PaRARGdox 108
Look out, Paradoximan!!: It’s all happening now… unfortunately it does not seem to be happening to plan. So we pick up with Edderkoppen, Paradoximan and Hair’Port.
Regarding her teleports, I figure that a jump from a moving object would be problematic at the other end… like what happens to the inertia from the direction being travelled (or vica versa)? Anyway, she apparently has that covered… although it makes the ride even bumpier.
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Next update: Sunday March 21: (hoping I’m back to the regular update schedule again) That’s gotta hurt…
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Oof.
So yeah, I’d say things are going well.
Or… not.
Regarding inertia and the teleport, well, first you have one velocity and then you have another one, so you accelerated (yes the general case is named the same as is normally used for a speed increase). Not in an instant, mind you, but apparently very quickly, meaning high G’s has been had. (Hair’Port says she can compensate for it, I expect her “compensation” is little more than momentarily re-orienting her passengers so that the G’s are had in a manageable direction, i.e. as if pushed from the back.)
Teleporting likely causes a moment of severe disorientation, which is not the best moment to experience any sudden acceleration. And it appears to me that the teleportation doesn’t happen quite instantly either, so for a short moment you’re either at both places at once in which case you may have both velocities at the same time, both accelerating and not at the same time – or you’re nowhere at all for a very short time while the acceleration happens. (In the first case my idea of re-orienting to help manage the acceleration doesn’t work so well.) Either way, I find it very understandable that this experience is stomach-churning!
Inertial dampeners are very important technological discovery. She may have something similar as part of her ability. Otherwise … remember that Earth is rotating (460 m/s on equator), orbiting around Sun (30km/s), is dragged by Sun on it’s orbit around center of Milky Way (200km/s) and the galaxy is not “standing” either. So, even if she’s standing, she’s moving quite fast.
It’s obvious there is some compensation.
Inertia is only relevant for velocities that change (either in magnitude or direction). There are no other velocities that are relevant than the one she has before teleporting and the one she needs to have at the end of teleporting. Standing still is a relative thing, there is no absolute frame of reference. How the earth orbits the Sun does not come into play unless she is teleporting to the sun! How the earth rotates around its axis can play a part though, when she teleports far enough that the two locations have a significant difference in velocity. (I’m somewhat tempted to do some calculations, but I need to get back to work, i.e. other calculations.)
As she is a long distance teleporter it could be a vexed issue!!
CQ – “Now, Paradoximan… What is Euro-Magellan’s SIXTY Third Rule?”
P – š “Don’t touch the scenery unless instructed.”
heh
Quick, invoke Zeno’s Paradox!
I’m kind of confused, what does Paradoximan do? All I remember him ever doing was yelling a logical fallacy involving lemons and it caused a missile to explode during Lock(e)down. I get that he causes phenomena by saying certain things but I’m unclear as to how they tie together and what he can/cant do.
He’s making formal proof of something which is not true, by not being formal enough. Based on such description, there doesn’t seem to be any limit of his powers, although there probably is … and there is additional disadvantage that it takes him some time to say the proof so it’s not exactly fast.
It’s a curious ability – he didn’t so much as make it explode as make it cease to exist (I checked out the page where that happened – 6.203 – and it is admittedly not very clear on this fact.) Maybe we’ll get to see it in action as long as he doesn’t die first!
You know there’s a good reason in the real world rescue workers aren’t immediately sent into unstable zones like after earthquakes and tsunamis hit, because the entire terrain is going to be VERY easy to jar and create even more injuries and chaos, as this well shows. Though you’d think Magellan would have had courses on how to approach such terrain and the answer should always be “very cautiously.” I know it’s mostly bad luck that the very first piece of debris he put his weight on crashed down on him, but when you’re surrounded by giant slabs of concrete and metal that could crush you in an instant and invulnerability isn’t one of your superpowers, every five feet needs to be regarded as possibly unstable.