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elgaberino-mcoc · 1 year
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spreadsheet cleanup STEPFORD CUCKOOS
ComicVine issues: 1600~1700 Fandom appearances: ~320 across 14 variants 3 video games
I never added them because conceptually they're just “what if: a hivemind of teen Emmas”
But statistically they do merit an @MCOCwishlist listing.
- Other Gabe
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The Cuckoos were developed by the Weapon Plus (“Weapon X”) Program, from eggs Sublime harvested (without consent) from Emma Frost. The resulting Weapon XIV comprised a thousand cloned daughters with perfected diamond form and a telepathic hive mind. The purpose of this “Thousand-in-One” was to capture, harness, and control the Phoenix Force for Sublime’s nefarious intent to eradicate all mutants in a Cerebro-like effect. While the majority of the thousand lay dormant, five of the sisters infiltrated Xavier Academy as students calling themselves a Five-in-One: Sophie, Phoebe, Irma, Celeste, and Esme. (In school, Irma originally went by the nickname Mindee.) These five—or fewer, depending who remains surviving at any time—are the Stepford Cuckoos.
While the Cuckoos tend to operate as a unit, they have individual personalities, drives, and interests.
Plot tensions circle around their unity or individuality or lack thereof, depending on factors such as the girls’ varying levels of:
chemical state (classically certain members’ exposure and/or addiction to the powers-enhancing drug Kick);
individual willingness to submit to their created villainous fate (nature) versus their heroic training (nurture);
individual (or, sometimes, apparently shared group) romantic interests;
exposure to, involvement with, or possession by cosmic or astral beings or phenomena (most notably the Phoenix Force)
Three-in-One. [SPOILERS] Sophie died in combat leading the hive mind while amplified by Kick; Esme had a hand in that and a murder attempt on Emma while also under the influence of Kick and also was killed. As a result the original five-person squad was reduced to the more iconic and recognizable triplet team of Phoebe, Irma, and Celeste.
Krakoa. [SPOILERS] Predictably, the deceased sisters were eventually brought back, so the Five-in-One has been recently reinstated. 
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snoopybutch · 6 months
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Ppl that don’t like Pearl Jam can suck me good n hard thru my jortz you don’t like hearing a small guy sing intensely about love and change and loss and life while going ham hog bonkers vis a vis not enunciating so u don’t even know how poignant the song is until later??? Huh!! Huh!!! Weeeakkk weak weak weak dude.
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sbnkalny · 5 months
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Whats up with the piss jello tell me more about piss dracula
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astarte-salon · 3 months
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Prompt: Modern white and yellow painting with a pattern on it, in the style of dark black and light amber, crystalline and geological forms, earth tone moebius, delicate gold detailing, intense close-ups, --ar 2:3 --stylize 750 --v 6
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mundanemiseries · 11 months
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    A silent, cloaked figure stepped onto the lands of what was once earth, slowly pushing his hood off to stare at the empty skies.
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    The stars had long since gone dark and he could feel how the void was slowly but surely giving up the last of itself. The only thing illuminating the barren field on which the reaper stood was a lantern he carried with him.
    This was the end. The raven could tell. He could feel the universe itself breathing its last, the way the void gave itself to the nothingness that soaked through the empty skies. The way his soul had called out to this world once again, long, long after life itself had ended here.
    He couldn't tell you why he had appeared in this spot in particular. A vast expanse, empty just like all the rest but, it held a familiar warmth that drew him here again. Despite the vast nothing surrounding him, this was his home once, lifetimes ago.
    An outstretched hand, and soft spoken words brought the world's soul into physical being. A small bunch of crystalline roses, reflecting the lamp light in small bursts of colour around the reaper. Movement danced in the petal's reflections, the world's memories held close within the flower. No matter the form they took, he always found the world's soul so beautiful. The core of the universe itself, every memory, every errant speck of stardust held in this delicate form in the reaper's palm.
    The raven watched as a small petal drifted into his hand, the moments held within so dearly familiar to the being. A frustrated whine and a threat to climb the other like a tree, a kiss on news years days later, a wedding and quiet moments shared between he and his love.
    Raven moved to press a soft kiss to the petal, before slipping it into his cloak. A last gift from this universe before it passed on, he supposed.
