[IC] [MATURE] The Vampire RP

[CountDracula]

@Aisling "I'm truly serious," Ioan answered. "We didn't count them all. These are only estimates that calculations gave us. By the way, according to calculations, there's much more grains of sand on Earth than there are stars in the universe."

[Aisling]

@CountDracula

"I couldn't count that high in several lifetimes...... Scientists must be a very fascinating people..... Would you be considered a scientist, loan? You are the most fascinating person I ever met next to Count Dracula and his father. I wonder why.....is it because you have lived so long while I have barely began my life?"

[CountDracula]

@Aisling "I'm a scientist, yes, and we can't count that high either," Ioan said with a smile. "We just calculate with those numbers, and we don't write a 7 with 22 zeroes, by the way. Instead, we write "7 times 10 to the 21st power" or "7*10^22". This is much shorter. You should know that scientists are lazy. And I can't answer that question, but it might be so."

[Aisling]

@CountDracula

"If you are a scientist and scientists are lazy, then you must be saying that you are lazy?" Mystique smiled teasingly.
"As to the other question I asked, maybe everyone that I know is dull compared to the three of you."

[CountDracula]

@Aisling Ioan smiled back at her. "Right. - I wouldn't necessarily say that everyone you know is dull compared to us... it's just that you like some people better than others."

[Aisling]

@CountDracula

"I have kinda changed and those that run around drinking and partying, I dropped before I finished college. There were still a few that I kinda hung around with but have not talked to for a while before I left US. I don't even miss them. I just realized that." Mystique spoke thoughtfully.

[CountDracula]

@Aisling "Maybe they aren't the right people for you to be around any more. That happens from time to time," Ioan said.

Dracula's father was holding Dracula's hand. "I hope he'll be fine soon..."

[Aisling]

@CountDracula
"I guess you may be right.... maybe I have changed since I have been here. I hope for the better.
What else can you show me here?"

[CountDracula]

@Aisling "A lot," Ioan answered and smiled.

He went to the next room. In front of the door, he stopped. "To enter that room, we'll have to put on protection clothing. - Mystique, could you please help us with cleaning the wheels of our wheelchairs?"

[Aisling]

@CountDracula

"Sure. That is no problem." She bent down and cleaned each wheel of the wheelchairs. She then got herself ready to go inside.

[CountDracula]

@Aisling "Thanks." Ioan put on his protection clothing and helped Toma with putting on his. Then, he opened the door with his card.

"This is the core of our observatory." A large binocular telescope stood in front of them, each of the two components having a diameter of 8 meters. "This is the Large Binocular Telescope. It is the largest single telescope in the world, and its resolution is ten times higher than the one of the famous Hubble Space Telescope."

[Aisling]

@CountDracula

"Do you mean the one that NASA has? I never saw it but I am sure that you are correct. What all can you see from this particular telescope? Is this where you two took that picture you showed me earlier?"

[CountDracula]

@Aisling Ioan nod. "That's where we took that picture. But that telescope belongs to ESA - the European Space Agency -, not NASA. With that, you can see the entire observable universe in the visible, the ultraviolet and the infrared spectrum."

(In reality, it does belong to NASA)

[Aisling]

@CountDracula

"This is so cool, loan. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that I could look through such telescopes. So this telescope can see so far away that it would take light years to reach the star or planet that can be seen. I wonder if there will be travel to the planets out there some day...." Mystique spoke in awe and stood still in that one spot.

[CountDracula]

@Aisling "Yes, but you don't look through it. This telescope is connected to a computer, and you see the images on screen. By the way, light years are a unit of distance. One light year is about nine trillion kilometers. Probably, we won't be able to travel to planets that obrit other stars... they are lightyears away. That means that even the light takes years to reach them, although light is the fastest thing out there," Ioan explained.

[Aisling]

@CountDracula

"So unless we some day can build a self sustaining ship, there is no chance in going to other places. But we can dream and look for plausible places that life could exist.
What can we see out there tonight?"

[CountDracula]

@Aisling "Right," Ioan answered. "I could show you the Crab nebula."

[Aisling]

@CountDracula

"That would be nice to see. May I sit in one of the chairs?" Mystique asked as she looked at a chair nearby.

[CountDracula]

@Aisling "Yes, but the computer is in another room," Ioan answered.

[Aisling]

@CountDracula

"Then I suppose that it would be best to sit in the computer room. loan, I just can't get over the massive size of this telescope. There must be a really good filtering system in here so that there is not a speck of dust inside. A speck of dust could be as big as a meteorite if it landed on a lens...."