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Text Cut: AIREY! And catching up. Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie 
FINALLY! 500 POINTS TO RAVENCLAW!
Did you hear that, Mr. Toby? Did yo----
Oh.
Wait.
No he did not. Because he was not here. And now the Admiral was actually wishing for the Hufflepuff’s outburst of VIVA LA PLUTO!
Minus 500 points to Ravenclaw.
Leave it to a Hufflepuff to make the man illogically sensitive to Pluto being referred to as an asteroid. Sweet solstice.
“Stellar,” he nodded gloomily although his tone was chipper. “Somethig we will not be getting into the nitty gritty of today. Pluto and its status that is. Some even would argue that it is a large comet.”
Just some food for thought.
But it certainly was NOT a planet.
Yeaaaaaaaaah! Davie had gotten another one right! He was still beaming, even though the professor hadn't sounded very enthusiastic about Pluto's status as a planet. Maybe they'd talk about it some other time?
Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie “Stellar! Now that we have all that out of the way... allow me to introduce you all to three new friends - all three are looking for their forever homes, for the record,” the astronut beamed as he waved his wand to summon three rocks of varying sizes from his desk, complete with googly eyes. “The smallest rock here is Rockanne, this one Flint, and this big fellow is Dwayne Johnson,” he said as he levitated each of the rocks forward for their introductions. The first of their willing volunteers for the lesson. Making sure to line them up with equal distance between the three while also maintaining the same height, he looked up to the class with the face of a proud father teaching their son how to ride a broom for the first time. “These three will be acting as our meteorites today. So imagine that where we are all floating presently is outer space, the invisible line that bottoms of your chairs represents the outermost layer of the Earth’s atmosphere, and the soft white sand below the Earth’s crust. When I next wave my wand, the anti-gravity spell will be removed from these three and they will fall to the ground and crash into the sand and create a crater on impact.. Fear not, no harm will come to them. We have had several dress rehearsals.”
Pausing a bit more to allow for their quills to fly over their parchment, Airey cleared his throat before initiating the countdown.
“5...4...3..2..1..” And then with a flick of his wand, the spell was removed from all three and SWOOOOSH! down they went.
SPLUSH! LITTLE TO MODERATE SAND EXPLOSIONS EVERYWHERE!
ooc: the circles represent the approximate circumference
of the crater created by our falling rock friends
Peering over himself to look down, although he was rather tempted to just twirl himself horizontal where he floated, he gave an approving nod to the three and then looked back to the class.
“ Now, I want you all to look down and answer either out loud or silently to yourself on parchment the following questions. One, which rock created the largest crater? Two, what is the only difference in the way each crater was made? And three, what can you say about the importance of the mass of a meteorite in making a crater?” So, silently, Davie answered the three questions.
1. Dwayne Johnson made the largest crater.
2. The mass/size of the three rocks was the only difference.
3. Mass matters in the resulting crater size!
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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie
“Go Dwayne indeed,” he he chortled, giving Ensign Vogel an amused grin. “As those of you who opted to share your responses out loud pointed out, the more mass a meteorite has the greater the diameter of the crater. However, as some of you also pointed out, there is more to this equation than size.”
Summoning more rocks from his desk, the astronomer introduced each of them in the same manner he had the previous three who were now resting on the ground below them in their crater beds - all of which were simple craters, for the record.
“These three rock friends are the brothers and sisters of Roxanne, quadruplets if you will. All of them have the share the same mass,” he explained as he got the three into their ready positions, this time purposefully not keeping them at the exact same level but staggering them. “This is one here is Nephrite,” he said, leaving him the closest to the ground at about eye level. “This one Zoisite,” he continued, leaving the second to hover a few feet above Nephrite. “And this one Kunzite,” he concluded, leaving this one a few feet above Nephrite. “As mentioned by Captain Rehman and Ensign Montezor, velocity, distance over time, plays a role in crater formation as well. I will repeat the same process as I did with the first demonstration, remove the spell from these rocks and permit them to fall to the sand below.”
Were they all ready, because heeeeeeere we go!
“5...4...3..2...1…”
Spell released, the three stones hurtled themselves towards the ground and made for slightly more dramatic impacts.
ooc: the circles represent the approximate circumference
of the crater created by our falling rock friends
“ Now, in honor of true scientific inquiry, please consider the following three questions. One, what did dropping our three rocky friends from different heights accomplish? Two, do you see any difference in the diameters of the three craters? And three, which do you think is more important in creating larger craters, more mass or more velocity?” 1. Varying the heights from which they were dropped varied the size of the resulting craters. This has to do with velocity?
2. Yes. The higher from which it was dropped/the greater the velocity and crater size.
3. Velocity!
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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Giving the class an approving nod, he wiggled himself off to the side a little bit and waved his wand to summon the rocky volunteers back up to his desk; taking great care, for the record, that there were no collisions between them and students and their desks.
