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avi17 · 3 years ago

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MK X Pacific Rim AU Concept

You ever get an AU idea in your head and go absolutely feral for a bit putting it all on paper? Me neither, until now! This isn’t so much a fic as just a detailed wiki-style outline, but hopefully it will still be fun to read! I had a ton of fun figuring out how to translate all these concepts and backstories into the PR world. If anyone feels like doing anything with these ideas they’re absolutely welcome, just please credit me and link back to this post if you do! I don’t think I’ll ever be able to write this into some massive longfic, but I definitely hope to do some shorts in this ‘verse. I brainstormed this with a bunch of people, and got some fun ideas from @sxvethelastdance, @bastardsunlight, and @fallen-angel-lucifer- thank you guys so much for humoring all this!

Pan Pacific Defense Corps Marshal Raiden was a legendary Mark 1 pilot dating back to when the program was first launched. Based out of the Shatterdome in Tokyo, he and his brother Fujin, in their Jaeger Thunderbolt Gale, were the first line of defense from Kaiju attacks headed westward from the breach for five grueling years. However, they met their match in Motaro, the first Category 3 Kaiju to make landfall on Hokkaido, and when Fujin was torn from their Jaeger and killed, Raiden was forced to take down the creature solo- a feat replicated only twice since. The physical and emotional toll of that day led to his retirement from active combat, but he remained in the PPDC as a commander, as well as a mentor of other pilots. When the Jaeger program was decommissioned, he was the last one to retain his faith in it, and took up leadership over the few remaining Jaegers at the Shatterdome in Hong Kong for one final stand against the Kaiju. Current Pilots:

Liu Kang and Kung Lao Jaeger: White Lotus Original base: Hong Kong

The home base heroes of the Hong Kong Shatterdome, pilots Liu Kang and Kung Lao are the top graduates and darlings of the Wu Shi Jaeger Academy. Raised together in a martial arts sect before the first breach and drift compatible since their ranger training began, they are nearly inseparable- though Kung Lao has never quite forgotten how Liu Kang's scores just barely edged out his own in their individual skill assessments, and he strives constantly to prove himself his partner's equal (despite Liu Kang's insistence that such competition is unnecessary). Their Jaeger, White Lotus, is a well-rounded, powerful machine, featuring high-powered flamethrowers, as well as a system of fuel vents that allow it to set its fists alight and heat them to brutal temperatures in close-quarters battle. For ranged combat, it utilizes a circular blade mounted to its head, which can be thrown like a boomerang with enough force to slice through buildings.

Kitana and Jade Jaeger: Edenia Glory Original Base: Lima

Interplanetary refugees, Kitana and Jade escaped to Earth after their homeworld was attacked and overrun by Kaiju invaders. Their spacecraft crashed in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, and though they immediately searched for civilization in order to warn Earth’s people of what was to come, the first wave of attacks had already begun. After making their way to Lima, they volunteered to put their combat skills and close bond to use as rangers in the South American Jaeger program. Together they have defended the coasts of Chile and Peru since the Mark-2 days, though between battles, they spend their time in communication with the PPDC and the U.N., sharing what information they can about the Kaiju and other alien life previously unknown on Earth. Their Jaeger, Edenia Glory incorporates technological elements from their original planet not used in any other Jaeger, and is lithe, fast, and deadly, with a style focused primarily on precision bladework rather than hand to hand brawling. Its name is a tribute to their lost homeworld, and they use it to great effect to prevent Earth from suffering the same fate.

Sonya Blade and Jackson "Jax" Briggs (later Johnny Cage) Jaeger: Flawless Victory Original Base: Los Angeles

Both Lt. Sonya Blade and Maj. Jax Briggs had successful careers in the U.S military behind them when the first Kaiju came ashore and attacked San Francisco. Though at the time, Sonya was in the field pursuing the criminal Kano, she returned to the states when her friend and superior officer, Jax, suggested that they might be good candidates for the newly-formed ranger program. He proved to be right, and the two did time at the Shatterdomes in both Los Angeles and Anchorage, fighting off Kaiju from Canada to Mexico, and became well-admired figures within the military for their ascent. Though far from unscathed, the ostentatiously-named Flawless Victory is the last American Jaeger left standing by the time the program is decommissioned and is a tank of a machine, sacrificing some speed for the greatest physical strength of any Jaeger still on the field. Like the other American Jaegers, for long range combat it favors plasma cannons and explosives- particularly a ring-shaped plasma blast with wider coverage than the usual single beam- but it is at its most effective when delivering a crushing beatdown up close and personal. Johnny Cage is the star of a popular series of action films dramatizing the battles of the Jaegers and Kaiju, and to many civilians at home, is as much the face of the Jaeger program as its real members. He has a secret ambition to become an actual pilot and has an impressive record in simulations, but because of his celebrity status (and his personality), Marshal Raiden and the other Jaeger teams refuse to consider him as a true contender. However, when a vicious fight with two Kaiju at once leaves both of Jax's arms shattered, taking him out of commission as a pilot for the foreseeable future, Sonya is forced to accept Johnny as her new co-pilot in order to keep Flawless Victory in the fray where it is needed. Despite her irritation with him, they turn out to be drift compatible, and become a formidable duo in their own right.

Hanzo Hasashi and Kuai Liang Jaeger: Phantom Vengeance Original Base: Nagasaki

From the Nagasaki Shatterdome, the bright yellow Mark-3 Jaeger Shirai Ryu defended the coast of the Yellow Sea across three countries. Its building was overseen by its husband and wife pilots, Hanzo and Harumi Hasashi, and it was named for the legendary warrior clan from which Hanzo claimed descent. It was in service for four years, though Hanzo and Harumi always spent as much time as possible between missions with their young son Satoshi, who lived with them in their quarters at the base so that his parents could still have a part in raising him in a world that would not guarantee a reunion for families who choose to separate. Across the sea based in Shanghai was an organization known as the Lin Kuei, a private military contractor funded by shadowy, unknown sources. Though its bread and butter was anti-Kaiju weaponry, it also began to develop its own Jaegers- the only ones outside the PPDC, created from illicitly obtained blueprints, and hireable for the right price. Its crown jewel was a small, stealthy machine called simply Sub-Zero, unique for its proficiency underwater and tendency to use coolant as a weapon rather than fire or explosives, and piloted by two brothers- Bi-Han and Kuai Liang. When the massive Kaiju Kintaro directly attacked the Nagasaki Shatterdome, Shirai Ryu was the only Jaeger left to defend it. Desperate, the Hasashis attempted to contact the Lin Kuei, as they were closer than the nearest other Shatterdome in Tokyo. They received no response and were forced into battle alone, and though they prevailed, the price was too high- not only Harumi’s life when part of their cockpit was crushed, but Satoshi’s as well, buried in the wreckage of the base. In his grief, Hanzo blamed the Lin Kuei- particularly Bi-Han, with whom he had never gotten along- for what he perceived as a failure to act due to greed and amorality. What Hanzo did not know that day was that they were experiencing the first double event in history, and Sub-Zero and the Lin Kuei were under attack by the Kaiju Sheeva at the same time. The Kaiju hivemind had figured out Sub-Zero’s usual strategy of attacking from the water, and were ready with an acidic bite that tore a hole in the cockpit, which rapidly flooded. After a similar failure to make contact with Shirai Ryu, Bi-Han was swept out into the sea and presumably drowned (though his body was never recovered), but Kuai Liang, despite a bleeding face and water up to his neck, managed to kill the Kaiju mere moments before Sub-Zero ceased to function. After his release from medical, a furious Kuai Liang set off immediately for the remains of the Nagasaki Shatterdome to confront Hanzo for his failure to respond to the attack, since Shanghai was within Nagasaki's area of coverage. Both blinded by rage, they nearly got into a fistfight in the middle of the base, but once they realized what had truly happened, their anger cooled. They bonded over their grief, and the unfathomable experience of having to pilot a Jaeger alone after such loss- and in the process, discovered they were drift compatible, and that they both wished to continue the fight in retaliation for what the Kaiju had done to their families. Their new Jaeger, Phantom Vengeance, is a strange sight- constructed from salvaged pieces of both Sub-Zero and Shirai Ryu (along with some newer tech to fill the gaps), it looks as much like a walking ghost as its pilots. However, it should not be underestimated based on its appearance. Quick and light (for a Jaeger), it features a retractable grappling hook to drag Kaiju into the range of its blasts of powerful coolant, and a devastating grip to snap them like twigs once frozen.

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After the destruction of Sub-Zero and the defection of Kuai Liang, the Lin Kuei concluded that the problem with the Jaeger program was the human element of drift compatibility, which limited the number of possible pilots and held them back due to concern for their partners in battle. Therefore, in secret, they began a series of horrific experiments, fusing subjects with their Jaegers to operate more like batteries than true pilots, and erasing their memories through drugging and electric shock in order to create blank minds that could operate together without the complications of emotion. Assassins Cyrax and Sektor, along with Kuai Liang’s close friend Tomas Vrbada, were among the subjects of this initiative, forced to operate a three-armed machine called Triborg.

Shang Tsung is a scientist, shunned from the academic community and at times running afoul of the law for his unethical- if not outright twisted- biological experiments. He and Marshal Raiden have crossed paths in the past, and though no one knows the details, their enmity towards each other is clear. However, in his desperation after the decommissioning of the Jaeger program, Raiden had Shang Tsung brought from prison to the Hong Kong Shatterdome, and gave him access to whatever parts he needed to find a way to destroy the Kaiju- by any means necessary. Shang Tsung agreed partly because of the money offered, but mostly because the world's destruction would throw quite the wrench into his own personal goals. (And maybe because it was deeply satisfying- and perhaps useful- to have the Marshal in his debt.) Where his allegiance will lie at the end of the day, however, is anyone's guess.

For such experiments, one needs a steady supply of Kaiju parts, and for contraband like that, Raiden had to look even lower- to the crime syndicate the Black Dragon, led by Kano and including his associates, Kabal and Erron Black. Though once mercenaries dealing in everything from illicit arms trading to assassination, the Black Dragon followed the money and and put all their resources into the trafficking of Kaiju parts. With demand so high, they have become immensely powerful, but their involvement with the PPDC in the name of greater profits ends up bringing Kano face to face with his old nemesis, Sonya Blade- with predictably violent results.

Nightwolf was the historian of the Matoka tribe, which had long ago predicted a great cataclysm that would bring about the end of life on earth. Though he had been skeptical that such legends were real, when that cataclysm came to pass in the form of the Kaiju invasion, Nightwolf was not content to merely await a prophesied destruction. He left home and applied for the ranger program, but although he trained toward being a pilot and had the necessary combat skills, he never found a partner with whom he was drift compatible. Rather than dwell on this with resentment, he pivoted his focus into other ways he could help, and found his place as a technician and LOCCENT officer. Transferred to Hong Kong after the decommissioning of the Jaeger program, he was the rangers’ primary point of communication with the base while in battle.

Though most of the world fears the Kaiju, there are also those who worship them, and such admiration has evolved over the years into a full-blown religion. The shadowy high priest of this cult is Quan Chi, who claims that the Kaiju have been sent by the God of Death himself- to end the days of humans on Earth as we so richly deserve. Recently, a strange, hollow-eyed man calling himself Noob Saibot has appeared like a shadow at Quan Chi’s side, serving as his personal bodyguard against all threats and a fellow ardent believer in the inevitability of humanity’s destruction. Mileena is a grotesque fusion of Kaiju DNA with that of Kitana, which was stolen against her will when she was injured and bled during the invasion of Edenia. She enters Earth as a general of the Kaiju, connected to their hivemind, along with the first Category 5 to ever come through the breach, Goro. Together, they intend to ensure the will of their creator and the ruler of the Anteverse- Shao Kahn- is carried out.

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disaster-bay-leaf · 4 years ago

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Ok so these were the cutest~ (ㆁωㆁ)

4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 19, 22, 23, 28, 33, 34, 46, 47, 52, 59, 60, 63, 66, 83, 87, 88, 93, 99

I kno I listed like....all of them lmao but feel free to answer whichever you want and ofc you can ask me in return Baybe ( ◜‿◝ )♡

uHUHUHUHU much content for me to answer, im happy bebe 💜💜💜✨

4 - how do you take your coffee/tea?

hm coffee either Very Black No Sugar (for the sleep deprived me) or iced latte three sugars and theres no in between

and as for tea its All Black Teas That Exist, cinnamon-flavoured especially (but basically all teas that come to mind when u think “autumn”), and rooibos!!! okay basically the only oke i dont like is any type of green tea (which is sad because they look cool but my tastebuds said ✨no✨)

6 - do you keep plants?

honestly id l o v e too because i love plants but,,, im kinda horrible at taking care of them though still way better than the majority of my family (research helps) so the only plant i own is kinda a small-palm-tree-looking thing in a bigass glass jar that i saved from my mother’s plant-destructing hands and its mostly doing well (the ends of its leaves are starting to be yellow tho and im worried:((( )

7 - do you name your plants?

yes!!! though the current one was named by my sister and its called “pickett” after fantastic beasts shsjjsj

9 - do you like singing/humming to yourself?

oh god oh dude you have n o idea

i have absolutely n o singing voice but its something i do constantly to give my brain the right amount of stimuli so basically i listen to music 24/7 and hum to myself 99% of that time

12 - whats your favourite planet?

oh i actually didnt think about this for so long but either pluto (hes a planet screw nasa) or saturn (RINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) or venus (girls,,,and libra,,,)

19 - do you keep a journal? what do you write/draw in it?

okay im gonna be completely honest with yall and say that my every single try at keeping a journal failed spectacularly and i lost motivation after like a few months so my only journals rn are my fancy fake-leather-bound calendar to note tests and assessments into, a kinda roughed up notebook that i uses for noting down poems or scribbling or passing notes in class, and a kinda fancy bullet journal notebook that i used as a book of shadows for a while but since my fountain pen died i didnt touch it

22 - are you a morning person?

n o

i am so not a morning person but i wish i could be because honestly dawns are beautiful

but as it is rn im either sleep deprived all the time and loathe every second of being in an awake state or (if i have a few days of schoolbreak) my biological clock moves forward a few hours and i sleep 2am-10am

