"Airships?"
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This is Merle's response to the money-making scheme to corner light by capturing the light further away from the Earth where the stream is smaller. I know, I know! You don't have to tell me how light works! Tell the money-making schemer!
Anyway, Merle's reaction justifies my reaction to this concept in the last entry when I mocked the guy for just needing to come up with rocket science. Since it doesn't exist and most common people probably have barely put any thought to it, Merle responds in much the same way anybody from 1893 would: "Oh, you must be talking about balloons since that's the only way to get up that high. Just a massive fleet of balloons to block the light and collect it in little Æther jars that you can then sell to the public at outrageous prices." Obviously Merle doesn't mean any of that stuff that I just pretended he meant by saying, "Airships?" This questioning response is his way to stay "unentangled from money-making schemes." Also maybe he's just curious, drunk, and horny. The drunk and horny have nothing to do with any of this but I suspect he is those things as well.
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