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victory_road2017-06-24 09:18 pm
shiro2hero) wrote in victory_road2017-06-24 09:18 pm
video || action for Goldenrod
-- Red! Hey!
[Haunter is carrying the 'gear, apparently. Following diligently after its trainer like some shaky-cam show cameraman. Haunter's claws are visible around the edges of the camera frame. While they both chase a Torracat through the tall grass just outside Goldenrod.]
[A Torracat who is engaging in epic battle with a Nidoran♀.]
Seriously!? Get --
[They don't get there in time. The battle ends, with Torracat victorious. And... a flash of light. Which clears to reveal...]
[Incineroar.]
... back... here...
[Silence. Except for, you know, Incineroar bellowing in glee. Shiro just. Slowly looks over at the camera. With the camera turning to look at him in return.]
Okay then. That happened.
[Haunter is carrying the 'gear, apparently. Following diligently after its trainer like some shaky-cam show cameraman. Haunter's claws are visible around the edges of the camera frame. While they both chase a Torracat through the tall grass just outside Goldenrod.]
[A Torracat who is engaging in epic battle with a Nidoran♀.]
Seriously!? Get --
[They don't get there in time. The battle ends, with Torracat victorious. And... a flash of light. Which clears to reveal...]
[Incineroar.]
... back... here...
[Silence. Except for, you know, Incineroar bellowing in glee. Shiro just. Slowly looks over at the camera. With the camera turning to look at him in return.]
Okay then. That happened.
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You should have seen us when we saw the ocean for the first time here. It was crazy.
[There may have been tears. And tasting the water. It's just as salty as advertised.]
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[He's sort of teasing, though.]
I'm sorry I missed it. You guys are really into oceanography, huh?
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Armin more than me. I think the ocean is pretty cool and all, but him... he's crazy about it.
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... yeah, I've noticed. He talks about it like I do space exploration.
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[Oh no, Jean, now you've gone and done it!]
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You know those stars you see at night? It means going up there. Seeing what's out there.
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[Sorry, Shiro, but that sounds too wild to be believed.]
You've been up in the stars? Are they a lot closer than they look?
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I have, and no, they're even further away than they look. Millions of years away, some of them.
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How can something be millions of years away? That's not how you measure distance.
[Gosh, Shiro, next you're going to be telling Jean that you made the Kessel Run in under twelve parsecs.]
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It would take millions of years for us, on this planet, to be able to see that light come on.
[HE THINKS THIS IS REALLY COOL, OKAY JEAN, SORRY.]
If you tried putting it in miles? Or anything else? It's just too far.
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[It's not that he doesn't believe Shiro, but that he can't wrap his mind around light that never ends.]
How can any light source be strong enough to keep traveling for millions of years?
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[They're also planets and other things, but let's start simple.]
They look that size because of the distance. Get close enough, you see how big they really are, and how strong.
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[Okay, this is something Jean can understand. It's mind-blowing, but he also gets it, on some level.]
Why do they all look the same size in the sky? Are they actually all the same size as the sun? How far away is the sun?
[Look out, Shiro, you've awoken something Jean didn't know he had in him.]
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[This is great. This is the best conversation.]
They don't, though. Some are a little bigger than others -- or a little brighter. You've got suns the size of the one Earth orbits, bigger, smaller... or super novas.
[THERE ARE SO MANY KINDS OF STARS, JEAN.]
Depends on how you measure the distance.
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What's a super nova? Is that some kind of special star?
Uh... how far away is it in meters?
[Meters, Jean can understand. He'll be able to grasp the concept of light years later, but for now, he wants to stick to what he knows.]
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[But then he pauses, in thought.]
[How many meters is the sun...?]
A... few hundred million, probably?
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[Let him just... process that for a moment. Of course, Shiro then follows it with another insane revelation, and Jean's head is spinning.]
But it looks so big in the sky... that means it's probably enormous, if it's so far away.
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[He's figuring he has to start small, here.]
Yeah... yeah, it is. Millions and millions of times bigger than Earth.
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[He's still grappling with the concept of the internal combustion engine and steamships; nuclear energy is way outside of his wheelhouse.]
[Jean is quiet for a moment, being completely awed by this new information.]
Have you gotten close to it?
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[Sorry, Jean, he's into astronomy not astrophysics.]
To Earth's sun? No way.
[To an actual supernova? Way too close.] The gravity would pull you in and you'd burn up before you got anywhere near it.
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[Okay, this nuclear stuff sounds like something Dr. Ford and Armin should talk about. Jean will simply accept Shiro's explanation that it makes a lot of power. Gravity, though... he gets gravity, and immediately warms to the subject.]
So just like the earth pulls us down, the sun and other stars pull stuff in too? Cool.
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[If Pidge or Hunk were here, though...]
Yeah. They do. That's why the earth orbits the sun, and why the moon orbits the earth.
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How big does something have to be before it gets its own gravity and can make things orbit it?
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Big. Bigger than anything ever on the ground of a planet. Like... say, the moon, or so.
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[That's impressively big.]
So the bigger something is, the more gravity it has and the more things it can pull into orbit? Could one of those bigger suns have more planets around it?
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