23 - whats your favourite thing to do on lazy days with zero obligations?

except for the fact that i dont remember the last time it happened, i would probably spend it drawing outside, watching anime with my sister and riding a bike around the forest

28 - sunrise or sunset?

i love sunrises because its so peaceful and everyone is asleep but also i subconsciously immediately correlate them with waiting for a train to take me to school (because thats basically the only time i see them) so its a bittersweet love especially with my fucked up biological clock

but sunsets are really really pretty too and i see them more often so i cant choose

33 - whats your fave pastry?

and isnt that a millior-dollar question dhsjjsjsj

either cinnamon rolls (i absolutely adore them) or that one specific type of cupcake-shaped-thing made out of shortcrust/bread/whatever its called and filled with vanilla pudding

34 - tell us about a stuffed animal you kept as a kid. what is it called? what does it look like? do you still keep it?

awwww this is cute

okay so basically my two favourite stuffed animals (i still have them, they sit in my wardrobe) were two teddy bears (like maybe 20cm high each of them) and one was pure brown and the other was silver-brown and they had stereotypical polish male names “Waldek” (read. Valdek) and Stefan (i think tho im not sure if i remember correctly, my memory is a feeble thing sometimes

46 - tell us the worst pun you can think of

what dog would never bite you? a hot dog *badumtss*

47 - what food do you think should be banned from the universe?

huh a year ago id say pineapple pizza but i guess i dont hate pineapples that much anymore (tho putting them on pizza is still an abomination) but i think that if id ever want to get rid of anything it would be parsley, i hate that freakin herb (does it count as food tho)

52 - what are your favourite memes of the year so far?

the ever given for sure shsjshjsjsjsjjsj

but bullying tramp stamps is gold and pure tumblr energy too

as for fandom memes: im in love with all keeping-up-with-the-todorokis variations and the fact that the entire bsd fandom looked at fukuchi and said “biTCH” and thats one of the only things we’re unanimous about

59 - whats your favourite myth?

i always liked the kora/persephone myth (though demeter is an overbearing parent to the nth power), loki and thor crossdressing at a party to get mjolnir back, atalanta because shes a queen and id politely ask her to kick my ass, and cassandra because she deserved better, and theres a l o t more because alas i was a mythology nerd but this post is long enough for me not to make this section 20 times longer sjjsjsjsjsjks

but there are a lot of slavic myths that are very cool too, though we dont know that much about them as about the greeks for example

60 - do you like poetry? what are some of your faves?

o o o o h yeah i do like poetry because to create such a beautifully sounding thing with only words someone has to be a genius

some of my favs are: some works of nakahara chuuya (thank u bsd for introducing me to this man’s beautiful imagery in his works i swear to god the descriptions do it for me) (also his poem about having hangovers is a mood like i feel you buddy), the raven by ea poe (i know everyone likes it but hOLY DAMN THE INTER/INTRAVERSE RHYMES ARE LIKE,,, BREATHTAKING) (and aso im a slut for gothic horror), and many more but also That One Poem From Welcome To Nightvale about reaching the island in the west,,, only perfect vibes from it

63 - are you fussy about your books and music? do you keep them meticulously organised or kinda leave them be?

okay heres the thing. for anyone else both my playlist library and my bookshelf would be considered pure chaos of a mad man b u t they actually have a highly focused system which means that i sort them based on their vibes, lovability and (in case of books) their age and whether or not theyre a part of a series so i would say my bookshelf is rather organised (when a quarter of it isnt occupying my desk that is) and my music is more organised than not but sometimes it gets out of control and i have to sort it entirely again

66 - what would your ideal flower crown look like?

either entirely constructed of simple white daisies, entirely constructed of only white roses, or something that probably would win a “how many different coloured flowers can one fit in a flower crown” competition

or something purple (maybe not belladonna)

83 - whats some of your favourite album art?

god i dont know if it counts but hozier’s wasteland baby is probably one of my absolute favourites and no one shall beat that

“thrifted youth” (dalynn) and “standard deviation” (danny schmidt) have very aesthetic covers too

also the iconic p!atd too weird to live, too rare to die! album cover,,, its just iconic what can i say

and last but not least matt meason’s pink-and-black album covers (though bank on the funeral is really pretty too but like,,, “who killed matt meason” d o e s it for me and so does the 2017 tribulation single)

87 - what are some movies that you think everyone should watch at least once in their lives?

this is such a hard question because im not a really cinematography-oriented gal but i suppose that (at the risk of not going deep enough into the cinema world):

- the princess bride

- inception

- night at the museum

- SPIRITED AWAY

- forrest gump

- truman show

- E.T. (i cried okay)

- the lord of the rings (because damn me if this isnt one impressive adaptation)

- parasite

and one more personal recommendation: “ready or not” with samara weaving because goddamn i dont usually watch this genre but holy s h i t is it good

93 - whats the hairstyle you wear the most?

honestly just plain hair down (because having curly hair is a menace), split in the middle when i have longer hair and split on one side when its short

also low ponytails or half-up-half-down when im exercising, or double french braids when my hair doesnt cooperate enough to look presentable in any other form

99 - list some songs that resonate with your soul whenever you hear them

this is difficult because my music taste is a goddamn rollercoaster on a good day, but heres some:

- me and the sky from “come from away” musical (this is sort of a test song for my mental stability, if i cry i aint stable)

- dancing after death by matt meason (okay most songs by matt meason except for like,,, hallucinogenics maybe)

- tears and rain by james blunt

- i will follow you into the dark by death cab for cutie

- almost home by mxmtoon

- anything by hozier really but shrike especially

- payphone, the cover by alex g (i cried to this song so many times)

- burning pile by mother mother (can i roast all my problems please)

- long way from home and cleopatra by the lumineers

- autoclave by the mountain goats

oooh that was c o o o o o o o l as fuck thank you sm so much bebe (and sorry for the long post @everyone else)

#smadhuman being pure af #bay answers #long post #very long post #ask #asks

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kcwcommentary · 5 years ago

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VLD8x07 – “Day Forty Seven”

8x07 – “Day Forty Seven” (I have no idea why the episode’s title officially does not have a hyphen between Forty and Seven like it should.)

This is another episode that is an absolute waste of time. Again, I’m not fundamentally against episodes of shows that are less directly tied to the main story. Episodes like this can be great for doing more detailed character study. But with the executive producers having complained about how there wasn’t enough time in the show to include vital fallout and character follow-up to plot events, when the episodes of this season’s main story are so complicated and confusing and needed more time to depict and explain what happens, having episodes like “Day Forty Seven” are a waste of time because that time is blatantly needed for other, more important content.

Before this episode, I already didn’t like Rizavi, and I only liked the potential that Kinkade had. But since both of them commit crimes in this episode and also violate the trust and privacy of their fellow officers, I can’t say that my opinion of them has improved.

I do, however, really like Hunk in this episode.

Look, it’s Kinkade. He’s the main character of this episode. It’s another episode that significantly shoves the show’s main characters to the side in order to pretend that the side characters are interesting. Yes, Hunk and Allura each get a bit of focus for a couple of scenes in this episode, but it’s predominantly not about them. Almost the entirety of this episode is focused on side characters, and none of them are interesting.

After I watched season eight for the first time however many months ago that was now, thinking of this episode in context of the whole of season eight made me wish that this episode had been centered not on Kinkade but on Curtis. What if Curtis had been filming personal videos throughout the episode? I know the show did not even slightly plan on having Shiro and Curtis end up together, that the series Shiro-Curtis wedding epilogue was a really, really late-production addition, but I can’t help but think about how, even if they didn’t have much time to set up anything between Shiro and Curtis, how this episode would have been the perfect time to hint at it. Have Curtis with the video camera, have him get a shot of Shiro in the distance, have him linger on Shiro a beat or two too long, have Veronica or someone come up beside him and ask him what he’s filming, have Curtis turn the camera on that person, who’s shown looking at Shiro, realizing that Curtis had been gazing at Shiro, and have that person conclude, “Oh, I see what you were looking at.” If the show absolutely couldn’t include any more, that would have worked to set up the plausibility of a Shiro-Curtis relationship developing. But again, having Shiro and Curtis end up together was a hasty super-late addition. There could be no set-up for it because the executive producers, story editor, and writers weren’t planning on having Shiro end the show with anyone. I can’t help but to think, what if, though.

Kinkade brushes his teeth while Leifsdottir sleeps within arm’s reach. There’s a bathroom sink next to their beds in the barracks? “I know it seems strange, but before Earth was attacked, I didn’t go anywhere without my camera,” Kinkade says. Who would think that it was strange that someone interested in videography would engage in videography but stopped because aliens invaded and occupied Earth for three years? This is supposedly funny: “Back home, people asked me why I like recording things. They also asked me why I didn’t talk that much. To both of those things, I’d always say, ‘Hmm.’” This kind of feels like this line was specifically written in response to criticism that Kinkade didn’t really ever say anything in season seven. Cut to Kinkade doing pull-ups. Granted, I haven’t spent a lot of time in gyms in my life, but the time that I have, I have never heard anyone counting their reps out loud while they were doing them. Romelle is puzzled by Kinkade’s recording, and James comments about how this is something Kinkade’s known for. Okay, we get it, he makes videos. “Being a fighter pilot was actually his back-up plan,” James says of Kinkade. Being a fighter pilot is hard, it’s not realistic that it would be anyone’s back-up plan.

“It’s true: I learned to shoot with a camera before I learned to shoot with a rifle.” Is that supposed to be impressive or something? Honestly, it mostly sounds like the writer thought he was being clever using two meanings of the word “shoot.” “I guess filming is just a small piece of the larger puzzle that makes up the picture of who I am.” How would we have figured this out without his exposition to tell us – in other words, this is the type of thing people are talking about when they say that in writing you should show, not tell. We don’t need Kinkade to tell us this because by fundamental nature of this episode being framed as his videography, we are being shown. And then we get a cliché gun assembling moment.

There’s a sequence of meandering shots of Kinkade walking to his fighter, touching his fighter, shocking himself by touching some electrical part of its system. I guess maybe he accessed the system because he was going to do maintenance? Fighter pilots don’t do the maintenance of their craft, at least from the impression I have about how it works in the U.S. Air Force they don’t. There are maintenance specialists who do that work, not the pilots.

This almost feels like a lampshade of criticism about this episode: Rizavi comes in and says, “Please tell me this is going to be more exciting than that project you did for Mr. Pollard’s biology class about yeast.” This episode isn’t really more exciting than that. Rizavi forces her way into Kinkade’s project.

They interview Pidge. The Atlas is heading somewhere there’s a disabled Robeast. Pidge asks if she “needs to explain that the Robeast was one of the ones used in Honerva’s galactic ritual?” I guess this line is supposed to be about Pidge commenting on the process of successfully constructing a documentary? It feels more like unnecessary exposition because the audience of this show would easily know the context of the referenced Robeast because that was just last episode. Pidge continues with more telling exposition. Rizavi turns to Keith to try to make their recording more exciting by asking Keith about the danger of the mission. Keith’s dialog is more unnecessary exposition.

Save us Hunk from this empty episode. Hunk asks to be in their movie, but then, “Wait, if this is an action movie – is it? – I don’t want to be in it.” At least I got a little laugh out of that. Rizavi complains about Hunk interfering in their filming their documentary. All I can think of is why didn’t Kinkade or Rizavi lock down the location for filming with Pidge and Keith then if they didn’t want to be bothered. They’re literally just sitting in the mess hall.

Hunk has a new recipe of a cake. Kinkade is actually interested and asks Hunk if he can watch Hunk work. Hunk’s cool with the idea. Rizavi, who butted her way into Kinkade’s personal project, complains. Of the four MFE pilots, the only reason I dislike James more than Rizavi is because James is such a blatant, cruel bully. Rizavi is not an interesting, likable character, and I really wouldn’t mind if she hadn’t been in this series.

Thankfully an emergency interrupts this waste of time. The ship is called to battle stations. Somehow, as Kinkade pulls Rizavi out of the mess hall through a door in front of where the camera is pointing, the camera tumbles over backwards away from that door and ends up not still in the mess hall, but in a corridor. The Holt’s dog finds and picks up the camera. He enters an elevator which opens onto the bridge directly behind Shiro. Guess what isn’t supposed to be behind Shiro on the bridge: An elevator. The door behind Shiro on the bridge opens to a corridor, as seen literally last episode when Zethrid came to the bridge. So, this inconsistent animation falls somewhere in with ignored established set design and/or bad storyboarding. Also, how is the dog able to make the elevator function? He doesn’t push any buttons to indicate the bridge as a destination, nor is he able to give a verbal command to the elevator to go to the bridge. This elevator just automatically goes to the bridge.

Of course, the entirety of the dog carrying the camera is contrived to keep going with the videography framing of the episode. The Atlas is being attacked by a giant squid. The MFE ships and Voltron fly around outside the Atlas. There are huge explosions in the clouds outside. None of this action scene means anything because the conflict is not defined, not connected to any character. It’s just meaningless action.

Since they can’t see the squid because of the clouds, so someone, Curtis maybe?, establishes a visual by scanning for the “biometrics” of the squid. The squid then seems to, like way too many large creatures do in this series, shoots a blaster beam at the Atlas. It scares the dog, who drops the camera and runs. The mice briefly look into the camera. Then the camera somehow falls down a corridor. How did it get into a corridor to fall down it? Did the other side of the door behind Shiro suddenly become a corridor again instead of the elevator it was a few seconds ago? The camera tumbles down a hallway and ends up in the room where Sam and Slav work, where Sam finally explains that the gravity has been knocked out. One, the camera hitting the walls of the hallway would have decreased its momentum in a near-zero gravitational situation. Two, despite falling into this room with notable speed, as soon as the camera sights on Sam and Slav it instantly stops moving. But the gravity isn’t on, so it shouldn’t stop hard like it does. I don’t know why I’m trying to analyze this. The camera’s relocation is totally contrived.

Slav complains about something being red, and thus he can’t grab it like Sam says. It’s not important. I don’t know why this piece of a scene even exists. The camera gets hit by a box that floats by and suddenly the camera is out in another hallway to film miscellaneous crew moving through the hallway. There’s a shipwide announcement that the Atlas is going to transform. The dog comes back to pick up the camera in its mouth, the camera conveniently floating right in line of the dog’s mouth as it floats down the hallway. Contrived.