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jcmarchi · 21 days
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A first-ever complete map for elastic strain engineering - Technology Org
New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/a-first-ever-complete-map-for-elastic-strain-engineering-technology-org/
A first-ever complete map for elastic strain engineering - Technology Org
New research by a team of MIT engineers offers a guide for fine-tuning specific material properties.
Without a map, it can be impossible to know not only where you are but also where you’re going, and that’s especially true when it comes to materials’ properties.
The “map,” or the phonon stability boundary, is a graphical representation that plots the stability regions of a crystal as a function of strain. This map helps scientists and engineers determine the conditions under which a material can exist in a particular phase and when it might fail or transition to another phase. By analyzing the phonon stability boundary, researchers can understand material properties at extreme conditions and design new materials with desired characteristics. Image courtesy of the researchers / MIT
For decades, scientists have understood that while bulk materials behave in certain ways, those rules can break down for materials at the micro- and nano-scales, and often in surprising ways. One of those surprises was the finding that, for some materials, applying even modest strains — a concept known as elastic strain engineering — on materials can dramatically improve certain properties, provided those strains stay elastic and do not relax away by plasticity, fracture, or phase transformations. Micro- and nano-scale materials are especially good at holding applied strains in the elastic form.
Precisely how to apply those elastic strains (or equivalently, residual stress) to achieve certain material properties, however, had been less clear — until recently.
Using a combination of first principles calculations and machine learning, a team of MIT researchers has developed the first-ever map of how to tune crystalline materials to produce specific thermal and electronic properties.
Led by Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Engineering and professor of materials science and engineering, the team described a framework for understanding precisely how changing the elastic strains on a material can fine-tune properties like thermal and electrical conductivity. The work is described in an open-access paper published in PNAS.
“For the first time, by using machine learning, we’ve been able to delineate the complete six-dimensional boundary of ideal strength, which is the upper limit to elastic strain engineering, and create a map for these electronic and phononic properties,” Li says. “We can now use this approach to explore many other materials. Traditionally, people create new materials by changing the chemistry.”
“For example, with a ternary alloy, you can change the percentage of two elements, so you have two degrees of freedom,” he continues. “What we’ve shown is that diamond, with just one element, is equivalent to a six-component alloy, because you have six degrees of elastic strain freedom you can tune independently.”
Small strains, big material benefits
The paper builds on a foundation laid as far back as the 1980s, when researchers first discovered that the performance of semiconductor materials doubled when a small — just 1 percent — elastic strain was applied to the material.
While that discovery was quickly commercialized by the semiconductor industry and today is used to increase the performance of microchips in everything from laptops to cellphones, that level of strain is very small compared to what we can achieve now, says Subra Suresh, the Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus.
In a 2018 Science paper, Suresh, Dao, and colleagues demonstrated that 1 percent strain was just the tip of the iceberg.
As part of a 2018 study, Suresh and colleagues demonstrated for the first time that diamond nanoneedles could withstand elastic strains of as much as 9 percent and still return to their original state. Later on, several groups independently confirmed that microscale diamond can indeed elastically deform by approximately 7 percent in tension reversibly.
“Once we showed we could bend nanoscale diamonds and create strains on the order of 9 or 10 percent, the question was, what do you do with it,” Suresh says. “It turns out diamond is a very good semiconductor material … and one of our questions was, if we can mechanically strain diamond, can we reduce the band gap from 5.6 electron-volts to two or three? Or can we get it all the way down to zero, where it begins to conduct like a metal?”
To answer those questions, the team first turned to machine learning in an effort to get a more precise picture of exactly how strain altered material properties.
“Strain is a big space,” Li explains. “You can have tensile strain, you can have shear strain in multiple directions, so it’s a six-dimensional space, and the phonon band is three-dimensional, so in total there are nine tunable parameters. So, we’re using machine learning, for the first time, to create a complete map for navigating the electronic and phononic properties and identify the boundaries.”
Armed with that map, the team subsequently demonstrated how strain could be used to dramatically alter diamond’s semiconductor properties.
“Diamond is like the Mt. Everest of electronic materials,” Li says, “because it has very high thermal conductivity, very high dielectric breakdown strengths, a very big carrier mobility. What we have shown is we can controllably squish Mt. Everest down … so we show that by strain engineering you can either improve diamond’s thermal conductivity by a factor of two, or make it much worse by a factor of 20.”
New map, new applications
Going forward, the findings could be used to explore a host of exotic material properties, Li says, from dramatically reduced thermal conductivity to superconductivity.
