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WCDT Nov 29 - Dec 3rd (4666-4670)
Gnabberwocky:
--- Quote from: Farideh on 29 Nov 2021, 18:28 ---Wine from a screwtop jar... That's classy!
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I think it may actually be a water bottle. Even classier.
BenRG:
Okay, that pretty much confirms what most readers assumed about Claire and Clinton's dad.
Also, if I were Yay, I'd worry that Aurelia has a lot more chemical crutches for dealing with parental challenges than cannabis. That wine looks like it's option 2.
ihaveavoice:
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 29 Nov 2021, 21:10 ---
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 28 Nov 2021, 20:16 ---Awww. Hey/Spookybot is surprisingly nice at times.
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How about now?
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They're still being nice to Aurelia. I say it still counts. Also, I quite enjoy the gleeful look on their face as they offer up their own unique super-powerful-collective-consciousness version of, "You want I should rough 'im up for ya?"
oddtail:
Of all things about the comic, the idea of dropping a satellite on someone is what breaks my suspension of disbelief (go figure).
Satellites stay up because they move sideways very very fast. Dropping them instantly would be only marginally easier than putting them into orbit instantly. And I can't think of any viable mechanism to do it, future technology or not, that doesn't break physics.
I imagine Yay could use whatever they have at their disposal to decelerate the satellite, but "putting a satellite on a rapidly decaying orbit that will cause it to burn in the atmosphere and, eventually, hitting a target with some of the resulting shrapnel that somehow doesn't get destroyed on reentry" both doesn't have the same ring to it, and seems just as implausible as stopping the lateral movement of a satellite mid-orbit. How do you aim that? At that point, you can't control for how the satellite tumbles in the atmosphere as it breaks apart. And the smallest change makes it go completely unpredictably wild because chaos theory.
Yes, I'm WAY overthinking this. Yay is probably just making a joke. Not that they don't probably have the means to kill someone instantly that they have prepared. That much, I can believe.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 30 Nov 2021, 00:19 ---Of all things about the comic, the idea of dropping a satellite on someone is what breaks my suspension of disbelief (go figure).
Satellites stay up because they move sideways very very fast. Dropping them instantly would be only marginally easier than putting them into orbit instantly. And I can't think of any viable mechanism to do it, future technology or not, that doesn't break physics.
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I don't think that Yay said that they could do it instantly. However, it would be possible to deorbit a satellite gradually by running its RCS motors to exhaustion. In that time, the orbital reconnaissance assets Yay can access could locate Mr Augustus and let Yay fine-tune the burn so that the debris scatter oval would centre over his most likely location at that moment.
Yes, space nerd over-thinking it too.
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