There is ten seconds of blackness and dog breathing because that’s worth spending time on, then we hear Colleen talk to the dog while we get four more seconds of blackness before she pulls the camera out of the dog’s mouth. Shiro’s shipwide communications announces a countdown of the Atlas transforming, and Colleen is all, “Oh no,” like she just realized she’s in an unsafe location. Colleen is floating still in the corridor but then starts moving down the corridor, but there’s no gravity, and she’s not shown to have been close enough to a surface that she could push off of in order to move down the hall. Yeah, I still want accurate depictions of easily known scientific understanding on this show, even though I know I won’t get it.

The camera and/or the hallway shakes as if the camera is sitting on something and the gravity is on despite the fact that the camera is floating in near-zero gravity, so there would be no shaking whatsoever. Somehow a panel in the hall as part of the transformation process does not smash up the camera, but just knocks it, sending it spinning until the camera suddenly stops spinning without anything being there to stop it. Unless something stopped it, it would have kept spinning being in near-zero gravity. Basic laws of inertia.

It conveniently stops to point out a window where giant squid and the MFEs and Voltron still are fighting. And the camera loses power.

Cut to later when Kinkade has somehow reacquired his camera despite the hugeness of the Atlas. The whole action sequence was a waste of time. Kinkade floats down a hallway and runs into someone who I’ve never seen before and don’t know. The guy is going to be leaving the Atlas to take samples of something back to Earth. It’s a moment that’s portrayed, especially with the music, like it’s supposed to be some kind of emotional goodbye, but I have no idea who this guy is. The scene is 35 seconds long, and I have no idea why it exists at all. So, I google and eventually find out that this character is named Seok Jin and was done in memory of an animator and storyboard artist who died during the show’s production. I can understand wanting to memorialize a coworker, but there’s nothing about this scene that conveys that. It just seems like a miscellaneous waste of time within the context of the episode’s story. Without googling to find out, the scene is just confusing.

It still weirds me out that there’s so much floating on the Atlas, but objects (which includes people) do not follow the laws of physics that would govern their floating. Through the window into the mess hall, the dog and Sal are standing and sitting like they’re in gravity, but just on this side of the window where the camera is in the hallway, there is no gravity.

Cut to Kolivan being interviewed. It’s supposed to be funny. He’s boring and Rizavi makes fun of him being boring. This is a waste of screen-time. Rizavi says that they need to get someone more exciting in here. Cut to Coran.

Thank you, Coran, please save us from this absolutely pointless, uninteresting episode!! His antics are funnily delivered. The information of his storytelling does nothing to tell us anything new because it was only a retelling of a few of the events last episode. And then the scene is done. Coran is severely underused this season. Eliminate all the time given to the MFE pilots and to Sam and give it instead to Coran, please. Back to the standard boring that is this episode.

Now, Rizavi is interviewing Sam. There are several shots of a bunch of displays that don’t reveal anything important. Slav complains about Altean writing on the Atlas. The Atlas might be based on Altean technology, but it was built by humans on Earth, so why did they build the Atlas so that the writing used on the Atlas was in Altean? Did the Galaxy Garrison during the three years of the occupation of Earth make everyone learn to read Altean? This is something absolutely illogical but it’s in here because it was supposed to be seen as a joke. It just seems wrong to me.

“Our gravity generator is actually a fluid system, ever changing depending on the specific needs of the location,” Sam says. In other words, the show is lampshading the fact that they didn’t bother to create this episode or the series to actually follow the laws of physics. In other other words, people like me who expect the experience of being in a space ship to have even the most basic respect for and understanding of what the experience would be like can just shut up. The show actively rejects the expectation that it try to be at least somewhat realistic. It’s amazing that the show’s creative team is admitting to being this lazy.

Kinkade condescendingly calls Slav “weird” when Slav freaks out about landing on a crack. Anyone else remember how respectful Shiro was over Slav’s freaking out about cracks in 2x10 “Escape from Beta Traz?”

Cut to Colleen in the plant room. I was going to call it hydroponics, which tends to be a sort of trope in space-based science fiction, but hydroponics is specifically growing without having soil to plant things in. And the first shot is of Altean flowers growing in soil. So, plant room. I haven’t been shy in past episodes about how much I do not like Colleen. She, like her husband, should be in prison for what they did in 7x01 “The Last Stand Part 1.” She gives a tour of the plant room. “So much recycled poop,” she’s happy to point out. Yeah, this episode feels like we’re walking among some recycled poop.

Rizavi grabs the camera and puts together some footage of “extreme space harvesting” and its stylized as overwhelming “extreme” video. It’s supposed to be funny, juxtaposing “extreme” style with this empty talk about plants. I’m a science-loving guy, so I know I could actually find someone passionately talking about plants to be fun. Colleen doesn’t talk passionately about plants. She says the most generic statements possible because to have her genuinely depicted as nerding out over plants would require too much research about plants for the writer to bother with on this show. So, this is a waste of time.

Thank you, Hunk for interrupting. Hunk wants some specific yeast. I actually like that Kinkade, who had earlier been referenced as having done an old school project on fermentation, is interested in what Hunk’s doing. He had earlier been interested in watching Hunk cook too. They’re both small moments, but it’s just enough that it makes me want to see Hunk and Kinkade become friends. Hunk says, “I think I’ve got the topping down, but I’m still trying to figure out the sweetbread.” Did the writer of this show not know that sweetbread isn’t bread? Sweetbread is the thymus or pancreas of a creature. It’s not bread, it’s meat. But Hunk wants yeast, so he’s baking, so he means actual bread.

Cut to Rizavi and Kinkade floating down a hallway. The Atlas has come to some star system. They try to interview Lance about his going down to a planet, and Lance freaks out. I have no idea why Lance is freaking out. It’s played for humor, but it has no foundation. It’s just trying to make fun of someone having anxiety over something they have never been shown to have anxiety over. It’s such a meaningless moment.

Rizavi sneaks, against protocol, the camera into the meeting room. Shiro, Sam, Coran, and Veronica, and I guess Rizavi and Kinkade too, monitor the Paladins on their mission to the planet. They’re checking out one of the fallen Robeasts from last episode. Surprise, the Paladins get attacked by some ship that pops off the Robeast. The Paladins fire on it with their bayards, Shiro orders the Atlas to target and fire on it. It’s such meaningless action.

Somehow, in putting this documentary together, Rizavi and Kinkade get access to helmet cam footage from Pidge. Why her helmet cam recorded everything with a blue filter, I don’t know. The footage that Shiro and crew were watching on screen on the Atlas was normal, not tinted some color. Hunk says he has no sign of a pilot inside the ship. Keith calls out to the other Paladins and Pidge totally unnecessarily says, “Keith’s found something, let’s go.” It’s a waste of dialog because everything her line does was already accomplished by Keith’s line. They’ve found the tube that the Altean Robeast pilots are in when they pilot the Robeasts.

Almost 17 minutes into the episode (my number includes the time needed for the opening title sequence) and we finally have actually gotten to something that matters to the show. They’ve been capturing the Alteans pilots. Kinkade says that this is the sixth Altean pilot they’ve “recovered from the powered-down Robeasts after Honerva escaped Oriande.” Where are they getting six from? I would assume when the white hole went boom that that destroyed any Robeasts there. So, are they just getting them from the planets where they were siphoning quintessence? There were only four such Robeasts for that, not six. Where did the other two come from? Kinkade says that Allura has tried but they won’t talk to her.

Cut to a clear shot of an “authorized personnel only” sign. In other words, it is a violation of the rules for them to be bringing this camera here. Why are so many characters on this show, characters who are supposed to be members of at least a partially military organization, so blatantly violate the law, protocol, and rules? Why did this show so strongly write a message to the kids who were the target audience of this show that there’s nothing wrong with violating rules? It makes the show feel like the people in the creative team who produced this show were all a bunch of really immature people.

Kinkade covers his camera temporarily, but we hear Rizavi give orders to someone that “Commander Shirogane says that you two are needed on the bridge.” So, Rizavi just falsified orders. That, in the U.S. military, would result in a court martial and potential punishment of dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of pay, and/or five years confinement.

This show has flagrantly displayed an anti-military disdain, particularly in how Sam Holt and Iverson were never punished for their severe insubordination against Admiral Sanda in 7x08 “The Last Stand Part 2.” Here, knowing that Rizavi is not subject to punishment for this, the show continues to demonstrate a disdain for the military. It’s offensive that this show wants the appearance of military action, but similar to how they want the appearance of space science, they don’t want to have to actually do the work to write the characters to behave in the necessary ways to achieve that. Maybe it’s not a disdain for the military (still feels like it though), but maybe the creative team for this show are just lazy and think that things like what Rizavi just did isn’t a big deal even though it’s a huge deal.

Kinkade and Rizavi are revealed to have lied their way into a security center so that they can use the Atlas’s security system to sneak and get secure footage they absolutely are not allowed to have. This would be another crime they’re committing.

Allura and Romelle try talking to Tavo, a Colony Altean who Romelle says she grew up alongside. Romelle looks a lot younger than Tavo does, so how did they grow up together? She asks him to trust her, but he says that his people were told that Romelle was a traitor and says he “can see now that it is true.” Allura says she’s “done with all of them” and gets up and leaves.

Rizavi sneaks the camera to secretly record a private conversation between Allura and Lance. Yeah, I really don’t like Rizavi. I really wish this show didn’t portray her behavior as being acceptable. What she is doing is wrong. She is betraying her fellow officer’s trust. Allura is talking to Lance about official, serious stuff, and Rizavi gets a look on her face like she knows the scene is going to turn romantic. This is the writer severely ahead of what the plot is actually depicting.

Allura talks to Lance, saying, “You have no idea what it’s like to find out […] you’re not the last of your kind, only to be rejected by them.” This moment is more that makes me think Allura is heavily depressed this season, and why, aside from her being a female character of color who’s killed off to fix everyone’s problems, her death at the end of the series is so infuriating. I like how Lance responds to her. He says, “I don’t.” I like that he doesn’t try to diminish what she’s feeling by arguing against or trying to negate her having said, “You have no idea what it’s like […].” He’s actually being very supportive right now. He does say he wishes he could make things better for her. He acknowledges how much he recognizes the suffering in her experiences and says her perseverance is one of the reasons he fell in love with her.

Allura and Lance hug and go in for a kiss, and before they can kiss, Kinkade grabs the camera and says, “No, that’s private.” The whole thing was private. You violated their trust and their privacy the whole time and you only care right before they kiss? Clearly since it’s part of this episode, Kinkade didn’t destroy the footage, so he never recognizes that everything before the kiss was as private as the kiss itself. And of course, Rizavi is annoyed at Kinkade for his having blocked filming the kiss. Again, I just can’t help but to question how the executive producers and writer thought it was okay to send a message with this episode that this behavior is acceptable.

Cut to Romelle being interviewed. The camera is all up in her face/Romelle’s eyeball is nearly on the lense. Kinkade says, “Please don’t touch that.” Romelle doesn’t really move within her posture much, so it’s not like she was leaning forward far, and the camera zooms out, so it seems like she wasn’t actually anywhere near the camera the way it was made to look.

I’m kind of surprised that Romelle would agree to this interview, since the content is about sensitive (not emotionally sensitive, though that too, but sensitive in a security sense) topic. She still feels like the Colony Alteans are good people, despite the fact that they tried to commit genocide. I know the show seemingly had the planetary populations of the four planets the Robeasts destroyed last episode evacuated, but those Alteans went to those planets fully intending to kill everyone on those planets. They were trying to commit genocide. They’re not good people. I guess in the same way that this show wants to excuse Honerva and Zarkon for committing genocide, the show expects us to forgive the Colony Alteans for trying to do so too? If I’m being lenient, I’d say maybe the creative team of this show just did not realize the severity and full implication of the things they wrote in this story. That doesn’t make what the Colony Alteans tried to do not genocide though.

Romelle says, “If only there was just some way to get through to them.” Behold the foreshadowing.

Cut to the mess hall. James is still bothered by the tentacles of the squid that they fought earlier in the episode. Guess what, I don’t care about James.

Cut to Hunk stirring a mixture, just about to add the yeast.

Cut to an interview with Allura. Kinkade thanks her for doing this. I doubt she would do it if they let her know that they committed two crimes in falsifying orders and recording footage of her conversation with Tavo. I doubt she would do it if they told her that they violated her privacy by recording her conversation with Lance.

Allura expresses some of her frustration with the Colony Alteans. She says, “Oriande was destroyed. Lotor is back.” But he’s not really. Maybe this is just another of the executive producers’ and writers’ notorious audience manipulations, but the show is very much making it look like the narrative is stating that Lotor is still a part of this story. I know the EPs would probably just say that this is just what Allura thinks, not that it’s actually true. But if it isn’t true, then who was piloting the Sincline last episode until Honerva used her space magic to stop it? Even Honerva spoke as if Lotor was still piloting the Sincline. That he’s eventually shown to have been a melted corpse definitely makes the idea that the season was heavily re-edited seem plausible.

Allura’s comments suggest that the methods they had used to track Honerva previously are no longer producing results. They’re not detecting any traces of wormhole generation and the like.

Cut to Hunk in the kitchen. He pulls “an authentic Altean dessert” out of the oven that he plans on giving to the Colony Alteans. While there would be something to the Colony Alteans’ culture that could still possibly be traced by skilled anthropologists to the Altean culture of Allura’s 10,000 years ago, that 10,000 years would have caused the Colony Alteans’ culture to significantly change. Coran gave Hunk this recipe, but it’s not realistic that the Colony Alteans would have preserved this recipe through those millennia.

I really do like that Hunk is again able to find a way to apply his interest in food to his tendency toward wanting to engage in diplomacy. This show has made too many fat jokes about Hunk, but moments like this are genuine and nice.

Hunk says that when Coran gave him the recipe, “I think his memory was like a little bit fuzzy, so I did some improvising. No big woop.” In other words, it’s not “an authentic Altean dessert.” Improvising the recipe is not being authentic. This is so wrong.

