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WCDT: 2156-60 (2-6 April 2012) Questionable Content Discussion
DSL:
We'd best be careful in trying to apply the Campbell/Asimov Three Laws Plus One to the QCverse; Jeph has baldly stated AIs in QCverse pretty much have free will and "it's a good thing they seem to like us." (It's in his Tumblr somewhere; go for it.) So I'd infer the Laws aren't in force here. Let's not put ourselves in the position of the newspaper reporter who was told to call Asimov for a comment on why the Three Laws failed after an assembly-line robot pinned and killed a worker who went inside the safety cage while the robot was in operation.
As for the ease of transport from Hannerdad Station to the ground and back up, others besides me have noted EC-101 is a luxury transport, what with those Boeing Business Class seats. (Definitely not acceleration couches; they're angled wrong to the aerospacecraft's centerline.) Not everyone might get to fly that way, but Ellicott-Chatham Technologies Space Systems Division clearly has delta-vee to burn. Transport's not a problem, even if the pilot occasionally forgets his "pants."
As for the mechanics of coyotes using mail order to (attempt to) kill roadrunners, it's simple: Failure is always an option.
specter177:
In somewhat unrelated news, I've decided to do another archive binge, and I'm amazed at how subtly Jeph's art changed strip-by-strip, but how drastic the change is from #1 to now.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: DSL on 04 Apr 2012, 17:20 ---As for the mechanics of coyotes using mail order to (attempt to) kill roadrunners, it's simple: Failure is always an option.
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"With ACME products, failure is not an option! It's standard equipment in everything we sell!"
St.Clair:
To modify a famous Tsiolkovsky quote:
"Station was the cradle of Hannelore. But one cannot live in the cradle forever."
jwhouk:
EDIT: We might want to go easy on our usual outrageous comments, as Jeph may not be a very happy camper right now...
Why, you ask?
--- Quote from: jephjacques (on twitter) ---I think I just got banned from ustream for drawing a cat with a boner
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