[anyone walking by the parlor will discover a rare sight. Hayato is resting relatively quietly. He's sitting on the couch his bad leg kicked up on the table, and he's watching T.V. more specifically, Star Wars. He's got a notebook on his lap, filled with his schematics and formulas, and off to the side he's got some of his tools and some unfinished
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Walking in after a moment, she leaned on the back of the couch, her eyes never leaving the screen.]
Do you mind if I join you?
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Sure!
[He starts moving his tools and papers aside giving her a place to sit. Then he takes off his glasses and tucks them onto the neck of his shirt. He didn't need them to watch a movie.]
assuming you've never seen Star Wars before?
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Seen what?
[Star...wars...The name sounded stupider than anything she'd heard before, but if it was what they were watching, it was actually pretty good.]
We don't really have movies like this in my world. Space travel's a little ridiculous to make movies about.
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[He laughs at her statement]
You know, people in my world have been to the moon. It's not as ridiculous as you might think.
[Hayato offers her the bowl of popcorn]
All things considered the movie isn't all that impossible. Granted the explosions shouldn't be making a sound in space...
[of course he would know that...]
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Seriously? The very idea sounds like a work of fiction. [Something that irrational dreamers thought up...as though there weren't interesting real things happening in the world.
Tentatively taking a piece of the popcorn, she stared at it before actually eating it. Her eyes widening a moment later.]
That's good. [Taking a small handful, she pulled her legs up on the couch, getting herself comfortable.]
How do you know that? Have you ever blown something up in space?
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Help yourself. [He places the bowl between them]
Me? No, not many people get to go to space. But the reason behind it is just simple physics. On Earth there's a bunch of gas molecules and stuff in the air for sound waves to reverberate off of, which is how we hear it. Space is a giant vacuum of nothing, so there's no was for sound to reverberate off of anything.
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[With all of the confusing technology in her world, there simply wasn't even a thought of rockets or spaceships. Space was something to look at, not explore.]
[Taking some more of the popcorn, she glanced over at Gokudera. He seemed completely in his element here, so unlike what she was used to...it was kind of nice.]
If someone's already been to space in your world, why can't everyone go? It was obviously deemed safe, so why not?
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[Gokudera smiles, he was VERY MUCH in his element. Though he would also be more preferable to have the option of moving around. He knew it was only a matter of time before he started going stir-crazy.]
Actually, I can sorta show you how it works on a smaller scale...
[the teen reaches back and pulls out one of his rocket bombs, then sifts through his tools on the table and pulls out an exacto knife. He cuts the top off and dumps out the black powder into a small container, then carefully dissects the bomb down to the propulsion system. He holds it steady so the liquid wouldn't spill outRemember how my bombs propelled themselves and changed direction? When the rockets go up the have a big fuel tank strapped on ( ... )
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Scooting over until she was brushing against his side, her eyes easily kept up with the fast movements, studying how he did it.]
And that's it? It's that easy?
[She didn't see any reason why that would be expensive, no matter how big it was. Perhaps his world was more different than hers than she thought...]
So...when people go to space, do they live there? If it falls apart then they don't have any way to get home, right? [It made sense to her anyway. Had she not trusted Gokudera, then she would have called him out on lying to her.]
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Well it's not that easy, the rocket is about twice the size of the manor. Takes a lot of man-power to build and it's real complicated. If something even like the weather isn't perfect the whole thing could blow up.
[Gokudera puts the skeleton of his bomb down and reaches for his note-pad and puts his glasses back on. He finds a page without too many of his formulas and schematics and his notes in Italian. He sketches out the basic outline of a space shuttle, and the corresponding parts]
Well it orbits Earth for a while, but there's a set of jets on the back here [he points to the parts on his little sketch] It doesn't take as much power to come back to Earth as it does to leave it. There's no gravity or air, so there's no resistance. Just got to get close enough and gravity pulls the shuttle back all on it's own.
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