Cut to Tova and several other Colony Alteans staring at Hunk’s baking. Eventually Tova tastes it and says that it reminds him of home. For him, home was the Colony, not Altea. But the show is treating it as nearly the same for the sake of convenience. None of these Colony Alteans would actually know what Altea was like.

Hunk points out that he made the dessert with help “from someone raised on Altea.” Hunk tells them that Allura and Coran were there at Altea until it was destroyed and would have remained if they hadn’t been sent away. Anyone else think that it was a failure of this show’s storytelling that we never did get to truly see the destruction of Altea, to see how Coran and Allura survived? The closest we got was Alfor violating his daughter by rendering her unconscious so that she couldn’t object to being sent away.

Tova mentions stories he’s been told about some spot on Altea that was supposedly beautiful. I love Hunk’s line, “They never told me about them, but I’m sure they’d love to tell you themselves.” The door opens and Allura and Coran are waiting to talk to the Alteans.

Cut to Kinkade winding up his day’s recording.

The only thing in this episode that was actually important was that ending scene with Hunk and the Colony Alteans. Emotionally, it was a nice scene if I set aside my issues with the realism of an “improvis[ed]” recipe being presented and effectually functioning as “authentic.”

I really did not like how otherwise the episode is a giant waste of time. I really did not like how Rizavi and Kinkade’s behavior is treated as okay when some of it is criminal and some of it is a violation of others’ privacy. I really don’t like how the show is glossing over that these Alteans tried to commit genocide. The story can still have Allura needing to talk to them while acknowledging the severity of what the Alteans were doing.

There really were only two things that was worth watching in this episode. One, the short scene of Coran’s antics when he retells the story of last episode. Two, Hunk’s small storyline, especially when he actually gives the dessert to the Alteans.

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ser•en•dip•it•y {part 2}{Matt Holt x Reader}

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Summary: You and Matt used to be childhood best friends, but that hadn’t been the case for nearly four years now. Whenever your parents insist on going to the Holt family country home for the summer, you may be forced to face old feelings as Matt makes an appearance.

Pairing: Matt Holt x Reader

Notes: p1 - p3 - p4 - p5 - p6 - FINAL; lil mini chapter.

Chapter 2

Over the next few days, you were abruptly reminded of the reason as to why the L/N and the Holt family should not be allowed in a country home together.

You had truly believed that the first week would be simple. A settling-in stage before the big events happened, before your parents insisted that you all embark on some extravagant family bonding trip that would mean absolutely nothing by the end of it; in fact, it would most likely end with you wanting to rip Jamie’s head off. That was how it always went down.

But time seemed to be nothing but a construct to your parents and the Holt family, as by the third day, whenever hangovers were washed away by sleeping in till noon and people insisted they were healthy enough to get this summer started, you were being ushered out into the back yard.

It had startled you at first. You had been merely sitting on the couch with a fan in your hand, trying to no avail to cool your damp skin. Colleen and your mother had been working away in the kitchen, giggling over old pictures they used to take.

The next minute, though, your father and Sam had come bounding into the living room, announcing that everybody had to get dressed in appropriate clothing for a hike around the forest that was located behind the country home.

You simply raised a brow, your hands stopping their motions of the fan. “Excuse me?”

Your dad grinned. “You heard right. We’re going on our first adventure together in two years. Go get dressed, and tell Matt to come out of his room. It’s too warm for him to be studying up in his bedroom all day.”

You had wanted to protest. With everything in you, you had wanted to stand your ground, tell your dad head-on that he knew full well you and Matt weren’t exactly on good terms and that pretending you and him had been best friends for the past four years was immature and was, quite frankly, spoiling the entire trip.

But he didn’t give you a chance. Not before he and Sam were walking into the kitchen, smiling happily about their newest plan that, judging by the squeal that emerged from the kitchen, your mother and Colleen approved of wholeheartedly.

You grumbled as you pushed yourself up from the sofa and made your way up the stairs towards Matt’s bedroom. You had ended up taking the room across from his, though neither of you liked to point out that fact. This morning, you had waited until you heard Matt go into the bathroom before you even attempted making a quick attempt to get to the kitchen. Bumping into him in the hallway was the last thing you wanted.

You reached his door and racked your knuckles against it, not entirely sure if it was right to do so. You two used to just barge into each others rooms - but that was back then. Back when you were kids, and you basically shared the same brain. Back when there was zero tension, zero boundaries splitting the two of you.

It took a moment before Matt opened the door. He was looking at his shirt as he did so, and you followed his gaze. Your breath hitched.

He wore a white button-up shirt, the top few buttons undone to reveal a tan lick of skin and protruding collar bones that were dazzled with sweat. Along with that he wore some shorts, ripped in the knees and hanging off of his frame loosely.

You swallowed and looked back up, meeting his gaze. It was entirely against your will, and the look in his eyes was enough to make you want to turn and run away, because it was clear he was surprised to see you. His mouth was open a little bit, one hand numbly working at the buttons on his shirt whilst the other gripped the door frame.

“Y/N,” he said, and your name coming from his mouth sounded so foreign, when it shouldn’t have. It shouldn’t have felt that way. It should have been the most natural thing in the world.

“Yeah, hi,” you said speedily. “My dad’s just announced to me that we’re going on a little family hike in the forest. He would like it if you would come.”

Matts features twisted into one of displeasure - it seemed like he was just as shocked about the sudden schedule change as you were.

He sighed nonetheless, leaned his head against the door frame as if he was trying to catch his breath. You didn’t miss the way his hair ruffled up where it joined with the wood, the way his sweat-glistened neck suddenly seemed to pop out at you.

You scowled. Sweat. Gross.

It made you all too aware of the sweat that was no doubt littering your skin, also. You reached up, swiped a hand over the back of your neck. Matt watched you do it, not yet giving you an answer to your request.

You weren’t sure if you needed an answer. If he didn’t want to come, that was his own choice. You didn’t have to stick around to find out.

“Well then,” you said, finally. “I should be going. I need to go get ready for this epic adventure our parents have planned.”

“Of course,” replied Matt. “Me to.” You nodded once, turned to leave. “I’ll see you outside, yeah?”

And for some reason, his question shocked you. You weren’t entirely sure why - it was probably the most innocent question a person could ever ask, and yet it had your heart crawling into your throat as memory after memory scorched itself into your brain.

You swallowed and simply nodded before fleeing from the scene, rushing into your room. You wished there was a bigger distance between you two than just a thin strip of the hallway and a door. You wished you couldn’t hear the intake of breath he took at the way you fled, not even the wood you were now leaning against enough to hide it.

Things were different now. You had to remind yourself of that, no matter how much of a toll it took on you.

“I always thought there was only one type of acorn,” Matt said, stumbling over a log and catching himself against a tree.

Sam grinned. “Just like most of the worlds population, son. But they’re all fools for believing such nonsense.”

You had never seen somebody so interested in acorns. It kept the adults busy, though, which you took as a good thing. It meant you could spend the entire hike moping behind Jamie and Pidge, who were both having a great time stomping on leaves in front of you, despite both of them being fifteen year old teenagers.

The weather had brightened your mood a bit - your dad had been right when he said it wasn’t good to be locked up in the house all day whilst the sun was shining. Your sudden mood shift was direct proof that being out in the sunlight after trapping yourself in the dark confines of a living room was a great lift.

The sun wasn’t enough to shift the tension, though, and you felt it through the majority of the first half of the hike. You had decided to tread along in the back, kicking stray leaves and acorns, gawking at squirrels as if you had never seen one in your entire life. Matt was only a few feet away from you, making a show of clambering over each and every log you came across - it took a great deal for you not to look at him as he did this.

It reminded you of your time with him, back when you were friends. How he would always reach out and place a hand on your shoulder whenever he decided to walk along something that was clearly not meant to be walked on - a bar, a bench, logs. You would always giggle, try and shove him off but whenever he would fall, you would wail and cry as if his pain was your own.

Too scared of getting in trouble.

Looking at him now, realising that that habit had yet to die out of his system made a light feeling glitter in your stomach. He was still the same old Matt - just the same old Matt without you.

“There goes another squirrel!” Colleen exclaimed. “Y/N, you have the camera, right? Get a picture whilst it’s standing still!”

You frowned, having completely forgotten that Colleen and Sam had left you in charge of the photography. It took a moment for your brain to catch up before you noticed the camera hanging around your neck.

“Oh, right!”

You quickly lifted it up and clicked a picture of the grey squirrel that had taken perch on the end of a branch, nibbling away innocently at an acorn it had gathered up in his hands - Sam was quick to inform you that the acorn was a Northern Red Oak acorn. You had thanked him for the information.

“This really is a lovely place,” Pidge said. “I’d forgotten about the forest. Last time we were here, me and Jamie weren’t even allowed to go in here.”

“Without supervision,” Matt corrected. “Y/N and I took you in here all the time whenever you were little.”

“And you used to leave us on our own,” Jamie said. “I remember crying against a tree because I thought I’d heard the witch from Hansel and Grettel.”

“Always such a baby,” you chuckled, ignoring the flame that had ignited in your chest at hearing Matt bring up something from your past.

“It’s not my fault I was six years old and you and Matt insisted that you needed to go and try out the lake water,” said Jamie, and a blush crept upon your cheeks.

“If it helps, it was good lake water,” Matt said. “Right Y/N?”

You nodded, keeping your eyes on the sandals you had decided to wear. The sandals you were gradually beginning to regret wearing due to the amount of thorns and stray branches that were digging into your foot any chance they got.

The pain was easily ignorable whenever your brain was being completely taken up by the fact that Matthew Holt was actually talking about your childhood together as if you two hadn’t fallen out four years prior.

You remembered that day at the lake, as well. You had only been nine years old, not even allowed to enter the forest on your own but you and Matt had seen each other as rebels at that age - you had gathered up your younger siblings as your parents cooked dinner and walked directly into the treeline, disappearing for barely fifteen minutes before Jamie and Pidge’s crying had signalled your parents that you were gone.

During those fifteen minutes, though, you and Matt had managed to strip down to the swim-suits you had hidden beneath your clothing and jump into the cold lake water. It had been an abrupt moment of bliss before you were being grabbed by the arm and dragged out, scolded the entire way home for leaving your little brother to fend for himself.

You hadn’t regretted it by any means, though you had sobbed as your mother yelled at you.

Matt had comforted you afterwards, if you remembered correctly, though bringing up that part of the trip was clearly something Matt wasn’t willing to do.

The hike lasted a long time before Sam suggested taking a picture to commemorate the moment. You lifted up the camera, ready to snap a picture of the trees, or the scenery - anything to remind you of the time you had spent here - but Sam raised his hand before you could.

“Put the timer on,” he ordered. “We should all be in it. We can take it in front of the trees.”

You looked down at your outfit. Perhaps it was the teenage girl in you that wanted to protest as you inspected the sweat-stained tank top, shorts and sandals you were wearing. Though looks had never been something you cared too much about, having a picture forever out there of you drenched in sweat, looking nervous, was not something you were particularly fond of doing.

Hands grabbed at the camera around your neck before you could even attempt to turn the timer on. Your head shot up, eyes meeting with the brown pair belonging to no other than Matt Holt.

His hands were basically on you. On you. Fingertips grazing your collar bones as he worked to get the camera off from around your neck and, for this brief moment, you just kind of stared at him.

Stared, and stared, and stared some more, until-

“Y/N, let him have the camera.”

You let out a yelp as you ducked out from beneath the strap, not realising just how long you had been standing there in shock. Feeling his hands on your skin, as friendly as the action was, had your heartbeat speeding up.

That, plus the embarrassment that was crawling through your system at just how stupid you had just made yourself look.

Matt gave you a warm smile before he worked at putting the timer on. You inhaled deeply as you made your way over to your family and the Holts, who were busy getting into formation beneath a canopy of trees. You took your place at the edge, beside Colleen and behind Jamie. You placed your hand on Jamie’s shoulder, leaned over-

Matt took his place directly beside you, towering over your height. Your breath left you as you felt his warm hand place itself on your hip so he could easily lean over into the frame of the camera.

Your smile turned crooked, face paling just as the flash went off and the picture was being captured forever.

You didn’t even care about your appearance at that point. You stumbled out of the formation, making it look like you were grappling for the camera, making it seem like you didn’t just want out. Out. Away. Away from his grip, that shocking movement of his hand that shouldn’t have meant anything but meant everything.

He had done it so casually. Simply placed his fingers against your curves as he leaned over you, his chin barely grazing the top of your head. It was such an innocent move - once again - but your brain was flipping it over and over, reassessing it, what it meant, why he had done it. Why he wasn’t feeling the same awkwardness as you were.

That was the biggest mystery - whenever you had first arrived, it seemed like Matt was the most awkward out of the both of you. He could barely look you in the eye. He had fled from the dinner table just to get away from hearing about your time without him.

And now here he was, the tables completely turned only three days into the trip. Where you had been the one trying to make polite conversation only two and a half days ago, him being the one to turn red at the sound of your voice, now it was the complete opposite, and you weren’t sure why.

“Great! We all look like models,” you said, flustered. You hadn’t even looked at the picture - you just needed to speak. Say anything that didn’t involve the burning feeling in your side as the ghost of Matt’s fingers refused to leave. “Are we heading home now, dad?”

Your dad frowned, clearly confused by your sudden demeanour change. “I think so. We need to go and get some dinner, but we can always come back tomorrow.”

“That sounds incredible,” you insisted, all too chirpy but you didn’t care. You nodded one last time, span on your heel and said, “Let’s go home, then.” And then you were rushing away from the group, trying to catch your breath the entire time.

You hadn’t gotten very far before somebody had caught up to you and was walking beside you in silence.

You knew who it was without looking. Knew why he was here, why he was walking beside you - you had freaked out and he had to have known why. It must have startled him, your reaction to such a simple gesture that meant close to nothing to everybody else.

Matt had his hands stuffed in the pockets of his shorts as you slowed your pace, not wanting to make it seem like you were trying to flee from him, despite that being exactly what you had been trying to do. You could smell the freshly-mown grass scent coming off of him, now mixed in with the smell of vanilla body wash from his shower he had taken that morning.

