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Moon Halo

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Black hole Gargantua

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Murderer AU

Creator:  @huraeee

Korean to Japanese translation:  @satokanpaku

Japanese to English translation: Me

This is part of an ongoing series by @huraeee on Twitter! Each tweet plays out like a horror visual novel, and there is an element of audience participation as everyone gets to vote on what happens next in the story!

Thank you @huraeee for allowing me to translate and repost (see all Murderer AU tweets here), as well as @satokanpaku for their Korean to Japanese translation (found here) and for coordinating between @huraeee and I.

1. On the road, you encounter a murderer.

Vote:

Report to the police immediately -18%

Start the car engine and escape - 82%

2. [Start the car engine and escape]

“Dammit…” Unable to start the engine, Bakugou curses silently to himself.

Trembling, he raises his head.

The murderer has disappeared.

There are fresh blood stains left on the road.

Vote:

Leave the car and investigate the blood stains - 37%

Call the police - 39%

Go home - 25%

3. [Call the police]

“Hey half-and-half. There’s been a murder. I’ll send you my coordinates, come immediately. The murderer hasn’t gone far, so it’s better if you come quick.”

Suddenly, there is an explosive sound, accompanied by the tilting of the car.

There is someone outside the window.

Todoroki: “Bakugou? What happened?”

Vote:

Cut off the call and go outside to investigate - 23%

“Don’t hang up!” - 77%

4. [“Don’t hang up!”]

“What’s up? Are you actually scared?”

“Tsk. The murderer is probably still around. My tyre got punctured, I’m currently unable to move.”

“Is your door securely shut? I’ve just got your coordinates, we’ll reach in 15 minutes. Don’t freak out and wait there. We’ll be there soon.

*Setting: Todoroki is a policeman

5. [We’ll be there soon]

They arrived at the scene, but Bakugou had already disappeared.

6. [Whereabouts]

The murderer is taking you somewhere.

7. [Captivity]

“U-ugh…”

“Oh you’ve come to? It’s hard to move, right? That’s ‘cause I bound you really tightly.”

“Fucking bastard…”

On his neck was the chilly sensation of a knife.

“I wanted to talk to you more… but I have no time. I just want to ask you one question, please hurry and answer me.”

You could tell that the murderer was somewhat uneasy.

Murderer: “Were you talking to the police just now?”

Vote:

Yes - 45%

No -  55%

8. “It wasn’t the police, don’t you worry.”

Bakugou chooses not to agitate the other party.

“… That’s good, I’ll have to deal with more than just you if the police is involved too.”

“When I brought you with me, I left the body nearby… I’ll be back soon, so be good and stay put~”

9. Sounds of the murderer’s footsteps seem to be further and further away.

Bakugou frees himself from his restraints.

“Dammit, I let my guard down. To think I got myself caught by a shitty bastard like him…”

“More importantly, where is that stench coming from…”

Bakugou probes with his foot. He steps on something.

“?!”

Bakugou: “What is this… Fuck… This is way too crazy…”

His foot had touched a dead body, which was being left there in the way it had been killed.

Vote: What to do next? 

Investigate the dead body - 22%

Investigate the room  - 29%

Search for your own possessions - 49%

10. [Search for your own possessions]

You find your coat near the sink.

Beside your coat is a notebook, which presumably belongs to the murderer.

However, first of all, you start from looking through your coat for your belongings.

“Son of a bitch, there’s nothing!”

All the belongings in your coat have been removed.

11. You can hear footsteps from afar. He is coming back.

12. He’s coming.

13. He’s coming. He’s coming. He’s coming. He’s coming. He’s coming. He’s coming. He’s coming. He’s coming. He’s coming. He’s coming. He’s coming.

Vote (*Beware of bad ending):

Hide

Return to being in the tied up state

Vote is happening now at: https://twitter.com/huraeee/status/827480248019152896

Animated Double Exposure by Said Dagdeviren

Super Sensitive Sensor Sees What You Can’t

A team of engineers at Dartmouth College has invented a semiconductor chip that could someday give the camera in your phone the kind of vision even a superhero would envy.

The new technology comes from Eric Fossum, a professor of engineering and his colleagues at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering.

This isn’t the first imaging technology Fossum has worked on. Twenty-five years ago, while working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he invented CMOS image sensor technology.

“There’s about 4 billion cameras made every year with that CMOS image sensor technology,” Fossum says.

The CMOS sensor chip turns light into electrical signals that can be processed to form digital images.

Fossum calls his new technology QIS, for Quanta Image Sensor. Instead of pixels, QIS chips have what Fossum and his colleagues call “jots.” Each jot can detect a single particle of light, called a photon.

“What this chip can do because it’s sensitive to single photons is it can see in the dimmest possible light,” Fossum says.

This is a sample photo taken with the 1-megapixel Quanta Image Sensor. Instead of pixels, QIS chips have what researchers call “jots.” Each jot can detect a single particle of light. Jiaju Ma