04x29 - The Truth About the Rocket

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What do you know?

So the Corn City folks are going to help us make circuit diagrams.

Free manual labor.

I don't know what those two are cooking up,

but they sure look excited, don't they?

Oh, I know.

The Stone World is finally getting smart phones.

Haven't heard that one in a while.

You really miss screen time, huh?

Sorry, still no dice.

We'll just be wrapping coils for the computer.

We're taking this step by step.

Truly, proper craftsmanship from those three.

Why are we wasting my raw manpower

sitting around making tiny little coil thingies?

We'll need to get to the moon and land there.

It's like getting a hole in one on the first try, but on a cosmic level.

We're going to need a way to do precise calculations.

So the Stone World desperately needs a computer.

Do you realize you sound like a mad scientist?

There's no freaking way.

STONE WORLD MATH OLYMPICS

The Math Olympics, and tools aren't against the rules?

That sounds fun.

Feels like Gen's way of motivating us to make calculators.

Please, we're not a bunch of stupid kids.

They can't trick us into helping them with some bogus competition.

It says here that the winning team gets 100 million drago.

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ROCKET

Listen up, we'll need all hands on deck for this one.

We're making memory.

Memory?

For computing.

We need storage devices.

Without them, our machine won't be able to remember any numbers, much less

pull off complex calculations.

Circuits for thinking and for remembering.

Then we just have to combine the two,

and computational wizardry is at our fingertips.

Say that again.

Machines can remember things?

I don't get it.

To be fair, nor do I.

How do you expect us to pull this off without semiconductors?

We'll be saving our data onto magnets.

Oh, wow.

Senku's faxing us instructions on crafting memory.

It's still going.

Run a strong current through oxidized wires.

When the process is finished

you've got a magnet.

We can also run the current backwards.

One side becomes north, and the other south,

determined by the digit it's storing.

In short, each magnet stores a number,

and it's either a 1 or a 0.

That's pathetic.

It just knows 1 or 0?

Any idiot could do that math.

What a waste.

Why bother going through all the trouble?

You're oversimplifying.

Memorizing one number wouldn't be impressive,

but imagine putting lots of them together.

Watch and learn.

To save on this little magnet,

I zapped the third column

and the second row.

That's how it remembers.

Oh, I get it now.

Only the point where the two wires cross gets a bad shock.

That's how it knows which side is north.

And it remembers that without affecting the other magnets.

Yep. You just earned a cool 10 billion points.

It's ridiculously primitive, but reliable as hell.

The space shuttle and F-*5 fighters use this method.

It was a group effort, to say the least.

They had skilled tailors working non-stop to make everything they needed.

What you're saying is that our current mission is to sew together a ton of these tiny magnets we made.

Exactly how much is a ton, anyway?

Didn't he say it'd be something like 200,000?

Is that all we need?

That's nothing for a capable woman.

Oh, that is what he said.

But that was only for the donuts.

Thank goodness.

But that didn't worry me.

As for the magnets, he says we need...

just 30 million or so.

There's more we need to do with these?

Vertical and horizontal wires write the data.

Now we need to add in diagonal wires.

That's the only way that we can read it.

We still need something to view the numbers, like a display.

So we're using Nixie tubes.

We'll place wire numbers and tubes of gas.

Then they'll light up when we run a current through them.

You can leave the precision work to the master craftsmen.

Compared to crafting fine watches,

it's as simple as taking candy from a baby.

We're all good on fuel thanks to India.

Then it's finally time to set sail.

Let the games begin.

Is everyone eady-ray?

It's the Indian Ocean New World Math Olympics.

Not to be mean, but it seems like Gen finally snapped.

Say hello to our contestants,

Chrome, Senku, and Sai.

Chrome's up there?

But he has no chance of winning against those other two.

That's not all.

Joining us remotely from Corn City, it's Magma.

Magma?

Why did we pick Magma?

No one could be worse at number stuff than him.

That is precisely why we chose him.

He's no less than ideal.