His presence wasn’t comforting any more. It had your heartbeat racing in an emotion you could only call panic and nerves - nerves at things being awkward again. Nerves at him bringing up the past, making you explain yourself whenever you really, really didn’t want to.

There were some things that even best friends had to keep from each other. And sometimes, those necessary secrets tore you apart.

“Sorry if I made you uncomfortable,” he said suddenly. His voice didn’t sound weak or strained - he didn’t sound apologetic at all.

You turned to look at him, mouth pulled into a thin line. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“The hand on your hip. I’m sorry if that - If that was too far. I truly didn’t mean anything by it. I just wanted to get in the picture.”

Whenever he put it like that, you realised just how badly you had over-exaggerated. You bit down on your lip, closed your eyes for a moment before sighing.

“I know you didn’t mean anything by it. It didn’t make me uncomfortable, either.”

He nodded. A stiff gesture of understanding. “Well then, good. That’s all that matters.”

“That I’m comfortable?”

“That you didn’t get the wrong idea.”

Your stomach churned. You tried to ignore it, instead opting to stuff your hands in your pockets, clenching at the material to calm your nerves.

“I don’t want this entire trip to be us tip-toeing around each other,” he continued. You had dreaded this moment. You knew it was coming, just by the way he carried himself, but it didn’t dull the horror that washed over you. “I want to enjoy myself before I have to go back to school.”

You didn’t miss the way he refused to say The Garrison.

“So we need to find some kind of level ground with one another before we ruin the trip for everybody else, as well. If you want to talk to me about what happened-”

“We don’t have anything to talk about,” you cut him off. Your voice came out sharper than you had anticipated, but you didn’t reel it back in. “We were fourteen, Matt. What happened back then has nothing to do with who we are now - I don’t think you’re a douchebag, and I really hope you don’t see me as a bitch at this point, because-”

“Of course I don’t see you as a bitch.” You saw his fingers twitch in his pockets, a clear sign he wanted to reach out and grab a hold of you, but he refrained from doing so. “You’re right. Fourteen-year-old-us is in the past now. We shouldn’t base each others personalities off of that.”

You nodded. “Agreed.”

“But.” You frowned, turning to look at him. “I would like to get to know eighteen-year-old Y/N L/N. See how much has changed about you.”

Your chest clenched. It wasn’t that you had been dreading that suggestion - it sounded quite pleasant. To sit down with your old best friend and try to rekindle something - anything - from the past friendship you had once had. But the idea of sitting down with him, hearing him talk about the Garrison, how he was piloting fighter planes and rockets every other weekend whilst you were trapped in a classroom in a off-budget college, studying the human brain and body for your second year in a row.

It was a stupid worry, you knew. If there was anything you knew about Matt, it was that he didn’t judge people based on things like that. Just because, to you, he was living a better, more exciting life, didn’t mean yours was any less praise worthy.

And yet you felt a surge of self-consciousness run through you at the idea of it. You had had such high dreams once, and you had shared them with Matt multiple times when you two were friends.

Now, you were just trying to get through college so you could figure out something to do afterwards.

You swallowed thickly and nodded anyway. “That sounds nice. I’d like to get to know eighteen-year-old you as well.”

Matt smiled. It was contagious, and you found yourself smiling back at him. “It’s a date.”

And with that, Pidge had called her older brothers name and Matt had deserted you to go and look at the centipede Pidge and Jamie found so interesting.

Your heart pulled in your chest. Your hands were tight around the camera dangling around your neck, and it took everything in your power not to completely and outwardly scold yourself for just how awkward you were around him. It didn’t feel right. After nearly fourteen years of friendship with him, with him being your rock and your world for so long, it felt wrong to get butterflies whenever he stood beside you, felt wrong to feel so helpless and so awkward and so stuck whenever he spoke to you.

Maybe this conversation would help. This catching up he had planned. Maybe then you two could find some middle ground, could sort out some things that had been said four years ago that you would take back in a heartbeat if you had the chance to now.

Maybe you and Matt could work something out at the end of the day.

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Scientists find new, long-hypothesized material state with signature of quantum disordered liquid-like magnetic moments

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Scientists find new, long-hypothesized material state with signature of quantum disordered liquid-like magnetic moments

Artist’s concept depicting magnetic moments having fluctuating alignments 120 degrees different from those of their neighbors. Credit: Lilli McKinney

The future of technology relies, to a great extent, on new materials, but the work of developing those materials begins years before any specific application for them is known. Stephen Wilson, a professor of materials in UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering, works in that “long before” realm, seeking to create new materials that exhibit desirable new states.

In the paper “Field-tunable quantum disordered ground state in the triangular-lattice antiferromagnet NaYbO2,” published in the journal Nature Physics, Wilson and colleagues Leon Balents, of the campus’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, and Mark Sherwin, a professor in the Department of Physics, describe their discovery of a long-sought “quantum spin liquid state” in the material NaYbO2 (sodium ytterbium oxide). The study was led by materials student Mitchell Bordelon and also involved physics students Chunxiao Liu, Marzieh Kavand and Yuanqi Lyu, and undergraduate chemistry student Lorenzo Posthuma, as well as collaborators at Boston College and at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.

At the atomic level, electrons in one material’s lattice structure behave differently, both individually and collectively, from those in another material. Specifically, the “spin,” or the electron’s intrinsic magnetic moment (akin to an innate bar magnet) and its tendency to communicate and coordinate with the magnetic moments of nearby electrons differs by material. Various types of spin systems and collective patterns of ordering of these moments are known to occur, and materials scientists are ever seeking new ones, including those that have been hypothesized but not yet shown to exist.

“There are certain, more classical moments that let you know to a very high degree of certainty that the spin is pointing in a particular direction,” Wilson explained. “In those, the quantum effects are small. But there are certain moments where the quantum effects are large, and you can’t precisely orient the spin, so there is uncertainty, which we call ‘quantum fluctuation.'”

Quantum magnetic states are those in which the magnetism of a material is primarily driven by such quantum fluctuations, generally derived from the uncertainty principle, intrinsic to magnetic moments. “So, you envision a magnetic moment, but the uncertainty principle says that I can’t perfectly orient that in any one direction,” Wilson noted.

Explaining the quantum spin liquid state, which was proposed long ago and is the subject of this paper, Wilson said, “In conventional materials, the magnetic moments talk to one another and want to orient relative to one another to form some pattern of order.” In classical materials, this order is disrupted by thermal fluctuations, what Wilson describes as “just heat from the environment.”

“If the material is warm enough, it is nonmagnetic, meaning the moments are all sort of jumbled relative to one another,” he explained. “Once the material is cooled, the moments start to communicate, such that their connection to one another outcompetes the thermal fluctuations and they form an ordered state. That’s classical magnetism.”

But things are different in the quantum world, and magnetic moments that fluctuate can actually be the inherent “ground state” of a material.

“So, you can ask if there is a magnetic state in which the moments are precluded from freezing or forming some pattern of long-range order relative to one another, not by thermal fluctuations, but instead, by quantum fluctuations,” Wilson said. “Quantum fluctuations become more relevant as a material cools, while thermal fluctuations increase as it heats up, so you want to find a magnet that doesn’t order until you can get it cool enough such that the quantum fluctuations preclude it from ever ordering.”

That quantum disorder is desirable because it is associated with entanglement, the quantum mechanical quality that makes it possible to encode quantum information. To determine whether NaYbO2 might exhibit that characteristic, the researchers had to determine the intrinsic, or ground state of the material’s magnetic moments when all thermal fluctuations are removed. In this particular system, Wilson was able to determine experimentally that the magnetic moments are intrinsically in a fluctuating, disordered state, thus confirming that a quantum disordered state exists.

To find the hypothesized state, said Wilson, “First you have to put highly quantum magnetic moments into a material, but your material needs to be constructed such that the moments don’t want to order. You do that by using the principle of ‘magnetic frustration.'”

A simple way to think of that, according to Wilson, is to imagine a single triangle in the lattice structure of the material. “Let’s say I build my material so that the magnetic moments are all located on a triangular lattice,” he said, “and they all talk to one another in a way that has them wanting to orient antiferromagnetically, or antiparallel, to one another.”

In that arrangement, any adjacent moment on the triangle wants to orient antiparallel to its neighbor. But because there are an odd number of points, you have one up at one point and one down (antiparallel to the first) at the second point, meaning that the third moment has a differently oriented moment on each side, so it doesn’t know what to do. All of the moments are competing with one another.

“That’s magnetic frustration, and, as it turns out, it reduces the temperature at which the moments are finally able to find some arrangement they all agree on,” Wilson said. “So, for instance, classically, nature decides that at some temperature the mismatched moments agree that they will all point to 120 degrees relative to each other. So they’re not all 100 percent happy but it’s some compromise that establishes an ordered state.”

From there, he added, “The idea is to take a frustrated lattice where you have already suppressed the ordered state, and add quantum fluctuations to it, which take over as you cool the material. Magnetic frustration lowers the ordering temperature enough so that quantum fluctuations eventually take over and the system can stabilize into a fundamentally disordered quantum spin state.”

Wilson continued: “That’s the paradigm of what people are looking for; however, some materials may seem to display this state when actually, they don’t. For instance, all real materials have disorder, such as chemical or structural disorder, and this can also prevent the magnetic moments from talking to each other effectively and becoming ordered. In such a case, Wilson says, “They might form a disordered state, but it’s more of a frozen, or static, disordered state than it is a dynamic quantum state.

“So, if I have a magnetic system that doesn’t order at the lowest temperatures I can measure, it can be tricky trying to understand whether what I’m measuring is an intrinsic quantum spin liquid fluctuating type of state or a frozen, extrinsic, chemically driven disordered state. That is always debated.”

Among the most interesting findings about this new material, Wilson said, is that even at the lowest measurable temperature—.005 degree Centigrade above absolute zero—it still doesn’t order.

“However, in this material we can also apply a magnetic field, which breaks this competition engendered by magnetic frustration, and then we can drive it to order, inducing a special kind of antiferromagnetic state,” he added. “The reason that’s important is because this special state is very delicate and a very good fingerprint for how much chemical disorder there is in the system and its influence on the magnetic ground state. The fact that we can drive this field-driven state tells us that the disordered state we see at low temperature with zero magnetic field is indeed an intrinsically quantum disordered state, consistent with being a quantum spin liquid state.”

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The Spokane Diaries 03.30.2019

A lot has happened to the moving plan. And currently the plan could best be described as a vague, amorphous thing, with no clear destination, and too many tear-stained exclamation points. So I think it wise if I pause for a minute to summarize everything that’s happened up till now, with all its context, the choices we made and events which befell us.

When the plan was first formed, we immediately picked the city of Spokane, Washington to move to. It was just the right size; big enough to have everything we need, small enough not to have traffic. Decent amount of snow each year. Not next to a mountain, but a river with a gorgeous waterfall runs through it, and you can take a cable gondola ride across it. It hosted a world’s fair in the 70s, and some of those constructions remain. It has very friendly pot laws--just go in, show your ID, buy your pot.

Then, cause I’m such a genius, it occured to me that we’d picked Spokane kind of quickly, and mostly because we’d just visited Seattle, and this seemed an affordable Seattle. Perhaps, I wondered aloud, we should take a moment to consider the possibility of non-Spokane, of a different city entirely. Surely we didn’t pick the perfect place on the first attempt without even considering the rest of the lower 48, right? What might happen if we think outside the Spokane box?

A good deal of the filtering and decision-making about possible places for relocation occurs quickly and automatically. We don’t want to live anyplace that doesn’t get a decent amount of snow each year, so the bottom half of the country is therefore immediately discarded. We don’t want to live in a state that doesn’t allow recreational weed. We want natural beauty, or at least some sort of geographical or geological feature that makes it a winner. And it had to be affordable; we want to be able to afford living there and save for our dreams simultaneously.

For a period, Bangor Maine ruled the roost. It’s cold. It’s got New England natural beauty, and touches Canada, America’s hat, that country full of nice people who will never shoot you. Stephen King lives part time in a mansion in Bangor; you can take a picture of yourself standing at its spooky wrought-iron gates. It’s affordability was so-so, but it was on the eastern seaboard, less than a day’s drive to places like Boston, which was incredible! And hey, there’s always a chance you might be getting drywall screws at the hardware store and bump into Stephen King and get a selfie with the best-selling horror author ever! No mountains nearby, but...New England! Think of being there in the fall, when the leaves change color. Find a highway that’s not too heavily travelled and go driving in October and take pictures of the red, orange, and gold trees.

Problems began cropping up. The fact that the affordability was “so-so” didn’t help, and while Maine has legalized pot, political wrangling (and the endeavor’s own inherent complexity) have created a situation where dispensaries are not open for business yet, and I can’t tell when they will be.

And if anyone reading this doesn’t know about my relationship with pot, here it is: I have one, and I don’t particularly like living someplace where it’s banned for foolish reasons, such as:

It’s a gateway drug! (Then so is milk, and watching TV, and breathing air. Post hoc ergo propter hoc, dumbasses. You can’t even make that argument with alcohol, which actually can kill you.)

It robs you of your ambition! (Kinda, in that it softens the effects of certain unpleasant realities which I determine can’t be changed, and makes them easier to live with.)

It’s bad for you! (So are bacon and lethargy. That’s my decision to make, not someone else’s.)

It feeds a system whereby people are enslaved, brutalized, and killed! (No, the fact that it’s illegal feeds it. Make it legal, and no one ever shoots anyone over it again.)

Think of the children! (To quote George Carlin, fuck the children. Or possibly give them weed, too. You know how much less trauma I’d have suffered in high school if they’d had a weed club? I could have been networking in high school, for chrissakes. I might even have gone to a better college.)

Pardon that diversion. So, when last we checked, the husband and I were considering Bangor, Maine to be a possibility, but not necessarily the front-runner. What other places could we consider? Friends made suggestions; we checked them out. An early favorite was Marquette, Michigan.

Ah, lovely Marquette. It’s a picture postcard lakeside beauty. It sits on Lake Superior, and has the largest wooden dome--The Superior Dome--in the (country? known universe?). It was a small town, but it had a university and a pride parade, so it wasn’t that unfortunate squalid reactionary kind of small town. It’s beautiful in the fall, even though the fall only lasts a week. And it has that natural beauty/interesting feature we wanted, Lake Superior. With a lake that big, it’s just as good as living on the ocean, in that you can’t see anything but water all the way to the horizon, but without hurricanes. And Marquette was very affordable, best affordability of all considerations so far.

