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Title: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 11 Feb 2012, 20:22
Marigold's Disappeared! Oh Noes!

"Okay, let's split up. Shaggy, you and Scooby check out that scary looking corridor over there. Velma, Daphne and I will look around Hannerdad's office for clues."
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Carl-E on 11 Feb 2012, 23:48
Unfortunately, all i can think of when I hear scooby doo references anymore is this...

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2607/3919747363_885cc3f758.jpg)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: cesariojpn on 11 Feb 2012, 23:57
Elliot just kidnapped Marigold!!
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: akronnick on 12 Feb 2012, 07:20
Marigold's Disappeared! Oh Noes!

"Okay, let's split up. Shaggy, you and Scooby check out that scary looking corridor over there. Velma, Daphne and I will look around Hannerdad's office for clues."

Ruh, Roh!

Unfortunately, all i can think of when I hear scooby doo references anymore is this...

I fail to see any problem with that whatsoever.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: FunkyTuba on 12 Feb 2012, 08:01
Will the chief of security be named:
Fink?
Chester?
Curvy?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Method of Madness on 12 Feb 2012, 09:49
I haven't seen the comic that got taken down, I wonder if it'll be changed at all for Monday.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: RyanW1019 on 12 Feb 2012, 10:32
I doubt it, it's not like that many people saw it, and as far as I know nobody's spoiled it yet.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Method of Madness on 12 Feb 2012, 10:50
Well I mean he might just decide to change it a bit.  I wonder if anyone saved it just in case.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: RyanW1019 on 12 Feb 2012, 11:05
I did. Screenshotted it, then put the pieces together and saved it. :-P

Not sure why, other than to prove that I saw it.

If he doesn't change tomorrow's title, it'll be "Lieutenant Hardass."
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: pwhodges on 12 Feb 2012, 12:04
Well I mean he might just decide to change it a bit.

Hardly, as the reason for doing it early was that he wouldn't have time for it otherwise, being away.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Carl-E on 12 Feb 2012, 13:19
"Lieutenant Hardass."

That can be taken SOOOO  many different ways...
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Method of Madness on 12 Feb 2012, 13:54
I did. Screenshotted it, then put the pieces together and saved it. :-P
Not a criticism, I'm just confused.  Why wouldn't you just right click and save image?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: pwhodges on 12 Feb 2012, 14:09
I presume he means he took each frame from the UStream, not the whole at the brief moment that it was posted by mistake (which he couldn't have predicted).
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Schmorgluck on 12 Feb 2012, 14:57
Will the chief of security be named:
Fink?
Chester?
Curvy?

Chad (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1534).
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: DSL on 12 Feb 2012, 15:01
Will the chief of security be named:
Fink?
Chester?
Curvy?

Chad (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1534).

Now that is some serious callback-fu there, folks.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Throg on 12 Feb 2012, 16:12
Will the chief of security be named:
Fink?
Chester?
Curvy?

Chad (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1534).

Now that is some serious callback-fu there, folks.

And that would be profoundly, utterly, hilariously creepy.   :laugh:
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Welu on 12 Feb 2012, 17:18
Unfortunately, all i can think of when I hear scooby doo references anymore is this...

The colour frame at the bottom makes me want to think it was one of those drawing challenges where they were given set colours with which to create something.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 12 Feb 2012, 17:42
Will the chief of security be named:
Fink?
Chester?
Curvy?
Chad (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1534).

Oh, my goodness. That would be simultaneously awesome and creepy.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: RyanW1019 on 12 Feb 2012, 19:17
Never mind.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: DSL on 12 Feb 2012, 19:41
Oh, for Pete's sake, go play the caption game or the Weird Al lyrics game that's in the inflight magazine thread. Or, do you have any ideas about spinning space stations?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: RyanW1019 on 12 Feb 2012, 19:43
Oh, for Pete's sake, go play the caption game or the Weird Al lyrics game that's in the inflight magazine thread. Or, do you have any ideas about spinning space stations?

Fine, fine...
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 12 Feb 2012, 22:13
Someone wanna tell Mr. Disneyland Man he forgot to get the strip to update? ;)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: akronnick on 12 Feb 2012, 22:22
Aw leave 'im alone he's havin' fun at Disneyland.

He'll update the strip by and by.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Method of Madness on 12 Feb 2012, 22:37
Tagalongs > Thin Mints
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: truestatic on 12 Feb 2012, 22:37
And there it is.

Poor guy, stuck up there for months at a time with no new material.  And sure, he could get something electronically, but a kindle just doesn't hold a candle to a good book.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: pwhodges on 13 Feb 2012, 00:04
And there I was assuming that the cookie box was another book (we don't have those cookies here that I know of).
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: westrim on 13 Feb 2012, 00:08
*Whooshes in, settles* Marigold: "NO! We just got flown up in a passenger liner shuttle with only three people. Space travel is clearly very cheap per pound in our universe, so get your own damn cookies."

Tagalongs are the best, but Samoas are a close second for me. Who are all the boring/old people that get thin mints?

Wait, Jeph was at Disneyland today? My mom went there this morning! *deliberates on waking her with an image text captioned "have you seen this man?"*
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: DSL on 13 Feb 2012, 00:17
I was strictly a Thin Mints and Trefoils guy until the Dulce de Leches showed up. Waiting now for the ones I ordered from my great-niece to arrive.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Indicible on 13 Feb 2012, 00:31
He must be a cousin of Belfangan Clouseau (http://fullmetalpanic.wikia.com/wiki/Belfangan_Clouseau).
Oh, well, we all have our embarrassing pastimes.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Feb 2012, 00:40
Thin Mints for the win.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: CompSarge on 13 Feb 2012, 01:29
Who are all the boring/old people that get thin mints?

*raises hand*

I also like thanks-a-lots, lemonades, and tagalongs. Thin Mints are amazing when they've been frozen, though.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: LTK on 13 Feb 2012, 02:46
When did Willy Wonka set up shop in the US?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: TinPenguin on 13 Feb 2012, 02:54
The thing I want to know, how did he know what she had in her backpack? Does he search all luggage personally, or has Lt. Potter simply been instructed to inform him of all items brought on board that may, ah, "require further inspection".
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Skewbrow on 13 Feb 2012, 03:04
Most likely there aren't that many people entering and leaving. Therefore the security personnel may have a lot of time per passenger. Also, that job may become rather boring after the novelty of being on a space station wears off.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Border Reiver on 13 Feb 2012, 04:34
Don't agree right away Marigold!

See what he's got to offer in exchange.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: JRDelirio on 13 Feb 2012, 04:51
Most likely there aren't that many people entering and leaving. Therefore the security personnel may have a lot of time per passenger. Also, that job may become rather boring after the novelty of being on a space station wears off.
  Yeah, really.  After a while it would be like being posted to some Antartic radio station or to a missile silo somewhere outside Blizzard Flats, Montana. So we got one recent graduate who posted embarassing pics to Facebook and one who's an Otaku/Geek... yep, this does look like a thinly disguised lousy but glamorous-sounding posting to get people out of sight until they fulfill the mandatory tour and are let go.

Although small detail:  Potter earlier refers to her CO as a Major, and this title says "Lieutenant Hardass" and the guy has the youthful look of an Lt.;  so this is probaby just the officer in charge of this watch.  Though with 128 people aboard your security detail would likely be just about a dozen people at most
And  now we know the answer to some questions from last week: obviously in the QCverse the USAF uniform regulations are entirely different from ours (for one, nobody does his duty shift in his Class A's; the boss would be wearing the same flight suit or just in shirtsleeves.).
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: lepetitfromage on 13 Feb 2012, 05:55
Tagalongs are the best, but Samoas are a close second for me.

Mmmm....yes. Samoas are a special kind of delicious.

And there I was assuming that the cookie box was another book (we don't have those cookies here that I know of).

 :cry:
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Milesb on 13 Feb 2012, 06:29
You know, as a UK resident I'm slightly baffled at all this cookie discussion, but it's making me hungry!

