Kind of?

[trenchcoatedly]

To my understanding, many of the different words represented on the barge are similar.

[wedonot]

And a great number of them are very different in very key ways.

[trenchcoatedly]

In my universe, the supernatural exists.

[wedonot]

I would say that's a fairly major difference from my world.

[Private]

[wecanavenge]

[Dat emotional fucking flood, you mean? Good god. :|]

What is it?

[Private]

[wedonot]

[There's like five seconds where he almost asks if he can come over, but considering how that went down the other day... space sounds good. :v]

Have you spoken with Wanda recently?

[Private]

[wecanavenge]

[Space is super good. But Erik is not pussyfooting around this issue.] Why?

[Private]

[wedonot]

Because I ran into her during the flood, and apparently she's calmed down and remembered we're not the people she knows.

[He's quiet for a moment, not really sure if he wants to confide in Erik or not.] She made me promise not to treat my students the way I treated her.

[Do you hear that disgust for other!Charles? Because this Charles is pretty fucking disgusted that anyone would ever have to ask him something like that when not hurting the children you're trying to look after should be a given. :|]

[Private/Backdated]

[aggravating]

Figured. [He's sounding and looking just a little out of breath, a little pale and shaken, a slight sheen of sweat clinging to his skin - given what happened to Charles at the beginning of the flood, he'd kind of been expecting to suddenly go into cardiac arrest as the hole in his chest reappeared.]

Gotta say, I'm gonna miss flying.

[Private/Backdated]

[wedonot]

You'll have plenty of opportunity, under better circumstances, I'm sure. [What with your suit and everything, which you will be getting back at some point once Charles is sure you're not going to drunkenly fly it around on board and beat up Steve.]

Are you alright? [Please have kept the arc reactor on hand for when the flood ended. :c]

[Private/Backdated]

[aggravating]

I dunno, this chair is pretty kick-ass, now. Handles almost as well as the suit.

[That is an extremely reasonable worry, Charles, and one that Tony has been known to live up to so, uh. Yeah. Best to keep him out of the suit for a while yet.]

Peachy. [But he's reaching up to tug at his t-shirt, pulling the material taut so the light of the arc reactor can shine through] You know, other than having a hole blasted into my chest again. But I'm used to cardiac arrest at this point.

[He's making his way out of his room, now, at least. You don't have to ask him twice, don't worry.

Even he's not that much of an asshole.]

[Private/Backdated]

[wedonot]

I'm not sure that's something you want to be used to. [He says it very, very dryly, because it's not really something to be joking about, and he's not really in the mood to joke, but he's sort of forcing the humor anyway because otherwise he's just going to sound miserable.]

I'm on the fifth floor, in the common room. [And he'd had to drag himself up onto a couch so he wasn't just sitting there on the floor and ahaha fuck this fucking flood. He can't let himself think about it for too long, and instead just keeps talking, wanting something else to focus on. And he really is curious, because he knows Tony's got enough crazy genius to come up with something fun with the wheelchair in the time he had it.]

What did you do with the chair?

[strangehistorian]

Mature elven druids can sometimes grow a full set of antlers!

I am not sure if that is science or magic...

[wedonot]

Sometimes? That seems like it might be a combination of both.

[strangehistorian]

It's seen as a sign of great destiny!

Druids fall under the Awakened's domain, not ours, so I don't know much more than that. But it's an interesting fact!

[wedonot]

What is the Awakened?