Artie might have a snarky response to that, but he's too busy fine-tuning the machine that's connected to the magnets that are connected to Claudia. At least he is until the Farnsworth buzzes at him. "Just a minute!" he calls up to Claudia before answering the call. "Yeah?"
"Artie!" Myka's image on the screen is wobbling and blurring with interference--whether from the storm on their end or the magnetic field on this end, Artie couldn't say. "Artie, thank God--okay, what shuts down quartz?"
"Of course, it's quartz, it's quartz, right, see, that makes perfect sense, I should have thought of quartz--"
"Artie." Myka's voice snaps him back into the present moment.
"Yeah yeah yeah okay listen--um--Pierre Curie and his brother Jacques, they proved the existence of a converse effect of piezoelectricity. So what you've gotta do is..."
Something scraping across the concrete in his peripheral vision makes him trail off. It's an ice skate, and as he watches, it shoots up into the air, blade first--
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"Artie!" Myka's image on the screen is wobbling and blurring with interference--whether from the storm on their end or the magnetic field on this end, Artie couldn't say. "Artie, thank God--okay, what shuts down quartz?"
"Of course, it's quartz, it's quartz, right, see, that makes perfect sense, I should have thought of quartz--"
"Artie." Myka's voice snaps him back into the present moment.
"Yeah yeah yeah okay listen--um--Pierre Curie and his brother Jacques, they proved the existence of a converse effect of piezoelectricity. So what you've gotta do is..."
Something scraping across the concrete in his peripheral vision makes him trail off. It's an ice skate, and as he watches, it shoots up into the air, blade first--