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WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
wiikipedia:
Ok so the holographic eyes are really creeping me out.
It seems to only be able to create its avatar in different shades of blue, so then why are the eyes white? It doesn't make any sense, unless it elimintates all of its head behind its eyes (assuming of course that it is in 3d
and not just a flat projection) and lets you see the white of the ship as its pupils, and that doesn't even make sense because we are seeing the whites of the eyes and so none of the characters would be able to.
The only solution, Spaceship (and by extension all A.I.s) know they are in a comic and are letting us see things! Brilliant!
tjradcliffe:
--- Quote from: DSL on 26 Jan 2012, 01:53 ---Also, assuming you don't have a Columbia-style breakup, I doubt you'd even get a fraction of a second.
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I dunno. Unless the burn-through was right in front of your face you'd more likely die from lack of air than too much heat, so several seconds is more likely. Since most of the heat of re-entry is dumped into the underside and leading edges of the lifting body the odds are burn-through wouldn't happen in the passenger cabin, so I'd say the ship has the right estimate.
Spiff:
--- Quote from: ChaosWolf on 25 Jan 2012, 10:22 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 25 Jan 2012, 02:11 ---This doesn't quite hang together, but I'll try, anything other than admit that it was just a funny joke.
Accurately rendering fabric is CPU-intensive. What if the holo-pilot were in an optimized mode where he only expected to be seen from the waist up and skipped the CPU cycles for rendering pants?
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This is plausible. It's like those jokes about TV newscasters not wearing pants because you never see under the desk.
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According to the Far Side, the truth is much worse. The desks aren't there so they can sit there without pants but to hide the fact that the newscasters are hideous aliens with tentacles instead of legs.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 25 Jan 2012, 22:06 ---Huh. I didn't notice before, but this shuttle is clearly built for commercial flights, isn't it?
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Well, occasionally he does have to have the rest of the board of directors of ECT come up to the station, so...
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 25 Jan 2012, 22:06 ---Huh. I didn't notice before, but this shuttle is clearly built for commercial flights, isn't it?
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An inventor can save a lot of trouble by using off-the-shelf parts for stuff that doesn't matter.
Also, a tweet from Jeph:
--- Quote from: Jeph, on Twitter ---Just got an email from an interior-parts designer for Boeing, thanking me for using their 777 first-class seats in the comic :3
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