7th Lecture Babbled Ε Accidental Video/Action for Violet Υ Backdated to Tuesday

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[Well, sort of accidental. Reid doesn't know about it, but Missy totally turned it on on purpose.

At first, all there is is smoke, and the sound of coughing.

And then there's light, and for those who are familiar with it, Violet from outside the Violet Gym. Missy felt the need to televise this because LOOK LOOK HER TRAINER GOT HIS FIRST BADGE EVERYBODY! 8D

While Missy is chattering about how awesome the battle was and how proud she is of Reid and how she wants to ride a bird now and on and on, Yang looks ready to collapse, Reid is cradling Elle in his arms because she's already collapsed, and Reid is doubled over in a horrible hacking coughing fit. Missy flies circles around him with his Munna (who is being ridden by a Litwick) and a Yamask, and after about a minute of straight coughing, the Yamask starts to grumble and floats right at Reid, pressing one appendage to his back, another at his throat, and forcefully straightening him while massaging the esophagus.

The coughs stop immediately, and Reid gets rigid at the unexpected contact. After a couple more moments, the Yamask releases him and floats back into the ring of undamaged flying Pokemon, grumbling about how he should just be like everyone else and go into a gym with massively over-leveled Pokemon next time.]

Uh, thank you, Amanda. You see, guys, this is why I teach you about physics. He was more experienced than me and had stronger animals, but taking advantage of thermodynamics--

[Elle paws him in the chest. Less lecturing, more going to the Center.]

Oh, right, sorry. [He starts approaching the Center, and his new badge gleams on his shirt.] While the nurse is looking at you both, I'll get something to thank you.

[And he is still blissfully unaware of Missy broadcasting the whole thing.]

Comments

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[leftinbasketforfbi]

Does he have a physical form, or does he only exist on a digital level?

[Once he's done with his other research, he wants to look at these things.]

I'm surprised that they managed to artificially create a creature with a personality. How much do you know about the process of creating a Porygon?

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[doitrockapella]

He has a physical form, but he seems to be able to switch between the two. And I suspect he likes the incorporeal one better, given the amount of time he spends inside my Gear. [Pause.] And the fact that it's easier for him to make himself understood that way. Outside of cyberspace, his range of speech is mostly limited to a handful of tonal sounds, and it tends to be much easier for his audience to read words on a screen than to translate his Morse Code from dots and dashes into sentences in real time.

[But she considers that second question a minute before answering, her tone highly amused.]

Ask me that again the morning after I find the lab that first created one.

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[newberktown]

Mostly Newton's laws, and things like gravity and vacuums.

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[islandshore]

Brute force does end up pretty predictable. I think a combination of power and clever strategy makes for more structured battles, especially if you can catch your opponents off guard.

[video] Thank you, Wikipedia

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Good! Good, that's good. Then you're familiar with the very basics of physics. Well, there are four basic laws of thermodynamics:

The first law of thermodynamics is that heat and work--which is the force exerted on an object multiplied by the distance it traveled--are forms of energy transfer. Energy is invariably conserved but the internal energy of a closed system changes as heat and work are transferred in or out of it.

The second law of thermodynamics is that the entropy--that is, in layman's terms, the amount of energy within a system that turns into heat and isn't available for useful work--of any isolated system not in thermal equilibrium almost always increases. Isolated systems spontaneously evolve towards thermal equilibrium—-the state of maximum entropy of the system—-in a process known as "thermalization".

The third law of thermodynamics is that the entropy of a system approaches a constant value as the temperature approaches zero. The entropy of a system at absolute zero--the coldest possible temperature that can exist--is typically zero, and in all cases is determined only by the number of different ground states it has. Specifically, the entropy of a pure crystalline substance at absolute zero temperature is zero.

And then there's the Zeroth law of thermodynamics, which is that if two systems are in thermal equilibrium with a third system, they must be in thermal equilibrium with each other. This may seem completely redundant, but it helps define the notion of temperature in a tangible way.

[If you understood that, congratulations. If you didn't, he is capable of saying it in more simple terms, but he needs to be asked to do so.]

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[leftinbasketforfbi]

Exactly. The more creatively you can think and the more outside information and experience you can apply to a battle, the higher your odds of winning.

It's actually pretty fun to think of the contingencies and strategies. [Although he still feels weird about taking part in animal fights.]

[video] ahahaha, WOW SORRY.

[newberktown]

[ w h a t . ]

I, uh... I understood about a third of that? And I don't get how you applied it for your battle.

[video] No trouble. I always have google open when I play him. :3

[leftinbasketforfbi]

It's...

[Okay, he really needs to learn to talk with smaller words.]

Well, it's hard to understand if you don't know the terminology. The point is, thermodynamics is about heat and energy. If you study it, you learn how heat works, which is much more complicated than you would think. And in this case, I know that birds usually can only sustain their flight by using currents of heat in the air. You can tell a bird is flying by heat instead of by their own power when they aren't flapping their wings and they're just soaring through the sky. They use these currents because hot air is lighter than cold air, which causes heat to rise and then take the birds with it.

Knowing that, what do you think would be a good way to disrupt a flying bird?

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[newberktown]

I...would change the temperature of the air, right? Making it hotter or colder would force the bird to take time to adapt or risk going completely off course.