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WCDT: 2296-2300 (15-19 October 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
ysth:
Does anyone see what is animated?
pwhodges:
It's a flashing version of the same very faint outline that you can just make out in the last frame of the jpg that replaced the gif.
Arancaytar:
There's actually an animation? I just assumed it was a joke since the image is a jpeg rather than a gif, and that format doesn't (so far as I know) allow frame animations.
Carl-E:
Please read the rest of the thread. The comic was an animated gif originally, and there's a link to the original on the previous page of this thread.
TheoGB:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 16 Oct 2012, 06:30 ---Of course it would be a HannerMom project. It's a stealth blimp.
I'm not exactly sure, but I'd assume the little "dip" on the left of the bottom panel is a tailfin/stabilizer, and the little bulge right above Hannelore is the gondola. This being a ECT vehicle, it of course has an AI driving.
And just recall the "Vanish" from Die Another Day. Micro-lenses weaved into a blimp covering could theoretically hide itself by using cameras and tiny LCD's to show the other side of the blimp.
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Oh GOD! Let's not recall ANYTHING of that movie, if possible. I mean, you thought the series hit a low note with Moonraker and then they made Die Another Day! :D
There is some work towards this sort of cloaking system but it's a way off yet. Not sure why people are questioning the science here when fully sentient AIs are far, far less likely than all the Roswell Area 51 type stealth plane stuff being real (which is what Jeph's playing off, I reckon).
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