@Vordak,
Okay that makes sense about the acoustic levitation, thank you.
As for temperature control, it won't be an isolating power that lets nothing through, including physical objects. If someone under this power is thrown into a body of icy water, they won't die from hypothermia but most likely from drowning/lack of oxygen. Likewise, I was thinking an object under this power would still burn and get 'cooked' so to speak but won't be 'burnt', but i'm not sure if that would be the case which was mainly what I wanted to know.
EDIT: Okay thank you! that's more or less the lines of what I was thinking, I wanted to make sure I wasn't being horribly wrong and it was plausible.
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@Foster: I'm going to assume you were answering my question on the first post because you didn't say who you're addressing... though there was in total four questions on the first post so I'm not too sure if you were really answering me...
I must have worded something horribly wrong, because I'm not asking what would the power to make something keep a constant temperature would do, but rather what would happen when:
- it is thrown in fire; by 'thermal immunity' I can only assume you meant temperature does not change which I already stated. I'm asking whether this will prevent burning, or if it will prevent the fire from consuming the object and leaving only carbon/ash or something else.
-there is huge temperature difference at the moment the power is dispelled.
-regarding thermal radiation; although for this one Vordak more or less agreed to what I was presuming so I'm willing to let this one go.
I must have worded something horribly wrong, because I'm not asking what would the power to make something keep a constant temperature would do, but rather what would happen when:
- it is thrown in fire; by 'thermal immunity' I can only assume you meant temperature does not change which I already stated. I'm asking whether this will prevent burning, or if it will prevent the fire from consuming the object and leaving only carbon/ash or something else.
-there is huge temperature difference at the moment the power is dispelled.
-regarding thermal radiation; although for this one Vordak more or less agreed to what I was presuming so I'm willing to let this one go.
Pat Hogan, the eleven year old child test subject.
Perhaps the one place the boy felt at ease all by himself was the training center; exercise machines, dumbbells and plenty of other tools to take his mind off of boredom while still having that tiny chance of new faces to meet and interact with at any moment. Not that the 'new faces' would be anywhere near happy seeing the angry-eyed, scary-masked, half-naked midget boy pumping away happily at lifting weights, but Pat was completely oblivious of that fact. Truth be told he was only going to be here for a little while until there were more activity as people woke up one by one.
So far, this morning had been quite quiet. The room was filled with little more than his own muffled breath, the soft hum of whatever air conditioning or fans they had, - Pat had never remembered to check the ceiling to see exactly what was attached - and the creaking from various exercise machines. He saw a few familiar faces here and there also taking their time on one of the exercise machines or idly chatting to each other, but he made no move to join them; Pat had been told not to bother others when they were exercising by someone long ago and after many forgettings and facing irritated replies he stuck to that rule.
At the very least, today was going to be an eventful day; he overheard some of the kids mentioning there was going to be new arrivals soon. To be honest they were talking about hijacking the boat as they unloaded them, but that wasn't what Pat was interested in and left them to their meticulous planning. Not that anyone with enough intelligence would fail to catch their light tone of voice and hear their superficial ideas and impossible feats and realize they were joking. Pat, however, made a mental note to check upon them later and made sure they did not get into much trouble - after all if he helped them maybe they'll become his friends - and focused back to his weight-lifting.
Through the windows, Pat could see the weather outside; gloomy as ever laced with shadows that resemble buildings in the distance like any other day. This place really had little change, perhaps the most exciting thing being the experiments, if you can even call that 'exciting'. A dull echo of the ache from when he had been tied down on the last experiment pulsed slowly, but it wasn't strong enough to make him stop the same weight-lifting movement he had done for who-knows-how-long. His mind moved back to the news of the new arrivals; when will they be here?
Perhaps the one place the boy felt at ease all by himself was the training center; exercise machines, dumbbells and plenty of other tools to take his mind off of boredom while still having that tiny chance of new faces to meet and interact with at any moment. Not that the 'new faces' would be anywhere near happy seeing the angry-eyed, scary-masked, half-naked midget boy pumping away happily at lifting weights, but Pat was completely oblivious of that fact. Truth be told he was only going to be here for a little while until there were more activity as people woke up one by one.
So far, this morning had been quite quiet. The room was filled with little more than his own muffled breath, the soft hum of whatever air conditioning or fans they had, - Pat had never remembered to check the ceiling to see exactly what was attached - and the creaking from various exercise machines. He saw a few familiar faces here and there also taking their time on one of the exercise machines or idly chatting to each other, but he made no move to join them; Pat had been told not to bother others when they were exercising by someone long ago and after many forgettings and facing irritated replies he stuck to that rule.
