Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Lark's Inventions


I finally got ahold of Lark's latest Zoom Glove prototype, which you can use to temporarily miniaturize yourself by creating a space-time bubble around you. I tell you, the amount of physics he had to know in order to design one of these things is unreal. It has to be one of his greatest inventions. Upon being miniaturized to just a few microns high, I climbed into one of my petri dishes and started observing a slime mold up close. It was pretty cool to see the slime mold dart around looking for food, until it came right at me, covering me with its plasmodial ooze. As the slime mold crawled out of its dish (as they tend to do), I followed it across the lab bench and saw that it was actually headed for bag of oats lying on the lab bench. At that point the effects of the Glove wore off and I returned to my normal size. It was a good thing too because the staff meeting was just beginning.
Like myself, Lark is professor at Flockhart academy. He is an inventor at heart and spends many long days and late nights working on new contraptions. Some of which bring us a good deal of grant money, and others remain top secret because of their potential to be misused. His other inventions include:

  • a device that tracks the horizontal and vertical velocity of a moving object
  • a digital watch that can be used for time travel
  • goggles that can be used to examine the atoms and molecules within an object
  • a working model of the earth, complete with a magnetic field and convection currents
Lark also happens to be a great field microbiologist and is always fine-tuning his microscopes so he can delve deeper into the world of the microbes. If there are any additional far-fetched contraptions that have not yet been invented, he'll probably get around to it.

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