Couple of problems. Weed was just made legal by vote, but no dispensaries yet, and that could take a couple of years. And because Marquette is such a small town, with a population south of 21,000, we grew worried about our ability to find jobs. And then there was the snow.

Marquette gets about 200 inches of snow per year. One may immediately think, “Okay, well, then at least it’s less than 200 most years, right? Like 150 some years?” This year, Marquette had over 200 inches before the end of February, and they have snow as late as May. Let’s say they don’t get much more this year, and end up with 215 inches of snow per this year. That’s EIGHTEEN FEET of snow. I would sum up the first year of such conditions with, “Wow, cool! That’s a ton of snow!” And years two through infinity would be, “Holy fuck, please make it stop snowing!”

By this point, we had started with Spokane, changed our minds to Bangor, changed our minds again to definitely Marquette, then to maybe Marquette, and then all the wheels came off.

The year 2019 began, and it began poorly: the government was shut down, and because he was deemed essential, Zach was forced to continue working (for the IRS!) for no pay. Then he had a traffic accident--for him, a mountain of trauma, stress, and unwanted interaction--and his car was deemed a total loss. And the title wasn’t in his name. And his parents had to sign and notarize things, and he wasn’t close with them at the time, and they live in Montana.

All this stuff results in many extra hours of Bad Brain, lots of anger, and self-recrimination, and stress, and paperwork and interacting with potentially unpleasant people who may give you the help you need, and may not! Meanwhile, we have to keep working. Have to keep paying the bills. Have to keep making music (him) and trying not to subconsciously steer every moving plan we formulate into the rocky, prickly pear-studded embankment of failure with depressed second-guessing (me).

This brings us to a couple of weeks ago. We still have not been paid for Zach’s car by our insurance company, because of the many steps required to get the car titled in Zach’s name, all of which require signing and notarization, some here, some in Montana. And then, my brain decided to throw this out there: We’ve been to Denver. They have weed. They have mountains. They have snow, and jobs, and they’re closer! It’s under a hundo to fly there, and the flight is just over two hours. Easier to move to; easier to visit. In fact, specifically we chose Boulder. It features more snow and fewer traffic jams than Denver, though we could commute to Denver, if necessary for work.

Then, would you believe, problems. Boulder (and Denver, to a lesser extent) are not very affordable at all. It’s just right in every other aspect, but in price, it’s ungood. We’d have to spend maybe $100 less per month on rent there than here in Austin. In Marquette, with a little luck, we could spend $500 less. Think what we could do to Zach’s student loan bills with that shit! Think of the medical care and dentistry and car repairs and utility bills we could afford with that! None of that happens if we choose Boulder. We get mountains, but we pay dearly for them.

Now, to step back a smidge, consider this: I know that there will be problems with any choice we make. We’re not going to make a choice that results in us driving a U-Haul from our microscopic apartment in Austin to a mansion in Shangri-La. And I figure there’s pretty much one thing that’ll soften this transition: money. How much sounds like enough? Here’s how I tend to think of it: I’m about to do something that will involve me hanging from a rope tied to a loose branch over a thousand-foot chasm, and the only thing I’ll be able to influence is how good a rope it’s going to be. How much am I willing to pay to make sure the rope won’t fail? What if a $100 rope isn’t nearly as good as a $1,000 rope? What if the best rope you can get costs $10,000. Are you willing to spend less than that, if there’s even a chance you could save it up? ($10,000 is what we’re aiming for, by the way.)

Something tells me there’s an easier solution to this conundrum, but it may be prohibitively difficult to find. Like...the perfect mate exists, but unfortunately, he/she/whoever lives in Turkmenistan and there’s absolutely ZERO chance that you’ll ever be within a thousand miles of ‘em, literally or figuratively. But! There’s always the chance that someone reading this may think, “Well, the solution is obvious; you just need to ignore concern X and move to city Y, and you’re kind of a dumbass for not figuring that out yourself.” The choices, then, are to ignore our concerns about weather, jobs, weed, ease to relocate to, distance from Austin, etc. and just move to Boulder, Colorado, Marquette, Michigan, Bangor, Maine, Spokane, Washington, Rapid City, South Dakota, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan (its capital!), or someplace else. Bam. Book it. Done.

This is a lot of the reason why I’ve been depressed recently: because I had a big, fat, beautiful GOAL for a while, and it got turned into a big, distressing, confusion. The best idea we’ve had so far to decide how to approach it? We’re going to save up and visit Boulder. Then we’re going to save up and visit Spokane or Marquette or Bangor. We’ll go to the places. We’ll observe our reactions. We’ll try to smart-decide instead of dumb-decide. We’ll be open to suggestions.

Marquette, Michigan

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badbackgroundscience · 7 years ago

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So, what emotion(s) does the Mandarin need to use for his power rings?

You might think by the opening panel to this comic that Iron Man is shrunken by a caricatured* evil Chinese man in this issue.

You’d be wrong.

Some Pentagon generals ask Iron Man (not Tony) to go to “Red China” (It’s always called “Red China”...We get it, Stan, they’re communists...) and gather intel on some character called the Mandarin, who is rumored to be the “greatest single power in that nation”. Iron Man literally drops into the country, takes out some (questionably drawn) guards, and accidentally gets caught by, of all things Iron Man could possibly get caught by, a giant magnet.

[This magnet ray gun thing is powered by one of the Mandarin’s ten power rings, which are very different from what I normally think of when I hear the phrase “power ring”. In this issue, we’re shown four of his ten powers: he can make things vanish (including himself), levitate giant rocks, cause paralysis, emit loud sound waves, and...power a giant magnet. These are obviously expanded upon in later issues, but as of now, we have no idea what the rings are made of, how they work, or what the others do.]

Re: Tony’s speech bubble, there actually are multiple forms of magnetic attraction, though whether or not Stan and Co. knew that is up for debate.

On an atomic level, you have electrons buzzing around nuclei. Sometimes those electrons are involved in bonds, sometimes they’ve been donated into a communal sea and can easily move from one atom to another (This is what makes metals conductive), and sometimes they’re just doin’ their own thing. But they’re all negatively charged, and do you know what happens when charge moves?

You get a magnetic field. This is a consequence of relativity, and we don’t have time to get into it, now. But the important thing to walk away with is that each electron acts like a teeny tiny magnet.

Normally the electrons buzzing around are doing so in completely random directions, so if you have a lump of substance, the teeny tiny magnetic fields are pointing in all directions and cancel each other out, so there’s no net magnetic field.

Compounds we call non-magnetic actually come in two flavors: diamagnetic and paramagnetic. The effects (”diamagnetism” and “paramagnetism”) only show up when our lump is placed inside an external magnetic field which is why we think of them as non-magnetic.

Diamagnetic materials are repulsed by an external magnetic field - their electrons all reorient themselves so their magnetic fields are pointing the opposite direction. Paramagnetic materials are attracted to the source emitting the field - some of their electrons*** express diamagnetism, but some align in the same direction of the field and express paramagnetism, which is a stronger effect.

[Science demo note: If you cool oxygen gas enough to turn it into a liquid, you can pour it between two magnets and observe paramagnetic attraction in action:]

Ferromagnetism is what we traditionally think of as plain ‘ol magnetism. Unlike paramagnetic materials, they get to take advantage of an additional quirk of quantum mechanics. A group of atoms anywhere from .1 mm to a few mm***** in size will basically walk in lockstep acting as one ‘domain’ with its own (more intense) magnet; many domains make a lump of ferromagnetic material. When domains are randomly oriented, the lump of iron or cobalt or whatever isn’t magnetized. But an external magnetic field will cause each of the domains to point in one direction, parallel to that external field. That’ll produce a much stronger magnet than you would get from paramagnetism.

Ferromagnetic materials are capable of maintaining a permanent magnet field on their own, though high enough temperatures (material-dependent) or whacking it with a hammer (RIP MCU!Mjolnir) will cause many of the domains to randomize their orientations, effectively causing the lump to no longer be magnetic.

But while they’re a magnet, you have your standard “opposite poles attract, same poles repel” effect kids learn about in school or from decades old episodes of Bill Nye the Science Guy. Meanwhile, a paramagnetic substance can’t retain any latent magnetism, so it will always be attracted to another magnet, no matter which pole is pointing at it (Likewise, a diamagnetic substance will always be repelled no matter which pole is pointing at it).

Gold is diamagnetic, so the yellow bits of Tony’s suit are (assuming they are gold) weakly repelled by the Mandarin’s device. But this panel does at least tell us the rest of his suit isn’t diamagnetic. Or maybe it is, and the Mandarin violates the laws of physics more than his magic rings already allow him to do.

As for how the Mandarin’s machine may or may not work, magnetic fields don’t have to be made using lumps of matter. We can construct “temporary” magnets that use electric currents. Because all you need is flowing charge, you can take a wire, coil it up so it looks like a spring, and let a current flow through it. You’ll get a magnetic field that resembles the field produced by your traditional iron bar magnet.`* That being said, it’ll be stronger if you have a rod of iron (e.g.) in the middle.

You can also use flat metal plates in lieu of wire, stacking them so they make a helical shape (A hole in the middle is where the magnetic field gets concentrated, and the plates are all stamped with smaller holes all over so they can run coolant through the system).

Other examples of these “electromagnets”? The system that makes maglev trains a thing. The system that allows recording on magnetic tape and computer hard drives. Those magnets that pick up cars in junk yards. Those magnets that make your fake perpetual motion desk toy spin around. I mean, they’re everywhere these days with all the technology we surround ourselves with. Ever wondered how an electric doorbell works? Boom. Electromagnet.

All these are examples of “resistive magnets”. The other type of electromagnet is the “superconductive magnet”, which requires cooling by liquid helium to bring the material the electricity is flowing through to such a low temperature it loses all electrical resistivity. Essentially, the electrons don’t experience any friction as they move, so they don’t lose any energy. That makes superconductor magnets cheaper to operate electricity bill-wise, but you’re paying out the nose for the helium...which the planet is running out of...

The current record for the world’s strongest electromagnet (that can run continuously, as opposed to a fraction of a second) is the 45 Tesla Hybrid Magnet at The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Florida, a diagram of which you can see above.`** It combines a 11.5-T superconducting magnet with a 33.5-T resistive magnet to get that 45, which is about 30 times stronger than the strongest permanent magnets. It costs $1,452 an hour to operate and takes 6 weeks to ‘warm up’ (during which time it’s actually cooling down).

All this fun science info aside, I do wonder why Stan didn’t just make the Mandarin’s ring powerful enough to generate a magnetic field that could pull Iron Man in on its own.

The magnet ray deposits Iron Man in a granite-walled chamber, whose walls pull a The Pit and the Pendulum - not the heating up part, just the closing in part. Tony claims he can’t make a dent in the rock, apparently having gotten rid of his “diamond drills that can penetrate the toughest rock” from that time he fought a never-dead mummy in ancient Egypt in this new version of his suit (That was a poor decision, Tony). But he just flies out an air vent and fights the baddie for a bit.

Tony tries knocking him out with some sort of high-frequency music (at least it should be music, given the eighth notes in the panel), but the Mandarin cancels that wave out with one of his own.

I’m going to ignore the question of how “high” their frequencies actually are, as well as Tony’s claim that nothing can escape his blast (Sound, you may recall, doesn’t propagate in a vacuum, so there’s a whole class of exceptions, there) and instead focus on the Mandarin’s claim that two high frequency waves nullify each other. That is true...under one specific condition. They have to be the same frequency, and the same amplitude, and one has to be perfectly out of phase with the other (You can play around with different settings here).

If the waves are identical, they’ll just add together, which is something neither of the men want.

This ‘nullification’ is how noise canceling headphones work, i.e. it works for any sound wave, not just high frequency ones.

This is also how wave interference works in general.

Iron Man loses battle #1, and the Mandarin decides the best way to finish the job is use his karate skills. Because he not only has a bunch of power rings, he’s also the “greatest karate master the world has ever known”.

[Fun fact: while Karate is thought of as a Japanese martial art, it actually comes from the Ryukyu islands, which Japan annexed in the late 19th century. The martial art itself was developed under a lot of Chinese influence, but it’s obviously evolved since then, and there are a bunch of different types. So it’s not necessarily the writer conflating all East Asian martial arts...]

Iron Man beats him with a "built-in slide-rule calculator” (which I find absolutely hilarious) and geometry.

If you want a quick fact check on that “at an angle of 38 degrees, the velocity decreases by 52%” claim, well, we don’t really know what Tony’s talking about. Does he mean the Mandarin’s strike will somehow travel more slowly if Tony raises his arm just a bit higher? Unlikely, as the angle is clearly the important part.`*** I want to imagine Tony really means a glancing blow would be less injurious, which is true. Force depends on a change in velocity, not the velocity itself, so a blow where the Mandarin’s fist doesn’t slow to zero would mean less force gets applied to Tony.`**** That’s more likely to happen if he angles his arm.

Let’s pretend for a moment the Mandarin’s strike wasn’t completely halted, as the bottom middle panel suggests. Say the Mandarin’s hand strikes Tony’s arm (which has been tilted by 38 degrees), and keeps going along it. The Mandarin’s velocity vector would change direction by ~52 degrees (Is that where Stan got the 52 number? 90 minus 38? No Stan, no. That’s not how vectors work...).

Like so:

Unfortunately, just knowing that angle doesn’t tell us how much the Mandarin’s fist will slow down by. It depends on the kind of collision that happens - how much energy is lost. If it’s an elastic collision and no kinetic energy were lost (which clearly is not the case), we could get the change in impact force just from the angle. It’d be about 88% the original (i.e. reduced by 12%). If you wanted a 52% reduction, the angle of deflection would need to be ~24.25 degrees, meaning Tony would have to rotate 66 degrees, not 38.

But again, that 38 could reference a completely different angle, just one part of a many-step calculation Tony has to do with his head and a slide-rule. Because our weapons manufacturer hasn’t figured out how to shrink a computer down to fit into his suit, yet.

