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And I'm cackling like a supervillain again. Thanks for that.
Distance Learning for fun and profit...
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Room temperature superconductors are already something that would break the bank.
Handheld MRI scanners.
That would probably do a lot for healthcare, especially in rural areas where they don't have enough money to get the equipment shipped all the way out there. Sure it would likely need training, but once the operator has been trained, sending a flashdrive is a lot easier than sending a patient.
Handheld MRI scanners.
That would probably do a lot for healthcare, especially in rural areas where they don't have enough money to get the equipment shipped all the way out there. Sure it would likely need training, but once the operator has been trained, sending a flashdrive is a lot easier than sending a patient.
E.I.G.
Robo-Bird
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I'm kind of looking forward to a case of this Taylor having a tinker present to watch her inspect their work.
Although I suspect from the hints that Amy might be the first edge case of such a thing to have their eyes glaze over a bit as someone else easily explains the thing they were doing by magic space whale.
Although I suspect from the hints that Amy might be the first edge case of such a thing to have their eyes glaze over a bit as someone else easily explains the thing they were doing by magic space whale.
Pethrai Darkos
Murder Ensued
Not just rural areas. Field treatments will benefit significantly if you can check for concussion/cerebral hemorrhaging at the medic station rather than heading all the back to a well stocked hospital.
Le Gasp! Taylor isn't human, she's a Shard infiltrator!
A wonderfully fun update. And this line just tickled my fancy, 'At this rate they should probably rename Brockton Bay University to the Taylor Hebert Research Institute and be done with it'. Oh, and I can't wait for her to meet a Tinkerer and have her chew them out for shoddy workmanship. It'd be priceless. Double bonus points if it's Armsmaster, and quintuple for Dragon. Hehe.
Sandy River DL
(Verified Destroyer Leader)
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That's a weird conclusion. Liking new and interesting knowledge is perfectly normal! *irritated destroyer leader grumbles*Le Gasp! Taylor isn't human, she's a Shard infiltrator!
I suspect that Dragon would take it better than Armsmaster.
Nah, BBU would probably just get a new dedicated engineering or STEM department attached to it. Probably "Taylor A. Hebert College of Engineering" or something like that.
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No, I do want her to take a look at Dragon's work and be like... "Well, this is much better than most Tinkertech." Because canonically what Dragon produces she has back-engineered from other peoples Tinkertech, so *she* actually understands what it is doing (and can mass produce it) but a lot of it is *super* expensive, and a bunch of stuff she just can't understand.
Likewise, Amy is nearly the only one in Worm that does understand what she is doing. She lacks the vocab and training to explain it to others but her active *space whale magic* is almost all in advanced sensory data and the biological manipulation without tools. Basically, she is a unblackboxed biotinker who uses it for nothing but healing.
Stepping away from the obvious medical benefits and more into DARPA's sphere: body scanners that actually work instead of the placebo things used at airports these days.
Once DARPA knows Taylor can decipher or be inspired by tinker tech, there's going to be a very large secondhand acquisition market for tinker tech opening up.
Hell. Uber (or was it Leet) would be perfect to put on retainer to make interesting tinkertech for Taylor to look at. Not much threat for being a tinker, won't have repeat techs, and have a wide variety of tech he can make to show to Taylor.
Of course Uber/Leet will never be allowed to interact with Taylor, but still. They'd be a useful asset to further Taylor's value.
Hell. Uber (or was it Leet) would be perfect to put on retainer to make interesting tinkertech for Taylor to look at. Not much threat for being a tinker, won't have repeat techs, and have a wide variety of tech he can make to show to Taylor.
Of course Uber/Leet will never be allowed to interact with Taylor, but still. They'd be a useful asset to further Taylor's value.
Lycanthromancer
The Arcane Fuzz
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Two arms, but only half a brain, if that.
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Taylor can just requisition some Tinkertech. She doesn't even have to mention that she examined some of Squealer's, because her budget is Yes. If she does let on that she understood what it does, why it breaks, and how it is supposed to work, the government would practically throw choice pieces at her.
