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WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
cyro:
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--- Quote from: Akima on 14 Jun 2011, 17:45 ---At least you've stopped exporting opium...
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Actually, we mostly imported that. From our oppressed colon... I mean wonderful allies.
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Read about the Opium Wars. Short version. China politely asked the British East India Company to stop exporting so much Opium into China from India. British East India Company said fuck you, China impounded a few boatloads, Britain invaded.
The British East India Company specialising in being official government approved arseholes is also one of the reasons for the USA.
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I know, but there's colonial exports and there's British exports, I was refering to the later. Using the former, the British Empire has traded in damn near everything that existed between the 1800's and WWI.
Tiogyr:
--- Quote from: Sahugani on 15 Jun 2011, 06:53 ---
--- Quote from: mike837go on 15 Jun 2011, 05:06 ---I think our beloved, Mr. Jacques miscalculated slightly, if he was going for the Back To The Future reference.
The number of seconds Raven quotes is 1.11994212963 days, not 1.21.
Also, one of the really buggery problems in time travel, that no fiction has yet to really deal with, is the fact that the Earth is moving through space.
The spot the espressosourus left will be 6,350 miles further along its orbit around the sun and 43.179 degrees out-of-phase because of the Earth's rotation.
The puts it in orbit over Chicago when it returns.
As you can tell, I'm not much of a Raven fan.
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Nah you're not factoring in earth's gravity. Should stay right were is was :P Of course I'm no astrophysicist and time travel will always make my brain hurt.
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Earth's gravity is no longer a factor when you're opening a wormhole through time and space (during the journey itself). If you put the exit in the wrong area of space (even if you get the right Time correct) you could still easily end up falling from an orbital position relative to Earth (where gravity would take over again).
Black Sword:
--- Quote from: Blackjoker on 15 Jun 2011, 06:49 ---
--- Quote from: Black Sword on 15 Jun 2011, 06:25 ---....so the ditziest character in the strip is now armed with quantum physics for her hijinks.
....oh dear.
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My fear would be more if Pintsize learned of this...imagine for a moment him with time travel.
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The space-time continuum just crapped itself in terror.
Thiefree:
That's so Rav- *soul turns inside out from horror*
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 15 Jun 2011, 04:57 ---
--- Quote from: CompSarge on 15 Jun 2011, 01:24 ---
--- Quote from: MightionNY on 15 Jun 2011, 00:41 ---It would be hilarious if in 26.8 hours (give or take), the expressosaurus does in fact reappear with said coffee.
C'mon, Mr. Jacques, you know you want to :)
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Of course, given the normal pace of this comic, 26.8 hours QC time will probably occur sometime in August.
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Of 2012
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...of the Sixth Age.
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