So, is the decree to pretend to be Randall? To not have red hair? To get Randall struck by lightning to increase his powers?
Good question. Pretending to be Randall must be heresy, for which the punishment is continued red-hairiness. How about we speculate about what Randall's current superpowers are. But isn't there already an OtherThread for that? Ch*rp, my decreeing power fails me.
How about this: calculate the height difference of the elevator trip, assuming that the average height of tall-Beanie and short-Beanie is 1 que. And assuming that the counterweight is on the ground when the elevator is at the top.
I didn't know there'd be math! Can't I just pretend to be Randall and risk red-hairedness?
whats that big line? it almost looks like a hill in the distance, but I don't think that's how this works.
Epsilon! Hm, the white part looks like a road curving off to the left, but I don't think that makes sense with the rest of the picture. And what's that thing clinging to the side of the dam/tower/whatevs, just below the basket?
Well, that's not good. We have a leak!
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balthasar_s wrote: Don't worry if the text ninjas newpixbot.
Oh thanks! Redundancy is indeed very molpish. I appreciate not having text-only posts treated as images. lmjbot to the rescue!
mikrit wrote: How about this: calculate the height difference of the elevator trip, assuming that the average height of tall-Beanie and short-Beanie is 1 que. And assuming that the counterweight is on the ground when the elevator is at the top.
It's a bit tricky because there is some small amount of horizontal shifting, and the pixels seem to line up but I couldn't be totally sure. Anyway, I get 1 q = 49 black pixels, half of trip = 12q + 2 pixels + (7 pixels)/2 = 12q + 5.5 pixels; so the whole trip would be 2×(12+5.5/49)q = about 24.2 q, or 42.9 metres.
Hypothesis: In addition to travelling in two dimensions (up-down, and time), this Beanie elevator is travelling in another dimension causing our 2.5-D slice to shift like in 1359, 1360, etc. and that's why the big sloping black thing on the left doesn't line up the way I expect.
Sciscitor wrote: The beanies also seem to go down the side of a cooling tower.
Or a dam. Similar shape. And given the context, I would say both equally likely. Let's wait for it.
Cooling towers don't tend to leak large volumes of semencoffeecancerbaconstarsandbabiesonice. Well, they do, but in a different direction.
But can one pretend to be something they in fact are?
ergman wrote: whats that big line? it almost looks like a hill in the distance, but I don't think that's how this works.
Looks like what I get on Inkscape when I get a curve wrong.
Ah, now that you mention it, it does look like a stream of semencoffeecancerbabybaconice. And so the flooding begins.
lmjb1964 wrote: And what's that thing clinging to the side of the dam/tower/whatevs, just below the basket?
moody7277 wrote: Well, that's not good. We have a leak!
Rosetta, we have a problem!
Febrion! I know it's hard to type on the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the trains keep wiggling around and leopards running around the subway tend to attract the wrong kind of attention. But I'm glad you did. And congratulations on 21102 posts! In celebration, I see you've already posted a woodie (it's not a pencil either) while musing about roots. Alas, I don't think that will save you from the punsaw; there are a number of wielders here. Even if BlitzGirl has vanished into the basement (have you seen her?), she has left her Vitssagen to grow and multply. She took her cats though. I wonder what can be read into that.
Of course we are looking for OTTer band names. It's another way to dominate the top forty. Maybe each of the Forty has their own band.
To doesn't have too many 'o's, and too doesn't have two too many 'o's.
I'd have a third theory, but then I'd have to pull the holy pin. That third theory is that the colorONGs and the B&WONGs are unrelated in time or spaaaace, and none of the prior theories holds the sea.
Shall I come in again?
And thanks again to all the bots for all their ONGing!
I didn't catch it when it came up (mainly because I mistook the "L" for an "i" and was puzzled), but for me the act of joining metal with liquid othermetal is pronounced soddering. Military ground troops are pronounced sole-jehrs.
And welcome Robyn Slinger! Yes, the thead is an integral part of the comic; I'm certain it was intended that way. GLR be Praised!
Dunno. I know somebody here (where "here" could be the entire forum base, or could be OTTers) but IRL that person would not reveal themself in the fora. So, it's a known unknown.
handspringNo, it doesn't really look like a banana, but it is part of the earth, and we do know that the earth is banana shaped.
pastThat leak will get bigger and the force of the new jet will push the elevator into the abyss. Nobody ever finds the bodies because nobody has a chance to look. The dam breaks, taking the beanies to a semencancercoffeebabiesonicy grave.
My first thought on seeing the Black Shape was that it was a leak of Miscellaneous Liquid spraying out.
Just came across this and found it RELATED: a group of otters chasing a flutterbee.
AUTOMOME wrote: COULD ORGANISED SANDS BE ANY MORE related?
As for the hiddenONGs: To me, it doesn't look like we see the constant influx of semencoffeecancerbaconbabiesonice from the black bananahose, but more like a big blob of semencoffeecancerbaconbabiesonice that fell into some semencoffeecancerbaconbabies and is now slowly sinking, leaving a tail of semencoffeecancerbaconbabiesonice behind.
Thanks for the height estimate, mrob. So, the breach is at most about 30 metres below the Atlantic surface? That doesn't seem too bad. Lucky that there was an elevator at the right position.
Translation: Right, but first, we must fill in form A2306c, Berm Structural Integrity Report, and send it by clacks optical telegraph to Château d'If, so that the Public Safety and Security Committee can authorize that course of action.
¡THIS EPILOGUE IS POSTING ME!
BANANANAS ARE CUPCAKES WHO BLUENHANCE THWAPSTICKS INLAND.
Oh, it didn't strike me that this is a stream of fluid coming out of the wall... I guess that makes sense. I thought it was a weird shaped solid object that hit the wall from the right causing the damage. I still think that in reality, water coming through a hole in a dam wouldn't have such perfect shape; there would be some droplets, smaller streams spraying in other directions, bubbles, water vapor... that's probably what confused me.
Credit goes to Rule110 for the original version.
Todip is the dip when future meets past. Or to be precise, when Back to the Future becomes Past. In Part II, Doc, Marty and Jennifer travel into the future, to October 21, 2015 4:29 PM. Which is only a dozen newpix from now. This is heavy, right?
Maybe it's not a leak after all. Short-Beanie looks like she's reaching over to the thing on the dam. It might be a gate to close the overflow valve. However, just when she touches the handle, the elevator falls down, because the ropes aren't strong enough. The sea1 continues to empty into the Mediterranean. Thus begins Time.
Pre-post-preview-ninja'd! Hi NoMouse! Treeish manip!
NoMouse wrote: I still think that in reality, water coming through a hole in a dam wouldn't have such perfect shape; there would be some droplets, smaller streams spraying in other directions, bubbles, water vapor... that's probably what confused me.
It does, it's just outside the 2.5D slice we see.
Indeed. A rough, irregular hole such as a breach would produce turbulent, not laminar, flow. But as Zooman said, laminar schmaminar.
Don't you mean: "turbulent schmurbulent"?
I just noted that if the elevator is lowered much further, it would scrape against the side of the dam, which seems unpleasant. Which raises the question: where did the counterweight come from? Was it scraped up along the wall from the bottom? If so, maybe the counterweight caused the breach.
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I hope their rope is strong enough.
I think the truck is releasing a nuclear bomb to the ocean side of the dam to destroy it. Similar to what the British did with their bouncing bombs during world war 2.
ETA: No, "burbulent" is not a word. Neither is "awesomeful" when it comes right down to it, but both seem apt.
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Here, enjoy some turbulent bourbon.
ggh wrote: Burbulently brilliant, DrSamCarter!