“Experimentally, these properties are already accessible with nanoneedles and even microbridges,” he says. “And we have seen exotic properties, like reducing diamond’s (thermal conductivity) to only a few hundred watts per meter-Kelvin. Recently, people have shown that you can produce room-temperature superconductors with hydrides if you squeeze them to a few hundred gigapascals, so we have found all kinds of exotic behavior once we have the map.”
The results could also influence the design of next-generation computer chips capable of running much faster and cooler than today’s processors, as well as quantum sensors and communication devices. As the semiconductor manufacturing industry moves to denser and denser architectures, Suresh says the ability to tune a material’s thermal conductivity will be particularly important for heat dissipation.
While the paper could inform the design of future generations of microchips, Zhe Shi, a postdoc in Li’s lab and first author of the paper, says more work will be needed before those chips find their way into the average laptop or cellphone.
“We know that 1 percent strain can give you an order of magnitude increase in the clock speed of your CPU,” Shi says. “There are a lot of manufacturing and device problems that need to be solved in order for this to become realistic, but I think it’s definitely a great start. It’s an exciting beginning to what could lead to significant strides in technology.”
Written by Peter Reuell
Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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an-asuryampasya · 2 months
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energetically modified cement sounds so fake.
essentially, it boils down to: the solution to drastically reducing the carbon emissions of the construction industry? shake the cement really hard with some balls.
and it reportedly works??
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gudmould · 4 months
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How to solve stress marks (ejector pin marks, white edges, thick and thin marks)?
On plastic products, especially those whose raw materials are ABS, PP, and PC, we often see shiny stress marks on the surface of product, such as ejector pin stress marks, insertion stress marks, and flesh thickness difference stress marks.These apparently shiny and white marks are result of internal stress, which is nothing more than orientation stress and cooling shrinkage stress. Irregular…
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[ ID: A drawing of three characters drawn from the collar bone up. The first character is a girl with short light brown hair, green eyes and pale skin. She has a cocky expression on herface. The second character is a boy with dark skin, freckles, black hair styled in locs, dark brown eyes and wearing big rectangular glasses. He has a joyful expression on his face. The last character is a boy with a light tan, black slicked back hair, black eyes and blue and silver piercings. He has a smug expression on his face. They're all drawn in front of a dark grey background. /. End ID ]
I had an idea for a short story with these OCS so I wanted to draw them up again to see how their faces would turn up. Plus it's been years since I've drawn them! I also used them to try to render my art in a pastel/crayon-like style since their story is fairytale-based and those things kinda go hand in hand. Also wanted to try something a fun with colors and I didn't really think that through lol
I used to render my art in a similar way like this (though more paint-like then pastel-like) so this was nice to come back to.
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sapphirefrost1 · 6 months
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Here's my sona!
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satoruoo · 4 months
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"you're doing it wrong, baby."
the man before you only huffs in annoyance, a pout forming on his glossed lips. you stifle a laugh as he sulks, his fingers working to untie the sad excuse of a bow that held your heel in place.
"let me try again," satoru half pleads from between your legs, "i promise i'll get it right this time."
in truth, you're enjoying the view of your boyfriend kneeling at your feet while he attempts to tie your lace-up heels. your foot is strategically placed between his legs, pretty white-painted toenails on display as he tries and fails to correctly strap up your shoe.
hell, he's kneeling in a tailored suit, and it's messing with your brain.
you're going on a date tonight - it's a fancy restaurant that satoru's been dying to try out. it'd been a pain in the ass to pick out an outfit, not because you lacked clothes, your boyfriend ensured your wardrobe was always filled to the brim with the latest fashion. no, rather, it was because he insisted you wear matching outfits.
his problem, however, was your choice of shoe. your favourite pair of black lace-up heels was your pick for the evening. he'd asked to do them up for you and you thought it was going to be a 30-second thing.
you've now been sitting here for 10 minutes.
"what the fuck is this shit?" he mumbles to himself, irritated. "why is this so complicated??"
another attempt and he's given up, leaning back a fraction to critique his work. horrible, as expected.
you laugh as satoru sighs loudly, leaning his head on the exposed skin of your thigh in exasperation. his white locks tickle your flesh, and you take it upon yourself to rake your manicured nails through his hair, fingertips scratching his undercut affectionately.
you think he's adorable like this - absolute putty in your hands. he nuzzles into your skin, leaving soft kisses on the plush of your thigh as you dutifully work your fingers over his scalp.