“Excellent work,” he applauded, diving right into the remaining bit of lecture. “So we have reiterated that mass and velocity play roles in the size of a crater - velocity playing a more influential role than mass but both still important. In speaking about our own planet, objects tend to hit at approximately 12 miles per second, or 20 kilometers per second, to create a crater approximately 20 times larger in diameter than the impacting object. Smaller planets and moons have less gravitational pull than large planets and therefore meteorites will strike at lower speeds, so this is where mass will sometimes play a larger role. So, size does matter...but just not as much as velocity.” Following so far? Stellar. “Now, some of you may look up at the Moon and think ‘SWEET SOLSTICE IT IS TAKING A BEATING!’, but that too is a bit relative. Impact craters are not a rare occurrence and happen everywhere in our solar system. The Moon appears to have so many more due to its surface essentially remaining unmodified for its entire 3 billion years of existence. Venus, lava flows that have obscured previous impact craters. BUT, as a general rule of thumb, one can say that older surfaces have more impact craters.”
He looked around the semi circle of desks, wondering just how many glazed over expressions he had earned himself in the past few minutes as he checked his sundial watch. Yes. That was enough lecture for the day. Time for something a little active and get the blood flowing. Floating in sitting position for too long could cause cramping and discomfort, so before all that set in…
“ALRIGHT! Parchment and books away. You’ll just need your wands now so go ahead and wiggle yourselves free of your desks and push them down towards the ground, please. They’ll stop once they hit. No need to worry about equal and opposite reactions in that regard.” Which was a little unnerving to the man how physical laws could so easily be discarded with magic. Unnerving and exhilarating...but now was not the time to dwell on this.
Banishing his desk and blackboard to the ground (and all rocky companions except Pebbles) as students took care of their desks and chairs, the astronomer summoned small drawstring brown bags for each student and levitated them to each individual. “In these bags you will find magically enhanced marbles in your house color. These marbles, while they will feel hard to the touch, will NOT cause any physical harm to yourself or your classmates. No need to worry about concussions in this classroom. At least not today. Ha. Hahaha. Anywhoooo…. “These marbles will act as your meteoroids, meteors, or meteorites while the sand…” He paused again to wave his wand towards the glistening white sand below, transforming it into three large spheres of equal size that began to rotate around the room in seemingly random orbits, changing things up every few minutes or so so none stayed on the same course for too long but showed no risk of colliding with one another. “...will serve as a planet just waiting to have its own impact craters. When I give the word, you will float about firing your marbles off towards these planets to try and ‘claim’ it for your house. When your marbles strike, they will shattered and create a crater in your house color. The more surface area covered by craters in your house color, the larger the ‘claim’ your house has on that planet.”
Get it? Got it? Good.
“When a planet’s surface area has been entirely covered in craters...well...you’ll just have to see what happens,” he grinned.
“Now, to launch your marbles you will be using a simple spell to make your wand mimic a muggle marble shooter of sorts. Simply hold the marble over the tip of your wand and say ‘Tikalas,’ pulling the marble back on the ‘las’ bit. You wand will produce a sort of faint gold band around the marble that, when you release it, will launch it in the direction you are aiming.” First years may find it a bit difficult at first, seeing as they were just starting out with spellwork, but even those truly struggling with magic should be able to get it after a few tries.
“I will be available right over here if there are any questions,” he said, indicating a place over by the winder with his index finger. “Ready? Set. ENGAGE!”
OOC: Here are some rules and more detailed instructions so there is hopefully there is no confusion. You can, of course, as questions OOC to me or IC to Professor Flamsteed
▸ Your character has a bag of marbles in their house’s color (red for Gryffindor, yellow for Hufflepuff, blue for Ravenclaw, and green for Slytherin). The number of marbles in the bag is seemingly endless, so don’t worry about running out.
▸ Marbles will shatter on impact and create a crater in the house color as well.
▸ Your character can only shoot ONE marble per post.
▸ Please TITLE your post with the number of the “planet” you are aiming for #1, #2, or #3. For example: post 1; planet #2
▸ Please do not forget to cast the spell, Tikalas, in each post. If you do not RP this then the impact crater will NOT count.
▸ Each marble (meteorite) that makes a crater on one of the three planets creates points towards that house “owning” that planet.▸ post numbers that are multiples of 9 mean that the marble’s velocity has greatly increased and will count as 5 points towards that house’s “ownership”
▸ post numbers that are multiples of 11 mean that the marble’s mass has increased and will count as 3 points towards that house’s “ownership”
▸ All other post numbers will count as 1 point towards that house’s “ownership”
▸ Post number means the number your post is in the thread
▸  ▸ I will be keeping track of how many points each of the 3 planets has accumulated and you will know when a planet has reached its quota 
▸ Talk & interaction between students is fine and encouraged
▸ Your character missing a planet entirely, performing the spell incorrectly, or simply taking a moment just to practice the spell will still count towards participation  Just let your character be themselves!
▸ This activity will be open for a few days (at least 48 hours from the time of this post) to give everyone plenty of time to participate
▸ Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun!
Minimum of five posts to get full credit (ten individual house points). Extra credit possible for outstanding RPing.
Okay, so nowwwwwww they had an activity to do. Whoohoo! Davie first pushed his desk away so it floated down to the bottom of the classroom. Awesome. Next, he pulled a blue marble out of his bag, put it right at the end of his wand, and murmured, "Tikalas!" gently pulling the marble baaaaaack with the last syllable. He saw the gold rubber band appear and was pretty psyched about it.
Hehe. This was going to be fun. It was just like using a slingshot. SWEET. He aimed his wand and the marble for... planet #2, and then LET IT FLYYYY!!!!!!!
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