hanborn said: "Teppelin-sensei." The pause was coupled with a furrow of mix-matched features. "I guess you'd know better than anyone. If I were to have to go higher into the atmosphere than say, a plane, the lack of oxygen non-withstanding; Would it be better for me to acclimate to a lower or higher temperature, since my body can withstand either better than most, so I don't. Mm.. Die?"
💫—He hated how seriously Todoroki asked his question. The resulting sense of unease was natural, he supposed, considering which of the 1-A students was asking, and what the subject matter involved. Viral certainly didn’t want to consider the prospect of Todoroki hurtling himself into the stratosphere, but here they were. Though he was visiting UA in order to study the remarkable evolutionary scope of Quirks, he was also a supporting teacher at UA, for the duration of his stay. It paid his temporary housing, and rewarded him every day, in seeing the passionate, selfless young aspirant heroes working hard for a better future.
He would... answer the best that he was able. Astrophysics was a subject he knew by experience, not necessarily by curriculum. And this matter concerned less the stars, and more the components of the planet’s atmospheric conditions. But he would make an attempt. The Beastman lifted from his desk, a metallic device that resembled a clunky cellphone - a Gan-Phone, from his own resources. It was powered by Spiral Energy, so its functions weren’t hindered, regardless as to what world or reality he was visiting. The blond tapped in a few computations, and a small, translucent model flickered comprehensibly above the Gan-phone’s display screen.
❝We’ll go into this assuming that you have a breathing apparatus, and that you are wearing something that mitigates air pressure. And, without even examining the data, I can tell you that you are going to need heat. A lot of heat, Todoroki.
Your takeaway definition of the lesson is going to be “thermal inversion,” which is, in all honesty, an interesting concept considering your Quirk. Let’s begin here, on the surface. For the first nine thousand to twelve-hundred meters, the temperature is going to drop cruelly and rapidly, downwards of negative sixty in your Celsius unit. Water freezes at zero, yes? That’s dangerously cold, Todoroki.
In any event, that negative temperature remains stable to twenty kilometers up.
Now we’re back to thermal inversion - depending on how high into the stratosphere you’re aiming for, it warms up from there. Why? Something about the air being thin and so the ambient energy of UV, while sparse due to the ozone, warms it more easily than it would as closer to the Earth’s surface - where the atmosphere becomes dense and tumultuous with weather, again.❞
Viral glanced to the side, to gauge whether Todoroki was following along, on the holographic depiction of the Earth’s atmospheric composition. The language was in the format native to Viral’s reality, but he was doing what he could to translate it and paraphrase the information from Leeron’s unfathomable intellect. He tapped into the holograph with a claw, and the soft, metallic green glinted around the intrusion.
❝When I say “warmed,” I mean the temperature raises to zero Celsius. You’d arrive just back to the point of freezing.❞
He set the device down, and the model of the Earth’s atmosphere, its temperature to altitude ratios floating for a few moments more, before it closed out.
❝The point of interest is that there is a window of pressure and time where light conducts heat more swiftly and more rampantly in thin air, even while we know that stifled oxygen will choke a flame out. You could feasibly determine your own atmospheric conditions by utilizing your Quirk to alter the density of the air around you, using heat and cold to force the air to rise and sink, to ultimately generate more warmth while using less energy.
You would be creating the surrounding state of inversion at that point, not just changing the conditions of tolerance in your body.
It’s just a thought. I’d rather you not need it. But it could avail you some extra energy if you ever did have to contend with an altitude like that.
Does that assist you at all, Han-Cub?❞
He certainly hoped it did; it was a lot of learning for both of them. But part of what he appreciated about working with the rising youth of UA, was how enriching the transactions were between students and their teachers. It was willingness to learn on both their parts. And a willingness to teach, on both their parts. Adding to one another’s strengths, and cultivating the best tomorrow - step by step. He partly understood, he thought, how Yoko could devote her life to this. How she did it without access to the Chouginga’s Spiral Archives was incredible, though.
