Given what both she and Sergio have worked with at Anasigma, these reactions are a bit odd. I mean, he built a machine that interacted with alternate universes.
Though I guess she has a history of arbitrary skepticism, given her opinion of magic stamps.
I expect Sergio’s reasoning for why this isn’t possible is much more comedic/ grounded.
I, for one, eagerly await the amusing revelation that what’s not possible is that they have the complete box set of his favorite television show, EVER, at 90% off.
My guess is that they were not syaing that this can’t possibly be done, so much as that it can’t possibly be done without something horrible happening as a result of it being done.
What I mean is: both have encountered many kinds of mad science or superscience (I’m temporally cataloging Sergio’s stuff as non-mad science, since today’s strip suggests he’s probably not mad), but none of that was ever something like this.
Um… if I remember correctly… add an egg, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 2 of cocoa powder, 3 of flour, 2 of vegetable oil and 2 of milk into a medium (250ml) microwavable cup. Then put it 3 minutes on a microwave with a plate underneath (it WILL overflow)
He’s not wrong: the universe isn’t Euclidean. At large scales, it’s a Minkowski manifold; at small scales, it produces all kinds of odd geometries (and the prototypical small scale-the surface of the Earth-is most definitely not Euclidean: one set of parallel lines meet at the North and South poles and a different set of parallel lines have divergent lengths).
And all of this is assuming you don’t consider the possible consequences of the holographic principle–which suggests that the physical universe is fundamentally two-dimensional–or String and M-theory–which say 5, 8, 11, or 13 dimensions.
Tonight’s movie is the classic concert film “Stop Making Sense”, featuring the Talking Heads …
(TUNE: “The Impossible Dream”, from “Man Of La Mancha”, Joe Darion & Mitch Leigh)
You see … what can’t possibly be!
Your mind … can’t believe what you’ve found!
A room … bigger inside than outside!
It’s not … geometric’ly sound!
Your eye … isn’t telling a lie!
Come on, don’t be stubborn or dense!
Now you … are the target of mocking;
You said … that this doesn’t make sense!
This is our home!
St. Charlie, the train!
It’s not inconsistent,
It’s merely insane!
It seems shocking, it’s true,
To the newbies like you!
We have satellite TV and WiFi and White Castle too!
And I’m told that our fusion is cold!
Fossil fuel we don’t burn!
So come on! Once St. Charlie is gone,
It will never return!
And if you … should express disbelief,
Then for you … we will show our disdain!
We’ll laugh, thumb our noses at Euclid,
And build … the “impossible” train!
Ingredients
1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
3 eggs
1 (21 ounce) can apple pie filling
1/2 cup applesauce
Directions
1.Mix the box of cake mix, eggs, pie filling and applesauce till moist. Use a microwave safe bundt pan or substitute a microwave safe bowl that has a microwave safe cup or cone placed in the middle of it (to mimic a bundt pan). Pour mixture into the bowl around the cup.
2.Bake on high for 6 minutes 30 seconds, turn and bake for another 6 minutes 30 seconds on high. Remove from oven and cover bowl with a dish and let stand for 5 minutes (this finishes the cooking process).
3.Turn cake over onto dish and remove cone (cup) for a delicious quick dessert. Good hot with vanilla ice cream or whipped topping.
That’s not a cooking recipe. That’s some sort of sorcery. I’ll have no truck with this abomination! Right after I try it out, of course. I need to test to see what kind of portal to the netherworld it opens…FOR SCIENCE!
Doing a single microwave cake is even easier: my daughter has been making Chocolate Mug Cake for years (assorted recipes). There’s even an eggless version (http://kirbiecravings.com/2012/05/eggless-chocolate-mug-cake.html). After sacrificing several large mugs to a permanent chocolate crust, I suggest you grease the mug before-hand. Of course, I never had access to the kinds of “cleaning solutions” Anasigma does . . .
I would not be surprised if they were not ‘in’ the train, and the door was in fact a portal to elsewhere. It would fit in with no-one knowing where St. Charlie is, as it is possible to pin down where the train could go potentially.
There’s also a reference to a stable that’s bigger on the inside than the outside in C. S. Lewis’ The Last Battle. Which probably didn’t inspire any of these others, but did predate them.
Well, that settles that. I’m officially kidnapping Sergio and Ginny this weekend for a Doctor Who marathon and microwave cake party.
Also, I am loving Walske’s shirt. He and Unity should hit it off, especially if she can wrangle a pledge for next year’s Lurch out of him.
