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WCDT Strips 3691-3695 (5-9 March 2018)
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 07 Mar 2018, 07:43 ---
--- Quote from: Pintsize ---She never told me she was a cop!
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Isn't occupation one of the first things people exchange information about on dates? What does it say that she didn't? She had time to mention knitting after all.
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Jeph has already established that people even in the QC universe sometimes distrust cops to a very disruptive level. I can see Roko not mentioning her profession for fear of frightening off potential dates. It's silly and it's certain to backfire on her but it's an anxiety that I understand.
Cornelius:
Let's not forget Hannelore's reaction, when Roko first came to Coffee of Doom, and she learned who she was.
SpanielBear:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 07 Mar 2018, 08:02 ---Let's not forget Hannelore's reaction, when Roko first came to Coffee of Doom, and she learned who she was.
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I always assumed that was because of who she was specifically as opposed to her career choice in general. Hannelore assumed that Roko was there looking for info on Faye and Bubbles, and took a dim view of being asked to snitch.
(The only other cop/Hanners interaction I can recall was many years ago, when Hanners hit her head and ran down the street covered in blood and screaming. The cop there had... reasonable concerns.)
(Also a feature of those days were the Ridiculously Laid Back Cops of Boston Town- getting high in the cruiser, beer sledding. Innocent times...)
Doesn't make the more general point that Roko might be worried about revealing her profession on the first date invalid though.
Morituri:
Considering as Earth's magnetic field is caused by the dynamo effect of the conductive core spinning with the planet's rotation in the charged field of solar particles, it's a little difficult to imagine the magnetic poles moving very far from the axial poles.
If it did, I suppose it would imply that the molten core of the planet would be rotating with its axis more-or-less in the plane of Earth's orbit, while the surface of the planet was rotating with its axis more-or-less perpendicular to Earth's orbit.
Which puts the relative velocity of the mantle and crust at about 1600 kph. Well, between about 1600 kph and 2000 kph at every point of their contact, in an interesting variety of directions that would depend on where you were in the world and what time of day it was.
I'm no geophysicist, but even before taking the effects of the magnetic field itself into account, I'm pretty sure that would be Bad. Continental drift isn't something we normally think of as dangerous, but let's not take it to extremes.
Penquin47:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 07 Mar 2018, 09:02 ---Considering as Earth's magnetic field is caused by the dynamo effect of the conductive core spinning with the planet's rotation in the charged field of solar particles, it's a little difficult to imagine the magnetic poles moving very far from the axial poles.
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If you want to see what it might look like, take a look at Uranus and Neptune. Both of them not only have widely offset angles (59 degrees for Uranus, 47 for Neptune), they don't even meet in the center of the planet - Uranus's poles meet about a third of the way from the center to the edge, and Neptune's over half.
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