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WCDT Strips 3266 to 3270 (18th to 22nd July 2016)
Kugai:
And he always missed that left turn at Albuquerque.
The Spike from hell.
Skewbrow:
Antipodes. My head sticks out of the ocean about 1000 km South East from New Zealand.
Method of Madness:
I'd be southwest of Perth (by quite a bit, in the Indian Ocean).
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 18 Jul 2016, 13:44 ---Antipodes. My head sticks out of the ocean about 1000 km South East from New Zealand.
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LOL. Love this.
Reporting from the ocean west of Australia.
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: Oenone on 18 Jul 2016, 11:09 ---
--- 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.
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I have this in the TBR Queue. I'll move it up.
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