> i have been trying the power conduit thingy forever please someone email me the solution!!!! i can't take it anymore!!!!!!!!!! ahhhh!!!! (cires and whimpers) aterrano@bw.edu
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> this is the position that each one is in now
> THE EAST SIDE:
> M11E: point to the north and across the inner parallel
> M16E: point to the south and across the outer parallel
> M21E: point to the south and across the inner parallel. The power conduit running across the outer parallel appears to be broken
> M26E: point to the north and across the outer parallel
> M01E: point to the south and across the outer parallel
> M06E: point to the south and across the inner parallel
> THE WEST SIDE:
> M06W: point to the south and across the inner parallel. The power conduit running to the north appears to be broken
> M11W: point to the south and across the outer parallel
> M16W: point to the south and across the outer parallel
> M21W: point to the north and across the outer parallel. The power conduit running across the outer parallel appears to be broken
> M26W: point to the south and across the outer parallel
> M01W: point to the north and across the outer parallel. The power conduit running to the south appears to be broken
> PLEASE HELP ME!!! i have switched it all around so many times and i still haven't got it! email me: aterrano@bw.edu

Judging from the way you have it, it appears you're doing it rather haphazardly rather than with attention to the arrangement. (Correct me if I'm interpreting it wrong.) Remember the instructions Johnson and Sawyer gave you re: the arrangement?

Firstly, Johnson wanted you to have the electrical circuit running helically around the ship, so that if one conduit junction pointed across the outer parallel, the ones immediately north and south of that conduit were pointing across the inner parallel. At the moment, for one thing, you have five consecutive junctions pointing across the outer. Running helically also requires that, if one junction points south, the one on the other side has to point north. At the moment, you have M16E and M16W both pointing south.

Secondly, Johnson told you it wouldn't work if any junctions pointed to broken conduits. Currently, you have the M21W junction pointing outward, which leads to a broken conduit. (This is well-known basic electronics. If a series circuit breaks at one point, the whole thing doesn't work. Don't you just hate it when you have to find out which Christmas light is the burnt-out one?)

Thirdly, you have some junctions pointing toward other junctions which aren't pointing toward the original junction. This results in the junction pointing to a dead end, rather than a circuit; Johnson wanted a circuit, remember. If one junction points toward the south, the junction to the south of that has to point north so their connections can meet. If one junction points toward the inner parallel, the junction on the other side has to point to the inner parallel too so they both connect to the same conduit. Currently, for instance, you have M11W pointing to the outer parallel and M11E pointing inwards, so they connect to two different conduits and hit dead ends.

Lucky "Hopefully now that you know more about how the conduits work, you can figure out the solution" Wizard