I did you the service of using your preferred title. I ask you do the same for me. Drop the Doctor on me or I will continue to refer to you as I please rather than how most pleases you. I will allow for the Newton because I think it might break you to shorten it to Newt.
I don't see why I have to understate our link to others. I like the link and as you well know, I like to talk about cool things, which we are. I do not boast my own accomplishments, ergo, I am not boasting about the link, so there is nothing improper about me discussing my powers and I don't see why I have to understate it. They are nice powers.
Ghost Drift qualifies as superhuman or at the very least "enhanced" human abilities. It transcends even the notion of augmented, because there is no longer a Drift apparatus attached. I maintain it still is a superpower by my definition.
But under your definition, neither of my abilities are superpowers. Neither qualify as magic unless your brain fails to comprehend things like starfish regenerating limbs. Axolotls (wiki them, Hermann, if you are unfamiliar with them--if for nothing else than that they are cute little buggers) possess an ability to regenerate limbs. They're very often studied in biological fields for this ability. Toxicity as a defense mechanism in animals is definitely not without precedence. Mammalian though I may be, it is not outside the realm of possibility that a complex organism such as myself might both be regenerative and toxic. There are stranger things in heaven and Earth, Hermann... As I assume your own abilities are within the realm of your scientific understanding, neither of us are superhuman by your definition.
I'll admit that yes, alternate dimensions mean new laws and criteria, but I am not measuring us against the same yardstick as everyone here. I'm not entirely convinced sometimes that Qubit isn't alien, for one. I prefer to have us measure ourselves against our own world's definitions, but I see your point with the porters. But by that standing, I am pretty sure by virtue of simply being imPorts we are superhuman. ImPorts have powers and abilities that the regular residents of this world do not, correct? Thereby rendering us all superhuman alien visitors like Goku or something and rendering the question of whether Qubit is alien moot (still curious).
Since you mentioned the benefits of 'this exchange'--care to elaborate, Doctor?
(a) Flawed comparison, but close enough analogy to make the point. (b) Shame. I was really looking forward to downloading knowledge like the Matrix. I am always up for testing, extensive or otherwise. (c) We can cultivate this ability to use it on demand, I believe. (d) Science-fiction becomes science-fact eventually, Hermann. (e) yes. (f) I'd like to experiment, if you are up for it.
Impulsive actions have the best results. Life is about experiences. And apparently those are supposed to be better with other people.
Lars Gottlieb will the a footnote at best. "Gottlieb" will instead be the name of the man who closed the Breach, who pioneered the Jaeger coding, who drifted with a Kaiju. Lars should be so lucky as to ride your coattails into the history books and I'm certain that if not for your obvious inclusion, he would be forgotten. The UN is not going to want to remember who voted yes on that damn Wall and for that he should be grateful.
I'm going to buy every book that comes out and have you sign it. And when you publish about the Breach, I'm going to buy out the local bookstore and have you sign them and send copies to those assholes back at MIT and Cambridge. And everywhere else. And my dad and uncle, even though neither will understand a word you're saying, you pompous ass. Would it kill you to write a layman-readable book? They did both manage to read A Brief History of Time and you don't have to explain all of time--just a gap in the ocean to another dimension. You can do it.
-- Newt Geiszler
PS. What are you feeling up to? More letters reveling in our brilliance? Confetti? Promise of drinks later? Or coffee now? Kind of new and different to have a penpal across the hall instead of across the pond.
PPS. How are you? Okay, that question feels dumb considering the discussion of our empathic powers, but--How are you?
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I did you the service of using your preferred title. I ask you do the same for me. Drop the Doctor on me or I will continue to refer to you as I please rather than how most pleases you. I will allow for the Newton because I think it might break you to shorten it to Newt.
I don't see why I have to understate our link to others. I like the link and as you well know, I like to talk about cool things, which we are. I do not boast my own accomplishments, ergo, I am not boasting about the link, so there is nothing improper about me discussing my powers and I don't see why I have to understate it. They are nice powers.
Ghost Drift qualifies as superhuman or at the very least "enhanced" human abilities. It transcends even the notion of augmented, because there is no longer a Drift apparatus attached. I maintain it still is a superpower by my definition.
But under your definition, neither of my abilities are superpowers. Neither qualify as magic unless your brain fails to comprehend things like starfish regenerating limbs. Axolotls (wiki them, Hermann, if you are unfamiliar with them--if for nothing else than that they are cute little buggers) possess an ability to regenerate limbs. They're very often studied in biological fields for this ability. Toxicity as a defense mechanism in animals is definitely not without precedence. Mammalian though I may be, it is not outside the realm of possibility that a complex organism such as myself might both be regenerative and toxic. There are stranger things in heaven and Earth, Hermann... As I assume your own abilities are within the realm of your scientific understanding, neither of us are superhuman by your definition.
I'll admit that yes, alternate dimensions mean new laws and criteria, but I am not measuring us against the same yardstick as everyone here. I'm not entirely convinced sometimes that Qubit isn't alien, for one. I prefer to have us measure ourselves against our own world's definitions, but I see your point with the porters. But by that standing, I am pretty sure by virtue of simply being imPorts we are superhuman. ImPorts have powers and abilities that the regular residents of this world do not, correct? Thereby rendering us all superhuman alien visitors like Goku or something and rendering the question of whether Qubit is alien moot (still curious).
Since you mentioned the benefits of 'this exchange'--care to elaborate, Doctor?
(a) Flawed comparison, but close enough analogy to make the point.
(b) Shame. I was really looking forward to downloading knowledge like the Matrix. I am always up for testing, extensive or otherwise.
(c) We can cultivate this ability to use it on demand, I believe.
(d) Science-fiction becomes science-fact eventually, Hermann.
(e) yes.
(f) I'd like to experiment, if you are up for it.
Impulsive actions have the best results. Life is about experiences. And apparently those are supposed to be better with other people.
Lars Gottlieb will the a footnote at best. "Gottlieb" will instead be the name of the man who closed the Breach, who pioneered the Jaeger coding, who drifted with a Kaiju. Lars should be so lucky as to ride your coattails into the history books and I'm certain that if not for your obvious inclusion, he would be forgotten. The UN is not going to want to remember who voted yes on that damn Wall and for that he should be grateful.
I'm going to buy every book that comes out and have you sign it. And when you publish about the Breach, I'm going to buy out the local bookstore and have you sign them and send copies to those assholes back at MIT and Cambridge. And everywhere else. And my dad and uncle, even though neither will understand a word you're saying, you pompous ass. Would it kill you to write a layman-readable book? They did both manage to read A Brief History of Time and you don't have to explain all of time--just a gap in the ocean to another dimension. You can do it.
-- Newt Geiszler
PS. What are you feeling up to? More letters reveling in our brilliance? Confetti? Promise of drinks later? Or coffee now? Kind of new and different to have a penpal across the hall instead of across the pond.
PPS. How are you? Okay, that question feels dumb considering the discussion of our empathic powers, but--How are you?