Now it's a race to solve this equation.

Wait, what? That's bad!



Then 1 and 1 and 3 and 6, 0, and 5 and 8.

Yep.

He got it.

He even managed to beat a genius like Senku,

and all within the blink of an eye.

So that's the true power of a computer.

We got to bear witness.

That was another defining moment for all of humanity.

Incredible.

We did it.

It's a Stone World computer.

Yeah.

Something that humans made from scratch

is capable of transcending the human mind.

This is exhilarating.

Get excited.

CALCULATOR ACQUIRED!!

You stuffed 30 million magnets into that thing?

Try to think before you talk.

It's just a few thousand.

No way.

So the next one's going to be even more impressive?

Smartphones, let's go!

That's quite the workload.

This won't be easy.

We won a lot of drago in that contest,

but it's more like a commission for work.

Hey, where's the cash?

We won 100 million drago fair and square.

Explain yourself, Ryusui.

No need to worry.

We will credit your account.

Ryusui Bank is open for business.

Are you trying to weasel out of this?

You expect us to believe that?

But banking isn't that simple.

How will you record and calculate balances?

BANKING ACQUIRED!!

Status report.

Xeno's got the engine covered.

And Yazuriha's team is crafting the computer parts.

As for our contribution, we'll make the actual rocket,

and finally blast off to the moon.

The rocket, huh?

You're talking about the part where the people will go?

What's it going to be made of?

I'm guessing iron, right?

Iron's way too heavy to launch all the way into space.

We'll use aluminum, because that stuff is stupidly lightweight.

Time to leave the shores of India

for the next stop on our adventure,

the land down under, Australia.

We'll be going right to the tippy top.

That's where the world's most abundant source of bauxite is waiting for us.

It's the ore we'll use to make our aluminum.

Right. Leave the rock hunting to the resource king.

Between a pro explorer like me and a pro geographer like Chelsea, we're set.

There's no competition, silly billy.

The ot-play thickens.

Seems Chelsea's a trash talker.

Nah, just being real,

cause there's literally no need to search.

Check it.

The whole stinking ground's made of bauxite.

So if it's an aluminum party you want, here's a metric buttload.

Seriously?

Bad.

It makes sense.

Australia's the leading producer of aluminum.

This is unbelievable.

It's a literal city of aluminum.

Right.

After we mine these unassuming red rocks,

they're going to be transformed into the body of our rocket.

A new desire has taken root in my heart.

I'd really like a bucket wheel excavator.

A what now?

Something about a bucket and Excalibur?

It's an enormous strip mining machine

the biggest machine mankind ever created.

Right. I'm sure back in the day, you drove one of those around

for your standard grocery runs, but let's be realistic.

I had a chance to test drive one owned by the Nanami conglomerate.

It was like operating a dream.

You've actually driven one?

Yeah, that would be helpful.

But for now, we're just going to have to use a crap ton of people.

Gotcha.

So how many people do we need to revive

to dig at the same pace as that Excalibur whatchamacallit machine that he's been talking about?

And don't forget, we'll have to find a way to feed everyone.

I hate to say it, but we're super low on revival fluid.

There's no need to worry yourselves about any of that.

Why do you think we started this nasty, long journey by founding Corn City?

It's our center of production for supplying food and revival fluid ingredients.

Yo, we got a special delivery for you.

Fresh from Corn City, USA.

Hey.

We're having a corn feast.

I know that Ukyo's the ship's radar expert,

but why did you come along for the delivery?

What the heck?

Since when are you twice as big?

Cute mug, by the way.

As for your question, isn't it obvious?

I'm already, like, filthy rich, and making those donut things was a real pain in the--

I mean, I'm his bodyguard.

I used to be a cop, after all.

You didn't hear it from me, but Ukyo's carrying some weird thing that looks hella important.

I wonder what it could be?

So this is it, our own petrification device.

A complete Medusa powered by a brand new battery.

Do 1 meter in three seconds.

Huh, there it is.

I remember that awful light.

