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Holy ####nipples that's cold!

3 (5.6%)

Watch out for dragonfly larvae!

1 (1.9%)

Gonna get my SWIM on

0 (0%)

Twenty bucks and I'll let you grab his butt. (I DON'T WANNA GRAB HIS lemme go get my wallet)

6 (11.1%)

Muskrat muskrat muskrat muskrat (Muskrat muskrat muskrat muskrat) (Muskrat muskrat)

17 (31.5%)

BLOOSH! Momo RISES!

2 (3.7%)

Gabby wanted me to tell you the hotdogs are ready.

0 (0%)

There are RAFTS under the DECK

0 (0%)

Sorry we're late. We woulda got here like 3 hours ago but we took a wrong turn.

0 (0%)

This is 24 NORTH Pine Island Road. You're lookin' for SOUTH Pine Island Road.

0 (0%)

...said the overweight, elderly nudist.

4 (7.4%)

And it took you 3 hours to find the right street? (Emily blushes while Tai and Dora roll their eyes)

1 (1.9%)

Theeth cookieth are AMATHING. Theriouthly, I'll thell 'em at my thop. (Oh, you!)

5 (9.3%)

Card Playing Tai: You sure you don't wanna come with us? (No, no, you young folks have your fun.)

4 (7.4%)

You're lucky. This thing seizes up completely if it gets any water in it. (Recommended synthetic covering...)

0 (0%)

How'd you lose your hand, anyway? (No, no, I don't mind talking about it.)

0 (0%)

It all started back when I was thirteen years old(He jacked off so much his hand withered into a claw...)

7 (13%)

That doesn't make sense. Wouldn't that make your hand stronger?

1 (1.9%)

At the very worst, it might lead to some sort of repetitive stress injury.

0 (0%)

Necrosis seems highly- IT WAS A FIREWORKS ACCIDENT

3 (5.6%)

Total Members Voted: 52

[JohnTheWysard]

Good 'un...

Reminds me of the dialog through a crack in the door:

Householder: "Hello?"
7th Day Adventist missionary: "Hello! We'd like to talk to you about your chance for salvation! May we come in?"
H: "Sure, if you'll follow the customs of our home."
M: "er... ok... what customs??"
H, opening door: "We're nudists!"

<end of dialog>

[Is it cold in here?]

Can you think of anything that beats water for specific heat? Let alone heat of vaporization? It's not a great *conductor* of heat, but as long as it's moving relative to the hot object (convection, swimming) it's exceptional.

[cesariojpn]

Damn, I spent like thirty minutes browsing the archives to check out if the old guy were the same as the one in that comic but apparently not.

I thought the lady appeared in a previous strip, but......no joy.

[Anshinritsumai]

Also, yes to Emily in a swimsuit!

Thank god, she's my favorite of the new characters. I'm hoping she starts to get shown more.

[Schmorgluck]

I'm going pendrake on this post...

• I must say that I found all of this weeks comics funny so far. As in "makes me laugh" funny. I find QC always interesting, most of the time amusing, smirkworthy and chuckleworthy, but not always laughworthy.
• It's the first time we see Emily blush. It's even the first time we see Emily fazed by anything.
• I like how Tai, past the first moments of embarrasment, is completely comfortable with hanging out with a naked guy.

[jwhouk]

Muskrat?

Muskrat!    0 (0%)
Muskrat muskrat.    0 (0%)
Muskrat muskrat MUSKRAT.    3 (4.8%)
Muskrat muskrat muskrat MUSKRAT.    4 (6.3%)
Muskrat muskrat muskrat muskrat MUSKRAT.    1 (1.6%)
Muskrat muskrat MUSKRAT MUSKRAT muskrat muskrat.    0 (0%)
Muskrat muskrat muskrat MUSKRAT muskrat MUSKRAT MUSKRAT.    4 (6.3%)
Muskrat muskrat muskrat muskrat muskrat muskrat muskrat muskrat.    14 (22.2%)
Muskrat?    2 (3.2%)
MUSKRAT???    0 (0%)
MUSKRAT!    3 (4.8%)
Yes, this poll makes as much sense as the strip.    20 (31.7%) <== And you'd expect anything else?
AND WE LOVE IT!    12 (19%)

Total Members Voted: 63

[Bluesummers]

2. It's the first time we see Emily blush. It's even the first time we see Emily fazed by anything.

I'm not too surprised. I think she's got just the right amount of Osaka in her that she's innocent, but not clueless. Or was it the other way around?

I do like that she's got her own style of baka, different from Raven.

[Akima]

it happened before.  almost 2000 years ago.