Also, anyone think Lt. Hardass looks like a slightly older Marten? Not that I'm implying anything by that observation, simply noting that they have similar features.

And I'm glad Marigold isn't in any trouble.... yet.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: DSL on 13 Feb 2012, 06:46
I think Station's holo-avatar is what Marten would look like if he took better care of himself (except for being transparent and blue).
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: TinPenguin on 13 Feb 2012, 07:12
I've read people here saying that Jim, Hannerdad, and now this guy look like older Marten.

A simpler conclusion is that they are all drawn by Jeph and so share features of the same art style. Personally, I've never seen the resemblance, but it is only to be expected that when a cartoonist draws any person, they may well look a little like an existing character.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: DSL on 13 Feb 2012, 07:24
You're no fun.

So you won't go along with my idea that the EC101 bears a resemblance to Faye?

A tad exotic, exciting and mysterious, a bit wide at the hips, apt to fly off, generally transports other characters into unusual circumstances, with a controlling intelligence that is headstrong, sometimes capricious and occasionally forgets its pants.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Soulsynger on 13 Feb 2012, 07:29
A wooden desk on a space station? ... just no.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: lepetitfromage on 13 Feb 2012, 07:31
And I'm glad Marigold isn't in any trouble.... yet.

Until she decides that she doesn't want to share  :-P


Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: TinPenguin on 13 Feb 2012, 07:58
So you won't go along with my idea that the EC101 bears a resemblance to Faye?

A tad exotic, exciting and mysterious, a bit wide at the hips, apt to fly off, generally transports other characters into unusual circumstances, with a controlling intelligence that is headstrong, sometimes capricious and occasionally forgets its pants.


Now that one sounds plausible. ;)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Deadlywonky on 13 Feb 2012, 08:48
You're no fun.

So you won't go along with my idea that the EC101 bears a resemblance to Faye?

A tad exotic, exciting and mysterious, a bit wide at the hips, apt to fly off, generally transports other characters into unusual circumstances, with a controlling intelligence that is headstrong, sometimes capricious and occasionally forgets its pants.


Sir we've lost contact with DSL, just before blackout we heard a woman yelling 'Sonic Hip Attack!' I fear he's gone sir.

Stop being so fayetalistic.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Throg on 13 Feb 2012, 09:04
Is it really the cookies, or is it the manga?  I think somebody called it in the last WCDT -- he just wants to indulge being an otaku, which I imagine is about as accepted in the military as being a brony.  

Marigold's "you have GOT to be kidding me" expression in the last panel is hilarious.  

Maybe the head of security is just a major anime nerd and wants another fan to talk to?

"Colonel Sosuke wants to have a word with you about this... 'Magical Love Gentleman'."

Ding ding ding, winnah!

Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Feb 2012, 10:06
You know, as a UK resident I'm slightly baffled at all this cookie discussion, but it's making me hungry!

Also, anyone think Lt. Hardass looks like a slightly older Marten? Not that I'm implying anything by that observation, simply noting that they have similar features.

And I'm glad Marigold isn't in any trouble.... yet.

Girl Scout Cookies >>>>>> the best digestives you could ever think of.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jmucchiello on 13 Feb 2012, 10:09
You know, as a UK resident I'm slightly baffled at all this cookie discussion, but it's making me hungry!
Look up Girl Scout Cookies in your favorite search engine. This is one of the times of year the Girl Scouts of America sell overpriced boxes of well-made cookies to raise funds for Girl Scout activities.

Why Marigold decided to bring her Girl Scout Cookie stash with her to the space station is what I don't understand. One never brings those things out in public, someone will ask for you to share them. :)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Feb 2012, 10:09
<snip>
After a while it would be like being posted to some Antarctic radio station or to a missile silo somewhere outside Blizzard Flats, Montana. So we got one recent graduate who posted embarrassing pics to Facebook and one who's an Otaku/Geek... yep, this does look like a thinly disguised lousy but glamorous-sounding posting to get people out of sight until they fulfill the mandatory tour and are let go.
</snip>

I basically said that in our discussion about the Lieutenant. It's like the USAF wanted a presence on the station, but wanted to put "expendables" up there in case the ol' Doc went over the edge.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Feb 2012, 10:10
A wooden desk on a space station? ... just no.

And for my last question of the morning - why?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Candlepin Paul on 13 Feb 2012, 10:24
ALL.

OF.

MY.

YES.


I lol'd in the tech center of my University just now. Good god I needed that.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Feb 2012, 10:30
What Happened To Marigold?Huh?

Pintsize stowed away in her bag.    - 3 (6%)
Oops: Hannelore forgot to tell her not to bring her netbook.    - 1 (2%)
Double Oops: No katana either.    - 3 (6%)
Dale is the chief of security!    - 3 (6%)
Dale's father is the chief of security!    - 1 (2%)
The COS is one of Marigold's WoW Guildmembers.    - 4 (8%)
...the one she called "ugly".    - 1 (2%)
The Major thought the pocky was explosives!    - 1 (2%)
No, he thought it was incense!    - 0 (0%)
The espressosaur suddenly materialized in her bag!    - 2 (4%)
She left her welding torch in her bag!    - 0 (0%)
Marigold is on the "No-Fly" list! (?)    - 0 (0%)
Marigold brought her own case of Waffles!    - 1 (2%)
Jeph's got something else planned (TEH DRAMORZZZZ!)    - 6 (12%)
Jeph's got something else planned (TEH FUNNY!)    - 24 (48%)

Total Voters: 50
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Sidhekin on 13 Feb 2012, 10:38
I think Station's holo-avatar is what Marten would look like if he took better care of himself (except for being transparent and blue).
"transparent and blue"?  Marten?

... did the entire board just shrug it off as "nah, too easy"? :-\
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Milesb on 13 Feb 2012, 10:43
I know I did.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Kugai on 13 Feb 2012, 12:41
This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendahip
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: DSL on 13 Feb 2012, 12:50
I think Station's holo-avatar is what Marten would look like if he took better care of himself (except for being transparent and blue).
"transparent and blue"?  Marten?

... did the entire board just shrug it off as "nah, too easy"? :-\

I felt a great disturbance in the farce ...
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: TinPenguin on 13 Feb 2012, 12:53
This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendahip

Or at least, a modestly attractive friendship.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Border Reiver on 13 Feb 2012, 13:59
So long as its not a "How much did I drink and where did the badger come from?" sort of relationship.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Feb 2012, 15:20
So long as its not a "How much did I drink and where did the badger come from?" sort of relationship.

Yes?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Method of Madness on 13 Feb 2012, 15:33
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM! (http://badgerbadgerbadger.com/)

(J-dubs, why do you have a badger as your avatar, is there a story behind that?)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Milesb on 13 Feb 2012, 15:37
Thank you for reminding me about Badgerbadgerbadgerbadger, it's almost a decade old nowadays. That make you feel a little old?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Feb 2012, 15:51
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM! (http://badgerbadgerbadger.com/)

(J-dubs, why do you have a badger as your avatar, is there a story behind that?)

Very simple. If you have to guess, I can tell you that I used to live in the 262 area code.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: westrim on 13 Feb 2012, 16:43
This is now a conversation about user profile images.

Mine is of hoodoos in a certain canyon important to me.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Feb 2012, 16:56
The Badger that started this thread says it's still about QC when the strip updates, so there :P
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: westrim on 13 Feb 2012, 17:29
No no, not the entire thread, just this side conversation until the next strip is posted.   :angel:
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: celticgeek on 13 Feb 2012, 17:51
An breacán de Clan MacLeod.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Omega Entity on 13 Feb 2012, 19:20
One of my doodles of my RP characters. It dawns on me that she needs a darker background...
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Feb 2012, 20:19
My question from this morning remains - what is so bad about a wooden desk in space?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 13 Feb 2012, 20:21
Don't know, but at a guess it's not futuristic enough.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: akronnick on 13 Feb 2012, 20:39
Splinters.

