Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 8-13 December 2014 (Strips 2850-2854)
Zandin:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 11 Dec 2014, 00:50 ---The NRO is a satellite launch and maintenance agency, not an intelligence gathering operation. They send the hardware up and make sure it's running smoothly. CIA and NSA actually run intelligence gathering operations. The NRO is a glorified trucking company.
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"It designs, builds, and operates the spy satellites of the United States government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the NSA, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the NGA, and measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) to the DIA." Doesn't sound like a trucking company. Sounds like they actually run the satellites for every government agency in the USA. Makes them pretty damn important.
--- Quote from: jheartney on 11 Dec 2014, 00:50 ---If Clinton doesn't work for them, how did he know about the attack? Was it in the papers? WRT an EMP from orbit, that wouldn't just take out all the electronics in the class; it'd take out the whole eastern seaboard.
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He was probably in class when she was visited by agents. Even if they hit her from orbit someone would need to come visit her for a debrief. This is a universe where a laser powerful enough to cut through steel fit in a tube the size of a laser pointer in our world. A directed EMP from space is far from the least far fetched thing in this universe. Occam's Razor says that the simplest explanation is most likely correct, and arguing that the comic is straight up wrong about its own canon is far from the simplest explanation.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 09 Dec 2014, 21:43 ---I hope that Emily and Clinton hit it off, even if only as friends. Neither seem to grasp many social concepts - boundaries for one thing. Emily is quirky but nice, Clinton inept but gallant.
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Ah.
NRO.
Upgrade "Quirky" to "Weird". But in the nicest possible way. The way Steven Hawking, Einstein, etc are weird. Only more so.
It's entirely possible that the greater AIs might be very interested in her.
I know some people like her. They don't actually inhabit this world, or at least, don't fully participate in the consensual picture we call "reality". They have better things to do with their time, more interesting things. Often it's not so much intelligence as talent, thinking that happens without conscious awareness, there's no need for self-aware monitoring of the process.
Of course it's a comic strip, so this might be taken to extremes.
ZoeB:
Well, non-Euclidean geometry does have practical applications! Really! Ftaghn.
KOK:
--- Quote from: vforvancouver on 10 Dec 2014, 22:22 ---Now I want to know more about Emily's project.
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No you don't. Trust me on this: you do not want to know anout Emily's project.
Undrneath:
What if Emily's project turned out to be May and she somehow escaped the EMPing. Regardless of truth this is now my headcannon.
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