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[stridercentric]

[Ever since Bro arrived in Vatheon, he's been impressed by the amount of skilled techies. People are going around building robot dogs like it's no big deal and his younger alternate self was seen beating the shit out of a pretty goddamn amazing strifebot. This is the sort of thing that had always caught his interest when he was younger, even if he never made a real hobby out of it. It still catches his interest now.

So he decides to take the plunge and rekindle that old passion. It's never too late to gain more skills, especially when you know this is kinda your last chance to do so. He's got the perfect project in mind to get him started, too.]

so we got a lotta techies here right? the folks with the l33t skills and way too much free time on their hands. put down your screwdrivers and start reading.

in my world theres legend of a kickass device. born in the dark recesses of a hollywood directors mind and shaped by cheap special effects. it doesnt exist for real but boy howdy do fanboys cream their pants at the prospect of it being a thing. santa still gets like five hundred requests a year for these rad toys and he has to disappoint every single hopeful sap who asks. people have been trying to build this thing for decades but gravitys keeping them down. literally.

its called a hoverboard. not a rocketboard. not a skateboard. definitely not a surfboard. doesnt work over water anyway. its gotta hover like 10 inches above the ground.

but were not on my world anymore and i think the brilliant minds here can make a legit hoverboard. and show me how the fuck youre making the hovering work because ive got nothing.

so what say you?

[...]

p.s. if you use magic to make it hover youre disqualified. were defying laws of nature with science here so wizards need not apply.

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[audio]

[fundemetal]

[It takes Leo a while to read through all of this due to his dyslexia, but he manages it.]

Dude, I am so down for this. [His excitement is very evident in his voice.] This should be a piece of cake compared to the flying trireme I made.

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[stridercentric]

[Sorry Leo, Bro's more comfortable with text, so he'll keep on typing. At least his reply is a short one.]

whats a trireme?

[audio]

[fundemetal]

[That's fine. This is interesting enough for him to deal with reading, but he's still going to reply in audio so he doesn't have to look like a fool with typos.]

It's an Ancient Greek warship. Back in the old days, they used to have hundreds of oarsmen to row it, but my half-siblings and I made it so it rows itself on water and in the air.

text jack! fear my hideous font.

[goodnightsweetprince]

Dear Leo the Demigod +1,

The Archduke Baron of Cheese Whiz and I request the honor of your presence at a Collaboration Party. Food and drink in the form of umbrella drinks and cheese whiz shall be provided. I will share with you the physics behind constructing a hoverboard and together, with the proper tools and supplies, hopefully we can construct one.

I look forward to your response and attendance! Guests are welcome.

Most cordially,
Prince Gumball

[audio]

[fundemetal]

Sign me up. When is it?

[Leo is lucky that Gumball used a large font to make up for the bright pink. It would have been even more of a nightmare to decipher if it had been small.]

[text]

[shippingmath]

Hell fucking yes, says I.
I owe Dash a better competition anyway.
Not to mention, fucking hoverboard.
Though considering technology from other worlds is different, do they get disqualified if they just buy one from the Nostalgia Nook, rather than making one by hand?

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[stridercentric]

buying a hoverboard reeks of lazy cheater. so yeah. thats grade a bullshit worthy of disqualification.

i guess getting parts from the nostalgia nook is cool. gotta get scrap metal from somewhere right.

btw if you wanna give dash competition were gonna have to up the speed on these babies. the movie hoverboards have a speed of like two miles an hour and thats if you try real fucking hard.

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[shippingmath]

Scrap metal and shit can be obtained from non-Nook sources.
Specialized tools need to be found there.
For that purpose, I'd just combine the hoverboard and the rocketboard.
But the rocketboard can't make sharp turns, unless you grab a pole, which is fucking irritating as hell.

