Freefall 3: Death Ray Byproducts

[Radar]

Yeah, gotta agree with Gregor there. Blue Green Algae sounds like something you call a hazmat team for.

Indeed. It does sound like the thing Weird Al was singing about.

[lord_khaine]

And you don't think coming up with better methods is a sign of intelligence?

Sign of intelligence =/= More intelligent than Florence.

[PhantomFox]

Yeah, it's the classic book smarts vs Street smarts dynamic. Both are useful in their respective places.

[Fyraltari]

What's really impressive is that these run on Windows XP.

[memnarch]

What's really impressive is that these run on Windows XP.

That would be impressive, but I don't think Gregor is subject to that restriction as he decided to stay with Tess and not to go back.

[GeoffWatson]

Yeah, gotta agree with Gregor there. Blue Green Algae sounds like something you call a hazmat team for.

Blue Green Algae is nasty stuff.
https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/Env...ue-green-algae

[Rogar Demonblud]

Yay! Florence has survived the first phase of the interview!

[sihnfahl]

Blue Green Algae is nasty stuff.
https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/Env...ue-green-algae

Unless you genetically modify it to pump out essential amino acids instead of toxins.

Course, they've had longer to adapt to GMOs.

[Yuki Akuma]

Unless you genetically modify it to pump out essential amino acids instead of toxins.

Course, they've had longer to adapt to GMOs.

Their son is a GMO.

[Rockphed]

Their son is a GMO.

Their son is a very tall dwarf.

[Fyraltari]

Unless you genetically modify it to pump out essential amino acids instead of toxins.

Course, they've had longer to adapt to GMOs.

Hey now, the good thing with GMOs is that you don't have to adapt to them, you adapt them to you!

[Rogar Demonblud]

And again Gregor sounds like a man of wisdom. They're starting to remind me of a series from the 90's, where a hippie married a lawyer for...well, for plot.

[Radar]

And again Gregor sounds like a man of wisdom. They're starting to remind me of a series from the 90's, where a hippie married a lawyer for...well, for plot.

There were a lot of those quirky series and movies based around a single-sentence idea. And that sentence was often: "One's an X. One's a Y. Together, they Z" That's actually three sentences, but very short ones.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Cannell was an underappreciated genius.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Never thought about it before, but ThurMom really does have a resemblance to Himiko Toga from MHA.

[Rogar Demonblud]

*sniff*

Ah, smells like home.

[Rogar Demonblud]

I'm starting to see how these two make their marriage work despite being polar opposites. They play well off each other.

[Rockphed]

"Ask me in a decade, I shall know by then." Ah, the wisdom of Thurdad.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Winston is wise as well.

[Rogar Demonblud]

And Sam is continuing to scope out the situation. I wonder if he'll also bill the station for consulting on their security system.

[Fyraltari]

Getting dangerously meta, I see...

[Rogar Demonblud]

Okay, not a thing about space travel I'd ever considered before.

Also, Noooo, not the coffee!

[Fyraltari]

Wouldn't she feel the way the station is spinning when walking anyway?

[Rockphed]

Wouldn't she feel the way the station is spinning when walking anyway?

If I stuck in a rotating reference frame without coffee, would you be able to pour coffee unassisted?

[Willie the Duck]

Wouldn't she feel the way the station is spinning when walking anyway?

Just to reassure you that you got the physics right--realistically, yes. She would know which way it was spinning. This being her first-or-so day there, she might not get the 'how much do I need to correct for this' factor right and still spill, but this would not be a mistake she would likely make. Either Rockphed is right about groggy early morning mistake, or it's just because it's funnier this way.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Workplace orientation or hard work in vacuum with a noticeable risk of explosive decompression. Decisions, decisions.

[Fyraltari]

Native guides are like toothbrushes: get your own!

[Rogar Demonblud]

Well, at least Gregor isn't throwing a hissing fit over the new normal.

[Radar]

Well, at least Gregor isn't throwing a hissing fit over the new normal.

Nothing in his characterization indicated that he would. He is very reserved but does not say outright no to anything - he just wants to cautiously collect relevant data before making a decision. Above all else he respects Florence far more than his wife does.

[Rogar Demonblud]

I know, I'm just always surprised when a traditionalist doesn't have a dairy herd at things changing.