Happy New Theft

[Imp. Severn Felix]

Salt "molecule?" Can we really rely on this Crewman Kleitzer?

[TemporalParadox]

What's the problem? Na+Cl. It's a molecule.

[Jaster]

Chemistry fiiiiiiiiiight!

[djublonskopf]

Salt is a gas.

[Stephen Brooks]

Surely he's supposed to just say "FIRST POST!!1!¬LOL" on his first post?

I remember learning in chemistry that some covalently-bonded crystals and a few other things like glass often count as one enormous molecule. So he'd pick up a large flask and say "This is a molecule."

[Kris Straub]

The nanotech storage platform has three armatures that use gradiated nano-laser-contained diatomic sodium chloride molecules emitted from the terminal cradle matrices. The higher energy state is required as otherwise you'd be cradling the nanotech tube with table salt, which is ridiculous!!!

[Stephen Brooks]

I never saw anything wrong with it actually. Scientists will call a bunch of atoms stuck together a "molecule" even if it's strictly an "ionic compound". Just like they refer to the "moons of Jupiter" when I think they are technically "satellites".

Also when I saw salt I was thinking of forensics. When a sticky lifeform touches a surface they'll leave behind a residue, including oils and salts. The elemental abundancies in the salt could tell you a thing or two (though not as much as any cells or DNA left behind).

[Him.]

Its not discrete particles, it is waveforms. Trust your instincts, you know them to be true thirteen times in twenty-five.

Now, back to the Holographic Noir . . . .

[KingAndy]

Well you know our world may be a giant hologram. I read it on the internet so it must be true.

[SheanaM]

Man, Cutter's eyepatch slowly peeling off his face looks like it hurts.

[Jaster]

Man, Cutter's eyepatch slowly peeling off his face looks like it hurts.

Yeah, I kind of thought that thing was metal.

[Stephen Brooks]

Well you know our world may be a giant hologram. I read it on the internet so it must be true.

Yeah, yeah, but this'll blow your mind: our world might be a really SMALL hologram but we're just extremely CLOSE to it.

[Him.]

Only what is to be perceived need be rendered.

[scythemantis]

It's only a name, you know. The real problem with Pilfertronians is sexual harassment.

[the Siliconopolitan]

Unhand Hieronimus, you miscreant!

[Stephen Brooks]

It's only a name, you know.

And what if "Kris Straub from Earth" translates in their language as "Cartoonist Artypants from the Crayon system" and he gets framed for drawing species-offensive comics?

[Him.]

Then he would get lectured, again.

We know it is only an earnest exercise, a creative-impulse leavened with too much testosterone, idle hands, and imprinted shame; but if he did not create that other portfolio he would not so easily framed be.

[Brendan]

Wait, wait. Vanderbeam is a QUEL?

[Stephen Brooks]

Wait, wait. Vanderbeam is a QUEL?

The silhouettes do have something in common, I see what you mean.

Of course if it turns out this is just "some other political activist quel", then all our guessing of existing characters will have been for nothing.

[Hans]

The Ash did it!

[Brendan]

"I'm telling the Admiral I did everything."

VALIDATION

[Him.]

Of a sort, but we have to rely on Vanderbeam's testimony. I'll go with the intricate plot that relies on technical advantages inherent in canon species.

[KingAndy]

"I'm telling the Admiral I did everything."

VALIDATION

I don't think he was serious about that, he just wanted the exposition to god dammit STOP.

[Brendan]

I don't think he was serious about that, he just wanted the exposition to god dammit STOP.

STILL COUNTS

[Him.]

I am sure we will let it stand if it slows up the bed wetting.