Is it just me, or do the rest of you feel a sneaking suspicion that the next major disaster to beset the city will have to do with containment failure and novel microorganisms?
I think she means in a “beginning of life on earth” way. One of the greatest mysteries of modern science is, if this was a purely chemical process, why can’t we reproduce it in our labs?
That’s not a mystery at all. Stanley Miller and Harold Urey created artificial amino acids in 1952. Mixing up a bunch of chemicals and zapping them with lightning? Classic Mad Science.
It may not be a big deal, but still an annoyance. Like if I were looking forward to making a nice pot of tea, and someone blew up my kitchen JUST when the water was boiling.
When I was young, one of the first actual DRAMA series I ever got into was a BBC production called “Danger UXB” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078593/ about the crazy people who disarmed unexploded bombs found all over London during WWII.
This story arc brings new meaning to that term… 😀
mnem
“As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero.” – Vaarsuvius, OOTS
When A-Sig arrived
Came with a bang
The subway was split
My thought then was “Dang!”
Élan counts, but
Damage mounts
Repeating the bomb
Your score I discount
You talked to GODOT, well I’m pret-
Ty impressed
But when you explain
It sounds like a mess
And now it’s a slab—
The wall of my lab
I brewed life in a flask, now I must restart that task
You blew it, set off a bomb
You blew it, set off a bomb
You blew it, set off a bomb
You’re losing
It looks as though Ruby gave him quite a ‘forceful’ demonstration of her annoyance at the time; she’s now burnt through that rage to normal anger, but the memories and bruises remain.
Ah well. Whatever they score, they’re having a blast.
Angry Ruby is very Angry.
Yes, but she’s cute when she’s angry.
Not like it matters what score Ruby records, though, since GODOT will most likely pick who wins and rearrange the text accordingly.
Is it just me, or do the rest of you feel a sneaking suspicion that the next major disaster to beset the city will have to do with containment failure and novel microorganisms?
Ooh! Fancy floating transparent computer interface! (and Ruby has chosen not to be a Bluetooth compatible device. Sensible.)
I don’t get what the big deal is.
Ruby’s already friends with created life, so she knows it’s possible.
I think she means in a “beginning of life on earth” way. One of the greatest mysteries of modern science is, if this was a purely chemical process, why can’t we reproduce it in our labs?
Given a few million years of attempts, we will. 😉
I thought she meant in a “half android/half gelatinous blob” way.
That’s not a mystery at all. Stanley Miller and Harold Urey created artificial amino acids in 1952. Mixing up a bunch of chemicals and zapping them with lightning? Classic Mad Science.
It may not be a big deal, but still an annoyance. Like if I were looking forward to making a nice pot of tea, and someone blew up my kitchen JUST when the water was boiling.
Ah, yes. A Douglas Adams level annoyance
When I was young, one of the first actual DRAMA series I ever got into was a BBC production called “Danger UXB” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078593/ about the crazy people who disarmed unexploded bombs found all over London during WWII.
This story arc brings new meaning to that term… 😀
mnem
“As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero.” – Vaarsuvius, OOTS
I had always heard that as “There is no problem that cannot be solved by a suitable application of high explosives.”
“There is no problem so large that it cannot be run away from.” – Snoopy
mnem
I will quote truth wherever I find it, thank you.
tune: “Splitting the Atom,” Massive Attack feat. Horace Andy (great song, used as the theme to the late, lamented Luck, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK9psZ-Mjr0)
When A-Sig arrived
Came with a bang
The subway was split
My thought then was “Dang!”
Élan counts, but
Damage mounts
Repeating the bomb
Your score I discount
You talked to GODOT, well I’m pret-
Ty impressed
But when you explain
It sounds like a mess
And now it’s a slab—
The wall of my lab
I brewed life in a flask, now I must restart that task
You blew it, set off a bomb
You blew it, set off a bomb
You blew it, set off a bomb
You’re losing
“I was about to create life.” Is that what they call sex now days?
Maybe she was making one of those Railway Children the story title refers to.
She is a cyborg, it could mean both ways . . . , er, maybe not the best way to put that, but you see what I mean.
She and Mike just solved the problem they set themsevles when we last saw them in Narbonic.
Is it just me or in terms of body language does Sergio seem more indignant about this than Ruby in that last panel? o_O
It looks as though Ruby gave him quite a ‘forceful’ demonstration of her annoyance at the time; she’s now burnt through that rage to normal anger, but the memories and bruises remain.
I think Sergio looks more chagrined than indignant.
They blew up Ruby’s mini-fridge!?