Pix or it never happened!    It is however often possible to walk across Lake Eyre.

Can you think of anything that beats water for specific heat? Let alone heat of vaporization?

Ammonia (NH3) has the highest specific heat capacity of any known substance.   It's not as good as water for latent heat of vapourisation, but its convenient phase-change temperatures make it a very useful refrigerant.

Elderly nudists are the best nudists!

[Is it cold in here?]

Ammonia, 4.7 J/g/K (yes, as Akima said, better than water. I was surprised.)
Helium, 5.2 J/g/K
Hydrogen, 14.3 J/g/K

That innocent-looking "per gram" conceals a really important practical issue. A gram of water, or of ammonia pressurized into the liquid phase, is spectacularly more compact than a gram of hydrogen or helium. A heat sink big enough to contact a gram of hydrogen would be much less convenient.

Now, if Momo is air cooled by default, she may have heat sinks mounted directly on electronic components, in which case her waterproofing would have to seal her air vents and not let water contact the heat sinks, and then we'd be back to the overheating problem.

Are we overanalyzing yet?

[Method of Madness]

Not even close.

[Tova]

By "not even close", I assume that you mean that we are distant because we passed that point days ago.

[Method of Madness]

Not even close.

[Kugai]

Next weeks plot twist





The old couple are Emily's parents.

[Overkillengine]

Ammonia, 4.7 J/g/K (yes, as Akima said, better than water. I was surprised.)
Helium, 5.2 J/g/K
Hydrogen, 14.3 J/g/K

That innocent-looking "per gram" conceals a really important practical issue. A gram of water, or of ammonia pressurized into the liquid phase, is spectacularly more compact than a gram of hydrogen or helium. A heat sink big enough to contact a gram of hydrogen would be much less convenient.

Now, if Momo is air cooled by default, she may have heat sinks mounted directly on electronic components, in which case her waterproofing would have to seal her air vents and not let water contact the heat sinks, and then we'd be back to the overheating problem.

Are we overanalyzing yet?

That's assuming that her internal components aren't already waterproof by design to prevent arcing from incidental water contact. She may not even have a classic circuit board as we know it in that entire chassis as far as we know.

[cesariojpn]

Next weeks plot twist





The old couple are Emily's parents.

Grandparents on one side of the family.

[ChaosWolf]

That old lady ass seems to be in remarkably good shape. Most at her age are about 6-8 inches below that.

And just how many naked old-lady butts have you seen, in order to judge that?

Old people are not necessarily large, I would like to point out.

But these are.  It's clearly because of her awesomely delicious cookies.

[Aegir]

man, Jeph like every word with a "th" when the character's speech is impaired stopped being funny like 6 years ago.

[pwhodges]

man, Jeph like every word with a "th" when the character's speech is impaired stopped being funny like 6 years ago.

Perhaps it's not a joke, but simply an indication that the character is stuffing her mouth.

Next weeks plot twist
The old couple are Emily's parents.

Different surnames, though.

[EDIT] Whoops!  My memory pulled up a name from one of the caption thread posts, so it's not canon.

[Wagimawr]

every word with a "th" when the character's speech is impaired stopped being funny like 6 years ago.

I dare you to go stuff your mouth full of cookie, record yourself saying Dora's line, and come here and post it.

 

[Is it cold in here?]

That's assuming that her internal components aren't already waterproof by design to prevent arcing from incidental water contact. She may not even have a classic circuit board as we know it in that entire chassis as far as we know.

Point. We know that Pintsize has a "motherboard" but he is a far cheaper model. The Idoru Platinum Deluxe may have a radically different design.

[pwhodges]

I'm picturing that Momo's main cavities are sealed, and that there are heat-pipes from the main hot components (cpu, etc) to the casing which acts as an overall heat-sink and heat exchanger.

[Schmorgluck]

I suddenly wonder if there are eels in this lake. 

[DSL]

*sigh* siblings ...

[WAYF]

I take this as proof that:
a) Jeph likes reading our whacky theories when he's feeling particularly stressed.

b) MillionDollarBeltSander has won this entire week via his contribution to this week's caption thread.
All hail MDBS, undisputed winner.

[MillionDollar Belt Sander]

b) MillionDollarBeltSander has won this entire week via his contribution to this week's caption thread.
All hail MDBS, undisputed winner.

Damn I'm good.   

[Toe]

First tailless human-sized Momo?

[AngryCallCenterAgent]

Poor Cliff.

And now if you'll excuse me, I must find the address to Angus and Faye's body dumping site.

Have some siblings I need ridding of.

