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WCDT Strips 3266 to 3270 (18th to 22nd July 2016)
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 18 Jul 2016, 06:50 ---It's not like the idea of something going through the entire planet and emerging unscathed on another side of it is realistic in itself. What with the hot, semi-liquid mantle and even hotter planet core...
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I think it was Gregory Benford who used this situation in an SF story once. Super-powerful aliens had used a "cosmic string" to cut a hole through the center of a planet and the protagonist either fell or was pushed in. I forget how it ended, but he spent some time yo-yoing back and forth through the center.
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 17 Jul 2016, 15:18 ---The reason not much is happening with Marten is he's satisfied with work, and is in a blissful relationship, which are utterly boring things to tell stories about. If you want Marten stories, he either has to start having trouble with Claire, or trouble with life.
Seriously, though, the reason we've had so much Bubbles/Faye and Clinton/Brun/Renee is these are characters with issues and edges. The latter group seems especially ripe for eventful days ahead; Renee is a walking ball of suspicion, Brun is the enigmatic fulcrum, and Clinton is executing a character arc where he moves from overbearing to something else.
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I have to say, I'm not really taking any kind of shine to Brun or Renee. I want more Faye/Bubbles, with extra Hanners, please.
Oenone:
--- Quote from: WareWolf on 18 Jul 2016, 09:53 ---
--- Quote from: oddtail on 18 Jul 2016, 06:50 ---It's not like the idea of something going through the entire planet and emerging unscathed on another side of it is realistic in itself. What with the hot, semi-liquid mantle and even hotter planet core...
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I think it was Gregory Benford who used this situation in an SF story once. Super-powerful aliens had used a "cosmic string" to cut a hole through the center of a planet and the protagonist either fell or was pushed in. I forget how it ended, but he spent some time yo-yoing back and forth through the center.
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If you're into it, Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem talks about super tiny tiny quantum computers doing that, primarily as a precursor to an alien invasion.
It's honestly a genre changer and I really recommend it.
KOK:
--- Quote from: Akima on 18 Jul 2016, 06:46 ---I don't know where this weird idea came from that if you dug down in the USA you'd come up in China. The antipodes of most of country are at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. If the girls are on holiday on Hawaii, it will be the ambassador for Botswana to whom Faye would have to apologise.
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This is not restricted to the US. Here in Denmark digging through the earth to China is also used as a figure of speach. Actually you would need to start in Argentina to end up in China. From here it would be in the vicinity of Solomon Islands.
Mr_Rose:
Bugs bunny started it. Or at least popularised it.
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