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WCDT Strips 2996-3000 (6th to 10th July 2015)
greywolfe:
Is it just me or does Clinton have an extremely short torso? Sitting down Emily towers over him, standing up she still does.
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 09 Jul 2015, 23:40 ---Or, let's look at it another way. Star Trek predicted flip phones and 3.5 inch diskettes 30 years before they happened in the wider world, (20 to 25 years before they happened). Star Trek predicted transparent aluminum in 1986. 29 year later, it's a thing (beyond synthetic gems). Star Trek introduced the replicator in 1989.
If it was just Star Trek, I'd say you can't take it seriously, but you can now buy desktop 3d printers for under 3000 USD. A quick back of the envelope suggests that in 7 to 9 years, the current level of tech in those printers will cost about 45.50 USD. Odds are, they won't sell them that cheap. Capitalist economy hasn't adapted as fast as the rate of techno change. That's why Apple plans ways to make old hardware useless before it fails (and why I haven't updated my ipod for 2 years). But, in the next decade, expect replicators. Maybe just version 1.0, but replicators.
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Actually, they predicted tablets as well with the data pads - and ours are far more advanced than the ones in the shows!
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: greywolfe on 10 Jul 2015, 00:17 ---Is it just me or does Clinton have an extremely short torso? Sitting down Emily towers over him, standing up she still does.
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It's just you. Emily is tall.
She is, I think, the third or fourth tallest regular, after Dale. Probably 5th or 7th tallest overall. (Variability depends on how tall Veronica actually is.)
I think Wil is tallest. Then Sven, Jim, and Dale, then Emily, Henry, Veronica and maybe Maurice.
Clinton, OTOH, is among the shortest cast members.
(Wil and Sven aren't regulars atm, Veronica is. Jim is iffy.) Given Marten's 5'8" to 5'10" Emily is 5'10" to 6'1"
ThomasEll:
You say that, but back in school there was this really short guy, but when sitting down he was just as big as someone who was probably about a head taller than him, which is more of a difference than Emily has over Clintion
ReindeerFlotilla:
Not all torsos are created equal. Sitting, Clinton's plumage reaches Emily's eyebrows. Standing it's lower. He stands roughly the same height relative to Emily as Claire does. He and Claire are roughly the same height. Proportionally speaking, Clinton doesn't have a particularly short torso. Emily is just tall.
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