Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 11-15 April 2011 (1901-1905)
Akima:
I'm late to the party (I've been away) but as an exercise in expressing emotion through drawing, Thursday's and Friday's strips were lovely. The body-language, expressions etc. work so well with the story-line. And yes, Hanners is adorable, but we've had quite enough "daww"-ing already, so I'll move on.
What I'm wondering, is how Hanners' satellite-phone works. How does the ear-piece attach to her ear? I suppose it is large enough for an ear-hook to be hidden behind the circular body, but that would be no fun at all. Some sort of local adhesion field, perhaps? Also, if JE-C can pack all the "works" needed to phone a space-station in Earth orbit into that little gadget, he's definitely way ahead of the otherwise mundane communications technology in the QC-verse, so it could just be a wireless headset for a larger unit somewhere else.
--- Quote from: Odin on 15 Apr 2011, 06:55 ---There really isn't all that much to discuss, unless you want to get into the subject of how all of the characters were brought up in abusive and/or traumatizing environments and are now having to learn how to cope as adults.
--- End quote ---
True of the characters, but actually also true of everyone. Possibly what makes QC so fascinating.
I don't understand the preoccupation with "ranking" QC characters. QC is storytelling, and why would anyone expect all the characters in a story to have "equal time"?
Edit: Fixed stupid spelling mistake.
gprimr1:
I imagine that the phone is connected to a regular land line and it goes through a gateway to be sent up to the satellite.
Modern day satellite phones work the same way. You get a number, someone calls you on a land line, and it goes to a terrestrial gateway to be sent up to the satellite network.
Iridium, one of the big names in satellite communications has civilian gateways in Tempe Arizona and Italy and a military gateway in Hawaii.
The funny part, is if it were Iridium, Hanners call would cost about 4 dolllars a minute.
Is it cold in here?:
Maybe it's VoIP.
The headset can't end in an earbud, that would be unsanitary. A cellular adhesion field would be fun, and maybe Hannelore's skin is clean enough that she'd be OK with it.
akronnick:
I would think the sophisticated part of the link would be at whatever Hannerdad uses as his space station's ground control link (Houston, as it were.)
As this is the case, Hannelore is probably using whatever she uses for her phone, landline, cellular or VoIP, and she's calling another phone.
Carl-E:
Dad? Can you hear me now??
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