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A handheld MRI is a self-defeating device. Not because there is anything inherently wrong with the technology, but because no fleshy operator will be able to hold it sufficiently still. The relative movement between scanner and target would ruin the resolution.
The solution is as simple as mounting it on a tripod, of course. Adds $10 to the price, and given the sort of carrying case it is likely to have, a negligible hit to portability.
I am curious how one would deal with the very strong magnetic fields in other than a dedicated facility, though...
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A handheld MRI is a self-defeating device. Not because there is anything inherently wrong with the technology, but because no fleshy operator will be able to hold it sufficiently still. The relative movement between scanner and target would ruin the resolution.
The solution is as simple as mounting it on a tripod, of course. Adds $10 to the price, and given the sort of carrying case it is likely to have, a negligible hit to portability.
I am curious how one would deal with the very strong magnetic fields in other than a dedicated facility, though...
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But, given Squealer, definitely drunk. At a minimum.
Also, is it me or is Taylor assembling some core components of a superheroing toolkit? Gravity manipulation for flight and "telekinesis" and possibly even some kind of gravity shear-based protection, room temperature superconductors to make skintight strength boosting exoskeletons feasible, and, of course, a cloaking device because who doesn't want one of those?
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cryptoam
building an 1980s encrypted protocol
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RE handheld MRI:
FDA Approves 'World's First' Portable Bedside MRI Scanner Costing 20 Times Less Than Current Systems (goodnewsnetwork.org)
It turns out that by advancing your sensors and signal processing, you can get by with lower magnetic fields and still get decent resolution.
EDIT: A bit late but Warclaw_Prime stated this a bit later here. Throw some reactions there as well.
FDA Approves 'World's First' Portable Bedside MRI Scanner Costing 20 Times Less Than Current Systems (goodnewsnetwork.org)
It turns out that by advancing your sensors and signal processing, you can get by with lower magnetic fields and still get decent resolution.
EDIT: A bit late but Warclaw_Prime stated this a bit later here. Throw some reactions there as well.
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To be fair to the other Tinkers out there, this is Squealer's work. So she was likely drugged up to the gills, and high while working on it. I wonder what Taylor would think if she could examine Armsmaster's Halberd.
How classified is the antigravity tech? I think I'd like to see the reactions to Taylor coming to school, riding a hoverboard, to advertise it as a new Gravtec consumer product.
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I suspect that the mag-field in question is going to be significantly less than what you would see in a standard MRI machine, and that the biggest improvements are going to be in both the field sensors used to read that field, and the software used to interpret and display the results.
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It's worth thinking about false positives too.
When you open it up to "4 teenage boys that know each other and have the right profile within a margin of error" then it turns into 90% of the boys in the school, and a percentage of the girls.
The primary hint is actually the fact that Vicky and Amy hang around Dean, which can pretty much be placed as part of New Wave's unintended consequences.
"Let's unmask, so our children will be placed under a microscope and any parahuman friends they have will risk unmasking too!"
"50%, tops."
M. H. Fuzzball
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The Department of Defense takes the protection of its research assets very seriously, especially when they're only 15 and live in Supervillain City USA.
That's because Dragon A) isn't actually a Tinker, and B) has much better people skills.
Leet's the Tinker; Uber's power is learning things quickly.
That it exists? Not very (the tanker was a little obvious). How it works? Very (notice that Renick and Armsmaster had to sign NDAs just to get in the door). Who's making it? You don't have sufficient clearance to find out how classified that is.
Well, let's be honest, she could requisition a Mars rover, an active duty naval destroyer, and fifty pounds of enriched uranium, and they'd probably just give them to her. Possibly while hoping that she'll build a metal gear.
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In other words, by even ASKING THAT QUESTION you have now been nominated to be 'Interviewed' by Men in Black, with orders to learn EVERYTHING you know, and no, "No Comment" is NOT a recommended answer!
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- Canada
Gotta catch them all!
Or cake. Hmm, I wonder if @mp3.1415player is partial to pie? 🤔
🤔Edit: I have a nice Strawberry-Rhubarb recipe from my Mom.
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