"how about i do one, and you can watch and do the other?" you suggest.
he perks up quickly, icy blue irises sparkling. he nods, a beaming smile settling on his lips. he shifts his weight and leans back to give you space.
"so, you take these, 'round the back, and twist, then under and wrap around the ankle, twist one more time, and - boom!" you finish tying the bow on the back of your calf and smile.
satoru's eyebrow raises immediately, an expression half of disgust and half of confusion finding its place on his features. he squints at you, "you expect me to do that?"
"precisely," you respond with a smug grin.
there's a subtle challenge in your answer, and satoru drinks it like water. a challenge? he'll do it, easy. he switches your feet, sticking his tongue out as he focuses on his task.
you're watching him, amused by the way his brows furrow in concentration as he repeats the steps. around, the straps are crossed around your foot. twist, the straps are twisted. under, the straps are hooked beneath the heel. wrap, the straps are crossed and taken around your leg. twist.
he's done it. a fast learner, indeed.
you can't help the way your lips curve into a smile, applauding his efforts. his crystalline eyes are on you again - how could they not be? you're nothing short of gorgeous in that dress - pleading for some kind of praise.
"thanks, babe." you say, bending to place a kiss on his collarbone.
(he hopes to god there's a lipstick stain there so he can show everyone in that restaurant who he belongs to.)
satoru, being the most amazing boyfriend out there, helps you get on your feet, hand resting on the small of your back as he guides you from your apartment to his car.
"you look stunning tonight, love." he says while grinning like a lovestruck fool as you slip into the passenger seat.
"i know," you answer, shooting him a smile that gets him weak in the knees, "you picked the dress, after all."
you were going to be the death of him.
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snoopybutch · 1 year
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(Face down) she lies and says she’s in love with him . . . Can’t fiind a bettah mannn . . she dreams in color she dreams in red . can’t find a bettah mannn can’t find a bettah man can’t find a bettah man . . T alkinn too hersElf there’s no one Else whoneedssstoknoww she tells herselfff MEM’RY’S BACK when Shee WAS SMOOTH AND STRAHNG and waiTING
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platypu · 6 months
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thinking about weevil photonic crystal structures...
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Weevils (such as Pachyrhynchus genera) have evolved epidermal cells that can produce colour through opal-like arrangements of packed spheres, forming a three-dimensional photonic crystalline structure.
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cera-chem · 9 months
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nerdpoe · 11 days
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Kon falls into the ocean, exhausted, and genuinely doesn't think this is going to end well for him. He's gonna faint in the middle of the ocean, where he'll sink to where the sun can't reach him. He won't be able to do the weird photosynthesis thing he and Kal do in space. He's gonna drown. Then he's, like, suddenly Prince Eric? From the Little Mermaid? But the Mermaid is way hotter and also a dude.
He's underwater, and very deep. He can feel himself fading out, black creeping along the edge of his vision.
Then, there's movement.
A very large mermaid - sorry, merdude - with glowing green freckles and crystalline, snowy hair. He's roughly the size of an Orca, and has the coloration of one aside from the freckles and vivid, glowing green eyes.
The merdude reaches out, very gently cradles Kon in his hands, and Kon's exhaustion catches up to him. Kon blacks out.
Kon wakes up on a California beach, alone.
He immediately tries to reach out to Aquaman; he's gotta find that merguy and uh...thank him. Maybe ask him out. He's not sure how he'd date someone the size of an Orca Whale, but he's Superboy; he'll figure it out.
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Aquaman has no idea what Superboy is talking about; there is no race of mer that large. He'd know, he's the King of Atlantis. Superboy keeps telling him he's wrong, though.
And the more he looks into it, the more he's hearing rumors of a very large, very ancient mer that spends their time lounging around old shipwrecks.
A mer that disappears the second anyone tries to approach them.
A ghost.
Or; Danny was lazing about in the ocean, searching for treasure from sunken ships (Sam said he needed a hobby), using his larger, slightly more eldrich ghost form with the tail. Call him cringe, but it feels more fitting to be in the ocean with that form. Makes him feel all majestic and the like. He comes across a hero floating in the ocean. One he vaguely recognizes as a member of Young Justice? They're in like...California. Somewhere. He decides to play taxi. There are consequences. One of those consequences may or may not be a date.
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dlyarchitecture · 1 year
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