Chapter 2, Page 1
Reena’s Journal
October 31st
Just woke up, but I wanted to get in a quick journal entry before heading off to work. Yesterday was incredible, thrilling, and kind of scary. It was my first day as an officer with the Pallad City Police Department and I met Chief Hardiman, along with my partner, Madison Wynter. She seems like an amazing officer and definitely knows what she’s doing, way more than I do. She’s really cool and extremely confident—I wish I could be more like her. Though, Madison isn’t the friendliest person around and some of the other officers call her the “Ice Queen of the PCPD.” I don’t think she likes too many people (she doesn’t seem to like me, that’s for sure!).
My first day on the force was crazy! We had to investigate a disturbance at Horizon Global Solutions, a huge megacorporation here in Pallad City. A disgruntled employee stole one of their prototype power suits and went on a rampage. Madison got trapped under a bunch of rubble (but, fortunately, wasn’t hurt). I went after the power suit alone—which was pretty dumb, but I guess I wasn’t thinking clearly at the time. Anyway, after catching up with the suit I tried shooting it but that didn’t do much. My gun had terrible recoil too (the PCPD armorer said that he’ll try to get me a smaller model by next week). Anyway, an overhead water pipe burst and I used my stun gun to electrify the water, which deactivated the suit! I still can’t believe it worked… I heard later that the suit’s engineers hadn’t bothered to include internal shock-resistant insulation for the prototype.
Madison seemed impressed (sort of), though she asked how I knew the pipe contained salt water. I was confused and told her that I didn’t know (at the time I thought it was a weird question). She kind of rolled her eyes and said that the trick with the stun gun wouldn’t have worked if that ruptured pipe spilled out anything other than salt water. I guess you can’t carry much of an electrical current in fresh water (who knew?). Whew, after finding that out I realized I was even luckier than I imagined—I had no idea!
Today will be my second day on the job and I’m so excited! Plus, it’s Halloween—I love Halloween! Whoa, just looked at the clock—I better get moving or I’m going to be late. I wonder what’ll happen today. More later…
–Reena
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If you thought your FIRST day was fun…
As it came up in the Journal Entry, I wanted to ask:
What kind of water did Wynter expect to be in the pipes? Tap water also conducts electricity, though I admittedly don’t know if it would do so well enough for the electricity trick. Pure (distilled) water wouldn’t?
Water that is very pure is very resistant to electricity. Water with just about anything in it, not so much. Water with a high amount of salt – the least. In some cases the conductivity of the water is used as measure of how pure is it.
And there is nothing that electricity doesn’t eventually jump through with a high enough voltage.
Pretty much nothing in chemistry or physics is binary. There is such a thing as a bistable system, a system in which only two states are stable, but there’s still generally a continuous set of in-between states – they’re just short-lived. In technology there is very widespread and very important use of the concept of binary, but again, if it’s not entirely abstract (like voltages in electronics) it’s a bistable system.
Since everything is made of so very many atoms, there is no discrete numbers in nature on normal scales. Real numbers and continuous functions everywhere. But if you work with systems where you can count the number of atoms, then it does happen! We call it quantum physics/chemistry/et.c., you may have heard of it 🙂
lmao what is this villain theme
Quite a spooky fellow, this Mr. Jack is!