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[luckyescape]

[Maybe Freya is bored and testing strange things at her new job with Prometheus... and who says a mechanical engineer can't have hobbies outside of her field and use work resources to test said hobbies.]

Interesting Fact:

Dry air is primarily made up of nitrogen (78.09%) and oxygen (20.95%). The remaining 1% is made up of argon (0.93%), carbon dioxide (0.039% ) and other trace gases (0.003%). Water vapor (water in its gaseous state) is also present in the atmosphere in varying amounts, by up to 2%.

This is my Earth as of 2010.

So here is my question; What is the air in quarantine made of?

[About ten minutes later another text goes out.]

Maybe someone, not me, should try and figure this out. On the plus side, I found out that exploding things at my new job is not grounds for being fired! I also started a new project that I have named Prometheus.

He will be a robot that helps clean up the streets with a cute friendly tune. You'll see prototypes on the streets in about a month. If you see him, please fill out one of the surveys that are on his back and insert them into his mouth. If you hurt him, I will find you.

He's going to be like Wall-e so if you hurt him I consider you a monster of epic douche-baggery.

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[alkahestic]

as far as I can tell,
the air has the same chemical composition.
it's the same as my world
and the Earth of 1923

Which is a little strange, since we're supposed to be quarantined.
But a lot of strange things happen here.

[luckyescape]

I was pretty sure that the carbon dioxide in the air was a little less in the 1923's. Less cars and chemical emissions, then again, we might not be from the same worlds.

You a chemist?

[alkahestic]

I've never actually been to the Earth of 1923
but my brother has, so I'd have to ask him.

No, but close. I'm an alchemist.

[luckyescape]

Okay, so, where I'm from alchemist is the word used for early chemist/scientist who believed that they could turn lead into gold. Which doesn't even make sense since they don't have similar composite materials inside of them.

Not he point, point is, I don't know what alchemist means in the context of your world. Is it the same or something else?

[alkahestic]

You're not completely wrong.
In my world, alchemy developed rather than flying machines
and other technology.
Alchemists can't make gold out of lead because of the elemental makeup
just like you said,
but we can definitely alter objects on molecular levels.
We use energy harnessed by transmutation circles to power
our transmutations.
And as a result, I can use certain materials to make one thing out of another.
It follows the principal of Equivalent Exchange:
To gain anything, something of equal value must be lost (or sacrificed).

[luckyescape]

So it follows Newton's laws and you simply just manipulate energy and objects that you have access too.

There are people who do that in my world but they're uncommon.

[alkahestic]

That's the basics of it! =^.^=

Alchemists are only somewhat common in my world.
There are a lot of mediocre alchemists
and very few genius ones.

[luckyescape]

omg, you're adorable aren't you? Sorry, you're the first to use emoji's. I love it.

Back on topic --- That makes sense. It honestly sounds like you took magic and quantified it so that you could explain it scientifically. It sounds pretty cool. I'd love to pick your brain about it. I have a natural curiosity.

I've also found that genius is a relative term, generally based on species with shorter life spans.

[alkahestic]

Well, they're so cute, I couldn't resist.

Normally I'd direct you to my brother
because he's the real genius alchemist
and can explain better than i can,
but he left

so I guess I can definitely teach you.
Or at least try.

But I'm curious: what do you mean
by species with shorter life spans.

[luckyescape]

Just so you know, I am imagining you as an anime character with very large adorable eyes.

[Even though she can look up his picture on Friendr.]

I think you explain things really well, better than I could, and I never ask people to do more than try. Life is a lot of trying. So thanks. :)

As for what I mean, I don't know what sort of species you're used to but I've met a lot over the years.

An extreme comparison is to look at house flies. They live for 28 days and as such live an accelerated life. So a genius in terms of a house fly is based off of how much that fly can learn within their live span and it's also based to the base knowledge of other flies. Since genius usually implies you're comparing to the same species.

See, I am not good at explaining things.