Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strip 3501 to 3505 (12th to 16th June 2017)
Morituri:
Building Bubbles a distinctive bicycle would be a good business move, AND good for Bubbles emotionally.
Even if a relatively ordinary bike could support her, a large-frame good-looking bike with 30-inch Coker tires would be unusual enough (and on it she'd be non-threatening enough) that people would walk up to her to ask where she got it or who made it -- and then she could hand them a business card.
This is from experience, BTW. As a huge guy, when I'm walking around I often see people crossing to the other side of the street to avoid me, shying away, taking defensive postures, putting their heads down, etc... fear reactions that I'm SURE are part of Bubbles' alienation from the world. When I'm riding a bicycle though, nobody acts scared of me. It's like night and day.
Assuming that Bubbles weighs only ~180 kilos or ~400 pounds means assuming that she only weighs what a human her size would weigh, IE that she'd have approx. neutral buoyancy in water. To weigh ~130 kilos or ~300 pounds, at her height of about 2.2 meters, even a human would be skinny, and she's not. But military vehicles average about twice to three times the mass of civilian vehicles the same size, so I wouldn't take odds on her chassis mass being proportional to human mass, even for the same size.
bhtooefr:
FWIW, I've actually heard that the Tannus solid tires aren't half bad. I've even heard of people using them on the rear of a velomobile (where extremely high speeds are routine, and a blowout could very easily result in a rollover).
flondrix:
--- Quote from: miados on 15 Jun 2017, 10:15 ---well we know he wasn't one of the better fighters but he enjoyed it as a way to have fun. perhaps thats his day job?
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Duh, I see now that the QC Wiki says exactly that:
http://questionablecontent.wikia.com/wiki/Punchbot
"Despite being a regular, he has never actually won a Robot Fight. "
"In his civilian career, Punchbot is a CPA. He dislikes this profession."
Is it cold in here?:
>neutral buoyancy
We have a data point about the density of AnthroPC bodies. In the lakehouse story arc, Momo was walking along the bottom of the lake.
I'd been assuming Bubbles is more heavily built than Momo but there's no real reason to assume that. Her armor would have been all the robustness she needed. Wait, was the armor powered? If not, she'd have to have the bones and muscle to carry the armor. If not, she's got enough strength in her regular chassis to punch holes in brick walls.
Kugai:
I think she'd be better off skipping a Bicycle and going straight to a HarleyTrike
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