[techkid]

Claire just absolutely cracked me up with that. She's not so uptight, after all (at least as far as her brother is concerned...)

Nice .

[Border Reiver]

I take this as proof that:
a) Jeph likes reading our whacky theories when he's feeling particularly stressed.

b) MillionDollarBeltSander has won this entire week via his contribution to this week's caption thread.
All hail MDBS, undisputed winner.

Hail to the King, Baby!

As for today's strip, I liked how this was played absolutely straight by Momo and Marigold.

[Sidhekin]

Repetitive stress injury FTW!

[cesariojpn]

I take this as proof that:
a) Jeph likes reading our whacky theories when he's feeling particularly stressed.

Well, when you're in a pinch........steal stuff and hope nobody notices. 

[Method of Madness]

Synthetic coating? Looks after all of our calculations, the matter of water was simply...

 

...hand waved.

[Hypster]

Claire just jumped up my favorite characters list. Moar of this, please~

[pwhodges]

the matter of water was simply... ...hand waved.

Even full-time SF authors (at the Asimov level, I mean) resort to hand-waving at times; it could get very tedious if they weren't allowed to!

[Akima]

Ammonia, 4.7 J/g/K (yes, as Akima said, better than water. I was surprised.)
Helium, 5.2 J/g/K
Hydrogen, 14.3 J/g/K

That will teach me not to lazily quote half-remembered stuff from high-school science!

As for today's strip, I liked how this was played absolutely straight by Momo and Marigold.

Yes! And Claire? You're not fifteen any more... I'm not sure if it was Jeph's intention but Claire's frozen expression from panels three to four says to me that nobody is laughing.

[Asterus]

but Claire's frozen expression from panels three to four says to me that nobody is laughing.

I don't know. It seemed more like everyone was just frozen in stunned silence because it was Claire that got a good joke in. It kinda reminded me of the whole "teabagging a bear cub in front of its mother thing"

[Binary]

Well, that's odd. I read the comic immediately after Jeph posted it, and Clinton's final line was "It was a spider bite".

But now, "It was a fireworks accident".

I tried refreshing the page a few times to see if Jeph was serving comics up from a random pool of alternative punchlines, but it hasn't changed any more.

[Carl-E]

It was determined in an earlier strip (by Claire herself) that it was a fireworks accident.  Gotta get to work, though, so I'll let someone else archive it...

A fine example of Jeph checking his own archive to avoid ret-conning.

[DSL]

First Claire said a firecracker went off in Clinton's hand.

"Always with the euphemisms." -- I. Asimov.

[Dr. ROFLPWN]

Claire is the god damn best

Startin' those sick fires

[Black Sword]

Claire is either being corrupted by the QC crew or she's being a normal sibling.

Siblings. Don't you just love them so much?

[sitnspin]

There are times when I am glad I am an only child.

[Method of Madness]

Even full-time SF authors (at the Asimov level, I mean) resort to hand-waving at times; it could get very tedious if they weren't allowed to!

Yeah, but their hand waves rarely involve...hands.

[jwhouk]

First tailless human-sized Momo?

Nope. She looks like that when she gets out of the shower/water.

[jwhouk]

the matter of water was simply... ...hand waved.

Even full-time SF authors (at the Asimov level, I mean) resort to hand-waving at times; it could get very tedious if they weren't allowed to!

You poor, poor man, never ever having seen a single episode of CSI:Miami.

[Is it cold in here?]

Ammonia, 4.7 J/g/K (yes, as Akima said, better than water. I was surprised.)
Helium, 5.2 J/g/K
Hydrogen, 14.3 J/g/K

That will teach me not to lazily quote half-remembered stuff from high-school science!

Don't feel bad! I had to look it up, and that's with a physics degree.

Momo still has a social protocol database, I see.

It would indeed be a sound design to run heat pipes to the outer covering, but then you'd have to make the outside thermally conductive. A skin substitute is probably an insulator.

Somehow it's right that Momo wears a modest swimsuit.

[Method of Madness]

I've never actually seen CSI: Miami either. Also wait...Momo has a tail? Since when?

[Mr_Rose]

I've never actually seen CSI: Miami either. Also wait...Momo has a tail? Since when?

As in ponytail or pigtails, as in the hairstyle.

[Asterus]

I believe they meant "tail" as a shortened version of "pigtail". And now we finally have proof that Momo's chassis has actual hair instead of a solid shell on her head.
...
Stupid laggy university connection...

[jwhouk]

Pony tails. She's worn her hair like Marigold (on and off) since strip 2000.

Exceptions: 2005, 2028, 2305. Interestingly, when Marten pulled her out of the lake, she had ponytails.