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Join Date: May 2008 Location: Nebraska (GMT -5)
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Cassidy Burke
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SPOILER!!: Zeke Quote:
Originally Posted by Hera  Woooooot! He had a buddy! This just made it official, she was NEVER getting rid of him now. EVER.
It sucked though, not knowing anything, but he was super impressed that Gwen knew one of them, it was unexpected. But cool. Totally cool. He nudged her with his elbow, she did good.
Yep, nope, he still knew NONE of these character things that were on the board. But, just in case it was super important, he took notes on what his classmates shared in discussion. Inking his Gryffindor red quill, Zeke scratched together a quick list, which was harder than he thought it would be, because spelling weird names was HARD.
Ugh.
And there were so many that he'd either missed or weren't mentioned. Was Astronomy always going to be this hard? He'd started off super well.. until now. Gwen couldn't help but smile as Zeke nudged her. She was glad to have made such a good friend already. She could completely ignore the fact that he wasn't a girl because hello most girls weren't into tree climbing as she was. Or as awesome at it.
She followed his lead and started to jot down some quick notes. How this was all important to astronomy she had no idea. But hey. Notes were notes. She even did cheesy little doodles of the characters next to them. Like little cartoon like outlines. Now for everyone else to fill in all the answers for her. SPOILER!!: Professor Airey Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie
Giving his wand a flick towards the board so that the name Marvin the Martian appeared in place of the number 1 below the pictures. “Correct,” he nodded towards the semi circle of students - see, it did start with an M, Mr. Newell. “First seen in an episode of Looney Toones titled Haredevil Hare, which aired on July 24, 1948, he is the most comedic personality in our line up.” He gave an approving nod to Mr. Rehman, Miss Valentine, Miss Carrington, Miss Samson, and a salute towards Miss Ackerly before Miss Bayless went on about….Alex Trebek? He threw her an amused expression as he walked passed humming a certain tune to himself before stopping in front of Mr. Sparkly Robes Toros.
And it wasn’t that he disliked the robes per say - although he really was not a fan of sparkle anymore - but more that other professors were not as...relaxed with self expression as he was. Ahem.
And then there was his question (which made him briefly look towards Mr. Scabior) and he took a deep breath before replying. “Unfortunately, it is not on the agenda to go into the history of science fiction - although you are welcome to stop by my office and discuss it with me if you wish - but there are many outstanding female characters and writers in science fiction. In fact, the character Nyota Uhura from Star Trek was revolutionary for many reasons.” Something that they could look up on their own time because he needed to move along.
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Seeing no other raised hands, Airey gave the blackboard another firm tap to make the remaining names appear so that the board now read 'Marvin the Martian, Unicron, Species 8472, Frieza, Nero, Sailor Saturn, Tolian Soran, the Drej, Darth Vader.'
" Just for the record," he said. " Number 8 is from the animated film Titan AE." Pity none of them seemed to have known the 2000 film. Had a soundtrack to it that seemed to be on trend with what young witches and wizards were listening to these days.
" As pointed out, these characters are known for being villains for one reason or the other, but a primary reason they are dubbed as so is because they share an ability in common." One among many likenesses, but just the one he wished to focus on for now. " Each of these characters is capable of destroying an entire planet. Whether this is through magical girl powers like Sailor Saturn, a giant space station like Darth Vader, or physically devouring them like Unicron, they are all a fictional representation of how the Earth could be destroyed."
Such a cheery topic, yeah?
" Some astronomers have jokingly coined the term geocide, meaning the complete annihilation of planet Earth. KABOOM!"
See, Miss Cambridge? KABOOMs were happening today.
" This has been depicted in countless texts and films over the years in multiple end of the world scenarios. So, if you don't mind humoring here for a moment, I want you all to imagine yourselves one of these fictional villains and you have your sights set on destroying the planet." All entirely hypothetical, of course. " How would you go about doing this? How would you demote Earth from being a planet."
Demote from being a planet. HEH. LIKE PLUTO. HEH.
Get over it kids, it wasn't a planet when you were born. It's okay. Find peace. Think about blowing up the Earth and what not. Mmhmm. OOC: Again, I am terribly sorry for the delay guys. We had a pretty big earthquake in my area (a 5.0) and there was a lot to deal with over here because of it.
Class will resume as soon as I can post again, which will be at least 15 hours from the time of this post. Thank you all for your patience <33 Gwen gave a proud little smiled. Muggle cartoons were awesome. She wasn't much of a fan of a lot of muggle things, but that was definitely one thing they did right. She watched as he went and talked to an older boy...in awesome sparkly robes! Okay. Gwen had to meet that boy and ask him how he did that. She didn't care if it was against dress code. She wouldn't mind adding a little more sparkle to her own wardrobe.
Gwen jotted down the names next to their respective numbers and doodles as Professor Airey went on, telling people who were correct. And look at that. He even put the full list on the board when he was done. Best professor ever.
Gwen gave a very excited smile. Geocide, huh? Now this was going to be an interesting lesson. She got to use her creativity. She listened a bit to everyone else's answers, tuning in and out. Now just how would she destroy the earth...
Ah. She got it. Gwen raised her hand purposefully. "I would start to breed lots of really dangerous creatures and slowly release them back in the wild. That way they would be the ones taking care of all the damage and destruction." Did that even make sense? Oh well. It involved animals so it was good enough for her. That was also more slow destroying then demoting. "Basically use the animals to kill the human population. No humans means no planetary classification." See. She kinda had a point. Next.
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