It's been seared into my brain for years.

He really did it.

I gave it everything I had, but I still couldn't crack that nut.

It took a true craftsman like Joel to make a diamond battery.

Wrong.

The one we just set off was

the Medusa from Treasure Island

but with your battery installed.

That's not possible.

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get any of those blasted things to work.

Here, look at this.

It's one of the many Medusas we got from ground zero,

and has one of Joel's batteries in it.

Do 1 meter in one second.

Why doesn't it work if it has Joel's battery installed?

Those Medusas we found were thousands of years old.

They were completely busted after eons of degradation.

But as we know firsthand

the one from Treasure Island was still working when we got it.

I can't believe my ears.

My precious batteries aren't worthless?

Those naughty little tricksters were actually working the whole time?

So it wasn't the batteries, but the Medusas that were lemons.

What's he saying about a lemon?

Why do I feel like I'm missing something?

Listen, here's the gist.

If we keep using Kaseki's batteries in the newer petrification device

it basically means we can use it as much as we want.

True.

Now that we're equipped with a functional Medusa,

we have what we need to pull it off.

Our all important moon mission, kamikaze style.

Why-man could petrify the planet at any given moment.

We can't predict when he'll attack.

We have to stop him as soon as possible while we still can.

The clock is ticking.

We're barely making a rocket.

Adding a return craft would take us way too long.

Got it.

I read you loud and clear.

It seems there's a heavy toll to pay for our trip to the moon to confront Why-man.

Whoever steps in that rocket isn't coming back down to Earth.

Am I wrong?

Over time, humankind will progress.

One day, a trip to the moon will be commonplace.

Mark my words.

Until that day comes

a scientist

a fighter

and a pilot will wait patiently

petrified by their own doing,

to save the whole planet.

They'll wait as long as it takes

for science to come save them.

Years

decades

centuries.

We'll be hopping on a rocket ship with a functional petrification device

for the one way trip of a lifetime.

There you have it.

We're locking away the Medusa until it's time to take off.

Unless something happens, like a serious injury.

We're going to want to keep its restorative abilities under wraps.

We're not busting it out for any minor owies.

That goes double for the 21st century humans

who will soon be the overwhelming majority.

While we're on the subject, never underestimate a sailor's instincts.

There's a reason you're being so secretive.

The Medusa can bring the dead back to life, can it?

It's a source of eternal life, and I know I'm not wrong.



That said, our pal Why-man takes priority.

If he unleashes a mass petrification event,

eternal life won't mean squat anymore.

That's why we're barreling forward as fast as we can.

The only working Medusa we have

is going to be our one-way ticket to the moon.

He kept saying "one-way ticket."

So which three of us are going?

Ryusui's got to be the pilot.

What about the fighter?

Tsukasa?

Maybe Hyoga?

And the scientist.

We might never see them again

whoever ends up going to the moon.

Senku and Xeno are the ones designing the rocket.

Xeno wouldn't flinch at that.

He'll agree with Senku

about the one-way trip.

Well, they would know best.

They're the genius scientists.

I'm only an amateur.

Why would anyone listen to me?

I'm just a guy playing with rocks.

To hell with all that.

We've got this.

A one-way ticket?

How about instead we all get together and raise a toast after we beat Why-man?

That's the only thing I call a victory.

There's no happily ever after?

Then let's rewrite the ending.

We'll just have to build our own rocket

to take us back to Earth at super speed.

Suika.

I know I'm talking a big game, but the truth is

I'm pathetic, and I don't know the first thing about rockets.

I can't do sh*t alone.

But you were able to make revival fluid all by yourself.

We're the science users of Ishigami Village.

Let's build a return craft.

I know we can pull it off if we work together.

Of course I'll help, but are we really going to do it without telling Senku?

Hell yeah!

Now, we can finally build it.

We can do it. Just wait and see.

Our one-way moon rocket,

taking us to our final confrontation with Why-man.

Our round trip moon rocket that'll help us stop Why-man, then bring us back together.