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  1. There is the common situation where fading eyesight is "assisted" by memory -- remembering what those few hints you can still see should be associated with. Something totally unfamiliar is missing the many details that your memory fills in for you, leaving just a fuzzy cloud (the give-away that you are starting to do this is when you "notice" details that are usually there but just don't happen to be there this time).


  2. 42 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    And if all else fails, try comparing the amount of nothing that exists against everything that does exist

    The tough part is expressing the amount of something and the amount of nothing in the same units so you can compare them.


  3. 1 hour ago, ijuin said:

    The W54 is the smallest nuclear explosive believed to be viable, with a cylindrical physics package roughly 275 mm in diameter and 400 mm in length sans casing, shielding, and electrical supply. These are the so-called "suitcase nukes" produced by the USA. Would a T-800 necessarily have sufficient internal space to mount one without removing critical systems?

    The installation of even the tinyest A-bomb would mean the only critical systems are "recognize when within five miles of target" and "activate".


  4. Does Nanase now have a spell that prevents people from connecting her powered-up state with her normal one? How many of the main cast are going to want one too, and is it a spell that Tedd can put in a watch?

    I guess a more likely problem is that Ashley is expecting everyone there to be a fictional shape shifter -- meaning she expects each individual to have one obvious and consistent "Tell" for the audience to recognize. She probably thought Nanase's "Tell" was the two-tone hair.


  5. 4 hours ago, Scotty said:

    I'm just saying watches are more readily available, Tedd's just got the one actual wand at the moment.

    He should be able to analyze the wand and determine what sort of stick makes a good wand "blank", and his first lesson was in making a stick into a true wand.


  6. Just compare the amount of "squish" on each side; if it's anything close to even then the extra damage resistance is magic-only, not normal physical strength.  Other contact is not absolutely necessary for Science! (Although possibly for other reasons).


  7. 18 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    I read or heard in some context that you need some small amount of CO2 content to trigger breathing. It gets toxic rapidly as concentration of CO2 rises above normal.

    With Earth's atmosphere one fifth oxygen, it's easier to get enough O2 than to get rid of the CO2, so checking for excess CO2 makes a good "need to breath more" indicator that rises the longer you hold your breath. Humans don't have that good of a "need more O2" sense and can suffocate in atmospheres with too little O2 (but also no CO2) without much warning.


  8. Tedd absolutely should be the one to check -- you need to use a form of measurement that doesn't change in between readings.

    Even if the strength level of Cheerleadra vs. Elliot was exactly the same, the size and angle of the fingers, the thickness of the skin on the fingers that are doing the touching, etc. all might all change the results.

    And of course, they could choose a non-embarrassing area of skin to test, like the outside of the upper arm. That's in theory -- in practice they might be too flustered to think of that.


  9. 44 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Didn't it ever occur to the author to offer the characters a few dozen cookies (or other Bakery goods) as incentive for cooperation?

    The problem with that is really delicious cookies take a long time to draw.