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WCDT: 2296-2300 (15-19 October 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
pwhodges:
Then I can't help; the link I gave is still good. Try using a different browser or something.
Wintercode:
Maybe I'm stupid, but I just noticed that the character's hair is done in 3D with with flat 2d outline. And once I've noticed it, it was difficult to ignore.
And this is shaping up to be a long arc, we're ten strips in and the it is still buildup (or maybe the buildup IS the arc? /wildtheory) what with everyone coming and preparing for the party and not even all the main characters are still there. I'm guessing this arc will last untill sometime in November.
Today's strip is merely continuation of the previous one's so it doesn't resolve any questions, but if I had to guess, I'd wager on Marten getting/attempting to get a girl as a likely part of this arc. He is closest thing to a main character we have and both of the previous girls, namely Lt. Potter who outright rejected him and Padma which ended the way it ended, were unsuccessful and short-lived. As for likely girl, we may get completely new character (maybe one of friends Emily invited since this is her party?) or, though I don't want to break the rules and ship anyone, one of the existing characters. Though Marten and dating is at an odd place, both of the girls he would be most likely to end up with are in happy relationships and it's difficult to impossible to pair him with anyone else from the established female characters, so maybe the whole "Marten will never be happy" (I'm paraphrasing) is true.
One thing, today's strip does nothing to advance the plot and it certainly doesn't narrow any of the possibilities of what may happen in the arc. I mean I like random gag strips and Hannelore would probably be my favorite character if I had to choose but I'm curious to see what will happen with the arc.
--- Quote ---Is Emily's house just out in the middle of nowhere?
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From what I can tell, it's in the middle of nowhere in a sense that it is in forest well off the beaten path but there are clearly houses on the lake so there may be people in them. Those are all vacation houses so they are obviously empty for most of the year but it isn't impossible for few of them to have people.
Akima:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 16 Oct 2012, 06:30 ---Of course it would be a HannerMom project. It's a stealth blimp.
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Yes! Blimp or rigid, a stealth airship is just the sort of thing that would appeal to a Bond-villain-esque corporate overlady. And of course it would be run by an AI.
Quantum levitation? As far as I am aware, the floating disks in these demonstrations always hover over the pole(s) of the magnet(s) as a consequence of the Meissner Effect. The Earth's magnetic field has its poles at the North and South magnetic poles, so I suspect that, even if all the practical problems of engineering a self-contained superconducting hover-ship were solved, you might well find you could only hover over Northern Canada or just off the coast of Antarctica, areas possibly of little interest to a super-villain. The intensity of the Earth's magnetic field varies, being strongest over the magnetic poles and weakest at the equator. At its strongest, it is roughly 1/200th of the strength of a fridge-magnet at around 65µT, or much less that one millionth of of the strength of the neodymium magnets I'll bet these demos use.
Disclaimer: I am not a physicist, and I have not studied physics since high-school.
ponderch3rry:
Still no hello for Gabby :cry:
Redball:
--- Quote from: Akima on 16 Oct 2012, 15:20 ---Disclaimer: I am not a physicist, and I have not studied physics since high-school.
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Akima the Eidetic has a ring and a rhythm to it.
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