#repulsor anti-grav generator

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So, because reasons, I was thinking about Max Steel 2013 S2E21 “Reprogrammed”, specifically about how they handled the portrayal.

Now, I know that, in real life, they probably did what they did so they could stick with the plot they wanted and so they could have Max and Steel’s VAs included and so there’s no question of who’s who. However.

I don’t think it’d work like that in-universe.

Reason 1: Vocal Cords. Human vocal cords don’t generally sound mechanical like how Steel’s voice does. Unless the person is ✨special✨, they can’t replicate that quality.

Now, this is working off the assumption that Max’s 1/2 Takonian vocal cords work at least pretty closely to human (which, according to my brain right now and for simplicity’s sake, they do), but even if Max’s vocal cords could possibly mimic Steel’s voice, it still wouldn’t have the mechanical quality.

Speaking of Steel’s voice, assuming his voice works similarly to humans’, meaning that his body has that voice, regardless of whose brain is in there, Max-in-Steel’s-body would sound like Steel.

(Edit 1/1/25: Realized I totally forgot something: THE DISSONANCE of hearing someone else’s voice coming out of what should be your mouth AND hearing your own voice from outside your body without it being a video for the first time. There’s some freak-out for ya.)

Reason 2: Functions. Now, this is the biggest thing that would prevent the writers from producing a 22-minute episode and not have to make it a multi-parter.

HOW DO THEY USE EACH OTHER’S BODIES WITH MINIMAL ISSUE?!

Max’s body, at least generally, needs to breathe; Steel’s doesn’t, as demonstrated by numerous instances throughout the series, especially with Water Elementor.

Unless Max’s body can adapt to not breathing (which, given that his dad survived space without any kind of spacesuit, it’s possible Takonians can do that, to be explored in a fic at some point), I don’t think Steel would fare very well for a bit. He doesn’t have the instinctual knowledge of breathing, and I don’t know if Max’s body would take the reins for him.

Explored (insufficiently, imo) in the show is another issue Steel would have: moving around. He doesn’t know how to walk, he doesn’t know how to talk using a human mouth, he doesn’t know how to use ANY part of Max’s body.

Kirby and Butch probably would’ve called an ambulance for Max if they were smart enough/had the presence of mind to, and if not them, then one of the other patrons or cafe/restaurant workers. Seriously, he’d be looking like something went seriously wrong with his brain.

I mean, technically it did, but not how they’d likely be thinking.

Now, Max-in-Steel’s-body is another issue. Max doesn’t know how to project his voice, he doesn’t know to use the anti-grav repulsors, he doesn’t know anything about how to use Steel’s body. Max might actually panic due to not being able to breathe in Steel’s body.

So, there’s my reasons why Reprogrammed should’ve happened differently, and this will definitely be in a chapter of Tabet’ki at some point, provided AO3 is still available at that point (trying not to think about it too much because it gives me anxiety).

Moving on from the anxiety-inducing stuff, I hope y’all enjoyed my analysis/rant about CGI cartoon characters (I’ve also not forgotten about X-376, speaking of characters; dude might as well have died delivering that virus, we need more on him)!

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I know I sent you something else about a plane you haven't answered yet but I have a completely separate question now. I was thinking about building long and massive 10 storey skybridges between buildings in a very flat oval and the flat part goes across the 1km long river. The biggest problem is how much the bridge weighs. There are shops and stores along the bridge, even a cinema and a large sports complex. I have not seen skybridges of that length and size before, and while there are plenty of long bridges over the river, none of them need to hold anything heavier than vehicles and I'm gone way past that. So I'm not sure about what I need for this?

Tex: Bridges are at the mercy of gravity, and gravity is not a forgiving force - it’s why there’s upper limits on everything from the evolution of species to architectural developments. At some point, it becomes cost prohibitive to attempt broaching the upper boundary of what’s possible within the restraints of gravity on a planet. If you’d like to do some handwaving and suspension of disbelief in your readers, you could use some anti-gravity generators on larger structures that would reduce the building cost of architectural features due to an artificially-raised boundary on what gravity will tolerate until it brings everything down.

Addy: So first off, a 1km long stretch of river is different than a 1km wide river. How many pillars and support sections do you have on this bridge? Because at this point, you're not really building a bridge, you're building an elevated plaza with roads on it. And, assuming you don't have antigrav, there's no way that (with modern or modern+50yrs tech) that you can support 1000m (~3000ft) of moderate-heavy commercial development with only two supports on the far ends.

You could, however, have something that's suspended on a series of arches, with some small shops or food areas along that length. After all, if people are walking between buildings, go ahead and put some places for them to eat. If this is a tourist attraction, also put some places for them to buy trinkets (either on the bridge-plaza or at the ends)

For a sports complex and a cinema, I'd say that it'd be cheaper (and more feasible) to have them inside the buildings, and to have the skybridge as a sort of public park.

If you're looking for a plaza 1 km long, and looking at a river that's more like 50-150m wide, then you could have a long, long skybridge-plaza that's supported by multiple buildings along its length. It could wind along the course of the river, with glass-paned areas to shed light to the river underneath, if that's something you want.

If you've got antigrav, like Tex mentioned, then you could replace pillars with anti-grav repulsors. That'd allow you to build something more like what you're envisioning, I think, with a wide stretch of space above and beneath the 10-story skybridge. If you don't want to have antigrav in the rest of your setting, maybe antigrav requires a bunch of power and can't change quickly to different amounts, so they're mostly static. Or maybe they're heavy/large and have a lot of inertia, like spinning (in a circle) a tube of wrapping paper while holding it in the middle vs spinning it while holding it at the end. Or bending an eraser on the thinner side vs bending it on the thicker side (mass vs area moments of inertia, but whatever). That could make them hard to incorporate into things like cars or planes, while still giving you your cool building structures.

It's all up to you and how you want to design your world.