At the very least, today was going to be an eventful day; he overheard some of the kids mentioning there was going to be new arrivals soon. To be honest they were talking about hijacking the boat as they unloaded them, but that wasn't what Pat was interested in and left them to their meticulous planning. Not that anyone with enough intelligence would fail to catch their light tone of voice and hear their superficial ideas and impossible feats and realize they were joking. Pat, however, made a mental note to check upon them later and made sure they did not get into much trouble - after all if he helped them maybe they'll become his friends - and focused back to his weight-lifting.
Through the windows, Pat could see the weather outside; gloomy as ever laced with shadows that resemble buildings in the distance like any other day. This place really had little change, perhaps the most exciting thing being the experiments, if you can even call that 'exciting'. A dull echo of the ache from when he had been tied down on the last experiment pulsed slowly, but it wasn't strong enough to make him stop the same weight-lifting movement he had done for who-knows-how-long. His mind moved back to the news of the new arrivals; when will they be here?
Yay, it's up. I wonder how many of us are still around though.
The first post tends to be the longest post, I guess. I bet my posts will decline as we continueQQ.
The first post tends to be the longest post, I guess. I bet my posts will decline as we continueQQ.
@Fat Boy Kyle. I -think- you're referring to the girl from that anime to aru something? If you are then I think the floating doll was done by an electro-magnetic field. If you're not, then ignore me xD
Making the air beneath the object more dense will probably work; I mean iirc acoustic levitation is exactly that, only with sound waves. It's just that I know so little about all this science bit and I was hoping I would be able to get a mentor or someone similar from here that I can bug ask about. Regardless, the whole point of acoustic levitation was to find a levitating power which does not use electromagnetic waves.
Making the air beneath the object more dense will probably work; I mean iirc acoustic levitation is exactly that, only with sound waves. It's just that I know so little about all this science bit and I was hoping I would be able to get a mentor or someone similar from here that I can bug ask about. Regardless, the whole point of acoustic levitation was to find a levitating power which does not use electromagnetic waves.
As for the temperature thing, I might be understanding you wrong but I wasn't asking how I would scientifically explain the concept of being able to keep a constant temperature, but rather what would happen if a character who had that sort of power was in any of the three circumstances listed and why that might be so. If you were addressing one of the three or something, then I apologize for not realizing this since it's kind of difficult to understand exactly which part of 'the former' you are talking about.
For the acoustic levitation, again I'm not quite sure what you're trying to address. Maybe I shouldn't have used that X-Men example, but I was referring to suspending objects from gravity, that is, levitation rather than being able to making things fly in the sense of giving an object freedom to move about in space and I do apologize for any misconceptions. To iterate, I was asking what would i seemingly [as in, role play-wise] require in order to do what I believe you are referring to as being crazy and why that could be so. On that note I'm not sure what part of using a myriad of such waves to lifting oneself is crazy; does it create enough force upon oneself to the point of physical harm, or does it somehow create a tear in the fabric of the universe and ultimately cause the world to collapse or something?
For the acoustic levitation, again I'm not quite sure what you're trying to address. Maybe I shouldn't have used that X-Men example, but I was referring to suspending objects from gravity, that is, levitation rather than being able to making things fly in the sense of giving an object freedom to move about in space and I do apologize for any misconceptions. To iterate, I was asking what would i seemingly [as in, role play-wise] require in order to do what I believe you are referring to as being crazy and why that could be so. On that note I'm not sure what part of using a myriad of such waves to lifting oneself is crazy; does it create enough force upon oneself to the point of physical harm, or does it somehow create a tear in the fabric of the universe and ultimately cause the world to collapse or something?
Disregarding whether the role play setting is fantasy or supernatural or whichever that requires or allows a superhuman trait on a character, I have a habit of making my characters' powers be a seemingly effortless alteration of reality that can possibly be 'explained' with science [hopefully that makes sense]. Sometimes... well, almost all the time actually, I have trouble grasping whether what I assumed is actually feasible or not but I didn't really had a place to ask. That was when I figured I'll try asking here.
So for the time being, these are the thoughts I have at the moment.
Maintaining a constant temperature: The idea behind this would be a power that is able to keep the same temperature on an object, person or thing. An example will be ice cubes that seemingly never melts [because the ice cubes will be under this power and stay below freezing temperature even in a hot place].
The problem is what would happen if an object, person or thing that is under this power:
-is bathed in something like fire? I understand that the object, person or thing will not be affected by the scorching heat from the fire but does that mean it will also prevent burning and if so would it be classified as a complete immunity to fire? Or better yet what would be the entire effects of coming in contact with it.
