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wanna make it clear that I don't know ANYTHING about aerodynamics and I consider fluid dynamics to be a specific field of magick but I do legitimately love a "nice start" whiteboard in media, that look authentic because they...kinda are!

James Ghoulity

@jgerity

Aug 23

okay Scully sure but like, they hadn't *done* anything to it yet

Scully, skeptical: "...about a sophisticated fluid dynamics equation."

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James Ghoulity

@jgerity

Aug 23

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Close-up of a computer terminal, showing data readouts of 12 quantities (Opt., Dist., PtA, PtB, PtC, PtD, QAT, CITF, Pbar, Rhum, Shum, Egt) repeated 8 times. The values themselves seem fairly meaningless but it's vaguely sciencey looking

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James Ghoulity

@jgerity

Aug 23

the lab got their dewar from Very Normal Lab Products, Inc. (this is awesome)

Image of a metal cylinder with a sticker label: "LIQUID NITROGEN / NON-MAGNETIC DEWAR: / CAN BE USED FOR MRI"

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James Ghoulity

@jgerity

Aug 23

this is actually a lab safety episode

Crime scene outline of a body, sans head. Near where the head would be are a series of Xes marked on the ground, as well as several polygons of varying size and shape. We can see Mulder's pants and shoes at the top of the taped region. Caption: "Scully: An organic object, exposed to liquid nitrogen..."

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James Ghoulity

@jgerity

Aug 23

oh damn they just unlocked this mystery man's overheads for the introduction of his talk on jet engines this episode is impressing me with its disbelief-suspendable TV science

Plot of "TURBINE ENTRY TEMPERATURE °K" (900 to 1600) on the vertical axis vs. time on the horizontal (1945 to 1975). About a dozen points show what are presumably different engine designs, split into two positive linear trends: "cooled engines" and "uncooled engines", with "cooled engines" having a steeper increasing slope and more entries. The plot has a few annotations showing "R-R START WORK ON BLADE COOLING," "1ST ENGINE RUN WITH COOLED BLADES," and "1ST COOLED ENGINE IN AIRLINE SERVICE"

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James Ghoulity

@jgerity

Aug 23

is the twist going to be that they were all stoned when they came up with the super-duper jet engine

Black and white photograph, appears to have been taken an office of some sort in the 1960s or 1970s. A bunch of youths hanging around, all looking very cool. One is sitting on top of a Volkswagen that is present indoors for some reason. She is holding a pennant above her head, but the text is not quite legible.

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James Ghoulity

@jgerity

Aug 23

Mulder was interviewing a person of interest (the eponymous Roland of this episode, titled "Roland") but he got kinda distracted by evidence of alien spacecraft someone just left laying around

Mulder crouching before a shelf, which holds some board games and miscellaneous storage. It would not look out of place in an arts and crafts section of a schoolhouse. Mulder is holding some kind of toy UFO or aircraft in his hands, looking intently at it.

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James Ghoulity

@jgerity

Aug 23

the funniest thing about this quote being used in a "this person is celebrating their own momentous science moment" context is that the original context of the quote is Newton being a TOTAL DICK and simultaneously flexing on both Descartes and Hooke "idk sorry that I'm so smart"