The comic ends on the next page, with Tony catching a plane out of China and showing up late to a party for his employees he’d previously said he wouldn’t be able to make.

That makes him a slightly better superhero alter ego than those that promise they’ll do something and don’t (*cough* Peter *cough*).

* It’s the 60s, so seeing some pretty racist depictions of non-Western ethnic groups is unfortunately unsurprising. Stereotypical negative depictions of the Other** continue to this day, though the ones that propagate mainstream media aren’t usually so...obvious? Is that the right word?

I don’t know how more modern portrayals of the Mandarin (outside of Iron Man 3, which I will acknowledge as...existing) go, but I assume they’ve toned it down.

** No, not the Others from ASOIAF -- people who aren’t like you, be it because of different culture, ethnicity, religion, gender, orientation, etc.

*** Specifically, the ones that are paired. When you’re dropping electrons into their orbits around an atom’s nucleus, depending on the total number, some of them will pair up (with one having an ‘up’ spin and one having a ‘down’ spin****). Some of them won’t. When two atoms bond with one another, unpaired electrons might end up paired (e.g. water), and they might not (e.g. oxygen gas).

**** They’re not actually spinning; it’s an analogy.

***** That’s really big when you consider how tiny atoms are...

`* Usually the coil of wire is wrapped around a ferromagnetic material to amplify the result.

`** Despite its size, the bore hole (i.e. the hole you actually put samples in for study) is a whopping 32 mm.

`*** He does say in a later panel “...insuring that his [the Mandarin’s] hand would strike [him] at the wrong angle”.

`**** If an object bounces at too high a angle, >60 degrees, it’ll actually impart more force.

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Red Dawn: The audio series. Casting for Episode 1. Male/Female needed.

Project: Red Dawn: The audio series. A modern retelling of the 1984 film. This version is much different and based in the near future. This is an unpaid project which will be available as free digital downloads. Roles Needed: I will be needing British voices as well as American. If you can also fake a Russian accent, you'd be welcome. Auditions are for the following characters: Jen Matt Robert Mr. Eckert Mr. Morris Mr. Teasdale All are open. Deadline for auditions is June 15th. Send them to: [email protected] I'll just explain the story as it is now. In the near future, Europe is in absolute chaos due to incompetent, traitorous leadership that has flooded the continent with third world migrants and refugees. Native born Europeans are being bled dry by the lavish welfare being paid to foreigners. They are being displaced, both by the influx and by force of governments. Crimes of all kinds are out of control and those in charge all but tap the wrists of those responsible while severely punishing their own citizens for even speaking out about the chaos. Rape, murder and bombings are an every day occurrence. Russia, having enacted a zero migrant settlement policy, does not suffer these problems. As the continent sinks into hell, the people cry out for salvation from their own mistakes. America refuses to help. President Trump, in his second term, tells the Europeans "twice in a century was enough" and that they made their own mess and have to clean it up themselves. Enraged, and desperate, Europe turns to Russia. Russia proposes a united Europe unlike the EU. They would become one nation, stronger together. The movement rapidly grows. Within a year Migrants have self deported themselves or been forced out. China, having suffered political problems of its own, asks the new European nation for help. Shortly thereafter, China becomes an ally of the European nation. It's ties with America had degraded for some time as their economy faltered, and the American economy recovered. Japan also joins forces with the new nation after Russia, using new technology, were able to finally eradicate the radiation caused by Fukushima. The Japanese people were eager to return the favor to their new friends. The North Korean regime collapses after violent uprisings topple the dictatorship. America pulls out of south Korea as the two enemies unite as one Korea, but become strong allies of America as they are wary of the new European nation and it's intentions. Mexico has severed all but diplomatic ties to America since the construction of the border wall that separated the nations, and Mexico suffered terribly when the flow of US currency stopped from illegal immigrants sending money to Mexico. The US media, despite it's long questionable ability to tell the truth, calls the situation in Europe "Red Dawn" as the new nation adopts a flag all to reminiscent of the soviet union. This flag has not the hammer and sickle, but the Russian AK47 and medieval sword. Canada remains neutral, dealing with it's own problems thanks to Trudeau's equally damaging immigration policy which imported millions of middle Easterners. Sentiment among Canadians, who also have been bearing long term financial burdens of welfare to foreigners and massive increases in crimes committed by migrants, have become hostile towards their own government. Revolution in Canada seems inevitable. Still, their relationship with America is the strongest of any of America's allies besides Korea. On a hot summer day in July, an American aircraft carrier is destroyed in the Persian gulf. Iran is immediately blamed by US media even before any claim of responsibility is made. Within hours the united states declares all out war. A massive military effort is launched, but what no one knows is that the true culprits of the attack were counting on such a massive US military response. Nato dissolves. America now stands alone. September. On a cool early fall morning a computer virus that had quietly spread all over the internet is activated. Every computer system in the united states that had access to the internet was locked out and disabled. Within hours the entire country was disabled. Computers and smart phones were useless. Television networks shut down. Banks were incapable of functioning. Grocery stores couldn't process anything but cash. The American public, dependent on their devices, have no idea what's about to happen. It's dawn in America. Set in Calumet, Colorado and described as a place identical to Ober Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Red Dawn tells the story of young, unexceptional American kids who must put their old lives of updating facebook and tweeting selfies of themselves away and pick up a weapon to fight for their homes and families. This series is meant to be an audio based retelling of the story, only very different. It does not in any way resemble that horrible remake. This is also meant to be a project like Alien: out of the shadows which was an audio movie type of production. Characters: Jen "Jennifer" Eckert. Late teens, pretty blonde girl next door cheerleader type. Jen works, or rather worked a job at an amusement park owned by "some old celebrity" practically no one her age has even heard of. Like any girl her age, she'd rather be doing something else. With work cancelled, and seemingly nothing to do till the computers work again, Jen thinks it'll just be a day off. But when the invasion begins, she'll find her day off to be only the start of a very, very long day. Jen becomes leader of the Wolverines by using her ability to remain calm and focused in combat situations. Her strength will see her scrappy band of freedom fighters cause unrelenting chaos to their enemy. Matt "Matty" Eckert. Younger than his sister, quarter back in high school type. Jen's Brother is not as cool headed as his sister, but his ability to charge into trouble will aid the wolverines to victory when defeat seems certain. A high school football champ, Matt will be at his sisters side for the fight and will find that all the differences they had before mean nothing now that they are the only blood family they have left. Jen and Matt's parents both die in the occupation. Their mother dies from lack of treatment for her Cancer. Their father is executed for being an Iraq war veteran, and deemed a potential terrorist threat. Their family farm and ranch is taken over by the occupiers, and Jen and Matt eventually burn it down themselves to deny the enemy a vital resource. Robert. Matt's friend. Robert is the son of of a general store owner. His father is executed for aiding terrorists by supplying the wolverines with guns and supplies. Robert is a merciless killer, going as far as to execute collaborators personally even if he knew them before the war. There are others, but these are most important for now. What's red dawn without some propaganda? I need two young males, one female, and three older sounding males for episode 1. As well as BRITISH voices. There are some Brit paratroopers who get creamed by Jen's truck. If you can do multiple roles and sound different I am all for that. You MUST have HQ audio, minimal to NO BACKGROUND NOISE. In other words, if it sounds like you recorded it on a phone in the middle of traffic, no thank you. I'd like authentic British voices for the British characters, but if you can fake it I'll take it. Audition lines: Jen: (Angry with her brother, arguing over a busted hose in her truck.) MATT Thing's rusted to crap, Jen, didn't you ever think about fixing it? No, Matty, I never thought about fixing it because I'm always riding around in my Ferrari. I only drive dad's old truck because I don't want my real car to get dirty. (Explaining why they have to stay in the mountains during the invasion.) We might be up here a while and you need to be prepared for that. The good news is our daddy brought us out here countless times growing up. We can hunt, fish, get water to keep us alive. Everything we need is here. We don't touch all the stuff we brought, we keep it for emergency use. We have to live off the land as much as we can until this is over and we can go home. Matt: It's the game of life. It's hard to play, and you're gonna lose it anyway. ROBERT Your sister's hot you know. No, I don't know. And don't even think about her like that or I'll give you a worse ass kickin' than we got on the field last night. Come on, we're almost late for history class. Robert: Matt, she might think we can stay here but I can't. I'm not like you, I hate camping. Go to my fathers store just outside of town, drop me off there. (watching an attacking helicopter.) Be ours! Please, god, be ours! Feel free to send in any other demos, http://dlvr.it/PHW9lJ www.voiceacting.space

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Has the age of quantum pc computing arrived?

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Has the age of quantum pc computing arrived?

In the 1830s, PC science has been attempting very tough to race ahead of its time. Particularly during the last seventy-five years, there had been many astounding traits – the first digital programmable laptop, the first incorporated circuit computer, the primary microprocessor. However, the next predicted step may be the maximum innovative of all. Quantum computing is the next thing for Pc.

Quantum computing is the generation that many scientists, marketers and big groups expect to provide a, properly, quantum soar into the destiny. In case you’ve in no way heard of it there’s a useful video doing the social media rounds that have got a couple of million hits on YouTube. It functions the Canadian top minister, Justin Trudeau, detailing precisely what quantum computing method.

Quantum Computing

The concept of quantum computing is rather new, relationship back to thoughts put forward within the early Nineteen Eighties through the late Richard Feynman, the first-rate American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. He conceptualised the viable improvements in speed that might be done with a quantum PC. But theoretical physics, while an essential first step, leaves the real brainwork to practical application.

Trudeau was on a current visit to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, one of the international’s leading centres for the study of the field. For the duration of a press conference there, a reporter requested him, half of-jokingly, to provide an explanation for quantum computing.

Quantum mechanics is a conceptually counterintuitive place of technology that has baffled some of the best minds – as Albert Einstein stated: “God does now not play dice with the universe” – so it’s not something you count on to hear politicians keeping forth on. Throw it into the context of computing and let’s just say you could without problems make Zac Goldsmith appear to be an expert on Bollywood. However, Trudeau rose to the project and gave what many technology observers thought changed into a textbook instance of how to explain a complicated idea in a straightforward manner.

With common computer systems, or classical computers as they’re now called, there are only two options – on and stale – for processing statistics. A PC “bit”, the smallest unit of which all information is damaged down, is both a “1” or a “0”. And the computational strength of a standard computer depends on the variety of binary transistors – tiny electricity switches – which can be contained within its microprocessor.

Returned in 1971

the primary Intel processor was made up of 2,300 transistors. Intel now produces microprocessors with more than 5bn transistors. But, they’re nonetheless restricted by using their simple binary options. However as Trudeau defined, with quantum computers the bits, or “qubits” as they’re acknowledged, have the funds for a long way other options thanks to the uncertainty of their physical nation.

The mysterious subatomic realm of quantum physics

particles can act like waves so that they can be particle or wave or particle and wave. That is what’s known in quantum mechanics as superposition. As a result of superposition, a qubit may be a 0 or 1 or 0 and 1. That means it could perform two equations at the same time. Qubits can carry out four equations. And three qubits can act 8, and so on in exponential growth. That leads to some inconceivably large numbers, not to mention some mind-boggling running concepts. In the meantime, those thoughts are closest to entering fact in a retro suburb within the south-west corner of Trudeau’s hometown.

In a clean, spacious lab in Burnaby, a satellite of Vancouver, I’m searching interior what seems to be a huge black fridge approximately ten toes excessive. Inside it is a tricky structure of circuit boards, now not like the form of issue, a physics elegance may assemble out of Meccano, besides with superbly colourful niobium wafers because of the centrepiece. All of it appears pretty unremarkable, yet someplace in here, a multiplicity of various universes are thought to exist.

The lab belongs to a small organisation known as D-Wave, a tremendously skilled collection of just a hundred and forty employees that prides itself on constructing the arena’s first functioning quantum PC, that is what’s contained in the large fridge-like casing. Surely it’s far a fridge, the coldest fridge ever assembled. The cooling apparatus permits the niobium computer chip at its centre to function at a temperature of just underneath –273C, or as close to absolute 0 as the regarded universe gets.

The supercooled surroundings are essential to preserve coherent quantum hobby of superposition and entanglement, the nation in which particles begin to have interaction – again alternatively mysteriously – co-dependently and the qubits are related by quantum mechanics irrespective of their position in the area. Any intrusion of warmth or light would corrupt the system and as a result the effectiveness of the laptop.

Precisely how and why quantum physics adheres to this technology-fiction like guidelines remains an issue of high-quality speculation, But possibly the maximum commonplace theory is that the one-of-a-kind quantum states exist in separate universes. The D-Wave quantum laptop I examine has 1000 qubits.

“A thousand qubit PC may be in 2 to the 1,000 states at one time, which is 10 to the 300th energy,” says D-Wave’s CEO, Vern Brownell. “There’s simplest 10 to the eightieth atoms within the universe. Now does this imply it’s in 10 to the three-hundredth universes at the equal time?”

Can billions of different universes coexist within one laptop? That’s the form of a question that might be first-rate now not grappled with before nighttime and without the aid of illegal stimulants. And in a sense, the answer doesn’t rely on an oninstantaneouimmediateand relevant question is whether or now not this quantum laptop works.

In the mean time quantum computing still resides within a in large part theoretical or speculative realm. The ability is astonishing, concerning a computational power generally the order of all of the global’s present classical computers combined. But realising that capability is a fiendishly difficult undertaking.

quantum computing

That’s why D-Wave’s 2X laptop prices greater than $15m and handiest a handful of establishments have thus far offered one. nonetheless, as the ones organizations include Google, Lockheed Martin and Nasa, and among D-Wave’s buyers are Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and the CIA’s hello-tech arm, In-Q-Tel, it’s clear that a number of the arena’s maximum forward- searching institutions agree with that the laptop has a destiny.

In areas along with artificial intelligence and cryptography, it’s concept that quantum computing will transform the landscape, perhaps bringing about the step forward so that it will permit machines to “suppose” with the nuance and interpretative skill of human beings.