Bad news in zero-g
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Method of Madness on 13 Feb 2012, 20:44
I guess you went to UW?  Also, what if the desk is made of...mahogany?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Feb 2012, 20:53
I guess you went to UW?  Also, what if the desk is made of...mahogany?

I live in Wisconsin.

Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Kugai on 13 Feb 2012, 21:31
Powers.  Melody Powers
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Feb 2012, 21:41
I suspect our fearless leader won't be putting together a comic in an expedient manner.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Kugai on 13 Feb 2012, 21:43
Unless the Moose and the Beaver interrupt him, yes.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Omega Entity on 13 Feb 2012, 22:32
Aaaand we have filler. Adorable filler.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Kugai on 13 Feb 2012, 22:56
There must be something metaphorical about Hanners Squirrel.

 :-D
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Omega Entity on 13 Feb 2012, 23:00
Squirrel? That looks like a little elephant to me.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Sidhekin on 13 Feb 2012, 23:08
It's a tapir.

Surely you haven't forgotten?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Omega Entity on 13 Feb 2012, 23:15
*headdesk*

I am an idiot.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Deadlywonky on 13 Feb 2012, 23:16
is the first appearance of bonercat in the regular QC universe?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: westrim on 14 Feb 2012, 00:35
Everything is automatically better/less bad with holo as a prefix - holoday, holohoop, hologoodbye, holopoint, holospice, holocaust... okay, maybe not.


An internet to the person who can translate all of that and name the one that is a reference, not a pun. Holocaust doesn't count.

I guess you went to UW?  Also, what if the desk is made of...mahogany?
I live in Wisconsin.
Merrill, according to your profile page. I feel an urge to catch 'em all again.

Powers.  Melody Powers
No relation to Austin, I hope?

As for a wooden desk, it is an inefficient use of thrust to lift such a thing into orbit, suggesting (again) that their cost per pound must be very low in QCverse. Ours is what, 1000$ for every pound of cargo/spaceship?

Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Sidhekin on 14 Feb 2012, 00:40
I don't know.  "caust" is pretty bad.

So bad the dictionaries don't even carry it.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: J on 14 Feb 2012, 01:25
A wooden desk on a space station? ... just no.

this gentleman may disagree with you (http://p2.la-img.com/930/16511/5467791_3_l.jpg)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Border Reiver on 14 Feb 2012, 04:13
What is the cat getting ready to do to that Tapir?

Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Throg on 14 Feb 2012, 04:30
well hello there

aren't you a pretty young thing

Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Jabberwocky on 14 Feb 2012, 04:36
Is anyone else fighting an urge to shout "Expecto Patronum"?


well hello there

aren't you a pretty young thing
...and the avatar for the win.   :-D
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: DSL on 14 Feb 2012, 05:03
Is it a wooden desk, though, or simply painted brown?

LATER: And even if it is, did ya SEE that spaceplane? Hannerdad's able to send a luxury spaceplane that's obviously able to loft at least a dozen, maybe more, people in comfort -- to loft three twentysomethings, two of whom are demonstrably underweight even by in-universe standards, on a week's notice for a birthday party. ECTech can loft a student-sized wooden desk with no problem.

C'mon folks. If the space station, space cafeteria, space cake, AIs with killer brokerage accounts but not always pants, and little robots running around weren't convincing enough -- things are possible in QCVerse that aren't realistic in the present state of our MeatVerse.

Also, HoloTapir? Station, you're a right bastard, you are.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Carl-E on 14 Feb 2012, 05:06
Marten has a holokitty.  

(http://archer.gamebanana.com/img/ico/sprays/spray_5.jpg)



I am sorry for nothing.  


Edit:  Sticky keys...
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: DSL on 14 Feb 2012, 06:12
Looks to me like HoloPony and HoloBonercat are getting ready to Deal With the HoloTapir.

Hanners chose her friends well.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: lepetitfromage on 14 Feb 2012, 06:18
Everything is automatically better/less bad with holo as a prefix - holoday, holohoop, hologoodbye, holopoint, holospice, holocaust... okay, maybe not.

An internet to the person who can translate all of that and name the one that is a reference, not a pun. Holocaust doesn't count.


I got most of this...

holiday, hula hoop, hello goodbye, hollow point....and I had no idea what 'holospice' could have been, so i cheated and googled it. The reference is not as fun as I had hoped. I had my fingers crossed for the Beatles song.   :-(

Also, Carl-E- that's awesome. haha. And I totally imagined you saying the last line as if you had a stuffy nose.

Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Throg on 14 Feb 2012, 06:24
Marten has a holokitty. 

(http://archer.gamebanana.com/img/ico/sprays/spray_5.jpg)



I am sorry for nothig. 

:delayed reaction spittake:

Well played sir. 
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 14 Feb 2012, 06:34
I'm pretty sure that's an elephant, not a tapir.



(grumbles something about new board layout under his breath)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Soulsynger on 14 Feb 2012, 06:58
A wooden desk on a space station? ... just no.
And for my last question of the morning - why?
There is no reason to have or practical method to get it up there... it threw me off. Almost outa the chair. °O

this gentleman may disagree with you (http://p2.la-img.com/930/16511/5467791_3_l.jpg)
I see what you did there. Its all fiction and speculation anyway and there might as well be a ferris wheel made of goats up there. But still. Seeing as teleportation hasn't been invented in the QCVerse yet, a huge difference in level of technological advancement between your argument and my object (or scenario) of argumentation is apparent.
And thusly: Wooden desk in space? Not bloody likely. Even in the QCVerse.


edit:
Oh, and about my avatar: I have very unstable moods from time to time. When I found this beauty of an animation by chance one day, it was love at first sight, then bafflement, then amusement, then love again, then a strange sense of doom, then confusion, finally acceptance, joy, hate and love again. ... Never found out who made it, though. ~~
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Madmartigan on 14 Feb 2012, 07:41
Marten looks cranky about his hello kitty holo-cat.  Then again, there have been more than a few cranky Marten expressions in space. Mmmm.

I think they need the holo-pony.  Merigold loves it.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: westrim on 14 Feb 2012, 08:02
Marten has a holokitty.  
*Image*
This is where Holopoints and Captain Picard come in handy.

Holiday, hula hoop, hello goodbye, hollow point....and I had no idea what 'holospice' could have been, so I cheated and googled it. The reference is not as fun as I had hoped. I had my fingers crossed for the Beatles song.
I think it's far more fun than a Beatles song, but then I like economics.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Omega Entity on 14 Feb 2012, 08:44
Merigold loves it.

Who be this 'Merigold' you speak of?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Carl-E on 14 Feb 2012, 09:55
Oh, like you've  never done an a/e swap typo...


Now, excuse me while I chack my email. 
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Madmartigan on 14 Feb 2012, 11:19
Merigold loves it.

Who be this 'Merigold' you speak of?

Her evil twin I suppose.  She got switched out and clone when she went to see the head of security.  :-o :psyduck:
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Omega Entity on 14 Feb 2012, 11:35
Oh, like you've  never done an a/e swap typo...


Now, excuse me while I chack my email. 

Oh, I've done my fair share. Hell, one of my posts here was littered with 'Martin's. I realized with some degree of horror right after I posted, then edited like mad hoping no one noticed  :psyduck:
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Method of Madness on 14 Feb 2012, 11:56
Why don't you write about it in your blag? (http://xkcd.com/148/)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jmucchiello on 14 Feb 2012, 13:50
Seeing as teleportation hasn't been invented in the QCVerse yet, a huge difference in level of technological advancement between your argument and my object (or scenario) of argumentation is apparent.
And thusly: Wooden desk in space? Not bloody likely. Even in the QCVerse.
Did you see the plane Hanners, Marten and Marigold rode up to the station? They could have had a dozen of those desks in the compartment with them and still have been riding in the lap of luxury. Likewise, the station is large enough to generate artificial gravity through rotation. How did all that metal get into orbit? Cost to transport goods to orbit is nearly negligible in the QCverse.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Diin on 14 Feb 2012, 14:32
Perhaps they just really like wodden desks.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Milesb on 14 Feb 2012, 16:15
What we need is an Orbital Elevator!
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: DSL on 14 Feb 2012, 16:20
What we need is an Orbital Elevator!

