Based on my own experience when I was scrawny and short, and not only myself, but one of my students a few years ago who was 5′ 1″ and she was 100 lbs., I’m guessing Nick weighs about 120 lbs.
I took that into account. When I was his size, I was closer to 140, but I played sports, so even though I was scrawny, I’m sure I had more muscle mass than he does.
It’s not that he likes it with mold, but that mold was not enough to keep him from drinking it. However, his current digestive system is not conditioned to consuming mold, so it would be a bad idea at this point.
Trying to do the Mad Science on this…hmmmm…car engines can be modified to run on old vegetable oil…Nick always liked junk food, so greasy donuts could be the hybrid fuel of choice for someone who still identifies as a helicopter.
So how much “fuel” does he really need? The average donut weighs 60 grams, 11 grams of which are grease…can we assume 12 donuts per box? Did Baron Mistycorn ingest any donuts, or just smoosh them around and gunk up his snout?
If birds need to eat their weight in a day, how many donuts are needed to top off Nick’s fuel reserves? About 120-140 lbs? Is volume the limiting factor?
Did Nick crash because of a lack of energy, or because he was too darned full to “lift off”?
Or are Ginny and Marcie not concerned with Nick, and just sending out an SOS because they’re starving, since the order for pizza rolls didn’t pan out?
Mad Scientists, please help with this!
Sugar can give you a quick rush of energy, and donuts have an abundance of sugar. Nick crashed for two reasons – he ate so much that his stomach is probably killing him right about now, and it took him long enough to do it that his body has had time to respond to the massive amount of sugar with an equally massive amount of insulin. He didn’t need anywhere near that much “fuel”, but he’s still so new to this body that he doesn’t know when to stop. Not only that, but he was also stalling to give the “away team” time to do their thing, so he probably kept eating even beyond when he knew he should have quit.
Based on the Baron’s comments about gumming up his servos, I’d say he did indeed ingest a fair number of the donuts himself.
Virginia is undoubtedly subconsciously concerned about Nick (she always is, even when no one else is), but he and the Baron did just consume the entire supply of donuts, so the first priority here is getting more donuts.
This raises another quite impertinent question.
Anyone remember Anne Rice’s Vampire Lestadt’s reaction when his vampire body was stolen by a body thief, and he was left with a “loaner”? After several hundred years, he’d forgotten about the “garbage in, garbage out” aspects of a human digestive system.
Congratulations. Unless you want to sacrifice eating and sleeping and stuff, reading over 4000 strips (assuming you didn’t skip over all the Sunday strips) isn’t exactly an overnight project.
Wait – was there an option to skip? Because basically I just went from the beginning and just kept pressing next until I got here. Reading everything I could. It would have probably taken less time if I hadn’t stopped to read comments often as well.
No, there’s no option to skip, per se. But if you just click on the comic for “next” – or use the left and right arrow keys if you’re on a computer – it’s easy enough to skip over them. Of course, if you didn’t skip them, then you already know that you would have been missing a lot of good stuff if you had.
Come along with carbo-load,
In our merry crisis mode.
Down the donuts Nick will try,
Automacrisis, he won’t die.
Dr. Lee is miffed and vexed,
And we’ll see what comes up next.
We will go so far in this episode,
In our merry crisis mode.
I can see Tip’s point here, but I’m guessing there’s more to the crullers than sugar poisoning on Nick’s part. One mad(?) scientist on deck, one back in the base, and two irresponsible ones assisting; not even the sky’s the limit.
Have Unity check them out. Perhaps they’re delicious.
Indeed. They might be as tasty as crullers (to Unity, anyway.)
The paramilitary group or the crullers?
Yes
Priorities.
Nick’s having a crisis of unconsciousness.
Tip, it’s a *good* division of labor! You wouldn’t want to get too chunky for your dresses, would you? ^.^
Come to think of it, how much does Nick weigh in this incarnation? Under a hundred pounds?
Does he have any intestinal flora yet?
Based on my own experience when I was scrawny and short, and not only myself, but one of my students a few years ago who was 5′ 1″ and she was 100 lbs., I’m guessing Nick weighs about 120 lbs.
