Challenge #02770-G213: Filtered Through Children’s Lies
Re-Discovery part two: electric boogaloo https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-02447-f257-solid-documented-scientific-evidence – Anon Guest
With enough instrumentation, it is possible to find things you don’t understand. With enough inclusive cogniscent contacts, you can also find someone willing to explain it to you.
Human Kev had been hired by the Sciencer EVR890 to scare of anything big enough and mean enough to be a threat to the Havenworlders within. Now, in spite of being hired to be the ‘muscle’, they were holding what they called a TED talk.
“Light’s a part of the electromagnetic spectrum,” Kev began, and stopped at the chorus of inquisitive chirps from the audience. “This is a set of radiation frequencies that are both electronic and magnetic. You know how electronics emit magnetic radiation, right? You know how magnets can make electrons move. Otherwise we wouldn’t be here.”
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Challenge #02698-G141: Annoying to Some
3-5 y/o Human child can ask around 437 questions per day. Can you imagine some scientist who need to babysit curious kid who in one second can ask question about quantum physics and before you can even start to answer the same child ask you why cheese is yellow? – Anon Guest
“One question at a time, please. If you want answers, you must wait to hear the answer.”
“Why?”
“If you do not wait, you do not get an answer.”
This seemed like a fair exchange to the small Human, who pulled themself up to peer over Analyst Gork’s desk. “What'cha doin’?”
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The signal of human-caused climate change has emerged in everyday weather, study finds
Another denial avenue is shut down… BY SCIENCE!
Add this to your collection of links for people who refuse to do their own googling.
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Racists Get Evolution Wrong: Darwin Needed Better Editors
I know I’m not going to convince any racists with this. They’re already a lost cause. Hopefully, I can give anyone decent some ammo to use against them.
Challenge #02315-F125: Lightning Bottles
“Because it’s people like us who do the strange stuff who think up all the technology you take for granted.” – C. M. Weller/InterNutter – c/- Anon Guest
Anything invented before one turns ten is normal and everywhere and expected. That’s what they say. Anything invented between the ages of twelve and forty is new and cool and interesting. After that, there is an increasing risk of it becoming strange and frightening and alien. Such is the theory put forward by Douglas Adams. A man who wrote quite a lot of strange fiction.
It’s always the weird ones that come up with stuff like this. It took a strange kind of genius to be Nikola Tesla. It took an odd collective of odder people to come up with the different types of personal computer. For the allegedly normal, for the everyday sort, the way things always were is the way things always shall be. Normal people make incremental progress. They add clocks to extant technology, for instance.
It takes a peculiar kind of genius to invent the Gravity Drive. Equal parts advanced physics, peak engineering, and cargo cult… there is no such thing as mass manufactory of such a device. Miniaturisation, yes. Even remote activation of specific… call them ‘receiver units’. Yet there is no such thing as a Gravity Drive that was made start to finish by automation. There certainly wasn’t such in the conglomeration of experiments involving ten grams of the rarest of rare Earths, a peculiar amalgam called, in another man’s notes, Unlikelium.
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Challenge #02149-E320: Don’t Wanna Live Underground
“Graham, there’s some very large lizards down here. We should leave.”
“After I’ve gotten these mineral samples. Anyway, it’s only a lizard, what’s the problem?”
“Its jaws are around my ankle.” – Anon Guest
Graham looked. This was just one among the many reasons why Planetary Survey Teams had combat-ready livesuits as part of their essential equipment. The lizard in question looked like a boa constrictor had somehow had children with a sarcosuchus and, owing to the subterranean environment, didn’t have much in the way of eyeballs any more. They did, however, have whiskers, which was how one had found Sal.
Titanium-enriched, carbon fibre cerametal couldn’t dent a combat-ready livesuit, so there was no way a giant albino snake-crocodile could get through one without also being cogniscent enough to disassemble it. Nevertheless, the creature insisted on persisting. The scraping sound its teeth made against Sal’s boot was nails-on-the-chalkboard annoying, but otherwise all was relatively well.
“You know,” said Graham, “this could be funny in the right circumstances.”
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