Yeah, and Marten, Marigold and Hanners would have gotten on only to find someone had pushed all the buttons. And the elevator music? Everything Sven's ever written, along with a bootleg recording of Hanners singing "Row Row Row Your Boat."
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 14 Feb 2012, 16:22
An orbital elevator would be bad, considering that Spaceship likes to wander a lot.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Kugai on 14 Feb 2012, 17:06

Powers.  Melody Powers
No relation to Austin, I hope?



No.

Actually, Melody would probably hand Austin his ass with one hand tied behind her back 

 :-D


And yes, it's not a Squirrel.  It's just the way I was looking at it last night that made me think it was a Squirrel sitting on her head.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Redball on 14 Feb 2012, 20:54
I saw the squirrel at first, until someone referred to a heffalump. When I looked again, I saw the "squirrel" was holding a nut to its mouth. But then it would have had six legs.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Method of Madness on 14 Feb 2012, 22:20
Six hours?  Sounds they had fun together.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Diin on 14 Feb 2012, 22:24
Six hours worth of girl scout cookies and animes...
How big WAS Marigold's bag? o_O
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 14 Feb 2012, 22:30
The Animes probably took that long to go through the entire first season. ;)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Kugai on 14 Feb 2012, 22:42
Probably true jwhouk.

I wonder, could this be career ending for CoS if it ever got out?

Or is it a case of 'Don't ask, don't tell'?     :-D   ;)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: iduguphergrave on 14 Feb 2012, 22:54
Looks like Faye's rubbing off on Marten a bit  :-P
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Skaltura on 14 Feb 2012, 23:01
Aww yeah toilet humour; *stayclassyQC*
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Soulsynger on 14 Feb 2012, 23:09
Marten is a story-topper. Only this time, he failed horribly.  :-D
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: westrim on 14 Feb 2012, 23:36
Interesting. Panels 3 and 4 must be from a camera.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: J on 15 Feb 2012, 00:02
You know, as a UK resident I'm slightly baffled at all this cookie discussion, but it's making me hungry!

Also, anyone think Lt. Hardass looks like a slightly older Marten? Not that I'm implying anything by that observation, simply noting that they have similar features.

And I'm glad Marigold isn't in any trouble.... yet.

Girl Scout Cookies >>>>>> the best digestives you could ever think of.

as a north american, i've always found the idea of calling cookies 'digestives' really weird. sounds like something you take to help you poop or something.




Six hours worth of girl scout cookies and animes...
How big WAS Marigold's bag? o_O

presumably he had his own collection to share. and marrigold seems like the type to have a shit load of pirated dvds on her laptop hard drive.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: cpflux on 15 Feb 2012, 01:22
Six hours worth of girl scout cookies and animes...
How big WAS Marigold's bag? o_O

One doesn't bring *just* one box of Tagalongs.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: JRDelirio on 15 Feb 2012, 04:05
Aww... he probably has a cap on how much non-official material he can stream thru the station uplink... (and would not want Station monitoring it to be later used against him...)

BTW Marigold's "explanation face" joins in the gallery of adorable expression.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Veloso on 15 Feb 2012, 04:33
The curvature of the walls in today's comic makes no sense.  Hanners already said that the gravity comes from "spinning section".  If gravity is caused by centrifugal force, then "down" should be towards the outer curved wall.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Schmorgluck on 15 Feb 2012, 05:09
The curvature of the walls in today's comic makes no sense.  Hanners already said that the gravity comes from "spinning section".  If gravity is caused by centrifugal force, then "down" should be towards the outer curved wall.
If you're refering to panel 1, I kinda agree. In other panel the curvature is accurate (if maybe a bit exaggerated: how FAST does this station spin? (http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/artificialgrav.php)).


EDIT: And to follow up on a previous conversation, my picture is self-explanatory, thank you very much.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Border Reiver on 15 Feb 2012, 05:18
Probably true jwhouk.

I wonder, could this be career ending for CoS if it ever got out?

Or is it a case of 'Don't ask, don't tell'?     :-D   ;)

When you're in the service you need to maintain the respect of the troops and your superiors by doing what is expected and doing it well.

Fortunately, my Warhammer addiction isn't looked at as being too far out in left field...
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Skewbrow on 15 Feb 2012, 06:11
The curvature of the walls in today's comic makes no sense.  Hanners already said that the gravity comes from "spinning section".  If gravity is caused by centrifugal force, then "down" should be towards the outer curved wall.
If you're refering to panel 1, I kinda agree. In other panel the curvature is accurate (if maybe a bit exaggerated: how FAST does this station spin? (http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/artificialgrav.php)).

I agree. Admittedly I, too, first felt that in the later panels it is the walls as opposed to ceiling/floor that are curved, but the camera view that we see matches reasonably well with either.

If we stick to the figure for a minimum size station, where the spin won't cause discomfort, then the radius should be about 1km (warm thanks to Akima for the link to an article explaining this). So the length of the rim is about 6k. Meaning that the floor and ceiling will curve approximately 6 degrees per 100 meters. This station does look like it is a bit smaller, because the ceiling is surely bending faster than that. May be people of QCverse can manage on a smaller station? IOW: Toon Physics!
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: pwhodges on 15 Feb 2012, 06:31
Maybe the designer just liked curves...
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 15 Feb 2012, 06:41
Maybe the designer just liked curves...

IOW - Bellisario's Maxim. ;)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: DSL on 15 Feb 2012, 06:50
Major's office might be in a transverse corridor that has a curve in the local horizontal. It's a visual and design architectural trick to keep you from seeing to the end of the corridor. Paradoxically, some designers think that staves off claustrophobia in a limited space, because you're free to imagine the corridor goes on farther than it does.

Yeah, I know: That'd be a luxury item. It's established this is a luxury space facility -- at least  by IRW standards. This might be a prefab by QCVerse standards.

LATER: Dr.Case (thinking): "Oh yeah. THAT'S why I was happy for her to move planetside."
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Madmartigan on 15 Feb 2012, 09:09
Note to self MarBear.

What is more believable?  Digestive issues or watching anime with the head of security? :wink:

And Marten.  That's the kind of stuff you keep to yourself.  Who has the worst digestive problems doesn't award you a bowl-movement trophy.  Though it can give you a Bono. :lol:


And hah.  Anyone else noticing the shared looks of Hanners and Marten lately?  Meshing together more.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 15 Feb 2012, 09:33
Of course, the last time Marten traveled cross-country, he had just gotten off a major drunk.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: LTK on 15 Feb 2012, 10:00
And Marten.  That's the kind of stuff you keep to yourself.  Who has the worst digestive problems doesn't award you a bowl-movement trophy.  Though it can give you a Bono. :lol:
The Super Bowel Movement trophy?  :-D
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Carl-E on 15 Feb 2012, 10:02
LTK, your avatar, and that post...

 :psyduck: :laugh: :psyduck: :angel:
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jmucchiello on 15 Feb 2012, 10:48
What is more believable?  Digestive issues or watching anime with the head of security? :wink:
I'm sure the molecular-level scanning station AI could state where Marigold was if asked. So why lie about it? And, really, what's wrong with the head of security liking Anime and GS Cookies?

What I want to know is what Hanners, Marten and the doctor were doing for six hours that it never occurred to them to ask Station where Marigold went? What was occupying their attention that they didn't even think to ask?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 15 Feb 2012, 11:39
I bet Hannerdad really holds your attention.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Madmartigan on 15 Feb 2012, 12:52
And Marten.  That's the kind of stuff you keep to yourself.  Who has the worst digestive problems doesn't award you a bowl-movement trophy.  Though it can give you a Bono. :lol:
The Super Bowel Movement trophy?  :-D

I prefer shitting out an international pop star, but that works too!

