Email to Scientists
Aug. 30th, 2017 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xp_wallflower posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
xp_communicationTo: [Cho,Amadeus], [McCoy, Henry], [Richards, Reed],[Storm,Sue]
CC: [Lewis, Darcy], [Barton, Clint]
Subject: Let's do science to it.
Good evening everyone,
It appears that those of us in 'team insert name here' and X-Factor have found the thing making people sick recently.
Unfortunately, there's not a lot about these pendants that we can tell from simple observation and I'd much rather that you all have a chance to look at this thing before I make Kyle trying licking it.
If you'd all meet me down in the labs this afternoon, I'll give you the pendants and let you do your work.
Regards,
Laurie Collins aka 'team to be named later' current resident MD.
CC: [Lewis, Darcy], [Barton, Clint]
Subject: Let's do science to it.
Good evening everyone,
It appears that those of us in 'team insert name here' and X-Factor have found the thing making people sick recently.
Unfortunately, there's not a lot about these pendants that we can tell from simple observation and I'd much rather that you all have a chance to look at this thing before I make Kyle trying licking it.
If you'd all meet me down in the labs this afternoon, I'll give you the pendants and let you do your work.
Regards,
Laurie Collins aka 'team to be named later' current resident MD.
no subject
Date: 2017-08-31 04:56 pm (UTC)CC: [Lewis, Darcy], [Barton, Clint]
Subject: re: Let's do science to it.
Oh excellent, I was hoping to get a crack at it. Let me rearrange some things and meetings and I'll head back to the mansion around Midday if anyone else needs a lift back from the city.
~ Sue
no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 09:02 am (UTC)CC: [Lewis, Darcy], [Barton, Clint]
Subject: re: Let's do science to it.
I'm not an expert on materials science but I would heavily caution against licking the pendants, especially as they have known pathogenic qualities.
I will be finished with my classes around noon and would be grateful for the offer of a ride back to the mansion, Sue.
Sincerely,
Hank
no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 05:05 pm (UTC)Cc: [Still Less Gold Stars Than Jane]
Subject: re: Let's do science to it.
I will take notes, and possibly wear the thing if we need to see how fast bad things happen. I don't have super healing or anything fancy though, but this can't be any worse than people
CLINTinjecting themselves with untested venom, right?no subject
Date: 2017-09-06 04:03 pm (UTC)CC: [Lewis, Darcy], [Barton, Clint]
Subject: RE:re: Let's do science to it.
I will try to summarise what we have discerned so far from the various tests run on the pendants. Please correct me if I have gotten anything wrong.
- We have successfully ascertained that the gemstone is some type of emerald, though not a known variant of beryllium aluminosilicate.
- The gemstone appears to be 'very old', though this is hardly an accurate or helpful assessment of age. Given our lack of a gemologist and the relative difficulty of determining two and three phase occlusion, however, that is all I am willing to commit to at this time.
- It does not appear to have any magical qualities, though again, this is hardly something that can be determined with any scientific accuracy. Several magic users have agreed, however, so that consensus will have to stand for now.
- It does not give off any significant radioactivity above and beyond normal decay.
- Its method of action seems to be dependent on interaction with the x-gene; this applies to both non-manifested and manifested carriers alike. If I had several more months I could possibly begin to give you an explanation of how this works. For now, suffice it to say that non-X-gene carriers are unaffected, and mutants are.
- In its current volume skin contact is needed to acquire any effect (hence the pendants, presumably), though we suspect that larger amounts may not need such intimate proximity.
- Licking it also intensifies the speed of the reaction. The less said about that, the better.
- The gemstone can be ruptured with great effort; doing so releases some sort of gaseous vapour whose properties are far more virulent and toxic than those of the stone. It is possible that upon reaching atmospheric dispersion it could make large sections of the mutant population very ill.
- We were not adequately prepared to run human testing. Kyle, I'm very sorry. I hope you are feeling better.
- Our resident geologists have determined that these pendants are fragments of a larger piece of emerald; either there are a great many more out there, or a large piece of very dangerous rock exists.
- The science team's assessment of the situation is that it is imperative the rest of the emerald is tracked down and made safe; we will continue to work on a containment device for its eventual storage.
Does that cover everything?
no subject
Date: 2017-09-06 04:13 pm (UTC)From: [Reed]
I would also like to apologize again to Kyle. I should not have readily jumped to the chance of human testing. As my most esteemed colleague Hank constantly reminds me, a sample size of one is hardly appropriate.
I might have a tonic that could help. It's untested but the science is sound.
no subject
Date: 2017-09-06 04:24 pm (UTC)From: [Storm, Sue]
re: Lets Do Science To It
Uhhhh, Reed...you realise Kyle was just stopping by when you dragged him into your...idea. (This one has to go into the hall of fame, I really need to start copying Darcy's gold stars)
You might wanna approach him privately to apologise.
no subject
Date: 2017-09-06 05:16 pm (UTC)From: [Reed]
I just apologized. You read the email.
no subject
Date: 2017-09-06 07:24 pm (UTC)From: [Storm, Sue]
re: Lets Do Science To It
Reed...Kyle isn't in the group conversation. He didn't see your email.
no subject
Date: 2017-09-06 07:26 pm (UTC)From: [Reed]
I see that now.