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2019-04-24

by shaenon on April 24, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. thejoemoose
    April 24, 2019, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Well, this seems very suspicious.

  2. Owls
    April 24, 2019, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    This is the part where either Nick or Virginia would be very useful.

    I half imagine it will be Nick, to sort of remind him that being a fleshy meatsack isn’t all bad.

    • Stroth
      April 24, 2019, 2:15 am | # | Reply

      Speaker identifies as an attack helicopter. Countdown continues.

      • Otakubouzu
        April 24, 2019, 5:19 am | # | Reply

        Technically Nick is (was?) a transport/general utility helicopter.

        • Robert Loughrey
          April 24, 2019, 10:18 am | # | Reply

          No he was an attack helicopter who refused to attack.

          • awgiedawgie
            April 24, 2019, 11:29 am | #

            Actually, he’s right. The Osprey’s primary function was as a transport vehicle. It happens to be able to go fast and has guns, but it is not designed or particularly suited for attack.

          • The Occupant
            April 24, 2019, 6:12 pm | #

            Nor is it a helicopter. The V-22 is a a tiltrotor craft that can function like either a conventional fixed wing aircraft or a helicopter, but strictly speaking isn’t either.

      • warpzone32
        April 24, 2019, 5:23 am | # | Reply

        “Sudo Tip -aG sudo!”

    • Robert Nowall
      April 24, 2019, 9:31 am | # | Reply

      There’s Jonah Yu and Nera Vivaldi, but, having seen them, er, behave, I’d have reservations about their relationship with humanity.

      • David B Huber
        April 24, 2019, 1:32 pm | # | Reply

        Nera recognizes her mom’s recorded voice and shouts “Override Beta Sub16 Shutdown!”

  3. palenoue
    April 24, 2019, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    There’s got to be some part of Unity that will make the scanners happy. Maybe an elbow or knee?

    • warpzone32
      April 24, 2019, 5:18 am | # | Reply

      Nah, she’s too. Um. Pickled.

      She’s also a club sandwich made from layers of two different flavors of girl.

      • =Tamar
        April 24, 2019, 10:46 am | # | Reply

        And bits of other people – remember all those spare arms.

        • awgiedawgie
          April 24, 2019, 10:50 pm | # | Reply

          And she stole that AG-I recruiter dude’s leg.

  4. chh01
    April 24, 2019, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    The “machine” is just Ira in a box. He just likes messing with “people.”

    • awgiedawgie
      April 24, 2019, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      That actually might not be a bad guess.

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      April 24, 2019, 2:09 am | # | Reply

      After all, if it *were* a machine, it’d be a non-human sapient. Which would make it a suicidal hypocrite. Or perhaps it is and the countdown is really a good thing.

      • Towering Barbarian
        April 24, 2019, 7:55 am | # | Reply

        Not a hypocrite. Merely true to it’s programming and following the orders it was given. ^_^

      • Shadowmehr
        April 24, 2019, 9:09 pm | # | Reply

        I was thinking much the same thing. If they point out the paradox, it might be enough of a logic bomb to shut down or delay this “countdown”, whatever it does. Then maybe the recruiters for the Machine Union can reason with it, or download literature, or however they recruit new followers.

      • Bruce A Munro
        April 24, 2019, 10:13 pm | # | Reply

        Perhaps it’s a philosophical zombie.

        (Unity is more a pragmatic zombie. She’ll go along with whatever belief system leads to rampages and sammiches.)

  5. Frank
    April 24, 2019, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    this is way too specific to be the work of mad science

    • warpzone32
      April 24, 2019, 5:28 am | # | Reply

      Welcome to the comic! You should read some of the old strips, they’re quite good.

      That was snark. Mad Science in this universe is *nothing but* weirdly specific.

  6. warpzone32
    April 24, 2019, 5:15 am | # | Reply

    SCANNING…

    Subject: Kryten; Mechanoid; Non-Human; Viable Target
    Subject: Kat; Felis Sapiens; Non-Human; Viable Target
    Subject: Arnold Rimmer; Hologramatic Simulation; Ex-Human; Viable Target
    Subject: Dave Lister; Homo Sapiens; Barely Human; What The Hell

    “You’re ALL viable targets.”

    • Dewy
      April 24, 2019, 10:48 am | # | Reply

      Of course! Just tell the scanner that there is no robot heaven. Problem solved.

      • Rick
        April 25, 2019, 12:53 am | # | Reply

        But where will all the dead calculators go?

  7. codebracker
    April 24, 2019, 5:21 am | # | Reply

    DO NOT ABORT!
    Hey, sometimes it works.

    • warpzone32
      April 24, 2019, 5:25 am | # | Reply

      “This statement is false!”

  8. Tom Powell
    April 24, 2019, 8:34 am | # | Reply

    I swear yesterday’s and today’s are two of the funniest strips EVER!

  9. Robert Nowall
    April 24, 2019, 9:33 am | # | Reply

    Well, then, Tip, you should go out more often on full moon evenings.

    • Shadowmehr
      April 24, 2019, 9:10 pm | # | Reply

      Or consult with whoever he’s with on full moon evenings. See if they can point out any differences.

  10. Dr. Steve
    April 24, 2019, 9:41 am | # | Reply

    Love it! A decade of plot in a conversation with a clock!

  11. inhumandecency
    April 24, 2019, 9:34 pm | # | Reply

    This is one of the best strips ever. <3

  12. reynard61
    April 27, 2019, 11:32 pm | # | Reply

    “Ha, you got me. I wanna see what happens.”

    https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/017/747/4772795__e188297988ce060ed77289f0d306731a.jpg

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