Question What do we do with this junk?

There are likely lots of projects that get abandoned every year in the Workshop and Mage Lab, what does the school do with the stuff that they think can't or shouldn't go down the disposals?

"Damn it Moses, some kid left an inhabited stasis tube..."

Well, the Science stuff either gets recycled or mothballed.

The Magic stuff?

That gets buried DEEP. I mean, WAY Deep.

And let that poor boy out of that Stasis Tube! His parents have been worried sick about him!

I'd imagine that the Workshop crew has seen most of it before and has procedures in place to safely destroy almost anything a teen can make. The stuff they haven't seen before is, well, interesting and worthy of a research project. Worst case it gets buried at ARC or dumped into the Sun.

I can see it now... we've got a box of X-83s... get Delarose to send over the bomb disposal unit... again.

Bek D Corbin wrote: Well, the Science stuff either gets recycled or mothballed.

The Magic stuff?

That gets buried DEEP. I mean, WAY Deep.

And let that poor boy out of that Stasis Tube! His parents have been worried sick about him!

What a waste when you can sell it on e-bay...

I had a feeling the sci stuff was partially mothballed. Somewhere off scool grounds I hope?

And I had wondered what would have happened to the Banshee crystal had the budding Artifacter not defused it.

We know there is a bin full of leftover parts and scrap in the labs, Jade was digging through those.

There's a bit more detail about the bin in "The Big Idea." Basically, about once a day anything in there goes through a molecular disassembler and is rendered into its component elements. Because a large part of the stuff there is just too dangerous to let it lying around in a landfill.

I imagine that there are various levels of junk too, with locations for each... and caches of things that could be considered one man's junk but to another man would be treasure.

Sir Lee wrote: There's a bit more detail about the bin in "The Big Idea." Basically, about once a day anything in there goes through a molecular disassembler and is rendered into its component elements. Because a large part of the stuff there is just too dangerous to let it lying around in a landfill.

Anything in Jade's hands is automatically "too dangerous"

Cryptic wrote: There are likely lots of projects that get abandoned every year in the Workshop and Mage Lab, what does the school do with the stuff that they think can't or shouldn't go down the disposals?

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All taken care of by 'top men'

Rose Bunny wrote:

Sir Lee wrote: There's a bit more detail about the bin in "The Big Idea." Basically, about once a day anything in there goes through a molecular disassembler and is rendered into its component elements. Because a large part of the stuff there is just too dangerous to let it lying around in a landfill.

Anything in Jade's hands is automatically "too dangerous"

Billy (Tennyo) to Jade on seeing some of her box of tricks... "Jade, I can understand the blades, and needles, but is a spool of thread really a weapon?"

"Sometimes I have to repair my clothes. And what if someone needs stitches? I've got a way to sterilize the thread so in an emergency I could use it for that too, so that I could make sure someone lived long enough to get to a healer or the hospital..."

"Okay I guess I see why you carry it even if it isn't a weapon."

"Oh it is a weapon, but it is useful for other things too."

Rose Bunny wrote: We know there is a bin full of leftover parts and scrap in the labs, Jade was digging through those.

That's pretty much what is done in most labs, a lot of basic parts can be reused for other gadgets or even devises so they are likely to be preserved for use in some form. Heck, any fan of the TV show "Mythbusters" has seen it dozens of times, it's cheap and a lot of what they don't create themselves and later patent is stuff that can be used elsewhere by others.

And for a school like Whateley, I don't think thee is much that is mothballed unless the student is killed as they are likely to finish their projects or take it with them after working out an agreement with the school. And even if it's mothballed, with gadgets it is likely that someone will be able to finish them later on. In the case of a devise? Well that's a different situation altogether...

DanZilla wrote: I imagine that there are various levels of junk too, with locations for each... and caches of things that could be considered one man's junk but to another man would be treasure.

For devises, I can understand why they wouldn't want anyone using any of the components for new devises or gadgets, but for gadgets...well why wouldn't they reutilize servos, actuators, and hydraulics from a broken unit when they are still able to be utilized? It's one thing if the junk is beyond repair or salvage, it's another thing to completely destroy something just because of a flaw that is being worked on and makes the parts unnecessary.

We've seen several disused storage rooms around the tunnels in various stories and I can picture students repurposing one near to their workspace as a dumping ground, particularly if they're working on a secret project and don't want to be seen carrying the prototypes to the communal trash disposal.

I read over the Jade scene where she went dumpster diving in the divisers' trash for spare parts and stuff and she had a good point for why it's dangerous: you need to be a PK superman or Regen-5 to do it due to the dangerousness and instability(read: getting blown up, arm chopped off etc.) of the items.

However...gadgeteers don't have that issue so much so when they have to dump things it's a lot easier to scrounge through their junk for useful items. Since their gadgets are bound by the laws of science they should still work even if the gadget is destroyed. Thus their trash pile might not be a trash pile, rather it's a "take what you need" sort of pile.

And this brings up Fold and his scrounging through metal in the fabrication shop- they do seem to toss out metals, but they also recycle them if possible. So sheets of metal can still be used if they are the right size and angle, even if they need to be cut down further.