-came in contact with something of a vastly different temperature the moment the power is dispelled? So if an object is cooled down to, idk, minus a hundred degrees celsius [disregarding the fact whether that's possible or not] and then placed in something that is at least a thousand degrees celsius at which point the power is lifted.
-considering thermal radiation? from what I know heat radiates off anything above absolute zero. Would it make sense to say this power will prevent thermal radiation to enter or escape the object that is being powered? If this is the case, that means this can effectively prevent heat sensors, doesn't it?
Acoustic Levitation: Basically this is sound waves bouncing off or reflecting to and fro an object which in turn makes the object levitate. At least that is what I know of it from reading about it. An example of this would be from that. X-men episode I happened to see; I think it was the movie 'beginnings' or something where a hyper voice guy flew using his voice. From what I know, acoustic levitation achieved with sound waves not in hearing range to an average person can only lift small objects and not people. I suppose what I really want to know is what would be the requirements for sound waves not in hearing range to be able to lift a person or heavier?
EDIT: well, this post is longer than I expected. Sorry about that.
So for the time being, these are the thoughts I have at the moment.
Maintaining a constant temperature: The idea behind this would be a power that is able to keep the same temperature on an object, person or thing. An example will be ice cubes that seemingly never melts [because the ice cubes will be under this power and stay below freezing temperature even in a hot place].
The problem is what would happen if an object, person or thing that is under this power:
-is bathed in something like fire? I understand that the object, person or thing will not be affected by the scorching heat from the fire but does that mean it will also prevent burning and if so would it be classified as a complete immunity to fire? Or better yet what would be the entire effects of coming in contact with it.
-came in contact with something of a vastly different temperature the moment the power is dispelled? So if an object is cooled down to, idk, minus a hundred degrees celsius [disregarding the fact whether that's possible or not] and then placed in something that is at least a thousand degrees celsius at which point the power is lifted.
-considering thermal radiation? from what I know heat radiates off anything above absolute zero. Would it make sense to say this power will prevent thermal radiation to enter or escape the object that is being powered? If this is the case, that means this can effectively prevent heat sensors, doesn't it?
Acoustic Levitation: Basically this is sound waves bouncing off or reflecting to and fro an object which in turn makes the object levitate. At least that is what I know of it from reading about it. An example of this would be from that. X-men episode I happened to see; I think it was the movie 'beginnings' or something where a hyper voice guy flew using his voice. From what I know, acoustic levitation achieved with sound waves not in hearing range to an average person can only lift small objects and not people. I suppose what I really want to know is what would be the requirements for sound waves not in hearing range to be able to lift a person or heavier?
EDIT: well, this post is longer than I expected. Sorry about that.
I'm pretty sure I'm on the other side of the world to most people (GMT+10) so I'm not sure whether you'll ever catch me online unless I'm up at ungodly hours.
I've made a few changes in the appearance, personality and history to tone down what I -think- were causing the misconception.
Just letting you know I want you, as the leader of this thread, to criticize and impose your opinions about my character if they do not meet up to the roleplay expectations. It's not something you should apologize to do, and I'm completely fine with that! so yeah, tell me if the edits are worse or something~
RE: roleplay methods. If you have plots ready, i'd say start off as a group [or two groups in different cells, i dunno] with a plotline?
Just letting you know I want you, as the leader of this thread, to criticize and impose your opinions about my character if they do not meet up to the roleplay expectations. It's not something you should apologize to do, and I'm completely fine with that! so yeah, tell me if the edits are worse or something~
RE: roleplay methods. If you have plots ready, i'd say start off as a group [or two groups in different cells, i dunno] with a plotline?
To be fair i've... never seen anyone with actual muscles in real life so I've no idea how much is too much. Would it be okay if you tell me which parts sound unrealistic so that i can change those bits? I wanted to roleplay a young but strong character, though not inhumanely strong which apparently I failed in depicting.
If that is too much of a bother than no probs, I can come up with a completely new character any time. It's just that the ideas I'm coming up with tends to be 'passive abilities' so to speak and has absolutely no relation to the mind [such as being able to live without needing basic needs or something] which seems weird in a roleplay named 'Mind Games'.
If that is too much of a bother than no probs, I can come up with a completely new character any time. It's just that the ideas I'm coming up with tends to be 'passive abilities' so to speak and has absolutely no relation to the mind [such as being able to live without needing basic needs or something] which seems weird in a roleplay named 'Mind Games'.
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