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WCDT: 18-22 July 2011 (1971-1975)

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Akima:

--- Quote from: SirDudley on 18 Jul 2011, 14:18 ---http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/7738486230/print-for-sdcc In case anyone missed it, Jeph's other SDCC print.
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Hanners appears to be taking dictation from the dolphin. Well, why not? We know she speaks GOO and Morse Code. Possibly there were dolphins on the space-station where she grew up.


--- Quote from: pendrake on 20 Jul 2011, 16:47 ---Yes but how will he get back up?   Now that the current american government administration has effectively killed NASA...? :-(
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Even if the US government had killed NASA (which they haven't) there are other options. The Russians for a start, but somehow I imagine Hanners' father having his own launch facility using something way cooler than thirty-plus-year-old technology. The Space Shuttle made its first orbital flight before I was born! Before the first IBM PC was launched! Before the ancestors of the internet were anything more than scientists' toys, and well before the World Wide Web! Before the USA's first commercial cellular phone network was rolled out! Think about that for a moment. It's a tribute to the design, but also to bureaucratic stagnation.

TinPenguin:
Interesting to see an overhead shot. It's obviously not 100% accurate, with things like the lack of the big blackboard, and not being as wide (or is that deep?) as the comics implied. But interesting. I always thought the bathroom door was on the opposite side of the room. Not sure if that's my mistake or the guest artist's. Perhaps we're both right, and that's actually the basement door. My understanding of the layout was always a bit sketchy, as Jeph does not normally treat us to this kind of angle.

Also, I get the feeling that Dora has the sword ready to leap in if Dale and Marigold start PvPing IRL.

Skewbrow:
Before Akima beats me to it I feel the need to point out that the space elevator won't help HannerDad much, if he is at a low orbit. The task of matching velocities would still need quite a bit of thrust. Ok, she replied on that topic...


--- Quote from: Akima on 21 Jul 2011, 02:57 ---Even if the US government had killed NASA (which they haven't) there are other options. The Russians for a start, but somehow I imagine Hanners' father having his own launch facility using something way cooler than thirty-plus-year-old technology. The Space Shuttle made its first orbital flight before I was born! Before the first IBM PC was launched! Before the ancestors of the internet were anything more than scientists' toys, and well before the World Wide Web! Before the USA's first commercial cellular phone network was rolled out! Think about that for a moment. It's a tribute to the design, but also to bureaucratic stagnation.

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Well, space-travel is a massive project. There are the obvious benefits to having a network of satellites. May be there are also benefits to having manned space stations, but the costs for that are also very high. If China and/or Japan decides to join in the space race and, say, declare a target of building a manned Moon base, then the Americans could be relied upon taking that as a challenge. All the while I would be admiring the scale of the engineering effort and twiddling my thumbs. But with no national pride at stake nor any relatively short term economic advantages in sight I'm a bit pessimistic.

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I agree not much to talk about this week. But...

Are Marigold and Dale PvPing there? I think that round one is due some time soon. I really don't know what I would like the outcome of their duel to be. At the moment I'm rooting for a power outage at the moment they are both down to one hitpoint (sorry, I only know the old Angband, where having only one hitpoint remaining means that you should take immediate effort to 'heal' yourself by whatever medical or magical means you have at hand - an antbite could kill you at that point - WoW players are welcome to educate me here). With that outcome they would both think that they had a lucky escape, and mutual respect might emerge.

Monkey Says Yes:
I'm loving the different guest artists this week.  Jeph usually brings in quality art folks, and this week's no exception.

jwhouk:

--- Quote from: Smerf on 21 Jul 2011, 00:31 ---Is that the Malaysian battle spatula behind Faye?

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(doesn't look up, hopes no one commented)

Nope. It's the 9-iron.

(looks up)

Dang.

Anyways: I kinda suspected the shop was that narrow, but I always thought that the entrance to the back room was on the same wall as the blackboard and specials board. Of course, Jeph has never been all that great about keeping the same floorplan for the places in his comic. Marten and Faye's apartment seems to have a moving bathroom, or so it seems.

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