Brownell used to be chief of era at Goldman Sachs. In that job there had been few tech developments that he didn’t have pitched at him. He believes that at the same time as social media successes like Fb are clever utilisations of present technology, the truth that Silicon Valley is constantly chasing profitable versions at the same subject matter manner that it’s far not doing the definitely hard mental paintings. “The level of innovation is a whole lot, a good deal less than we’ve visible traditionally and probably at an in terms of the real world-changing improvements.”

D-Wave, he says, boldly bucks this fashion. However that’s now not how he used to think. While he first heard approximately D-Wave seven years in the past, the employer had been going for 9 years and, in a few knowledgeable circles, changed into a chunk of a giggling stock. His initial reaction While the agency approached him was deep scepticism.

“I didn’t accept as true with it at the beginning at all,” he says, “In particular as there were a majority of these blog remarks with professionals saying it became snake oil. I wasn’t genuinely interested.”

His mindset modified While he got here out and met the team. D-Wave was co-founded with the aid of Geordie Rose, a forty four-yr-old physics PhD who, doubtful approximately academia, took a path in entrepreneurship. He was impatient with the studies technique of notably expensive However seriously limited laboratory experiments.

Rose’s novel idea changed into to construct a functioning quantum pc with commercial appeal. But This is wherein the science begins to reason humans to tug their hair out. most experimental quantum computers that were assembled in labs followed the typical gate version, wherein qubits substituted for transistors, with none amazing fulfillment.

Rose selected as an alternative to develop an “adiabatic” quantum pc, which fits with the aid of a method of what’s called “quantum annealing” or “tunnelling”. In essence, it method you develop an algorithm that assigns particular interactions among the qubits along the lines of the classical model – ie if That is a zero, that one is 1 and so on. Then create the situations for quantum superposition, wherein the qubits can understand their close to endless opportunities, earlier than returning them to the classical state of 0s and 1s. The concept is the qubits will follow the direction of least electricity in terms of the algorithmic necessities, for that reason locating the most efficient answer.

If that’s difficult sufficient to explain, consider how hard it changed into to build. And the early results were not encouraging. No one seemed to make sure what, if whatever, changed into going on at a quantum stage, But something it changed into, it wasn’t astonishing.

D-Wave

first demonstration in 2007 of its sixteen-qubit tool, which concerned fixing a sudoku puzzle, hardly ever set the sector on fireplace. Umesh Vazirani, co-author of a paper on quantum complexity concept, dismissed D-Wave’s claims of speedup as a misunderstanding of his paintings, and counseled that “despite the fact that it turns out to be a real quantum computer, or even if it is able to be scaled to lots of qubits, [it] would probable now not be greater powerful than a cellphone”.

first demonstration in 2007 of its sixteen-qubit tool, which concerned fixing a sudoku puzzle, hardly ever set the sector on fireplace. Umesh Vazirani, co-author of a paper on quantum complexity concept, dismissed D-Wave’s claims of speedup as a misunderstanding of his paintings, and counseled that “despite the fact that it turns out to be a real quantum computer pc, or even if it is able to be scaled to lots of qubits, [it] would probable now not be greater powerful than a cellphone”.

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Thereafter the employer turned into regularly accused of hype and exaggeration. Part of the hassle was that it was very hard to measure with any agreed accuracy what turned into going on. D-Wave came up with a take a look at to reveal that entanglement – seen as a necessary prerequisite for a operating quantum computer – became taking region.

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Raspberry Pi 0 W is a $10 pc with Wifi and Bluetooth

Despite the fact that fundamental Raspberry Pi announcements are very few and a long way between, you understand that after there is one, it’s really worth paying attention.

Take as an instance the Raspberry Pi Zero — the $5 (£4) board that apparently came out of nowhere in October 2015 and presented 40 percent more computing strength than the authentic Pi. it is been a year because of the closing essential unveiling, whilst we met the Raspberry Pi 3, but the Foundation is back these days with a modern-day product that nestles smartly among its credit-card sized PC and its flagship board. it is referred to as the Raspberry Pi Zero W.

Within the case of the Raspberry Pi 0 W, the Wifi and Bluetooth signify exactly what’s new: wireless connectivity. It boasts precisely the identical specs (1GHz single-center Broadcom BCM2835 CPU, 512MB of RAM, 40-pin header) as its predecessor, however, the Zero W provides each 802.11n WiWireless and Bluetooth four.zero to the present Zero layout. If you had a cool concept for a low-cost maker mission that turned into scuppered via the Zero’s lack of wireless connectivity, now is probably the time to revisit the concept.

The 0 W’s new features do come at a value, however. The 0 will stay at $5 (£4) however, the 0 W is priced at $10 (£9.60) plus tax. The Raspberry Pi Basis is also offering new injection-molded cases with interchangeable lids that are smaller variations of the professional Raspberry Pi case that went on sale nearly two years in the past.

At $10 (£nine.60), the 0 W continues to be excellent value for money. Makers have already used the DIY board to create self-made safety cameras and construct their personal retro gaming machines, however with WiWi-fi and Bluetooth now onboard, the one’s projects may come to be even easier to construct and hold.

Thrilling Information About Raspberries

Yum, raspberries! So candy and attractive, whether or not you’re eating them undeniable or with ice cream. however how a great deal does you truly realize About raspberries? Statistics like they don’t have any facts, they arrive in 4 extraordinary hues and what states and provinces grow most people of raspberries in Canada and America. Learn this Information, plus read Approximately Exciting minutiae, dietary Facts, what recipes raspberries may be used in and three myths that communicate About raspberries.

Miscellaneous Statistics

Do you believe you studied you know your raspberries? Test your information against those brief Information:

Raspberries may be either crimson, red, gold or black in color. Golden raspberries are sweeter than the opposite types. The distinction between raspberries and blackberries is that raspberries have a hole center Inside the middle even as blackberries do not. Within the United states, Approximately 90% of all raspberries bought come from Washington, California, and Oregon. In Canada, the province of British Colombia produces Approximately eighty% of all raspberries offered in Canada. There are over 200 species of raspberries. when choosing raspberries, search for berries which can be firm and darkish in color. They have to now not be soft or soft. Gently pull on the berry; if it does not come off without problems then leave it on the bush, as the berry is not ripe enough yet. Once raspberries had been picked, they may not ripen any similarly. HealthWireless Records Absolutely everyone desires to eat more healthy, but frequently wholesome is equated with bland or tasteless food. Properly, you may prevent questioning like that due to the fact here is a meal this is tasty and desirable for you as Well! The clinical advantages of raspberries encompass:

They do not have any fat, saturated fats, sodium or cholesterol. They’re excessive in fiber, nutrition C, potassium, and folate. They may be low in calories. They could assist lower excessive blood stress. Raspberries have a property which can assist to lessen the irritation of the joints. meals Statistics Raspberries may be used in a variety of meals dishes. In case you recognize a person who doesn’t like to devour fruit, sincerely add raspberries to the dish. They flavor first-rate and the man or woman won’t even think about the fact that They’re eating fruit. Some of the meals dishes that raspberries may be utilized in consist of:

They can be made into sauces (for fowl or desserts), jams or jellies. They can be eaten clean, both plain or on a pinnacle of meals alternatives including yogurt, ice cream, cereal or salads. They can be baked in pies, desserts, bread or truffles. They may be in drinks, inclusive of smoothies or punches. Myths From Round The sector Raspberries are sold and produced all through The arena, which has given an upward push to myths Approximately why raspberries are red or even one delusion Approximately the mystical qualities of the fruit.

One famous fantasy comes from France, which tells the story About how raspberries use to be only white in coloration. The myth states that at some point, a nymph named Ida become looking after an infant Zeus (also called Jupiter). Zeus becomes crying and to help soothe him, Ida picked some white raspberries. but whilst she went to choose the raspberries, she scratched herself on a thorn and commenced to bleed. Her blood dripped on the white raspberries, immediately turning them crimson and they had been pink ever given that.

Some other myth, which originates from Germany, talks About the mystical traits of raspberries. It states that to tame a bewitched horse, one would have to tie a wild raspberry twig Round the pony’s frame.

Wireless, a modern-day fantasy tells the story of how raspberries grew to become a fox’s fur purple. Inside the Tale of the Raspberry Fox, by Henning Buchhagen, there’s a fox named Ferdinand. At that point, all foxes have been gray in coloration. The Tale tells how Ferdinand didn’t want to devour meat, so at some point, he determined to devour some raspberries and determined that he cherished consuming them. He saved ingesting raspberries and the more he ate, the redder his fur have become. Ever on the grounds that then, all foxes have had pink fur and prefer to consume fruit. Including a WiWireless Get admission to Control List

what’s an Access Manipulate List (ACL)? A Get admission to Control List is a Listing, stored on a community router, of allowed gadgets on a community. This List determines which devices are allowed to hook up with the network and which gadgets aren’t allowed. The use of this type of List, a wifi administrator (or home person) can block unauthorized Get entry to their network.

Get admission to Manipulate Lists are configured The usage of a wi-fi router. A network hub device will no longer paintings. A community hub allows all visitors to bypass both ways; it does now not filter any site visitors. A router filters site visitors, you could block traffic in either path or re-direction site visitors. A router may be a basic router (ie. NetGear, Linksys) from any electronics save, a complicated router (i.E. Cisco Router) or a server/notebook configured as a router. A router shops statistics in its ACL and based on that records direct site visitors inside and outside of a network.

This display screen shot suggests the Access Manage List of a NetGear Router. This List has one tool indexed. If the Access List grew to become on, simplest this device could Access the wireless network. you could build an ACL on a router and chose to not put in force Get admission to filtering, however, If you spent the time to construct the List, might as Nicely use it. There are more devices nowadays, that can Get right of entry to a WiWi-fi community than some years in the past. Such gadgets are Clever Telephones, Gaming Systems, Laptops, Pills, and many others.

Most routers are pre-configured to broadcast their SSID (the call of your wifi network) and permit any site visitors to connect. Most customers are now familiar with securing their wifi networks by using Adding a community Access password. This allows comfortable their community however it’s miles viable that a few hackers could discover your community password. Including a Get right of entry to Manage List will help to in addition lessen unauthorized Get entry to by using Adding a second layer of protection. A Get right of entry to Listing stores the MAC address of the tool. If the laptop trying to Get admission to the network isn’t indexed on this Listing, they will not be allowed to Get right of entry to the community. There are some hackers who are able to hello-jack a valid MAC address, so there aren’t any 100% secured Systems, however, a few protection is higher than none at all. One additional safety degree we ought to add (after implementing ACL), might be to disable SSID broadcast. This may purpose a few troubles with some WIFI gadgets routinely becoming a member of the wifi network, but it’s worth the security.

Evaluation your specific router’s manual for the suitable way to configure your particular router. We can talk SSID broadcast in a future put up, join the weblog for signals on destiny posts.

Records of Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a wireless technology widespread for changing facts over short distances (Using brief-wavelength UHF radio waves In the ISM band from 2.4 to 2.485 GHz) from constant and cell gadgets, and building personal vicinity networks (PANs).

Within the case of the Raspberry Pi 0 W, the Wifi and Bluetooth signify exactly what’s new: wireless connectivity.

Bluetooth changed into advanced by means of Ericcson which is a Danish agency. They named it after a Danish king, whose nickname was Bluetooth because he added the Danish tribes together.

It really is a form of misleading, because it’s no longer totally straightforward. Bluetooth turned into advanced by way of Ericsson (pre-Sony Ericsson) that’s a main Swedish telecommunication corporation. They named if after the Danish Viking king, Harald Blåtand. Harald Blåtand became the king who converted from the perception Within the Historic Norse Gods and Goddesses to the unmarried God of Christianity. Blåtand translated to English, literally manner Bluetooth, so That is how they came up with the call.

In case you look at the Bluetooth symbol, there may be a Runic inscription in it. The two lines sticking out of the lower back of the B surely represent a Runic H. The B is, obviously, a Runic B. Harald Blåtand’s initials shape the symbol of modern-day international’s Bluetooth!

Bluetooth is supervised with the aid of the Bluetooth Special Interest Organization (SIG), which includes more than 25,000 member groups Inside the areas of telecommunication, computing, network, and gadgets.The IEEE standardized Bluetooth as IEEE 802.15.1, but no sustains the standard a bit longer. The Bluetooth SIG oversees improvement of the specification, manages the qualification program, and protects the trademarks. A company has to meet Bluetooth SIG benchmarks to advertise it as a Bluetooth tool. A community of patients hooks up with the era, which can be certified to precise qualifying gadgets.

The Bluetooth middle Specification Running Institution (CSWG) produces in particular four varieties of specs: The Bluetooth core Specification, release cycle is typically a few years in between middle Specification Addendum (CSA), release cycle may be as tight as a few times in step with 12 months middle Specification Supplements (CSS), may be launched very quickly Errata

Bluetooth and Wi-fi

Bluetooth and (the brand for merchandise Using IEEE 802.eleven benchmarks) contain a few comparable packages: establishing Systems, printing, or shifting files. is supposed as an opportunity for broadband cabling for trendy geographic location network benefit Get admission to in paintings regions or home. This Institution of packages can also be referred to as wireless geographic location sites (WLAN). Bluetooth became designed for lightweight equipment and its own applications. The Group of applications is distinct because of the cell non-public area network (WPAN). Bluetooth is an upgraded for cabling in a number of transported applications in without a doubt any setting up in individual, and also works for set place packages such as Smart electricity features In the house (thermostats, and so forth.).

and Bluetooth is truly complementary in their packages and use. is Get right of entry to point-centered commonly, with an asymmetrical purchaser-server connection with all traffic routed via the Get admission to factor, even as Bluetooth is symmetrical commonly, between Bluetooth devices. Bluetooth acts Well in easy programs where devices want to connect with minimal creation much like a button press, as with headsets and far off Manage controls, at the same time as fits higher in programs wherein a few extent of purchaser production is high and feasible fees of speed could be required, in particular for community advantage Access to via and gain Get right of entry to node. but, Bluetooth Get right of entry to points do exist and advert-how connections are feasible with even though much less actually just like Bluetooth. Direct was just lately developed to include far extra Bluetooth-like ad-hoc features too.

Bluetooth versions: Bluetooth v1.zero and v1.0B Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR Bluetooth v3.zero + HS Bluetooth v4.zero Bluetooth v4.1 Bluetooth v4.2 Bluetooth v5

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