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by Wisława Szymborska tr. Joanna Trzeciak

Out of every hundred people

those who always know better: fifty-two.

Unsure of every step: almost all the rest.

Ready to help, if it doesn't take long: forty-nine.

Always good, because they cannot be otherwise: four — well, maybe five.

Able to admire without envy: eighteen.

Led to error by youth (which passes): sixty, plus or minus.

Those not to be messed with: forty and four.

Living in constant fear of someone or something: seventy-seven.

Capable of happiness: twenty-some-odd at most.

Harmless alone, turning savage in crowds: more than half, for sure.

Cruel when forced by circumstances: it's better not to know, not even approximately.

Wise in hindsight: not many more than wise in foresight.

Getting nothing out of life except things: thirty (though I would like to be wrong).

Doubled over in pain and without a flashlight in the dark: eighty-three, sooner or later.

Those who are just: quite a few at thirty-five.

But if it takes effort to understand: three.

Worthy of empathy: ninety-nine.

Not remotely covered by the system generator but I have snagged the physicist about it and got them talking because this is a fun question so:

Earth's magnetic field is in microtesla so even a pretty little increase will have an effect

Anything that involves moving electrons around will be affected - in power transmission, for example, electrons aren't moving all that fast but the charge is travelling at about two thirds the speed of light.

An electromagnetic wave (like light or radio waves) is half in the magnetic field so if your background magnetic field is strong enough you'd get something happening, but whether that's a block or an amplification is a question for a different kind of physicist.

Exactly how the magnetic field increase affects your signal transmission is out of field for either of us sorry.

My instinct is to say that actually the magnetic field probably wouldn’t do much provided that it’s constant or roughly constant with time; light is a pair of oscillating electric and magnetic fields, but because of the principle of superposition, light can still travel through electric and magnetic fields because the oscillation remains, it’s just that the ‘zero state’ shifts. That is, instead of oscillating between, say, positive and negative 35 nanoteslas (ie the strength of the magnetic field due to sunlight at the surface of the earth, according to this Reddit user (https://www.reddit.com/r/askastronomy/comments/1m96yjo/solar_magnetic_field_strength_at_earths_surface/) (I. Don’t want to do the math right now.)), it would oscillate between, say, 20.003 and 19.997 microteslas. However, this is exactly what happens on Earth, and we can still get sunlight and radio waves. Basically the same thing would happen on this hypothetical planet; the only way it would interfer with light is if it were also oscillating on a similar timescale- which is to say on the order of around a trillion times a second. This can’t happen due to a spinning metallic core, but if the planet were putting off blackbody radiation due to heat, I could conceive of that being sufficient to ‘jam’ some frequencies. However I’m not sure if that would happen at the desired frequencies at reasonable temperatures. This may be a case where you need to apply a little bit of Artistic License and do it anyways.

Bro has gotta be pulling multiple all nighters. Or just not doing his homework (which I could also see). But more likely it’s the former.

I also think he would sneak into the batcave at night to help them work on theirs and compare notes if they have overlapping criminals.

I also love the idea that Tim hates the fact that everyone is always on him about how “he never sleeps” and “he has a caffeine addiction that should be studied” and that “he doesn’t ever take care of himself” when Duke is right over there and he knows for a fact that this is day two of him being awake with no breaks.

I also like the idea that sometimes people notice and force Duke to go to sleep.

Everyone: Tim, go to sleep.

Tim: what about Duke? He’s still awake. Pick on him.

Jason, his head jerking to where he is and seeing him for the first time: oh yeahhh. Why the fuck are you still awake, day patrol?

i think bana wanted some eridankarkat (like he always does)

and i wanted to draw random homestuck gay tsunderes

so