And yes.  What were Hanners and Marten doing for so long.  Looking for HannersDad iPod I suppose.  Or running from a holo-raptor, acting out the scene in Jurassic Park. :-o
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: DSL on 15 Feb 2012, 13:00
Trying to track down the millions that disappeared from Hanners's trust fund (Station wasn't being quite honest with the Lt.) Hanners will have to go back to counting things and pick up more hours at the shop ...
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Akima on 15 Feb 2012, 14:14
And thusly: Wooden desk in space? Not bloody likely. Even in the QCVerse.
Mass is mass, regardless of the material. And there's no sign of a grain-pattern in the desk, so it might just be brown-painted carbon-fibre or something. At one job I worked, I had a desk made of sheet steel like a filing-cabinet (yes it was an engineering company, why do you ask?) but the manufacturers still felt it was necessary to paint it brown as if it were wood.

When you're in the service you need to maintain the respect of the troops and your superiors by doing what is expected and doing it well. Fortunately, my Warhammer addiction isn't looked at as being too far out in left field...
In any hierarchy basically. And Marigold's manga are yaoi, not something manly, military, and semi-historical like Ravages Of Time, for example. And of course Marigold salutes with the wrong hand...

Science and technology may vary, but toilet humour is the same in all universes.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 15 Feb 2012, 16:02
By the way: Proof that the DVD is probably at least 6-7 hours long (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1441)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 15 Feb 2012, 16:53
What Kind of a Space Station IS this?

One that needs more cookies.    - 10 (18.9%)
One that needs more girl scouts.    - 2 (3.8%)
Next up - the local barista brews virtual java!    - 1 (1.9%)
The Major is a former hipster.    - 2 (3.8%)
The Major is an AnthroPC!    - 0 (0%)
The Major knows Pintsize.    - 2 (3.8%)
There really aren't that many Military people on board.    - 8 (15.1%)
The station cook is also in charge of bioscience!    - 5 (9.4%)
Big Reveal: Hanners was born at Disneyland!    - 0 (0%)
Fort Courage has nothing on this place.    - 0 (0%)
Nor does the 4077th.    - 3 (5.7%)
Waffles!    - 4 (7.5%)
Where's Pintsize in all this?    - 4 (7.5%)
Or at least, why no APC's?    - 3 (5.7%)
Monty Python Skit Dead Ahead!    - 6 (11.3%)
I sued Ben Affleck - aw, do I even need a reason?    - 3 (5.7%)

Total Voters: 53
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Schmorgluck on 15 Feb 2012, 17:27
The curvature of the walls in today's comic makes no sense.  Hanners already said that the gravity comes from "spinning section".  If gravity is caused by centrifugal force, then "down" should be towards the outer curved wall.
If you're refering to panel 1, I kinda agree. In other panel the curvature is accurate (if maybe a bit exaggerated: how FAST does this station spin? (http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/artificialgrav.php)).

I agree. Admittedly I, too, first felt that in the later panels it is the walls as opposed to ceiling/floor that are curved, but the camera view that we see matches reasonably well with either.

If we stick to the figure for a minimum size station, where the spin won't cause discomfort, then the radius should be about 1km (warm thanks to Akima for the link to an article explaining this). So the length of the rim is about 6k. Meaning that the floor and ceiling will curve approximately 6 degrees per 100 meters. This station does look like it is a bit smaller, because the ceiling is surely bending faster than that. May be people of QCverse can manage on a smaller station? IOW: Toon Physics!
I was being half-smug on this matter. QC isn't a Sci-Fi universe, and Jeph never pretended to be a Sci-Fi writer. At least not Hard Sci-Fi. I tend to drop links to Atomic Rocket at the drop of a hat, though, This is simply the best hub for informations for anyone who wants to harden their Sci-Fi, and this last sentence sounds kinda dirty now that I think about it.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Skaltura on 15 Feb 2012, 17:40
The Super Bowel Movement trophy?  :-D

Not to be confused with Superb Owl movement (http://wallpaper.goodfon.com/image/153179-1920x1200.jpg).
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Schmorgluck on 15 Feb 2012, 17:57
Oh, and according to the Spincalc (http://www.artificial-gravity.com/sw/SpinCalc/SpinCalc.htm), the minimum radius for a comfy 1g environment in a spinning station is about 224 meters. It's easily smaller for weaker gravity.


And I insist: no one should take concern about this to write fiction. Unless they want to.

Or, worded differently: I like your writing anyway, Jeph. Do as you please.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 15 Feb 2012, 18:34
So roughly half a kilometer in diameter, hm? that doesn't sound like a very big station (that's about 1,640 ft. across...)

EDIT: Okay, here's the comparisons:

Skylab - roughly 6.6 meters in diameter (main compartment area)
Mir - 27.5 meters
ISS - 20 meters

That IS a big station.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: ecstaticjoy on 15 Feb 2012, 19:36
I can't wait for moooooorrrrreee
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 15 Feb 2012, 20:00
Yes! This is a really fun story arc.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 15 Feb 2012, 20:28
We have comic!

Ouch, that's gotta hurt. Especially if her glasses went flying. She wasn't meant to sleep in a bunk bed, was she?

(And I was a bit worried Jeph was gonna do something there with the two of them... :o )
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Method of Madness on 15 Feb 2012, 21:02
When I was 9, I went to camp and had a top bunk.  I never fell off, but I hit my head on the ceiling so many times I'm shocked I didn't get a concussion.  In other words, fuck bunk beds.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Sorflakne on 15 Feb 2012, 21:11
Nice one, Marten.  Don't even bother to extend an arm to catch a falling lady...
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Method of Madness on 15 Feb 2012, 21:28
That probably would've broken his arm, there was nothing he could've done, and she seems to be ok.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 15 Feb 2012, 21:34
Implying that sleeping quarters are at a premium despite the size of the station, thus re-raising the question of why Lt. Potter's quarters are so large.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 15 Feb 2012, 21:40
We might be deceived by Jeph's attempts at perspective. Also, as a Lieutenant, she might have some pull at having a decent-sized berth.

EDIT: comparing 2119 with 2124, it appears that the  "upper bunk" in Potter's quarters doesn't have the same built-in ladder that the "guest quarters" has. It's also possible that her "quarters" are part of a larger semi-private "dormitory-style" sleeping quarters (imagine another set of bunks on the common wall next, and the "AIM HIGH" poster is on the wall of an interior hallway to the second  set of bunk beds).

Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Method of Madness on 15 Feb 2012, 21:47
Her quarters had bunk beds, so she shares them, and she is an officer after all.  It probably doubles as her office?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 15 Feb 2012, 21:53
I'm thinking more of suite-like quarters - a second set of bunk beds on a common wall, where the two sets are like berths in a sleeper train, with a doorway or a common bathroom between the two.

I still think she's got a "normal" room, whereas the guest ones are a bit smaller - they don't have to be heated/cleaned/whatevered as much, saving energy.

(EDIT: Notice also that the Lt.'s bunks had built-in drawers, while Marigold & Marten's had a separate "chest".)

Now for all the geeks out there - was Marigold's "fall" worse in the artificial 1g than it would have been on Earth?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 15 Feb 2012, 21:55
Also - I would disagree with Hanners. Even if you're tethered in a bag, it would probably feel a lot like sleeping on a waterbed. Which would sound, at least to me, like a good deal.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: RyanW1019 on 15 Feb 2012, 22:19
Although wouldn't it be awful to be strapped in so tightly that you couldn't move around? I know I often get uncomfortable lying in the exact same position for 20 minutes before I fall asleep.

And if the gravity is the same, there should be no difference. If anything, there's a greater likelihood that her fall would have been worse on Earth (i.e., the station might not be rotating fast enough to generate 1 full g, but is almost certainly not rotating faster than necessary for 1 g).
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Akima on 15 Feb 2012, 22:19
Ouch! That's a nasty head first fall for Marigold. Even if Marten had super-fast reflexes, and facing the way he is, he'd only have seen Marigold falling at the last moment, I doubt he could had done anything effective.

