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[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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Yes but I'm used to the air quality deteriorating and since this world has a bit of a checkered past I figured it was worth looking into before I moved onto another topic.

Cool, if you have any further questions you're welcome to ask them. I can find the answer if I don't have it off the top of my head. There isn't room for everything up there.

My world has magic and science. They're fairly separated but they hold a lot of similarities and follow a lot of the same rules like conservation of energy and equal and opposite reactions. I don't know very much about magic though.

Deteriorating? And what would cause that? It seems important to know.

Certainly not. You have access to a library, aside from the one belonging to the public, of course. They're always so lacking.

If what I read is correct, "conservation of energy" is related to the inability to create energy, but instead to simply convert it, afford the idea that all energy has existed in one form or another for time immemorial, and shall long after we are all dust. Correct? Such a conversion requires a certain amount of energy, and the more that is used, the greater the result, yes? In such a respect, magic and science are one in the same. Truthfully, there is no other option.

What a healer in my time may call an imbalance of the humors, you would say is a disease or illness. Are they not the same? Have the same result?

If the air deteriorates we won't be able to breath. Mind you, it usually takes a while but it's kind of important.

Books are tricky. Science and technology are generally straight forward but things like history or culture are written by victors. So it isn't like they're 100% accurate and I don't have a good enough feel for this place to be able to read between the lines yet. I'm working towards it.

You are both correct but not. It's a context thing. Conservation of energy doesn't exactly mean that. It's Newton's Third law; "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction". It isn't that energy always exists but the potential for it does. Matter isn't created or destroyed, neither is energy, but it is spread out and can be formed into both useful and useless forms.

In that sense, science and magic are the same.

And maybe. That's a case of diction and culture references. Which does related to magic = science but you can easily get lost in the examples like that. I prefer to stick to Newton's Laws because they're simplified and can be adapted across cultures.

...yes. I'm aware. My question was in regards to what could cause such a deterioration.

It isn't about feel. It's about sources. Any archivist worth his, or her, salt knows no one course is definitive. Books are tricky, as you say, certainly, but historical fact is just as open to interpretation as, say, a man's cough. What origin it may possess must be concluded after all other possibilities are eliminated. What remains is the truth. History is much the same, as well as culture. If you feel something may be in error, which is ever so often is, read more. Question. Explore. Record.

Ah, then it does always exist. Just as the water in the air may be pulled together to rain.

Well, this Newton sounds like an overly simple man. The world isn't simple, and resolving oneself to simplistic explanations to its function leads fools to attempt things better left to their betters.

(Dorian's super defensive of books and history and culture, okay.)

Oh yeah. Magic might, technology, gasses and other by products that react with the planets atmosphere and cause it to slowly deteriorate. It needs further study.

They've actually broken down someone coughing but I get what you mean. We have similar views but different ways to describe things. It's interesting. I like it and you. I'm also a fan of books and learning so if you have any recommendations I'd be eager to take them.

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There is more to Newton's laws than that. That's like the title of each book. If you're interested I can find you some pretty awesome references. OH! And you should check out String Theory after that. I think you'd like that once you grasp physics. You strike me as a string guy over a Quantum loop kind of guy.

Ah, a fellow seeker of knowledge, are you? Splendid! The library has no limit on broken, half-cocked histories of the Quarantine and the planet below. It's as if a cataclysm occurred and this is what remains. ;)

I would very much appreciate a recommendation. I've found, in what I have had the opportunity to read, my understanding of the world is no less complete than yours. It's simply as you say: terminology. I also find it fascinating there is a language in your world, this "Earth", now basically dead save when used by scholars, that is very similar to one in my own, very much the same in terms of usage and knowledge.

I believe you refer to it as "Latin". In my own world, it is ancient Tevene. While not identical, they are something like dialects of one another. Fascinating.

Yes.

:)

There are actually a lot of dead languages on Earth but Latin is the one we know the most about and have enough references to learn it to a usable degree. It's interesting because language had developed at the same time all over the world in areas that were secluded from each other but still held a lot of similar rules and structures to them.

I think it's interesting.

I believe it merely proves that minds capable of conscious thought tend to operate the same way, which makes a degree of sense. A wheel turns, whether it's a wheel sculpted in Tevinter or in the Free Marches. It still rolls, and with rather a predictable route, most often downhill, unless someone's there to stop the natural momentum.

I couldn't have said that better myself.

[Freya is finding that she really likes Dorian.]

Now I'm itching to read. Text me over some titles and authors when you have the time. I could use use someone with a good eye to help recommend texts.

I do love when someone recognizes me obvious brilliance. How could I deny such a request?

I'll compile a list and send it to your phone.

You're my hero.

You're welcome to continue showering me with praise. I won't object.

I'll make sure to send more when I get that book list.

Be sure you do.

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