Fun story: One of the first things I was taught as an astronomy student is that, if you want to be a dick to someone giving a presentation, ask them “and how do the magnetic fields play into this?” and they will invariably say “fuck you I don’t know” because no one understands magnetic fields they are black magic.
Pure utter bullshit. Electromagnetic forces somehow outstrip gravitic forces in strength by an obscene factor, for no reason I can comprehend and it bothers me.
I love magnets
One, that gif showing the Curie temperature is really cool.
Two, you don’t understand, magnetic fields are the bane of my existance and I have a masters dissertation about them. I studied how magnetic fields develop in low mass stars and every single meeting with my supervisor ended in some conversation about how stupid magnetism is.
“Oh yeah and this is effected by the magnetic field strength…”
“But why?”
“God knows, I don’t have a clue.”
Was literally said to me by a professor who has spent 20 years of his life looking at magnetism in stars.
ALSO:
“Don’t ask why, we don’t know. Maybe magnetism? Who knows anything about magnetism.” – My Stellar Physics professor when asked about certain processes in stellar formation, something he has been studying for 10 years.
Like we know so little about that it’s actually funny.
I’m having a Jack O’Neill moment here… “Why?” “Magnets.”
So it’s close to 2 am in the morning and I’ve had the weirdest thought. Jetfire and Jetstorm were the result of a slip protoform so what if they were shorter then they were before they got their decepticon coding? I mean they were refinery bots and I highly doubt they were naturally around Optimus’ height. This is really funny to me cause now I’m imagining Jetfire and Jetstorm hitting their helms on doorways cause they’re not use to their height yet.
hello yes it is 5am and you have my undivided attention
lemme pull up the pre-upgrade twins in PS and use the help of guides (the little blue lines) to do some Science
before i load the upgraded twins into this, i just noticed immediately that grounder!jetfire is just a tiiiiny smidgen shorter than grounder!jetstorm, which is adorable and i love this (i imagine this was the subject of many a sibling squabble because i mean. who can resist bugging their twin brother that they are, no matter how small the margin, the taller identical twin)
resizing the flightframe twins as best i could while taking into account the fact that they would be more aerodynamic and light/skinny post-upgrade, this is what i ended up with:
they did grow a bit, it looks like! probably not enough for them to notice too much, but if they were barely able to squeeze into some doorways before they’re definitely in for a rude awakening post-upgrade ^^;
and wait for it… wait for it…
jetstorm is still the taller twin.
percy your attention to detail is astounding holy shit
whew, i got my entry done, finally! ey @zombie-writes, im your secret santa! sorry this couldnt be done for Christmas, but i hope you enjoy this wintery picture still (and i hope the tiny kade is okay, i couldnt resist lmao)
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