video; shipwide

[aliased]

Who: Arya Stark
Broadcast: Shipwide
Action: Planetside, outside the inn she's staying in.


[ the camera comes on and for a moment it's on arya's face before it turns to show the sky, filled with stars. ]

Did you know that stars are made of very hot gas? [ because she didn't. not until the moment she woke up on the ship. arya isn't a little girl anymore, life has changed her, morphed her into something she never was. yet she's not as bitter or jaded, she hasn't had a chance to change that much. but still, the world is a darker place to arya stark. she'd been angry when she first got here, she's still angry but she's done her exploring.

the little girl in her shines through as she turns the camera back to her face and she grins-- ]

Like farts.

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[trigeminalheadache]

[ That isn't even that much of a technical term, whoa. ] An astrophysicist is a scientist who studies the nature of the various heavenly bodies, like stars and galaxies and planets and other things. A lot of what they work with is theoretical, as we've barely scratched the surface of traveling outside our planet.

[ She shakes her head. ] No, not all of them. Planets that people can inhabit, people like you and me, they're made mostly of rock. There's no surface on a gaseous planet, so there would be nowhere to live there.

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[aliased]

What is a scientist? Is it like a maester? [ she isn't from your world, yo.]

Can they explode? Planets?

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[trigeminalheadache]

I'm not sure what a maester is? [ She pauses, trying to come up with a very bare-bones definition. ] Well, science, let's start with that first. Science is the study of the nature and behavior of the world through observation and experiments. So a scientist is a person who observes and completes experiments for the purpose of scientific study.

[ Yeah, Caitlin, you just went in a circle there. ]

For example, I'm a scientist. One experiment I've done in the past involved giving someone a carefully crafted compound—a liquid. And I observed to see if it had a certain effect on him, a pleasing effect. For him, I mean.

[ Why, yes, she did just use giving Barry superbooze as an example. ]

I don't think planets can explode on their own.

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[aliased]

Like wine? [ liquid and pleasing effects... that sounds like wine.]

How do they explode?

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[trigeminalheadache]

Something like that, yeah. But more along the lines of killing the average person if they drank it.

[ And here she was trying to sound all scientific. ]

I don't know that I've heard of many cases, or really any cases, of planets exploding.