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WCDT Nov 28 - Dec 2 (strips #4926 to #4930)
Perfectly Reasonable:
I've been waiting for someone to mention that there was rolly-chair jousting at Coffee of doom. No customers were harmed.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 28 Nov 2022, 11:41 ---While Moray has eyes, eyebrows, eyelashes, and teeth, I suspect their chief use is for communication with humans. She is able to talk without lungs, think without a visible brain. Her body is translucent protoplasmic goo with lumps suspended in it. I like the idea that her life functions are an emergent phenomenon. Calling her a 'robot' is stretching the word -- we'll need a new word for what she really is.
( cue the scarecrows lament )
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Sentient conglomerate?
EDIT: How about 'monosapient conglomeration'?
Akima:
You've got to love popular art that references relativistic time dilation:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud6LiVJkwyA
Marco:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 01 Dec 2022, 18:20 ---...I'm going to assume Moray-21 is approximately as buoyant as a human, but would Boaty have made Momo wear a life jacket if she'd been on board, since we know it wouldn't do anything for her? (They're typically rated at, what, 50 N? Not enough to hold up Little Miss Metal Mario.)
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She could float well assuming she is made of a water- or organic solvent-based liquid. If she is made of some kind of liquid silicone, ionic liquid or something more exotic, her density may be quite high for buoyancy.
EDIT: I was talking about Moray, of course. As of Momo, I don't think she (or most humanoid AIs) got that much metal in her. Remember that Bubbles needed an armour. A guy like Punchbout would sink right to the bottom, tough.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Akima on 02 Dec 2022, 03:04 ---You've got to love popular art that references relativistic time dilation
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An example in anime which makes it a key plot point is Gunbuster, from 1988 (also known as Top o Nerae! - Aim for the Top!), and its 2004 successor Diebuster. It was the first series directed by Hideaki Anno, who went on the produce Neon Genesis Evangelion, and many other anime series and films, as well as a number of live films as well (e.g. Shin Godzilla from 2016).
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