Capacitor charged,
Replacing the accelerator with low-resistance copper alloy,
Wind speed: approximately 2,8 knots,
41 degrees Fahrenheit,
All conditions green,
Commence the experiment,
Aluminum doesn't quite give me the precision I need,
I may need to make custom projectiles with an offset center of mass,
Lower the firing angle by 1,27 degrees,
It isn't your gun's fault that you missed,
It's just a matter of skill,
So you think you can hit it, then?
I can,
Elegant indeed,
To think you calculated the trajectory on pure intuituion,,,
This is no ordinary gun,
Who made this?
You?
When you say "this," which one are you referring to?
This particle accelerator? This ring launcher?
The one we just shot is called a rail gun,
It fires projectiles not with gunpowder,
but with magnetism— that is, with the Lorentz force,
What, are you trying to start a revolution or something?
That doesn't sound like a bad idea,
I simply want to experiment and assess the rules and principles underlying all things,
The purpose of science is to reveal the mechanisms of this world
and make new, unknown discoveries,
Aerospace engineering brought to life a space probe
that captured the fantastical scenery of Mars, 75,280,000 kilometers away,
Meanwhile, quantum mechanics is unraveling the mysteries of the universe
on a scale of quintillionths of a meter,
The joy of science is in the endless exploration and new discoveries that it offers,
Science is elegant!
You're an odd one,
Stanley,
It's a handshake, Don't you know of them?
I'm aware of it on an intellectual level,
But,,,
This is my first time actually engaging in one,
Same for me,
I'm Xeno,
Stanley, allow me to show you the beautiful light of science,
You're finally awake,
Good morning, Doctor Xeno,
Watching the Same Moon
All right, We need to clarify our direction going forward,
To that end, let's start by going over our current situation,
Yup, that's definitely important,
We need to get our new buddies up to speed, too,
So,,,
We want to revive humanity by the billions,
So we came to the Americas in search of corn,
That's when we ended up in a battle with a crazy good science dude named Xeno-chan,
And he took our ship and our men,
But in return,,,
We captured the enemy boss, Xeno!
With hostages on both sides, we agreed to make Corn City a safe zone,
But now, we're fleeing in this tiny boat
from master sniper Stanley Snyder-chan and his fully-armed special forces,
Their carrier is coming after us to take Xeno-chan back!
This is just too much!
There's no way we can win!
Yeah, well, when you put it that way,,,
Yup, that's right,
We're gonna keep dodging Stanley-sensei as we head,,,
to South America!
Off to South America!
Straight to the source of the wretched petrification beam!
Imagine if there's a giant petrification device there or something,
We might find something amazing there!
I can't wait!
Why are you guys so excited?
We're being pursued,
Supposing there's been something at the source for thousands of years,,,
Dr, Senku, would you consider that
it might belong to people from the Moon?
Ah, so you did know,
You, too, Xeno,
Obviously, with so much big microwave energy coming at us from the moon,
we were bound hear it,
The two top scientists of the new world are both here,
Combine our efforts, and we might be able to monopolize it to make a new weapon,
Not that I care to monopolize anything,
Together, the two of us will get to the bottom of the petrification beam and the Moon,
All right, why don't we, master and student, start by sharing notes?
Very well, Science is elegant!
We're heading out as soon as we load up on fuel,
To get Xeno back,
You people, to the fortress!
Point that gun elsewhere!
This is a ceasefire zone now,
We're all on equal footing here,
Ginro's missing, Where is he?
Matsukaze-kun!
I must go in and retrieve Ginro-dono,
Hurry up and get moving!
He's too severely wounded,
There's no way he can walk!
Carry him too far, and he'll die,
I threw him in the med bay,
We're taking him on our ship?
That's fine,
If he dies, we can throw him in the ocean,
And we can use him as a hostage if we show him to the science kids,
We're counting on you, Matsukaze,
Guys,,,
Ginro-dono,
Matsukaze came back for me!
You vanished right after you hid me!
I didn't know what to do!
To think you were hidden in the enemy ship all this time,,,
I understand your plan, Ginro-dono!
You are hiding out here so you can learn of their situation!
Yeah, well, something like that,
You get it, Matsukaze,
You know my deep plot!
But the thing is, now that I think about it, I should get out,,,
I mean, it might not be a good idea for me to be such a hero,
I, Matsukaze, shall at least serve as your guard,,,
Matsukaze?!
He's hurt?!
Matsukaze, are you okay?!
What am I supposed to do?!
All right, here goes the Doctor Xeno Retrieval Tour!
You can feel the music in the air!
Torture time,
Wanna tell us where they went?
Do as you wish,
No matter what I must endure, I, Matsukaze, will not betray my masters,
I will never divulge their destination!
You must stay put, Ginro-dono,
No matter what happens to me,,,
H-H-He's right,,,
My job right now is to stay in hiding,
Like, it's the smart thing to do, y'know?
My job right now is to stay safe, no matter how painful it is for him,
S-S-South America!
It's a place called South America!
I'm sorry, Matsukaze, everyone,
I don't know who's listening to this
hundreds, maybe thousands of years from now,,,
But I'm the astronaut Ishigami Byakuya,
I see,
So he evaded the petrification beam because he was in space,
And the astronauts were,,,
The Russians,,,
Connie,,,
Lilian, and,,,
Byakuya,
He was a man who had command
of two incompatible notions, those of emotion and reason,
I could never come to an understanding with him,
But to think he sent information to the future through records and storytelling,,,
That's very much something I would expect of him,
We've figured it out from up here in space!
The petrification beam started somewhere in South America,
What are you all going to find there?
