They've Actually Done This With Frogs [Video/Action]

[trustycrowbar]

[Action]

No, it's about fourty old television cathode-ray tubes stripped, HEAVILY modified, hooked together and set into the ground in a tight grid. Gordon is there at the edge of the glass bubble-grid, somewhat dirt-smudged, sleeves rolled up and coat completely abandoned, talking into a pocket voice recorder with a near-empty bottle of water in the other hand.]

Okaaaaay, first test of hydrophobic electromagnet field... [He tips the bottle over the cathode tubes, and instead of the predictable catastrophic clash of water and electronics, the drops... just sort of hang there in midair. Gordon breaks into a wide grin and turns away with an excited fist-pump before going back to the recording.] Test successful! Magnetic dipole action is causing the water to be completely repelled by the field! My calculations predict that at this power range the field will effectively suspend anything that's more than 60% water by weight! Huh... In fact...

[He looks at the water droplets, the generator tubes, the water bottle in his hand, and then quickly finishes the last swig in the bottle and jumps on top of the tubes... and kind of slides above them, wobbling in midair.] AHAHAH ALL RIGHT! Field can actually suspend a human--whoaOOF! [Can suspend one until they slide off the opposite edge that is.]

[tl;dr there's now a magnetic anti-grav field in the courtyard lawn that'll only work on water and living creatures. Who WOULDN'T want to investigate?]

[Video]

[Gordon is still dirt-stained but back in the apartment, pacing with phone in hand. The magnetofield is clearly visible outside the window whenever he passes it.]

So. Here I thought I remembered everything about my work before, but I gave up a few more anemoi shards to the boys at the lab and suddenly I... I get this huge second wave, sort of. Suddenly BOOM, everything you ever wanted to know about electromagnetism but were afraid to ask, is back. Anyone else have this kind of thing happen to them? Some huge body of knowledge in pieces? I wonder how many more of these I'm going to get...

Comments

[trustycrowbar]

[Why does he feel like he's teaching a science class? And why does that BOTHER him so much? Oh god... he's not actually a high school science teacher, is he?! Christ, if that's the case then he's better off an amnesiac!]

Because I'd liquify if I hit anything at over two hundred feet per second... Now, I GUESS I could put a ring of repulsors facing inward to make it more stable, but that won't work for bodies at any amount of speed, and it's not going to help at all I plan on making a portable version.

[third_alternative]

...

I have no idea what you just said.

[trustycrowbar]

'Yeah, I get that a lot. All I said was that adding something to keep a person centered isn't going to work, because I'm planning on turning this into a personal hover device, or at least something to augment a jump... though I get the feeling the guys' up at Justice League HQ already beat me to the punch.

[third_alternative]

Oh.

Uh, I guess... [Yeeeaaaaah Rex's capabilities have been exhausted here. He has no idea what he's saying or how any of this works. He'd have to see the inner workings to actually get anywhere close to understanding it.]

Well, uh...why would those Justice League guys build something like this anyway? They can all fly on their own already, right?

[trustycrowbar]

If Booster's to be believed they've got tech that's literally hundreds of years ahead of my time. [And he's not afraid of reminding him of that fact. Bastard.]

I don't know the whole roster, but some of them may not be able to fly under their own power. Others might be using tech instead. I should probably look it up at some point... Hey, what about you, kid? You can't fly, can you?

[Never thought he'd be asking a question like THAT so casually...]

[third_alternative]

Really? Hundreds of years ahead of that? [He points to the machine.]

And uh...actually? [Rex steps back a bit to let this grow out of his back. He jumps up and allows himself to hover a few inches off the ground.] Yeah. I can.

[trustycrowbar]

Hundreds of years, or so he says. What I want to know is, if Jay-ell has such advanced stuff then why the hell are they keeping it propriet--

[His train of thought is derailed spectacularly when Rex steps back and grows a turbine-powered jet pack. Holy crap.]

--I don't mean to go off on a tangent, but just how many of those nanite forms do you have?

[third_alternative]

I dunno. They're all superheroes, right? Maybe they're trying to keep it away from any supervillains that show up. If there even are any.

[He un-builds (look there isn't a much better word for it okay) the jet pack and lands on the ground.]

Well, let's see... [He mentally counts them off on his fingers one by one...] Far as I can remember right now, six. But I can change most of them to do even more stuff.

[trustycrowbar]

Six builds with a couple of variants a piece? That's pretty versatile.

[He makes a mental note of it all. Mostly for cuirosity's sake.]

[third_alternative]

Yeah. I don't think I can do more than one at a time, though.