Dr. Who? My concern is that Ginny and Sergio seem not to have seen Sesame Street and Oscar the Grouch’s can. Or perhaps they were just skeptical viewers of Sesame Street. That seems likely in Virginia’s case.
Bigger on the inside than the outside: The wizard tents in HP & the Goblet of Fire. But that’s not science, which probably disqualifies me and makes it look like I wasn’t paying attention.
Hmm. If Lee can replicate this stuff for A-sig, they could probably take over the global housing market. Although they’re government, so they’d need to pad costs with more spike-pits to make sure they don’t turn a profit….
aaaaahhhhhhh oh my god I’m in Skin Horse. This is wonderful and strange.
Let this be a lesson to all: If you support things you love via kickstarter, great things will happen.
As someone whose career is spent cataloging and reproducing the products of mad science, Dr. Lee should already know that they consider things in terms of plausibility, rather than possibility.
Walske of looks like a happy Mr. Eric Burns-White. Not that I’ve seen a picture of a happy Mr. Burns-White.
Oh, the plagues of non-Euclidean geometry.
I just want to repeat my comment of yesterday.
Thank you.
Given what both she and Sergio have worked with at Anasigma, these reactions are a bit odd. I mean, he built a machine that interacted with alternate universes.
Though I guess she has a history of arbitrary skepticism, given her opinion of magic stamps.
I would think Sergio at least would be more accepting of this.
He nearly ended the universe with a wrench for goodness sake.
I expect Sergio’s reasoning for why this isn’t possible is much more comedic/ grounded.
I, for one, eagerly await the amusing revelation that what’s not possible is that they have the complete box set of his favorite television show, EVER, at 90% off.
My guess is that they were not syaing that this can’t possibly be done, so much as that it can’t possibly be done without something horrible happening as a result of it being done.
People tend to be skeptical about things they never encountered before. Even if it’s something simple like, say, a microwavable cake.
What I mean is: both have encountered many kinds of mad science or superscience (I’m temporally cataloging Sergio’s stuff as non-mad science, since today’s strip suggests he’s probably not mad), but none of that was ever something like this.
Microwavable cake? Where?
Um… if I remember correctly… add an egg, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 2 of cocoa powder, 3 of flour, 2 of vegetable oil and 2 of milk into a medium (250ml) microwavable cup. Then put it 3 minutes on a microwave with a plate underneath (it WILL overflow)
Haha, what a newb. What’s next, that portal is just a game and those guns can’t really exist…? Oh come on…
Not until next year Dewy!
I’m assuming his comment is to infer that Euclidean Geometry is in fact, an outdated concept and should be abandoned.
Imply. He’s implying, you’re inferring the meaning from his comment.
But yeah, similar structure to “Hey, the 70’s called, they want their shirt back!”
He’s not wrong: the universe isn’t Euclidean. At large scales, it’s a Minkowski manifold; at small scales, it produces all kinds of odd geometries (and the prototypical small scale-the surface of the Earth-is most definitely not Euclidean: one set of parallel lines meet at the North and South poles and a different set of parallel lines have divergent lengths).
And all of this is assuming you don’t consider the possible consequences of the holographic principle–which suggests that the physical universe is fundamentally two-dimensional–or String and M-theory–which say 5, 8, 11, or 13 dimensions.
Unity’s new boyfriend!
I’m crocheting up some hyperbolic space right now. ::Starts to hunt for trains using the yarn as tracks::
Do NOT head towards the light of your oncoming train…
Tonight’s movie is the classic concert film “Stop Making Sense”, featuring the Talking Heads …
(TUNE: “The Impossible Dream”, from “Man Of La Mancha”, Joe Darion & Mitch Leigh)
You see … what can’t possibly be!
Your mind … can’t believe what you’ve found!
A room … bigger inside than outside!
It’s not … geometric’ly sound!
Your eye … isn’t telling a lie!
Come on, don’t be stubborn or dense!
Now you … are the target of mocking;
You said … that this doesn’t make sense!
This is our home!
St. Charlie, the train!
It’s not inconsistent,
It’s merely insane!
It seems shocking, it’s true,
To the newbies like you!
We have satellite TV and WiFi and White Castle too!
And I’m told that our fusion is cold!
Fossil fuel we don’t burn!
So come on! Once St. Charlie is gone,
It will never return!
And if you … should express disbelief,
Then for you … we will show our disdain!
We’ll laugh, thumb our noses at Euclid,
And build … the “impossible” train!
