jenn-oddballpunk:

balloonarcade:

obstinate-nocturna:

A thought: maybe the reason that Wheeljack’s experiments explode so often is because Earth’s atmosphere has more oxygen in it than Cybertron

This! LET ME LOVE YOU AS I FLAIL (*cough* nerd squeal *cough*) AT YOU! Because this makes so much sense.

Yes, Roddy. Yes I did.

Surprising probably no one, I have spent a lot of time thinking about this.

Chemical reactions will vary per atmosphere composition (extra oxygen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium etc) and under different atmospheric pressures (melting points, saturation points etc all vary). All of Cybertronian’s “base units” for science and chemical reactions on Cybertron will have to be recalculated for other planets.

And considering they are a space faring race, they probably know this.

But. You are definitely right.

Because let me tell you, switching between metric and imperial units of measurements sucks in thermodynamics and fluid dynamics calculations.

And sometimes even the most skilled engineers and scientists just forget – ala Mars Climate Orbiter not orbiting, but crashing into the surface of Mars, because a TEAM OF NASA AND LOCKHEED MARTIN ENGINEERS forgot their software calculated in pound-force and not newtons when they compiled their components together.

“The units thing has become the lore, the example in every kid’s textbook from that point on,” Cook said. “Everyone was amazed we didn’t catch it.”

And that is NASA! Their back up plans have back up plans.

When Cybertronians are on Earth it’s going to be someone’s job to sit there and calculate all the new baselines they need to use for their chemical reactions, and write new programming baselines to install into cortexes (depending on your head canon of how Cybertronians learn)…and at the risk of not making people’s eyes glaze over, they need new charts they can cross reference with the human’s because I also assume Cybertronians have some material, energy, quantum physics science we don’t have

I propose Skyfire as the resident scientific expert on other planets. 

Go dig him up for that G1 Autobots!

Also now I have a mighty need for this to happen to Starscream in a lab too.

*blinks slowly* Haha. Lol this is incredible! =D I just remember reading and being told repeatedly in Chem 101 that there are certain chemicals that HAVE to go in an oxygen free environment. Couldn’t tell you which to save my life though. XD

So oh yeah Wheeljack’s experiments going boom! because of oxygen exposure is highly probably.

Cool. =D Learned something new!