[Oh look. Capa's got the camera on his little glow-in-the-dark stars in his room. On the ceiling. Must be a slow day for him. The camera picks up their light and shape and he speaks, though he doesn't move the camera.]I never thought that stars looked like that. Five perfect points. I never understood why they were always drawn that way, though I ( Read more... )

[Capa's back in his room, having mostly recovered from the bridge experience. At least he's clean now. He's got a chessboard out in front of him and he's got a pretty good game going for himself. He doesn't look away from the board as he speaks.] I don't know exactly who brought it up or when, but I used to hear people talk about the world ending ( Read more... )

So...nothing's going to attack us? Nothing's going to spring up out of nowhere and close us all in darkness? No one has switched genders or is forced to play house? No animals or spontaneous songs? Nothing...Halloween related ( Read more... )

[Capa's just on voice today. No need to see how he's not coping. He's quieter than normal, though most might not notice.] A year or so ago, I talked about how we find dark matter in the universe. How we see the invisible. It's a process a bit like looking through a piece of imperfect or curved glass. We see how light is distorted and so, in that, ( Read more... )

[Audio. Capa's not been sleeping well, ever since the strange things started happening. Capa doesn't like creepy, unexplained things. It's gotten worse with Rex's disappearance, but his rescue didn't really help much. If at all. So...he's muttering to himself. It starts out as numbers, which scientifically minded people might recognize as basic ( Read more... )

I never understand how anything in those worlds work. I used to think that science was unchanging. At least the concrete details. Avogadro’s number, vacuum permeability, the lift equation. Those are all very real and set in facts. But these ports seem to bend those numbers and equations in nonstandard ways. Making it look like magic. [Because he ( Read more... )

You all talk to the Admiral like he's really going to answer you honestly. As if he really cares what you have to say about things. I know that some people talk to him like he's there and some people talk about him like he's not. Though I think after what happened with the sortings- well, nevermind ( Read more... )

At the center of almost every galaxy is a black hole. Not just any black hole, but a supermassive black hole. [A pause and the sound of him scribbling notes.] In fact, the Milky Way has one. It's 26,000 lightyears away from our Solar System. It's the size of Uranus, but contains 4.1 million solar masses. To put it into different terms- that's 4.1 ( Read more... )

Are you still killing each other, then? Stay away from my inmate.

I'm busy and I have better things to do than revive her constantly. So me a favor and go elsewhere for this ( Read more... )

Shut up. Every time something happens here, you talk and talk and talk it to death. Any consideration for the rest of us? No ( Read more... )