Lots of people ask me about the source of this, the Most Popular Thing I Have Ever Put on Tumblr, so here’s the deal: last year I was an Artist-at-Sea working aboard R/V Falkor, an oceanographic research vessel with a robust outreach program. We spent three weeks crossing the Pacific Ocean, during which time I drew a brief comic about the science team and their aims during the cruise. You can read it here.
Applications for the next batch of Artists-at-Sea are currently OPEN, so if you wanna spend several weeks in the ocean learning about science and making art, go apply.
Instead of paying attention to those posts about how Tony and his tech being blown off by Rocket or Shuri or Thor or whoever, I’m more inclined to think they’d be snarky with each other and casually mention to each other how they can fix or improve things. It’s all good humor and no one is intentionally hurt.
Plot twist, their specialties are all in different areas so they team up to make really badass stuff that combines all of their skills
The only plot twist I give a damn about.
I have zero time for smart people scoffing or being dicks about other smart people.
If we’re not gonna have Science Bros levels of mutual admiration and cooperation, I don’t want to see it at all.
Tony: Let’s play completing sentences! I’ll go first. Let’s see, an Iron Man armor…
Bruce: Integrated into your biology by a DNA-based computing system…
Shuri: *grinning wildly* Made completely of Vibranium nanotechnology…
Rocket: Armed with fifty planetbuster-grade geobomb grenades!
Tony: *absolutely ecstatic* LET’S MAKE IT!!!!!
Everyone: YEAH!!!!!
*everyone scrambles madly to lab*
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I hate all of this “Shuri is sooo much smarter than Tony, she would scoff at his tech!” bullshit. Genius doesn’t equal genius. Genius is not a blanket term for “Absolutely unbeatable in literally every scientific field in existence” and even then, you have to have the idea for something first.
Just because you’re brilliant in what you do does not mean you can’t respect or admire someone who is brilliant in their own field of studies.
I want Tony and Shuri and Bruce and Peter Parker and Jane to science together, comparing notes and supplying things the others might not have thought of.
That’s the kind of Science Geek Gang I’m going for in “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful”, because it’s the only science-interactions I wants to see between my favorite geniuses.
Y’all, look at these good replies!!
Also people need to remember that given their available resources, they all make such incredible technology that most people couldn’t even begin to hope to dream of. Wakanda has been technologically advanced for decades, it makes sense Shuri could make such amazing tech. Tony was able to make a fully operational suit in a shed from scraps and was able to talk Pepper through his “surgery”. Peter is a kid with limited resources in all fronts before meeting Tony, he’s also able to make amazing things with what he’s given. Rocket is a mf raccoon, and he is able to steal what he needs and makes what he can with it. They’re all brilliant. They would have a pissing contest at first, sure, that’s human nature. But after they realize how incredible each of them are, they would team up to makes some of the most incredible shit out there. I mean, look at Age of Ultron and what Tony and Bruce were able to accomplish by teaming up. They know that they’re stronger together and that is what will make some of the raddest imaginable shit a reality.
@marvel
I would like to shine some light on Helen Cho for that last wordy comment. She had a hand in making The Vision. She is also something of a genius in her field. She could help with Bruces part in the Sentence Creating segment, because it basically requires her expertise.
Doctor Mason Durie on Māori knowledge/science and western knowledge/science.
Interface Research Reading
Durie, M.H. (1996). Māori Science and Māori Development. Address to
the Faculty of Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
(pp. 1,6-10).
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