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[broken-exorcist.livejournal.com]

Please forgive this purely frivolous question, but can anyone tell me about your modern flying machines?  I'd be very interested in any information that could be supplied.  They sound fascinating.  Thank you!

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Re: [anonymous]

[notachick.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, it's actually a little disconcerting. Although, it must be a very unique experience to soar the skies like a bird.

Re: [anonymous]

[broken-exorcist.livejournal.com]

I think it would be a little strange to see, but it must be very exciting! As long as you're not afraid of heights.

Re: [anonymous]

[notachick.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha, yes, so long as you're not afraid of heights. I don't believe I am, but I've never been higher than the roofs!

I can't imagine what these flying things would look like. Do you think they'd resemble birds with flapping wings?

Re: [anonymous]

[broken-exorcist.livejournal.com]

Haha, me too. I've been up pretty high, but never really flying. They'd probably have to be bigger. It sounds like they can carry a lot of people at one time!

Re: [anonymous]

[notachick.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine being separated from the ground... Although, it would make trips to and from Edo much faster, I suppose.

Oh, they can carry many people at once? That would be nice! Like a party boat in the sky~

Re: [anonymous]

[broken-exorcist.livejournal.com]

Yes, it would! Ah, are you from Edo then? I had some friends heading that way. At least, in my time they were. Do you recall the year it was before you came here?

Re: [anonymous]

[notachick.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, it seems I've gone and made the anonymity of my post rather useless. I'm originally from Edo, but I moved to the Capital. By the Western calendar, I believe it was 1862 1864 when I was brought here.

Re: [anonymous]

[broken-exorcist.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. I suppose I wouldn't have been born quite yet. And here I thought I was the most old-fashioned one here. It was 1899 when I was brought here.

Re: [anonymous]

[notachick.livejournal.com]

Yes, it seems I'm quite old here. I was born in the 1840s, long before your time.

Re: [anonymous]

[broken-exorcist.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I wonder if I could find you in Edo then, when I get there? See if you're still there? Wouldn't that be strange?

Re: [anonymous]

[notachick.livejournal.com]

If I am in Edo, then certainly. If not, please come down to Kyoto and I would be more than happy to see you. I will likely be a very old man by the time you find me though if I survive the war.

Re: [anonymous]

[killing-suzie.livejournal.com]

[Sketch of a Harrier Jet (http://www.smallartworks.ca/ArtPage/Harrier.JPG)]

[Sketch of a spaceship (http://interactive.usc.edu/members/jchen/spaceshipdesign1.jpg)]


[ooc: neither of those drawn by me! Jack's drawings aren't quite as good, but they're passable.]

Re: [anonymous]

[broken-exorcist.livejournal.com]

Oh! They do kind of look like birds! Are they made of metal? Isn't it difficult for it to fly if it's so heavy?

Re: [anonymous]

[killing-suzie.livejournal.com]

Planes are heavy. They don't float on their own. But you use the same physics that allow birds to glide; that's why planes have wings. So you just exert a downward force with how the air moves across the wing, and in exchange you get an upward thrust, so you fly.

Re: [anonymous]

[broken-exorcist.livejournal.com]

Haha, I'm not sure exactly how all of that works, but it sounds very impressive!

Re: [anonymous]

[killing-suzie.livejournal.com]

I'm no physicist, but I can draw some really simple pictures for you...

[how airplanes fly (http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/AERO/airflylvl3.htm)]

Re: [anonymous]

[broken-exorcist.livejournal.com]

Ah! That does make a bit more sense. But what about the space ones? I thought there was no air there? How does anything move?

Re: [anonymous]

[killing-suzie.livejournal.com]

Space is a lot more complicated. And there are a lot of different kinds of engines, kinds of ships, all sorts of stuff. The physics of that stuff is so weird that it just about makes my head explode. I figure I don't need to know how they go, just so long as they keep going. :)

Re: [anonymous]

[broken-exorcist.livejournal.com]

That's so extraordinary! Are there really people living on other stars out there?

Re: [anonymous]

[notachick.livejournal.com]

What They loo

I hope you don't mind me asking a few questions, but you seem very knowledgeable on the subject. What are they made of? What are those pointy bits on the...wings? I think those are wings, yes? How does the second one fly? Its wings look so very small in comparison to the rest of the body.

Re: [anonymous]

[killing-suzie.livejournal.com]

They're made of various metals, alloys, and plastics. The first has wings. The second... it's kind of complicated. If something's made to fly where there's no air, it doesn't need wings.

Re: [anonymous]

[notachick.livejournal.com]

Plastics - this word is somewhat new to me. Can you explain or give an example?

The flying machines go where there is no air? Where is that?

This is all very fascinating now that we're talking about it! Thank you for taking the time to explain. ♥

Re: [anonymous]

[killing-suzie.livejournal.com]

Plastics are... made of oil. To make it sound way simpler than it really is. They're a lot lighter than most alloys, as well as more flexible. Good stuff.

Outer space. Where the stars are. :)

Re: [anonymous]

[notachick.livejournal.com]

Made of oil? Like the oil one uses to light lamps? How very interesting...

...Outer space?! People fly among the stars? Are there places to visit in outer space?

Re: [anonymous]

[killing-suzie.livejournal.com]

Same sort of thing, yeah. I think. I'm not really a chemist. And of course, after the oil ran out, they started making it in laboratories, but who knows what they do with it now.

More places than you could imagine. :)