The Company Loves Me. The Have Sent Me a Friend.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Maybe I'll go insane, go back to school, and study material science. Kind of like I always sorta wanted to but was stymied by my weak math abilities.

I always was fascinated by it, in the same way most people are, but the fire wasn't really kindled until I had a Geology professor explain to me what quasicrystals are, and how they are essentially abominations unto nature that have no business existing in our universe, and yet here they are. I really should have switched academic paths then.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

You might like to work in there that a Bostonian Biologist In Training envies his position. He gets to learn like something under selective pressure. He's a case study. Other, numinous people, are observing. Wondering. Waiting for data. Is this individual a monkey or a man?

The biologist in Boston can look at his DNA and go meh.

Human means a little more than that, doesn't it?

Bostonian wants data. Random individual in random city thousands of miles away is observing. Do. Something. Interesting.

Twid,
possessed by God or the Devil, I don't know which.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

I think it is starting to seep into your new friend, Roger. He doesn't realize it yet, but Tucson has him now . . .

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Maybe I'll go insane, go back to school, and study material science. Kind of like I always sorta wanted to but was stymied by my weak math abilities.

I always was fascinated by it, in the same way most people are, but the fire wasn't really kindled until I had a Geology professor explain to me what quasicrystals are, and how they are essentially abominations unto nature that have no business existing in our universe, and yet here they are. I really should have switched academic paths then.

I feel a certain amount of sympathy with them.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I think it is starting to seep into your new friend, Roger. He doesn't realize it yet, but Tucson has him now . . .

muhaha

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride

?

Now we make single crystal sapphires at any size we want.

I had one the size of my head for a paperweight, until the marketing geeks remembered where they left it.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Hold the fucking phone.

You made transparent aluminum obsolete, before I even got to play with any??

It turns out that it's fairly useless, when you can just make synthetic sapphire in any shape and size you want.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Hold the fucking phone.

You made transparent aluminum obsolete, before I even got to play with any??

It turns out that it's fairly useless, when you can just make synthetic sapphire in any shape and size you want.

Space ships built with synthetic sapphire . . .

[Luna]

Hold the fucking phone.

You made transparent aluminum obsolete, before I even got to play with any??

It turns out that it's fairly useless, when you can just make synthetic sapphire in any shape and size you want.

Space ships built with synthetic sapphire . . .

I...  Um... 

_{I love sapphires...}

I have the most amazing visual, right now.  I wish I had any artistic talent.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Absolutely surreal.

And hilarious.

Sometimes it's difficult to not idolize you, Roger.

Surreal was the goal.  And idolizing me is perhaps not the best option.   

If you turn him into an idol, all that happens is that everyone who handles him ends up cursed, usually with explosive diarrhea.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Maybe I'll go insane, go back to school, and study material science. Kind of like I always sorta wanted to but was stymied by my weak math abilities.

I always was fascinated by it, in the same way most people are, but the fire wasn't really kindled until I had a Geology professor explain to me what quasicrystals are, and how they are essentially abominations unto nature that have no business existing in our universe, and yet here they are. I really should have switched academic paths then.

I thought I had shit math skills, too. I was wrong though; I just hadn't exercised them enough, or had a good enough teacher. If you're really interested, I highly recommend going back and taking just a couple of math classes first so you can devote yourself to them and feel really confident about math.

[Aucoq]

This thread made me happy.  You're my hero, Roger! 

[Richter]

Hold the fucking phone.

You made transparent aluminum obsolete, before I even got to play with any??

It turns out that it's fairly useless, when you can just make synthetic sapphire in any shape and size you want.

Space ships built with synthetic sapphire . . .

General Products hulls.  Bounce them off any BDO and you might break the radio antenna.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Hold the fucking phone.

You made transparent aluminum obsolete, before I even got to play with any??

It turns out that it's fairly useless, when you can just make synthetic sapphire in any shape and size you want.

Space ships built with synthetic sapphire . . .

General Products hulls.  Bounce them off any BDO and you might break the radio antenna.

It's not quite THAT cool. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

Well it needs to become that cool, damnit! How much would it cost? Could it be crowdfunded?