Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s

Sammich

Not necessarily weird in and of itself, but weird in the context I was doing it for. The Higgs boson, field, and bosons in general, when trying to have my science nerd character on Heroes Assemble come up with a logical and consistent (though ultimately inaccurate) hypothesis for how Pym Particles actually work.

Had a ton of fun coming up with it, and the character’s hypothesis, if true, woulda had fun implications for physics and the beginning/end of the universe. In the end though it didn’t ever come up in the little bit of RP I did, and putting so much effort into a believable hypothesis that I OOCly knew wouldn’t be accurate was probably a silly idea.

Still, it was a fun thought experiment

eye8urcake

@Sammich I love this ‘weird’ thing.

Polk

I had to spend an arguably unreasonable amount of time reading up on early renaissance sea vessels for Arx.

Upside: RAMMING SPEED

Smile

@lordbelh Honestly, I’m looking up details on financial crimes for a table top. So I’m sure this is all normal!

RightMeow

I once played an alchemist who’s most known line was: We should have tea together.

This meant (a) I would love to help you better your cause (b) I’m going to poison you with a slow acting onset so that I can be somewhere else when it happens.

Let’s just not talk about my search history and how very very oddly specific they are.

RL side note - I moved in with my sister for a hot minute in my life. I took her phone and typed in her search engine: How to murder my sister and get away with it?

When she asked why I did that. I smiled and said ‘Insurance’.

SpaceKhomeini

A comprehensive history of shipping insurance in the ancient world through the late medieval world.

Problem is? I never stopped.

Testament

New one from this past week. Helping a friend do a deep dive in the biology of the kuzdu vine and how invasive it is.

The goal is to create a plot where a kuzdu is not only overruning an area, but has also become quite the carnivore.

Ashkuri

@Testament spoilers

Tez

@SpaceKhomeini I’d actually really like to know more. THEY HAD SHIPPING INSURANCE?

SpaceKhomeini

@Tez

https://priceonomics.com/how-maritime-insurance-built-ancient-rome/#:~:text=Maritime insurance was crucial in,a population of around 300%2C000.

I can’t vouch for this site in general but the facts here are basically lined up with other trustworthy sources and condensed.

This just goes back for ages.