Science is all yours now!
We're gonna crunch this precious information with our brains going at full tilt, Xeno,
And we're gonna get there one step at a time!
Indeed,
Let us pinpoint the exact longitude and latitude together,
to discover the origin of the mystery that petrified all humanity thousands of years ago!
Are you sure about this?
Don't we have more important things to do than have tea?
If anything, it would be unmannerly of us to interrupt those two,
Am I right?
The two top scientists across millennia are collaborating,
Chrome, why do you seem so restless?
I'm not restless!
You seem mighty restless,
Oh, Francois!
I'll carry the tea and snacks!
He wants any excuse he can find to listen in on them,
Right now, I bet they're,,,
Crap, those are some huge bubbles,
This looks hella fun!
Lemme in!
Wait, no!
Why are you guys playing around?!
We are not playing, This is a model,
Throw some glycerin into the surfactant we made for shampoo,
and you get gigantic super bubbles,
Xeno isn't even tied down!
Yeah, not until we're done here,
He isn't running,
Okay, I made that thing you asked for!
Ah, elegant work!
Suppose the petrification device goes off in Brazil,
A planet-scale freak beam spreads over a radius of 12,800 kilometers, engulfing Earth,
That's the calamity that drove humanity to near-extinction thousands of years ago,
That's so clear!
You went all-out on this display,
Aesthetics matter if you want an elegant solution,
He did build a ridiculous castle,
Senku's all about optimization,
You're a lot more about form, huh, Xeno?
Hang on! Just a sec!
Crap, this doesn't make sense!
If it really is like this model,,,
From Senku's perspective on the other side of the planet, the petrification beam,,,
would have come from the ground, wouldn't it?
Exactly,
But in reality, it came from beyond the horizon like a tidal wave,
We're gonna dredge up whatever hint we can from that paradox,
So why the light came from the side rather than below, huh?
This is just my gut talking, but,,,
What if the beam takes just a tad longer to pass through the ground?
I mean, like,,,
It seems kinda tight and cramped, y'know?
A fascinating hypothesis,
But what's important for a science pro is not gut feelings,
but for a phenomenon to be objectively reproducible, no matter who tries it,
Objectively reproducible?
Let's say someone here insists they can see ghosts,
Why do you think a person of science wouldn't be interested in that?
Because there's no such thing as ghosts,
Nope,
They'd ten billion percent study the hell out of it,
But only if this so-called ghost keeps causing the same effects,
He or she sees a ghost,
Whether that's true or not is supremely irrelevant,
But if there's something that anyone can reproduce,,,
say, a slight drop in temperature whenever there are ghosts around,,,
You could use the temperature difference to generate
a crapload of electricity with a Stirling engine!
A ghost generator!
How very elegant!
That would even solve humanity's energy crisis,
There's gotta be more to science than obsessing over efficiency,
We're way off-topic, idiot,
You were all about it, too, Senku,
The point is,,,
We must now pursue reproducibility of the petrification beam
to reconcile our respective truths,
I was petrified in the middle of the day, at 12:40:20,
It was exactly 8:25 at night for me,
We were at Pinnacles National Park, so taking time zones into account,
it arrived at Tokyo fifteen minutes and twenty seconds later,
So it would have taken a few dozen minutes to cover the planet,
That's hella weird,
How is that weird?
The space station Byakuya and his team were on didn't just sit in the same spot in the sky,
It went around and around Earth,
It would have done half a loop in a few dozen minutes,
There's no way it wouldn't have plunged into the petrification beam!
In other words, the wave of light covered the entire planet at a rather low altitude,
It isn't even light,
It would have been faster if it were,
If it were some kind of luminous body,,,
and if the front flowed across the surface, held down by gravity,,,
it would match our observations,
We're taking that hypothesis
and mashing together what we saw from our respective vantage points,
If we're going to calculate the angle from which the light came,
we'll need to think about the temperature and weather of the moment,
Very elegant indeed!
This reasoning ought to lead to new discoveries,
The joy of science is in the endless exploration and new discoveries that it offers,
Chrome is mighty late,
He's been gone since he went to spy on Senku and Xeno,
From the moment we saw the light on the horizon,,,
,,,to when we were petrified,,,
56 seconds passed,
56 seconds
The petrification beam doesn't change speed at all as it's growing,
That discovery of yours, Chrome, is another stupidly useful reproducible fact,
Its speed is constant,
Now, how high into the air did the petrification beam rise above the surface?
It petrified everyone on a plane, too,
Then we can guesstimate the light to have reached 20,000 meters in altitude,
Assuming the atmosphere has a refractive index of 1,06,
the horizon would have shone 500 kilometers away,
If it traveled that distance in 56 seconds, then the beam's speed was,,,
I've got it! 32,000 kilometers per hour!
Your place got petrified fifteen minutes and twenty seconds ahead of my place,
Therefore,
constructing a shortest distance line from the epicenter along the earth's ellipsoid,
the point exactly 8,181 kilometers away is our bullseye!
That's most definitely correct,
Therefore what, though?!
There's nothing to fore!
You guys are done calculating way before I can even see where you're going!
Now we just need an angle,
Ballpark is good enough,
Yeah,
These are all approximations, but if we combine deductions,
the solution will emerge on its own,
The celestial bodies and the shadow cast by my desk give me a rough recollection,
Seven Skytrees to the left,
We never could have gotten here alone,
But with our minds together,,,
We can achieve,
Two lines can only meet another at one point,
It's 3 degrees 7 minutes south, 60 degrees 1 minute west,
That is where the root of everything is!
This is exhilarating!
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