Oh, and according to the Spincalc (http://www.artificial-gravity.com/sw/SpinCalc/SpinCalc.htm), the minimum radius for a comfy 1g environment in a spinning station is about 224 meters. It's easily smaller for weaker gravity.
Spincalc obviously runs with an assumption that 2rpm is comfortable. My much larger estimate was based on the 1rpm that is generally quoted for comfort even of "highly susceptible" individuals. And yes, Atomic Rockets is a fantastic site, though nearly as much of a time-sink as TVTropes.

Now for all the geeks out there - was Marigold's "fall" worse in the artificial 1g than it would have been on Earth?
Marigold would have fallen in a curved path instead of straight down, but she'd hit the floor just as hard. We don't know how the room is oriented in relation to the space station's spin, so we don't know whether the curve would be "along" the front of the bunks, away from the bunks, towards the bunks etc. If I have to guess, I'd go for the bunks being set "across" the direction of spin with Marten facing "down-spin". Marigold would be used to "down" being straight down, whereas the pseudo-gravity acting on her as she climbed into the bunk would have been "pulling" her backwards slightly, which no doubt caused her fall in the first place.

Edit: See Section 5 of this article (http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/artificial_gravity_and_the_architecture_of_orbital_habitats.shtml).
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 15 Feb 2012, 22:40
Does the fact that guests have to double up mean that lots of people have come on board for the party?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Soulsynger on 15 Feb 2012, 23:41
I'm torn... what is it? Does Marigold just have a bit too much weight for her arms to hold onto a ladder or does she simply lack motor control? Oo

And well... the top bunk is a butt and Marten is also a butt. (for not helping)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Schmorgluck on 15 Feb 2012, 23:44
Spincalc obviously runs with an assumption that 2rpm is comfortable. My much larger estimate was based on the 1rpm that is generally quoted for comfort even of "highly susceptible" individuals. And yes, Atomic Rockets is a fantastic site, though nearly as much of a time-sink as TVTropes.
Spincalc definitely needs an update, its most recent scientific source dates as far back as 1985.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: JonathanXS on 16 Feb 2012, 00:00
(http://i.imgur.com/m3bcA.png)

Chalk another one up for craaaaaaaaaaaazy faces!
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: no one special on 16 Feb 2012, 00:42
I had a bunk bed as a kid - the upper bunk had a rail on it.  I always appreciated that; too bad Hannelore didn't have one  :)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 16 Feb 2012, 00:53
Isn't Hannerdad from a generation which would be disturbed by assigning unrelated people of the opposite sex to the same bedroom?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: TinPenguin on 16 Feb 2012, 02:46
Hannerdad also invented sentient robots and lives on a space station. I don't think he is a typical representative of his generation.


Edit: Also, I wouldn't be surprised if his work on gendered AnthroPCs might have affected his attitude towards gender in humans.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: pwhodges on 16 Feb 2012, 03:26
I'm that generation and see no problem with it - especially in such a constrained environment.  I see it as no different from the sharing that was inevitable in the cabins when I trekked up Mount Kenya.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Border Reiver on 16 Feb 2012, 04:43
sleeping alcove suck, and so does the top bunk. 
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: WAYF on 16 Feb 2012, 04:54
It's a bed, with a ladder!!

I honestly can't help but think about what could be happening back on Earth right now...
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Deadlywonky on 16 Feb 2012, 05:10
Angus walking around with another condom on?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Sylentknight on 16 Feb 2012, 06:01
Male and female astronauts don't sleep separately as yet, considering the cost, every square inch of space is utilized. There's also a expected amount of maturity. That's not to say Jeph won't have some fun with this situation.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: RyanW1019 on 16 Feb 2012, 06:04
My theory: although most people are getting distracted by the "lol Marigold falling" hilarity, Jeph is using this ("this" being Marten and Marigold sleeping separate from Hanners) as a way to isolate Hannelore, so she can go have some serious dialogue/character development with her dad. Thoughts?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: DSL on 16 Feb 2012, 06:15
Isn't Hannerdad from a generation which would be disturbed by assigning unrelated people of the opposite sex to the same bedroom?

Doubt HannerDad involves himself much in bunk assignments. Betcha Station handles that, and is unconcerned at best and in it for the laffs at worst.

 @Ryan: One can hope, but Jeph's driving this bus. Ship. Whatever. I can't imagine he'd pass this up, but he's been known to tease the fans before.

To those objecting to the possibility of Maurice being Lt. Potter's Dad -- maybe she gets her looks from her Mom. It happens. But it's firmly in the fun repeat fun speculation stage, for the purposes of the caption contest.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Mr. Doctor on 16 Feb 2012, 06:47
I don't know about you guys but I found the position of the ladder very awkward... Making it more difficult to get to the top bunk than it needs to be. First... the ladder is besides the bed. I've always seen the ladder to be on the side where the feet are supposed to be and connecting both bunks... Like this (http://www.bunkbedsworld.co.uk/images/home/home2_metal_bunk_beds.gif).

/rant
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: CompSarge on 16 Feb 2012, 07:38
I don't know about you guys but I found the position of the ladder very awkward... Making it more difficult to get to the top bunk than it needs to be. First... the ladder is besides the bed. I've always seen the ladder to be on the side where the feet are supposed to be and connecting both bunks... Like this (http://www.bunkbedsworld.co.uk/images/home/home2_metal_bunk_beds.gif).

/rant

I've seen recessed bunks with ladders off to the side before. Can't remember where it was (it was a while ago), but they exist.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 16 Feb 2012, 07:50
The bunks are built-in, so you'd expect the ladders (like the ones leading from the central hub) to be "built in" as well.

They're also probably recessed for safety, in case there's a loss of spin.

EDIT: Found something similar from a New Zealand furniture maker. (http://www.andysfinefurniture.com/WhiteBuiltInBunkBed.htm)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 16 Feb 2012, 07:53
What Kind of a Space Station IS this?

One that needs more cookies.    - 12 (19%)
One that needs more girl scouts.    - 4 (6.3%)
Next up - the local barista brews virtual java!    - 1 (1.6%)
The Major is a former hipster.    - 2 (3.2%)
The Major is an AnthroPC!    - 0 (0%)
The Major knows Pintsize.    - 3 (4.8%)
There really aren't that many Military people on board.    - 8 (12.7%)
The station cook is also in charge of bioscience!    - 6 (9.5%)
Big Reveal: Hanners was born at Disneyland!    - 0 (0%)
Fort Courage has nothing on this place.    - 0 (0%)
Nor does the 4077th.    - 3 (4.8%)
Waffles!    - 4 (6.3%)
Where's Pintsize in all this?    - 5 (7.9%)
Or at least, why no APC's?    - 4 (6.3%)
Monty Python Skit Dead Ahead!    - 7 (11.1%)
I sued Ben Affleck - aw, do I even need a reason?    - 4 (6.3%)

Total Voters: 63
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Mr. Doctor on 16 Feb 2012, 08:27
Found something similar from a New Zealand furniture maker. (http://www.andysfinefurniture.com/WhiteBuiltInBunkBed.htm)
Well that looks good... But in this case it worked pretty bad for Marigold since it seems the ceiling high enough to make her move easier.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 16 Feb 2012, 09:13
Marigold could have been put in a cot in Hannelore's quarters: Hannelore has said she couldn't handle a permanent roommate, but she's had a sleepover on her couch.

So maybe Jeph's point is indeed to see what Hannelore does in isolation.

Suddenly I'm getting mental pictures of Station singing child Hannelore to sleep. He must have been a parent figure: always there, providing for her materially.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Carl-E on 16 Feb 2012, 10:09
Singing, or just playing some mp3's of lullabys (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2118)? 
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: slydon on 16 Feb 2012, 10:59
Meh. This joke fell a little flat there.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Skaltura on 16 Feb 2012, 12:04
.. I see what you did there.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: ecstaticjoy on 16 Feb 2012, 12:18
Marten looks really good in that color. Is that weird to say?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Kugai on 16 Feb 2012, 13:28
Hmmmmm

MariBear is definitely not a Top Bunk Person - as much as she'd like to be   :-D

As for Marten not doing something to break her fall, I think he was just caught by surprise - as you can see on his face - that she fell at all.  One of those 'Deer In Headlights' moments.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Method of Madness on 16 Feb 2012, 13:30
Marten looks really good in that color. Is that weird to say?
[moderator]Nah, you're alright.[/moderator]

Also, re: zero g sleep.  Rather than being tethered, I'd want a bed with a mattress both below and above me.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: LTK on 16 Feb 2012, 15:15
When you're weightless, there is no above or below. And I'd find it rather hard to breathe when sandwiched between two mattresses. Ever tried sleeping between two pillows?

