Thread:All fictions/@comment-5275759-20170606104243/@comment-25431873-20181221143139

“Just looking at the shape, it makes me think of a good luck charm or something. Look, doesn’t it seem like something you’d see in the astrology book that the library master carries around?” “And circuits can be used for more than passing current through. They can also be used to catch something. …For example, don’t antennas take a lot of different forms? And to more efficiently pick up EM waves, aren’t they sometimes shaped like a mosquito coil or like a bowl? If an ancient person saw one, wouldn’t they think it was some kind of magic circle or something?”

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“If this crazy magic circle of a wire diagram is an antenna, what in the world is it meant to pick up from the air?” “This isn’t even a flash tablet or planetary magic circle. It just uses ordinary sigils.” Ah okay, I can see what you meant.

A space?