You may find yourself on a non-Euclidean train
And you may find yourself on a non-intersecting path around the world…
Good taste, Ed. I enjoy that album this much:
http://eptcomic.com/cgi-bin/comic.cgi?volume=1&issue=3&page=18&mode=double
“It’s Bigger on the Inside…”
“Is it? I hadn’t noticed.”
I got my Volume 3 in the post this morning! This time I got a sketch of Tip in the book and a silverfish on the packaging.
Okay, I’m waiting for the Doctor to pop up at any moment. Or Daleks.
I mean, bigger on the inside? Who are you trying to fool?
Burn!
Problem with non-euclidean gemoetry. It’s like a becon to H.P.Lovecraft style edritch abominations.
Microwave Cake
tip o’ the hat to allrecipes.com
Ingredients
1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
3 eggs
1 (21 ounce) can apple pie filling
1/2 cup applesauce
Directions
1.Mix the box of cake mix, eggs, pie filling and applesauce till moist. Use a microwave safe bundt pan or substitute a microwave safe bowl that has a microwave safe cup or cone placed in the middle of it (to mimic a bundt pan). Pour mixture into the bowl around the cup.
2.Bake on high for 6 minutes 30 seconds, turn and bake for another 6 minutes 30 seconds on high. Remove from oven and cover bowl with a dish and let stand for 5 minutes (this finishes the cooking process).
3.Turn cake over onto dish and remove cone (cup) for a delicious quick dessert. Good hot with vanilla ice cream or whipped topping.
That’s not a cooking recipe. That’s some sort of sorcery. I’ll have no truck with this abomination! Right after I try it out, of course. I need to test to see what kind of portal to the netherworld it opens…FOR SCIENCE!
Doing a single microwave cake is even easier: my daughter has been making Chocolate Mug Cake for years (assorted recipes). There’s even an eggless version (http://kirbiecravings.com/2012/05/eggless-chocolate-mug-cake.html). After sacrificing several large mugs to a permanent chocolate crust, I suggest you grease the mug before-hand. Of course, I never had access to the kinds of “cleaning solutions” Anasigma does . . .
You have led me to the mad science (far better term than miracle) that is this:
2 ounces soda
2 heaping spoonfuls Reeses cake mix
Mix well
Microwave 3 minutes
Chocolate Mug Cakes (or brownies– I add pecans) are lovely. They’ve gotten me through some bad days before.
Riemann took it.
This was my first encounter with bigger on the inside.
Dr. Lee’s never watched Doctor Who? I’m ashamed of her. *shakes head*
I would not be surprised if they were not ‘in’ the train, and the door was in fact a portal to elsewhere. It would fit in with no-one knowing where St. Charlie is, as it is possible to pin down where the train could go potentially.
There’s also a reference to a stable that’s bigger on the inside than the outside in C. S. Lewis’ The Last Battle. Which probably didn’t inspire any of these others, but did predate them.
Well, that settles that. I’m officially kidnapping Sergio and Ginny this weekend for a Doctor Who marathon and microwave cake party.
Also, I am loving Walske’s shirt. He and Unity should hit it off, especially if she can wrangle a pledge for next year’s Lurch out of him.
Dr. Who? My concern is that Ginny and Sergio seem not to have seen Sesame Street and Oscar the Grouch’s can. Or perhaps they were just skeptical viewers of Sesame Street. That seems likely in Virginia’s case.
I don’t think Sergio watched much Sesame Street. He was too busy reading about 15 grades above his age level. Maybe more.
Then he met Mel in first grade, and he lost all contact with popular culture other than bus riding songs ^_^.
Microwave cake in a coffee mug:
http://www.grouprecipes.com/72684/microwave-cake-in-a-coffee-mug.html
Bigger on the inside than the outside: The wizard tents in HP & the Goblet of Fire. But that’s not science, which probably disqualifies me and makes it look like I wasn’t paying attention.
Hmm. If Lee can replicate this stuff for A-sig, they could probably take over the global housing market. Although they’re government, so they’d need to pad costs with more spike-pits to make sure they don’t turn a profit….
aaaaahhhhhhh oh my god I’m in Skin Horse. This is wonderful and strange.
Let this be a lesson to all: If you support things you love via kickstarter, great things will happen.
That’s not what non-Euclidean geometry is
Dr. Lee said the secret word I see.
As someone whose career is spent cataloging and reproducing the products of mad science, Dr. Lee should already know that they consider things in terms of plausibility, rather than possibility.