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[rebull]

aH HA,
nOT REALLY MAG1C HERE,
bUT GONNA ASSUME GROW1NG W1NGS ALSO OUTS ME,
aND UH, oN ACCOUNT OF OVER ALL LACK OF KNOW HOW ABOUT THAT K1NDA STUFF TOO.
bUT GOALS ARE GOOD,
mAK1NG ME PROUD,
tHEY GROW UP SO FAST.
};)

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[stridercentric]

[Well well, look who it is.]

nope. nice try man. its the board thats gotta hover. not you.

but yeah. look at me go. only the greatest of ambitions here. who knows? maybe some day when im old like you i can be the president of my own hover transportation company. well have hoverbikes and hoverscooters too.

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[rebull]

[I know, weird, right?]

wELL 1 HATE TO BE THAT TROLL, bUT 1SN'T THE PO1NT TO MAKE YOU HOVER W1TH 1T?
sO ACTUALLY, 1T 1S YOU WHO HAS TO HOVER,
aT SOME PO1NT ANYWAY.
vATHEON A1R, gETT1NG YOU 10 1NCHES OFF THE GROUND FOR F1VE PER1GEES, bROUGHT TO YOU BY sTR1DER 1NDUSTR1ES, sTAY COOL AND WEAR SHADES VATHEON1TES.

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[goodnightsweetprince]

To whom it may concern,
I accept your challenge of creating a hoverboard with science with open and accepting arms.
Sincerely,
Prince Gumball

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[stridercentric]

[Prince... what. Bro can't stop himself from writing an ironic response.]

to his highness gumball,

im tickled pink that youve decided to accept my humble challenge. the results will surely prove to be beneficial for all of us. i hope to see a progress report soon.

sincerely,
the archduke of strider.

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[goodnightsweetprince]

Most esteemed archduke,
I have compiled a list of notes based on the estimated size of the hoverboard, the amount of pressure and force required for it to hover (taking into account the weight of the subject on top), the desired speed and the power needed for it to work on water.

power = (air density) · (area swept by the rotor) · (air speed)³ / 2
= (1.2 kg/m³) · (1100 cm²) · (70 m/s)³ / 2
= 23,000 W.

These are just rough notes that I've written in the sand but does that look feasible?

Yours sincerely truly,
Prince Gumball

[mysterious_groper]

... I'm not sure if Cryas shards count as magic or not, but enough Air Cryas would make that pretty easy. The harder part would be devising a control scheme.

[stridercentric]

uh. i guess it depends on what a cryas shard is.

i mean. whats it do?

[mysterious_groper]

Cryas is crystalized representations of elemental energy - wind, water, and fire. While magic - well, I guess you can call the ability magic though it actually appears to involve some sort of nanotecthnology - can and does use those elements, it's not too difficult to build devices to harness the corresponding energies either.

*"Not too difficult" for a genius specialist born among genius specialists, perhaps...*

[pranksterheir]

what's wrong with using magic?
magic is totally more awesome than science.

[stridercentric]

uh. no its not. science can kick magics butt.

see what were doing here is recreating the hoverboard from the movie. pretty sure theres no fucking magic in hill valley in 2013.

[spacecase]

omg john what have i told you about badmouthing science?

[shippingmath]

Do you have evidence to support this radical theory, Egbert?
No claim makes it without proof.

[onlyasign]

[Sufferer doesn't know anything about hoverboards, but after reading the conversations here, a certain mystery has been confirmed.]

I KNOW WHO YOU ARE NOW.

[stridercentric]

oh really. congrats.

you cant see but im sticking my hands together for a round of thundering applause. you did good man. only took you like a month.

so. lets hear it.

[text]

[runawayrival]

I'm not sure I can help you, but just please be careful. I tried something similar with my magneton and a broken skateboard once and it didn't end very well.

[text]

[stridercentric]

[Magneton? That word sounds awfully familiar to Bro. He's sure he's heard that- ... Ohhh... Pokémon.]

hey. dont just start a story like that and then leave a guy hanging.

what happened? tell me everything.