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."
Unfortunately, all i can think of when I hear scooby doo references anymore is this...
Well I mean he might just decide to change it a bit.
"Lieutenant Hardass."
I did. Screenshotted it, then put the pieces together and saved it. :-PNot a criticism, I'm just confused. Why wouldn't you just right click and save image?
Will the chief of security be named:
Fink?
Chester?
Curvy?
Will the chief of security be named:
Fink?
Chester?
Curvy?
Chad (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1534).
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.
Unfortunately, all i can think of when I hear scooby doo references anymore is this...
Will the chief of security be named:Chad (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1534).
Fink?
Chester?
Curvy?
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?
Who are all the boring/old people that get thin mints?
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.
Tagalongs are the best, but Samoas are a close second for me.
And there I was assuming that the cookie box was another book (we don't have those cookies here that I know of).
And I'm glad Marigold isn't in any trouble.... yet.
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.
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.
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'."
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.
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.
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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.
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A wooden desk on a space station? ... just no.
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?
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"? :-\
This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendahip
So long as its not a "How much did I drink and where did the badger come from?" sort of relationship.
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM! (http://badgerbadgerbadger.com/)
(J-dubs, why do you have a badger as your avatar, is there a story behind that?)
I guess you went to UW? Also, what if the desk is made of...mahogany?
Merrill, according to your profile page. I feel an urge to catch 'em all again.I guess you went to UW? Also, what if the desk is made of...mahogany?I live in Wisconsin.
Powers. Melody PowersNo relation to Austin, I hope?
A wooden desk on a space station? ... just no.
well hello there...and the avatar for the win. :-D
aren't you a pretty young thing
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.
Marten has a holokitty.
(http://archer.gamebanana.com/img/ico/sprays/spray_5.jpg)
I am sorry for nothig.
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.
Marten has a holokitty.This is where Holopoints and Captain Picard come in handy.
*Image*
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.
Merigold loves it.
Merigold loves it.
Who be this 'Merigold' you speak of?
Oh, like you've never done an a/e swap typo...
Now, excuse me while I chack my email.
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.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.
And thusly: Wooden desk in space? Not bloody likely. Even in the QCVerse.
What we need is an Orbital Elevator!
Powers. Melody PowersNo relation to Austin, I hope?
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.
Six hours worth of girl scout cookies and animes...
How big WAS Marigold's bag? o_O
Six hours worth of girl scout cookies and animes...
How big WAS Marigold's bag? o_O
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)).
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 ;)
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)).
Maybe the designer just liked curves...
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
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?
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
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...
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.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!
The Super Bowel Movement trophy? :-D
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.
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.
Isn't Hannerdad from a generation which would be disturbed by assigning unrelated people of the opposite sex to the same bedroom?
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
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.
Marten looks really good in that color. Is that weird to say?[moderator]Nah, you're alright.[/moderator]
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.
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.
Winslow: Why the heck do you people still use machines that can't think?
Hannelore: Winslow, don't be racist!
#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!
Seems I am unique.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.
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?
Station asks for explicit permission before appearing in front of Hannelore, but not from Lt. Potter.
[ ... ] Maybe even abstract thought patterns! I'd sign up for that in a heartbeat.This is an Ian M. Banks~ian nightmare.
I think I am overanalyzing things.
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).
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?
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)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 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?
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/)
Station asks for explicit permission before appearing in front of Hannelore, but not from Lt. Potter.
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/)
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).
It makes sense Hanners would have the granny night shift. Too funny.
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.
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?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.