I think the biggest problem with zero-G sleep is that any movement against a solid surface ejects you from your place. So to sleep comfortably you'd either have to be restrained, like in a tethered sleeping bag or just roped against the bed, or sleep while floating freely, so there's no net force pushing you anywhere. I'm honestly curious as to how comfortable the latter would be. If you managed to stay still in space, can you find a position that's comfortable to sleep in without any force acting on your body?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Sorflakne on 16 Feb 2012, 15:28
Implying that sleeping quarters are at a premium despite the size of the station, thus re-raising the question of why Lt. Potter's quarters are so large.
She's an officer.  Officers get bigger and/or better quarters.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Skaltura on 16 Feb 2012, 16:07
Lt is the lowest (2nd Lt) or second lowest (1st Lt) commissioned officer rank there is, these guys usually don't get private quarters.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: J on 16 Feb 2012, 19:32
could be that station's just not really set up for guests, so personnel quarters are allocated a more generous parcel of space than guest quarters.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 16 Feb 2012, 20:24
could be that station's just not really set up for guests, so personnel quarters are allocated a more generous parcel of space than guest quarters.

Which is probably why there haven't been too many birthday parties for the boss, either.

Even with the layout and size of the ship that I've posited over in the Spinning Station thread, there's still not a whole lot of room for people on the ship.

EDIT: It would also appear that she's low person on the totem pole. If the Station has a military presence aboard, it's probably a.) not that many people, and b.) made up of officers, not NCO's.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 16 Feb 2012, 22:38
Comic Up.

...Okay, so I think I know what the next poll will be: "How many of you WANT that Intracranial Communcations Unit installed?"

EDIT: So there's no misconstruing - that's Hanner's iPad and/or eReader she's holding. Relatively primitive technology.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: WAYF on 16 Feb 2012, 22:39
Hannelore looks really good in blue!

Also, AIs need to stop being so elitist (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1001) about technology. :P
Interestingly, Hannelore called it "racism"... Are machines divided up into races based on what kind (and how artifically intelligent) they are?

Has anyone thought of the possibility that Beatrice might show up to this party? Or would that be too awkward?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 16 Feb 2012, 22:41
Racism? I don't see her saying that...
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: WAYF on 16 Feb 2012, 22:45
#1001 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1001):

Quote from: I Can Has CatPuter?
Winslow: Why the heck do you people still use machines that can't think?

Hannelore: Winslow, don't be racist!

Incidentally, I would say no to an intracranial communications unit. Aside from anything else, you can log in and out of Twitter, you can stop talking, and you can hang up a phone. But an intracranial communicator would be far more difficult.
For example, I deleted my Facebook account once it became apparent that I wasn't getting anything out of it. I don't think opting out of intracranial communicators would be nearly so easy.
Also, it would be lodged inside your brain and that gives me serious shivers.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 16 Feb 2012, 22:48
#1001 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1001):
Quote from: I Can Has CatPuter?
Winslow: Why the heck do you people still use machines that can't think?

Hannelore: Winslow, don't be racist!

Ohhhhhh... I think that's the opinion of AI's towards non-sentients. Kinda the same way we have opinions towards our computers or TV's.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 16 Feb 2012, 22:49
Simple Question: Top or Bottom Bunk?

Top Bunk.    - 6 (28.6%)
Bottom Bunk.    - 2 (9.5%)
Either.    - 3 (14.3%)
Neither - I hate bunk beds.    - 1 (4.8%)
I'd rather sleep on the floor.    - 1 (4.8%)
Waffles!    - 1 (4.8%)
Tethered in Zero G!    - 7 (33.3%)

Total Voters: 21
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Carl-E on 16 Feb 2012, 23:04
Seems I am unique. 

Then again, I can sleep anywhere, anytime, including standing up (for short periods of time). 


Re: Intercranial communications devices. 

Since they exist, someone  must have wanted them.  But how do you avoid the whole "voices in my head" thing? 
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 16 Feb 2012, 23:26
Station asks for explicit permission before appearing in front of Hannelore, but not from Lt. Potter.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: LTK on 16 Feb 2012, 23:34
Seems I am unique.  

Then again, I can sleep anywhere, anytime, including standing up (for short periods of time).  


Re: Intercranial communications devices.  

Since they exist, someone  must have wanted them.  But how do you avoid the whole "voices in my head" thing?  
Don't see what you mean. We have small in-ear speakers already, and those don't make us go crazy. Intracranial communication just saves you the trouble from converting your information into another medium, and lets it go straight from electromagnetic waves to neuron firing patterns without having to go through air first. People with cochlear implants have this already.

But since QC is in the future, their intracranial communication devices might also be able to transmit images, video, smells, tastes and tactile sensation. Maybe even abstract thought patterns! I'd sign up for that in a heartbeat.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: DSL on 17 Feb 2012, 00:54
Well, Hanners clearly wears the pants in this relationship (even moreso with Spaceship ...)

More serious  thought ... this is what a confident Hanners looks like when the confidence isn't simulated by  meds. Very good.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Oh dear on 17 Feb 2012, 00:57
Station asks for explicit permission before appearing in front of Hannelore, but not from Lt. Potter.

Not to mention that he can scan anyone down to molecular level, and already did (at least for Marigold and Marten)... why does he have to ask if she's decent first? Plus, the hologram isn't needed for him to be there, it's just a physical illusion, no? Or is Station different from Spaceship? I assume since he's not a real person and also not taking secret naked pictures to put all over the net that there's not really a necessity for that kind of etiquette. Although I guess it's still polite? I would think it would be seen as more necessary for first time visitors to be asked than people who've lived there for a while and are used to Station.

I think I am overanalyzing things.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Soulsynger on 17 Feb 2012, 01:14
Intracranial communications? ... like... Twitter and Facebook in your head? Oh, this HAS to be a marketing thing. (scheme) °O


[ ... ] Maybe even abstract thought patterns! I'd sign up for that in a heartbeat.
This is an Ian M. Banks~ian nightmare.
I shudder to think about the possibilities of manipulation inherent in this. (similar to viruses, only in an argumentative way... flawless reasoning can be deadly)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 17 Feb 2012, 01:36
I think I am overanalyzing things.

You are in the right place!

Maybe Station doesn't feel free to switch on his cameras in Hannelore's room until he gets permission? And to fit human social norms, he makes himself visible if he's looking at someone?

Hannelore is looking confident now, but she's in an environment full of psychological triggers. One stray smell, one charged word, and she could have a flashback. I hope she doesn't.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Akima on 17 Feb 2012, 01:57
Well, Hanners clearly wears the pants in this relationship (even moreso with Spaceship ...)
Station appeared to be terrified at the possibility that Hanners was still angry with him (I use the male gender because that's how he chooses to present himself).
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: J on 17 Feb 2012, 03:12
Station asks for explicit permission before appearing in front of Hannelore, but not from Lt. Potter.

Not to mention that he can scan anyone down to molecular level, and already did (at least for Marigold and Marten)... why does he have to ask if she's decent first? Plus, the hologram isn't needed for him to be there, it's just a physical illusion, no?

simplest answer would probably be that he's required to follow some sort of rules regarding privacy & etiquette when interacting with people. for example: he might not be allowed to track people around the station without a reason, or directly observe people without making his 'presence' known via a projection.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: snubnose on 17 Feb 2012, 03:28
I am all for useful eletronic devices.