One doubts if Nick has much in the way of muscle tissue. At least if they followed the original blueprints.
I took that into account. When I was his size, I was closer to 140, but I played sports, so even though I was scrawny, I’m sure I had more muscle mass than he does.
So the crisis isn’t that Nick’s too bloated to fight, but that she, Marcie and Chris have no crullers to call their own? Sounds legit.
He weighs about what TigerLilly made him to be.
On the contrary, I would say they probably need to supply Nick with some Mountain Dew at this point.
Don’t forget he likes it with mold.
It’s not that he likes it with mold, but that mold was not enough to keep him from drinking it. However, his current digestive system is not conditioned to consuming mold, so it would be a bad idea at this point.
Trying to do the Mad Science on this…hmmmm…car engines can be modified to run on old vegetable oil…Nick always liked junk food, so greasy donuts could be the hybrid fuel of choice for someone who still identifies as a helicopter.
So how much “fuel” does he really need? The average donut weighs 60 grams, 11 grams of which are grease…can we assume 12 donuts per box? Did Baron Mistycorn ingest any donuts, or just smoosh them around and gunk up his snout?
If birds need to eat their weight in a day, how many donuts are needed to top off Nick’s fuel reserves? About 120-140 lbs? Is volume the limiting factor?
Did Nick crash because of a lack of energy, or because he was too darned full to “lift off”?
Or are Ginny and Marcie not concerned with Nick, and just sending out an SOS because they’re starving, since the order for pizza rolls didn’t pan out?
Mad Scientists, please help with this!
Well, just doing the regular science on it…
Sugar can give you a quick rush of energy, and donuts have an abundance of sugar. Nick crashed for two reasons – he ate so much that his stomach is probably killing him right about now, and it took him long enough to do it that his body has had time to respond to the massive amount of sugar with an equally massive amount of insulin. He didn’t need anywhere near that much “fuel”, but he’s still so new to this body that he doesn’t know when to stop. Not only that, but he was also stalling to give the “away team” time to do their thing, so he probably kept eating even beyond when he knew he should have quit.
Based on the Baron’s comments about gumming up his servos, I’d say he did indeed ingest a fair number of the donuts himself.
Virginia is undoubtedly subconsciously concerned about Nick (she always is, even when no one else is), but he and the Baron did just consume the entire supply of donuts, so the first priority here is getting more donuts.
This raises another quite impertinent question.
Anyone remember Anne Rice’s Vampire Lestadt’s reaction when his vampire body was stolen by a body thief, and he was left with a “loaner”? After several hundred years, he’d forgotten about the “garbage in, garbage out” aspects of a human digestive system.
This.^
Probably sugar crash
Crisis on Finite Crullers.
WOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’M FINALLY ALL CAUGHT UP! YES!
Reading all the way from the beginning to here took me a while. But it’s nice to finally be up to date.
Congratulations. Unless you want to sacrifice eating and sleeping and stuff, reading over 4000 strips (assuming you didn’t skip over all the Sunday strips) isn’t exactly an overnight project.
Wait – was there an option to skip? Because basically I just went from the beginning and just kept pressing next until I got here. Reading everything I could. It would have probably taken less time if I hadn’t stopped to read comments often as well.
No, there’s no option to skip, per se. But if you just click on the comic for “next” – or use the left and right arrow keys if you’re on a computer – it’s easy enough to skip over them. Of course, if you didn’t skip them, then you already know that you would have been missing a lot of good stuff if you had.
The comments are worth it
Come along with carbo-load,
In our merry crisis mode.
Down the donuts Nick will try,
Automacrisis, he won’t die.
Dr. Lee is miffed and vexed,
And we’ll see what comes up next.
We will go so far in this episode,
In our merry crisis mode.
I can see Tip’s point here, but I’m guessing there’s more to the crullers than sugar poisoning on Nick’s part. One mad(?) scientist on deck, one back in the base, and two irresponsible ones assisting; not even the sky’s the limit.