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WCDT: 2131-35 (27 Feb- 2 Mar 2012) QC IN SPAAAAAACE! Week 6
Near Lurker:
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--- Quote from: Deadlywonky on 28 Feb 2012, 23:26 ---Isn't it possible that station's acting drunk to Lt. Potter as drinking buddy, but isn't actually drunk at all? In other words, as I might do to pretend I've had too much, slur my words, stumble about, lose volume control etc but be fully sober (or mostly sober).
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I'm sure it's possible, but I don't see it being likely. I doubt that Jeph would have given Station the drunk bubbles if that were the case. Unless Station is truly omniscient and knows that Jeph draws all of his drunk characters with bubbles so he projected them to ensure that he really did appear to be intoxicated.
:psyduck:
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Isn't that essentially what emulation is, though?
And why is it that everyone in this strip "gets drunk" by ploughing through what looks like an entire fifth, or in this case, at least a pint? I mean, Jesus, Lieutenant, good luck at work in the morning after that.
Carl-E:
Is this what happens when a Linux machine emulates Windows?
Wandering around, crashing (into things), hiccupping, loss of control...
Yup!
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Seriously, how would an AI emulate drunkenness - by slowing clock speed? Taking a few processors offline?
Wandering too close to a big magnetic field?
Deadlywonky:
Carl-E: disconnecting logic processors one by one? :evil:
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Theyis on 29 Feb 2012, 05:47 ---
--- Quote from: pendrake on 29 Feb 2012, 01:16 ---1. For the comic title, I could see how zero-G Volleyball could be illegal. One really hard ball-spike could literally decapitate someone.
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Ehm, no... In zero-g the ball won't go any faster than on the ground, because it's still momentum of hand vs momentum of ball at the moment of the spike. It just won't fall to the ground all by itself. And the mass of a volleyball is far too low to decapitate somebody unless you manage to get it up to ridiculous speeds that not even a professional player would be able to manage...
Now all the momentum changes for the players because of playing and spiking the ball would make it a very bizarre sport to do in zero-g...
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Agree with most of what you say. IMHO serious problems with zero-g volleyball would be that setter has a difficult job with no parabolas to work with. Also the wing spiker will literally be floating in the air. Makes for viscious near vertical spikes, but the game would be very different :psyduck:
Zero-g quidditch OTOH...
Carl-E:
I think the real problem with zero-g volleyball would be the whole action-reaction thing. A volleyball's a lot more massive than a badminton birdie, so every strike by a player would send them careening bacwards, and give less momentum to the ball than if they were anchored to the ground by gravity. A good serve would barely make it across the net, and send the server back several feet - possibly into a wall!
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