I need to start posting more often

[elspethdixon]

Something is irritatingly wrong with the efiction script on Tales of Suspense, and it won't let me edit the classifications/warnings to bring it inline with cap_ironman's warnings policy, or add "A:EMH" and Marvel Adventures to the universes tags.

Burn, efiction and php. Burn.

(I need to actually learn MySQL so I can go fix things in the database like seanchai can without relying on the borked site admin interface)

I also need to get back into the swing of my non-fiction book project* research and start actually writing, because the conference is this fall and I need to have a presentation by then. (On the positive side, I pretty much taught myself rocket science for dummies and high altitude/low pressure aerodynamics for dummies over the past year, so I understand the stuff I'm reading a lot better now).

Someday, I need to find a way to work the Armstrong Line into an Avengers fic, despite the fact that Marvel and DC both cheerfully ignore it for characters with flight powers all the time. Maybe when Jean flies outside the X-jet at what's presumably the Blackbird's normal operating height of "horrible death as the fluid in your tissues literally boils and turns into air bubbles," she's using her telekinesis to create an envelope of normal air pressure around herself.


*"Someone should write a book about [history of arcane military aviation thing] for [aviation industry organization]. Isn't your daughter an English major?" "History major." "Even better!" ... and lo, fourteen months later, I have an entire shelf of books on rocket planes.

Comments

[lilacsigil]

she's using her telekinesis to create an envelope of normal air pressure around herself.

I always assumed as much just to avoid hypoxia! You don't want to be suddenly passing out at high altitude when the only thing keeping you up is your own brain...

[elspethdixon]

That, too ^_^. I always imagined Storm's powers automatically made her always able to have enough oxygen/the right amount of air pressure/etc. when she flew, since they're weather powers, but Jean and Rogue (and Carol) technically shouldn't be able to fly around at the same height as airliners without something to help them breathe.

(Then again, the Phoenix Force managed create giant birds made out of fire in space, so obviously the normal laws of physics don't apply to it)

[duc]

didn't Carol go into orbit once? I remember a scan of that. I always assumed the flying at impossible height and speed was covered by the powerhouse invulnerability.

Don't know about the complete lack of oxygen in space though. She held her breath?

[elspethdixon]

I always handwaved Carol flying in space by assuming that her Binary power-up made her, IDK, turn partially into enery of something. Or that the Binary energy-corona around her was protecting her somehow.

(I suspect the real answer is that no one at Marvel really cares about the fact that there's no air in space - after all, this is the same verse that has a giant network of secret tunnels under New Orleans, where the water table is so high that a lot of people don't even have basements.)