IC Inbox - Entranceway

[directed]

Obviously I'm not here right now, but leave a message and I'll--listen to it. Eventually.

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chronos is gone

just a heads up so you don't shoot me when you see me

[directed]

Oh happy day.

[It actually is, despite the dryness potentially implicit in the text. Still.]

[boilover]

I'm making cocktails to celebrate - you in?

I'll even bring 'em to you. No charge.

[directed]

[Rip doesn't answer immediately; while he is glad Mick is back, and apparently not so unwell for his experience, he personally hasn't been in so much a celebratory mood.

Chronos had done a number on him; the week spent physically recovering hasn't helped.]

Perhaps another time.

Regardless, I am glad you're back, Mr. Rory. Relatively unharmed, I trust?

[boilover]

Yeah, I'm good, I survived plenty fine.

Then I came back and the whole damn place was a mess and everyone got hurt. Real nice. Nothing better than scientists fucking up your weekend plans.

[directed]

Good.

[At least one of them seems to have done so—the one trapped among the mirrors, no less.]

The scientists were at least attempting to do something beneficial by creating a working portal. The Mirrors are ultimately the ones responsible for the chaos.

[boilover]

I'm not gonna hold it against them. Scientists are always the dumbest and the most dangerous, that's just a fact.

Wells.
Einstein
Stein...

It's always a collection of ego and idiocy. They should try aiming lower and being dumber. Like me.

[directed]

If you're referring to the infamous particle accelerator explosion, then technically that wasn't Harrison Wells.

[No, it was Eobard Thawne, a name which—does absolutely nothing to disprove Mick's point.]

But for all the danger and risk, equally every advancement in human history has come on the back of someone deciding that there was something worth taking those steps for—up to and including figuring out how to purposely start a fire.

[boilover]

Still evil, still a dick.

I dunno. I guess? I mean I don't give a shit about all this tech stuff cause I don't even use it. I only an an email address so I could register with porn sites. I mostly think people just invent pointless shit these days. Like why can phones take pictures? Buy a damn camera.

[directed]

That I will readily agree with.

[Alliance nonwithstanding, Rip ultimately doesn't care much for Eobard Thawne.]

Greater understanding, profitability, the improvement of human lives: I believe most modern scientific pursuits can cite at least one of these three motivations at their core. [Sometimes all of them.] The latter two in the case of the camera phone. It's convenient, and people find that a quality worth paying for.

[boilover]

I dunno

you talk science at me and I stop caring. I can't even take it in.
I like the more engineering-y side of science, like what that tiny nerd does
the one that made my gun?

[directed]

Somehow I cannot say I'm surprised.

[Especially given how much Mick likes his heat gun.]

Regardless of whether you like it or not, however, science is itself an immeasurably important field of study. And as is the case with most things, there are always risks when it comes to potential reward.

Although in this unfortunate instance, it would seem there were also more blatant mistakes made—certainly more human ones.