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Post by hargharg on Nov 27, 2012 2:51:30 GMT
Actually, if nothing Ethereal can effect Jones, then Jones would never be able to move when Coyote stopped time, even if he wanted her to. That's because time was never actually stopped. From Annie's perspective, it looked like it was, but from everyone else's (includine Jones's) perspective, time continued uninterrupted. All Coyote really did was create a little bit of extra time for Annie and himself. Well, that's an opinion. It seems we think differently about this.
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Post by Nnelg on Nov 27, 2012 4:19:33 GMT
Well, that's an opinion. It seems we think differently about this. And, I suppose we can. In some ways, both points of view are correct. All I know is that if I try drawing a diagram representing the timestream, it looks like a little loop added to an otherwise continuous line.
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Post by darklao on Nov 28, 2012 7:16:23 GMT
So if she's so impervious, why is her hair blond and skin skin-colored? Shouldn't she be mirrory?
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Post by Nnelg on Nov 28, 2012 13:23:09 GMT
So if she's so impervious, why is her hair blond and skin skin-colored? Shouldn't she be mirrory? Um... Etheric Tenet?
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Post by Freederick on Nov 29, 2012 0:43:02 GMT
Coyote could probably just pluck Jones from the Earth and put her on the moon or in Jupiter or something. She can't exactly do anything once she's up there. I can't think of a way to escape from Jupiter, at least not off the top of my head; but the Moon is no problem. The key facts are that the Moon has no atmosphere, and that it is solid throughout: it has no liquid core. The plan: 1. Dig a tunnel right through the center of the Moon. With your hands. Make sure it points towards Earth. 2. Climb back up to the rim of the tunnel, on the side of the Moon facing the Earth. 3. Push in a boulder, as heavy as feasible; for the escape plan to work, the boulder will have to be significantly heavier than you. I'm too lazy to do the math now to figure out the exact mass; but with an eidetic memory you remember all the physics necessary to calculate it as needed. Make the boulder a little heavier, to have a margin. 4. With no atmosphere to slow it down, the boulder will travel right through, then come to a stop at the opposite end of the tunnel; then it will fall back in, and oscillate. 5. Time the passage of the boulder through the Moon and back, and divide in half to obtain the time it takes to get to the other end of the tunnel. 6. Jump in when the boulder is on the other end of the tunnel. Precise timing is not critical, if the boulder is a bit too heavy. 7. You will meet the boulder at the center of the Moon, when its velocity is the highest, and so is yours. You will easily survive the impact. The boulder will not. 8. Being much lighter than the boulder, you will bounce off it with a much higher velocity than you had coming in. This is essentially a gravity-assist maneuver, though an exceedingly brutal one. 9. If you computed the mass of the boulder correctly, your velocity on exit from the tunnel will still be above the Moon's escape velocity. 10. You will be propelled out of the Moon's gravity well and into Earth's. 11. Your glowing descent through the atmosphere is likely to be noted by amateur astronomers. When you dig yourself out of the crust, take an indirect route to avoid running into meteorite hunters.
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