Comments | gimmethesuit: 8th inquiry

gimmethesuit

8th inquiry | audio

Mar 19, 2011 19:28

[Well it was nice that the storm passed and Terry could finally get away from that creepy old building -- he was waiting for the cheap skeletons and Halloween theatrics to pop out at any second -- but he's been too exhausted to go back and explore what's beyond the fog. It's like he's had no energy for anything, even studying evidence ( Read more... )

think like the old man, well this makes no sense, !terry post, time for investimagating, world's second greatest detective

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Audio spiders_bite March 20 2011, 02:31:50 UTC

Depends on the battery you're talking about.

Audio gimmethesuit March 20 2011, 02:38:02 UTC

Uh ...

Big ones?

Audio spiders_bite March 20 2011, 02:49:52 UTC

I'm going to assume you mean alkaline batteries. Those were invented in the 1800s. Lithium batteries were invented in the...1970s.

Audio gimmethesuit March 20 2011, 04:00:27 UTC

Huh. They're kinda clunky.

Hardly ever see this stuff anymore where I'm from.

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Audio heavyweaponsbot March 20 2011, 02:53:07 UTC

Humans made primitive batters in 250 BC, by your time standards.

They were clay jars with iron rods surrounded by copper cylinders. Fill it with vinegar and an electrolytic, it 1.1 volts.

Audio gimmethesuit March 20 2011, 04:01:45 UTC

Right, I remember something like that from science class.

I'm thinking a little more modern though.

Audio heavyweaponsbot March 20 2011, 04:03:29 UTC

You would have more luck building the primitive model.

[Since that's what he assumes Terry is trying to do.]

Audio gimmethesuit March 20 2011, 04:07:56 UTC

I think I slept through that class.

Thanks but no thanks, I don't need one yet.

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[Audio] pinkefficiency March 20 2011, 03:04:48 UTC

That depends on the battery you have in mind, but the earliest batteries were made around 250 B.C., if I remember right.

[Audio] spiders_bite March 20 2011, 03:49:03 UTC

[hey buddy, let's science together.]

Those are pretty primitive though. I mean I know this place isn't exactly techno savvy, but we don't see big jars full of vinegar laying around either.

[Audio] pinkefficiency March 20 2011, 04:24:07 UTC

I'd hope not. Still, knowing this place, I'd say we'd be lucky if we ended up with a zinc-carbon battery. [She misses her advanced tech. ;A; She misses it so hard.]

[Audio] spiders_bite March 20 2011, 16:51:23 UTC

Or at least a windmill or two. I'm still trying to figure out how these communicator things work. These seem way more advance than what they're capable of too.

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oneperfecthit March 20 2011, 03:40:14 UTC

What's a battery?

audio gimmethesuit March 20 2011, 04:06:09 UTC

Uh, it's like ... a little ... power thingie.

It makes things go.

[Wait that's probably not much clearer.]

People use them at home for their coffee makers and radios and junk like that.

oneperfecthit March 20 2011, 04:14:13 UTC

Aaaaallll....riiiiiiiiight?

[He still doesn't get it. Probably because he doesn't know what a coffee maker or radio is either.]

gimmethesuit March 20 2011, 04:18:59 UTC

[TERRY'S HELPING 8Db]

Yeahhh, I'm guessing that's unusual where you're from.

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