The problem is, most eletronic devices arent useful. And as a programmer, I am quite able to spot that design flaw.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Milesb on 17 Feb 2012, 04:56
I think an Intercranial Communication Unit (as it has been so smoothly dubbed) would have some potential positive impacts though - mountaineers, sailors, Arctic expeditions etc - any situation where a person bereft of their equipment or vehicle would be in some danger would benefit from being able to communicate or be tracked down based upon a communications device that can't be easily lost or damaged. (without the person being pretty much dead anyway)

I think the question is: how does one interact with an Intercranial Communication Unit - do you learn to manipulate it similarly to those who learn to move simple biomechanical prosthetics, which takes many months if not years of training to use? Would it be voice activated?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: pwhodges on 17 Feb 2012, 05:01
Would it require external batteries, or is some biologically-linked power source postulated?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Throg on 17 Feb 2012, 05:01
In terms of Station's social etiquette -- maybe Station, when on good behavior, does observe the basics. For Lt. Potter, he did "knock" with a voice call first, although "what the hell do you want" is not a very encouraging response, it is an implicit reply, rather than "fuck off Station." Lt. Potter also continued to get out of her uniform, so presumably she doesn't have that much of a hangup with appearing semi-undressed in front of an AI.

Hanners, on the other hand, has a lot more hangups, plus she's the boss's daughter and 18 years of history and all that, so Station would presumably be a lot more respectful.  

I love Jeph's take on the alternate advanced tech world -- although who knows, in about 60 years or so, we may very well be there, and QC will look eerily prescient.  

Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Madmartigan on 17 Feb 2012, 06:19
hah.  It makes sense Hanners would have the granny night shift.  Too funny. 

Man, I'd take an intercranial com unit.  That sounds awesome. One step toward becoming a cyborg.  Though I shudder to think what would happen if Pintsize found out about the unit.  He'd install porn on it somehow.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 17 Feb 2012, 07:23
I would think that the one thing that would terrify Station about Hannelore is - she knows where the programming nodes are.

(IOW - "So, you want to appear in front of people with a pink tutu and the voice of Courtney Love, like what happened after the Banana Split incident?" "NO! Not that! Anything but that!")
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: LTK on 17 Feb 2012, 08:04
I think an Intercranial Communication Unit (as it has been so smoothly dubbed) would have some potential positive impacts though - mountaineers, sailors, Arctic expeditions etc - any situation where a person bereft of their equipment or vehicle would be in some danger would benefit from being able to communicate or be tracked down based upon a communications device that can't be easily lost or damaged. (without the person being pretty much dead anyway)

I think the question is: how does one interact with an Intercranial Communication Unit - do you learn to manipulate it similarly to those who learn to move simple biomechanical prosthetics, which takes many months if not years of training to use? Would it be voice activated?
Arctic expeditions? I think you'd find it hard to get a signal in that situation. Not a lot of broadcast towers around that area. Unless the devices are networked, in which case it's equally useless if you're isolated, but useful if you're buried under an avalance.

I imagine it's similar to learning complex skills like reading or echolocation, not like a prosthetic. You need to learn to extract information from sensory inputs that were previously absent. Learning that can take a while.

Would it require external batteries, or is some biologically-linked power source postulated?
Existing cranial implants use batteries, but you might be able to make them run on glucose in the future. Like Kim's. (http://dresdencodak.com/2012/02/15/dark-science-16/)
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: lepetitfromage on 17 Feb 2012, 08:40
Station asks for explicit permission before appearing in front of Hannelore, but not from Lt. Potter.

I think it might have to do with time of day as well- it appears as though everyone is getting ready for bed and Station is aware of the change from day clothes to sleep clothes- he probably wanted to be sure that he didn't embarrass her by appearing while she was undressed. It didn't seem to me that Lt. Potter was in her room late at night because we've seen quite a bit happen since then but this is the first time sleeping has been mentioned. Busy day for them!  :-P


Re: Intracranial communication- I still have irrational thoughts from time to time about people being able to read my mind. Especially during mean/violent/offensive/naughty/sexy thoughts. If intracranial comm. became the norm I'd end up being one of those wackos wearing a tinfoil helmet and hiding in their bathtub.  :psyduck:
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: pwhodges on 17 Feb 2012, 08:56
you might be able to make them run on glucose in the future. Like Kim's. (http://dresdencodak.com/2012/02/15/dark-science-16/)

I think her power requirements are higher!
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: duskirises on 17 Feb 2012, 09:48
I would imagine that the intercranial communication would work similarly to either email or actually phoning someone, you would either get a message from someone that you could open whenever you please or you could choose whether or not to answer the com when someone calls. In the case of a message you could check it and edit it if you wished. You would probably have to turn it off in class and such, perhaps teachers (only the particularly stogy ones) would have some sort of device that would be able to see who has their com on and who doesn't, especially during tests.

If this wasn't the case and someone could send you stuff at any time then I definitely would not want one, to much constant conversation would be tiring, also I'd be terrified of the chance of someone hearing my thoughts. And the ability to sway someone's opinion this way would be so much easier. Not to mention the prospect of hacking, guh.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Throg on 17 Feb 2012, 10:21
When it comes to peer pressure, bullying, old-fashioned salesmanship, con games -- our brains and psyches are already susceptible to a bit of hacking in one form or another.

Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 17 Feb 2012, 10:26
Quote from: Akima
Station appeared to be terrified at the possibility that Hanners was still angry with him (I use the male gender because that's how he chooses to present himself).

That seems to be the standard way to refer to AIs.

What if Hannelore is his only real friend?

Quote from: Madmartigan
It makes sense Hanners would have the granny night shift.  Too funny. 

It does make sense, but it's an interesting bit of characterization that she wears something more old-fashioned to bed in her old home than she does planetside.

Quote from: LTK
Arctic expeditions? I think you'd find it hard to get a signal in that situation. Not a lot of broadcast towers around that area. Unless the devices are networked, in which case it's equally useless if you're isolated, but useful if you're buried under an avalance.

If there's a constellation of comsats in polar orbit, you could get coverage.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Method of Madness on 17 Feb 2012, 11:52
So there's no misconstruing - that's Hanner's iPad and/or eReader she's holding. Relatively primitive technology.
That's rather thick for an e-reader.  I think it's considerably more primitive than you realize, I'm pretty sure that's an actual book.
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Thrudd on 17 Feb 2012, 13:26
So there's no misconstruing - that's Hanner's iPad and/or eReader she's holding. Relatively primitive technology.
That's rather thick for an e-reader.  I think it's considerably more primitive than you realize, I'm pretty sure that's an actual book.
I wonder if its Times New Roman, Helvetica or maybe Courier?   
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Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Kugai on 17 Feb 2012, 13:50
It may be that Hanners is just comfortable with that type of E-Reader.

I think that she's most probably established some very definite rules with the way Station interacts with her.  Also, you have to remember she's the bosses daughter.





Ohhhhh, Borg Implants.

Hey, does that make Hanners Seven's secret daughter?    :-D
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: Magdalena on 17 Feb 2012, 14:15
I'm just kind of curious if Station always holo projected himself at what appears to be approximately same age as Hanners - example when she was 8, did Station project as an 8 year old?
Title: Re: WCDT 2121-2125 (13-17 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 4
Post by: jwhouk on 17 Feb 2012, 19:51
Simple Question #2 - Intercranial Communication Unit?

YES!    - 5 (12.2%)
Only if I could turn it off.    - 10 (24.4%)
Would it hurt?    - 2 (4.9%)
NO. The rise of the machines & all that.    - 1 (2.4%)
NO. I'm a Luddite (I'm posting this via snail mail)    - 4 (9.8%)
No. Just, no.    - 13 (31.7%)
IT'S A CARTOON!    - 0 (0%)
Waffles. Definitely Waffles.    - 0 (0%)
I'd prefer something Bluetooth instead.    - 2 (4.9%)
Is that a Nook, a Kindle or an iPad Hanners has?    - 4 (9.8%)

Total Voters: 41