[ EU ] The SCP Foundation has successfully captured Tony Stark , but must now let him go once they realise there is nothing anomalous about the Iron Man suit .

`` What do you mean,'no anomalous properties'?! It fucking flies!'' 
 
 `` I mean,'no anomalous properties'. Nothing about Stark's machine is inherently anomalous. Several aspects are about 10 or 20 years ahead of modern technology, but it operates on reasonably-well-understood principles and does not blatantly defy any known laws of physics.'' 
 
 `` Alright then, you explain how it flies.'' 
 
 `` Magnets.'' 
 
 `` Are you fucking serious.'' 
 
 `` Stark has invented a novel propulsion system that does n't depend on volatile fuels. It uses tiny superconducting monopoles. It would be more efficient if it used something like, say, xenon as a propellant, but there's no way it could carry enough of it, so it behaves like a combination jet turbine and ion engine. The ones in the hands can be weaponized as ion beams.'' 
 
 `` Right, because an ion engine powerful enough to lift a human being and a half-ton of metal into the stratosphere could also lift all the batteries neccessary to power it.'' 
 
 `` The huge power requirement is filled by something he calls an `` Arc Reactor'', which appears to run on the radiodecay of palladium. I'm not a nuclear physicist, but he claims that in essence, it creates a circuit between different palladium isotopes, using decay products of one to fuel the decay of the other, and drawing energy from the resulting electron differential. If we could get our hands on Stark's machines, it would be much easier to contain certain Objects... Unfortunately the technologies are proprietary to his company, and they're so far ahead of anyone else he has n't even taken out any patents on them - because people will figure them out from patent documents, and think of harmful applications for the technology.'' 
 
 `` So this thing really is... Normal?'' 
 
 `` The suit, sure. We ca n't really say the software is anomalous either without reading the code, which, as you have already guessed, is proprietary. But...'' 
 
 `` But what?'' 
 
 `` This technology may not be itself anomalous, but how does one man develop this kind of science this fast? Like I said, parts of the suit are easily 10 or 20 years from being feasible for contemporary science. Even our most advanced labs would n't be able to even come up with the idea for an Arc Reactor, much less build a hand-held one, in a cave, with a box of scraps.'' 
 
 `` Are you implying what I think you're implying?'' 
 
 `` The suit should be returned to Stark Industries... But Stark is either a time traveler or a parahuman, and in either case we do n't want him to just keep tinkering until he invents man-portable teleportation devices or alters the topological nature of the universe on a whim. Make arrangements for a Class A Humanoid Containment Cell... And requisition some amnestics. Lots of amnestics.''
