[color=00AEFF]”She may not be convinced by your word either, given that Kerchak has just stated plainly for me to hear that you two don’t know each other that well.”[/color] Vigdis said matter of factly, far from trying to throw stick under their feet, rather simply allowing them to view the situation through a human lens. [color=00AEFF]”The time it takes for an injury to heal depends heavily on the injury and where the injured part is. Some bones in my ankle were so damaged they had to replace them with metal ones, the full recovery took about sixty days because it’s a joint and because it had to be cut open. When my father broke his forearm in two places, he was back working in just thirty days. The burns on my hands took around seven days until I could move my fingers again and ten days for the facial lacerations.”[/color]

[color=00AEFF]”Diseases are another matter entirely. Some pass on their own in days, others we can cure quickly. But many acquired ones take a long time to completely cure, and some of them grow resistant to medicines over time. What’s even worse, despite having made major strides in combating them, there are still numerous inborn ailments and maladies acquired not from injury or infection, but damage on such a foundational level that our bodies start growing wrong.”[/color] Cancer and radiation sickness were proving to be some of humanity’s most stubborn enemies, ones that couldn’t be fixed with ‘easy’ transplants. [color=00AEFF]”But a demonstration would certainly be in order, especially if it can halt aging as you’ve claimed. I could think of a few things to do with an extra decade or so.”[/color]

[color=00AEFF]”Yes, measurements, that was something I was going to try to illustrate four days ago before it got buried in better ways to communicate. Wait here for a few minutes, and when I get back I’ll explain how long a minute is.”[/color] Vigdis excused herself and disappeared inside the Jotunheim, inwardly proud of that joke. She returned with a measuring tape, a lab scale, a box of M8 bolts, a few graduated cylinders, a measuring cup from the galley, a protractor and a contactless thermometer.

Using this scavenger hunt worth of seemingly random stuff plus the clock app on her wristpad, she proceeded to illustrate the measurement units of length, time, weight, angle and volume, putting the temperature in context of 0 and 100 degrees celsius and using the box of bolts to accurately measure out one gram and one kilogram. Abstract quantities such as energy, work, electric current and voltage would have to wait.

Lastly, she grabbed the bigger tablet and copied the second, unsolved set of mathematical operations from the shuttle bay wall onto it, this time expanding the exponentiation and roots using multiplication and division - such as “2[sup]3[/sup] = 2 . 2 . 2” - and copying the Pythagorean Theorem problem. By now she was certain they knew how it worked, but might as well.