Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 25-29 October 2010 (1781-1785)
pendrake:
The first lesson of Applied Engineering: "Your calculations and designs will always be perfect, but *people* will always find a way to screw things up."
Is it cold in here?:
A mathematician sets the rest of the building on fire, thus reducing it to a solved problem.
Carl-E:
No, we set the dollhouse on fire and put it out, since solving a smaller, simpler problem will allow us to see how to solve the larger one.
Then we claim a similar method will work, without actually doing it...
Border Reiver:
This is why I don't do math (theoretical anyway) - but do do applied rocket science and survey...
iduguphergrave:
hmmm....you know I voted for a second date with Angus and Faye, but reading Faye and Hannelore talk about the singularity, maybe this was Jeph's stealthy was of beginning to take QC in a whole new direction. I mean how long does a singularity take to happen?* Maybe the AI just hasn't enslaved/killed them all yet. Maybe starting this week, a conflict could start between the humans and machines and the rest of the comic is about the QC gang trying to fight the machines and keep Northampton from falling into the hands of the AI!!
Ok, I admit, I just want to see everyone dressed like Rambo and fighting with machine guns.
*before you flame me for sounding like a retard, let me clarify: I'm an Engish major. I know next to nothing about this sciencey-speculation. So if none of the above made ANY sense, keep in mind I have trouble with simple math.
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