This right here is why most grand conspiracies fail.
They’re made of stupid fleshlings with stupid fleshling wants and needs who stubbornly refuse to toe the secret party line like the good little drones they should.
Well, I’m betting what he was referring to as “radar” is more likely “intuition”, but let’s not forget it isn’t just a radar: skin-horse.com/comic/there-are-a/
Whether he’s actually doing it with microwave radar or that’s a metaphor, we already know he can see through clothes. Which means that the thermal scanning, while convenient, is also redundant.
Ummm… almost all radar is microwave. They discovered how well it cooked meat by observing birds roosting on the radar arrays flopping to the deck “extra-crispy”. That’s why the folks who introduced the product to the consumer market named it the “RADARange”.
Nick’s array is “broad-spectrum”, meaning he can tune the frequency to various ranges based on the resonant frequency of the subject to produce the best ummm… image. :p
Thanks for the info, I didn’t know that. I just picked microwaves because I knew that they interact with water. It’s actually an interesting technical problem, you need to run through the electromagnetic spectrum until you find something that clothing is transparent in but flesh is opaque in.
As an interesting aside, this would likely make wet t shirt contests actively counterproductive for Nick: it’d be like watching naked people be sprayed with paint that formed itself into tight clothes. Actually, that’s a pretty interesting image right there…
Just happened to think on this… thermal scanning isn’t really redundant as it returns different data than merely “seeing” through the clothing does. “Seeing” through the clothing allows you to… strip someone with your “eyes”… thermal imaging would return different results depending if they’re flustered or otherwise….
Ok, I gotta stop there. I’m finding myself thinking too much down the same line as mnementh’s comment above…. :p
Thanks to the well documented laws of quantum fetish mechanics (citation http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=715 ), by now there is almost certainly a website dedicated to pornography filmed in thermal infrared. As well as an entire community of enthusiasts for other ranges of the em spectrum. And backlash against the ‘perverts’ who mix frequencies. Though I admit, even I find 3D X Ray/Thermal imaging crossover crowd a bit odd…
I’m not familiar with website design, but I wonder if it was a foo-pah when they were attempting to resetup the site after the upgrade? I noticed that the different entries came back a few at a time, like Shaenon and/or Jeff were having to manually set them back up themselves.
Once you get enough antimatter condensers an upgrade pops up called ‘big bang bake’. That’s right. The player creates the universe IN ORDER TO BAKE MORE COOKIES.
I recall, back in the shoulder-mounted video camera age, a report of a camera being hastily recalled… It seems that the sensor was sensitive to millimetric waves… to which clothing was transparent… Not infrared, not radar, but it’d work…
Okay, I’m seeing two possibilities here;
1. Mr. Green is on Skin Horse’s side, and Our Heroes have a, not an informant, but a “friend” in Anasigma.
2. There is at least one, and probably three, hidden backdoors into Nick’s systems, and he’s being used as a very large bug so Anasigma can keep tabs on Annex One.
Either way, this adds a level of paranoia to this tale of Black Ops and Mad Science. Like it needed it.
TTTO: “Mr. Kite”
For the benefit of Dr. Lee,Nick explains, explicitly,Just how things lie.
The mystery of Mr. GreenIs not profound, it’s just obscene Which she denies.
But Nick knows that his has it right, for He has radar, and he knows his stuff.Caught unprepared, Ginny declared, “That is enough!”
Well, yes, the banging is the first order term in the equation. But what’s the second order term?
This right here is why most grand conspiracies fail.
They’re made of stupid fleshlings with stupid fleshling wants and needs who stubbornly refuse to toe the secret party line like the good little drones they should.
“More banging”?
Geez I fail at hitting the right button on these things. That was supposed to be a reply to Dave up there.
They’re holding hands! Awwww and yay!
Sadly, no. That’s the sidewalk.
Why would she be “holding hands with the sidewalk”? She hasn’t drunk anything yet, at least not in-panel.
Dammit! Holding hands with a sidewalk isn’t nearly as romantic.
Awww…
I thought too at first… but look again. Nick’s hands are both in his pockets; that’s an unfortunate delusion caused by the curb of the street. *snif*
mnem
No fair, giving us accidental shippy moments, then yanking them away with REALITY; I feel like Charlie Brown chasing after that damned football…
…Nick, I’m pretty sure that military spec millimeter wave radar only detects metals, not lust.
If it can detect heat signatures with some precision, it would be a pretty good lustometer.
It could be a radar installed in the drone body, actually. That would more likely be set up as a bang-ar.
Well, I’m betting what he was referring to as “radar” is more likely “intuition”, but let’s not forget it isn’t just a radar: skin-horse.com/comic/there-are-a/
My vote is for “Laydar” :3
Do both Violet’s lines in the last panel come between Nick’s lines?
Er, I’m assuming you meant Nick (standing on the left in the Violet drone) and Virginia (“Ginny” or Dr Lee; standing on the right).
And yes, the lines go Nick/Lee/Nick/Lee.
Errgh, it’s so confusing! But yeah, rereading it I can see that Nick/Violet is definitely responding to Virginia.
These guys had better stay away from space stations full of spikes.
Whether he’s actually doing it with microwave radar or that’s a metaphor, we already know he can see through clothes. Which means that the thermal scanning, while convenient, is also redundant.
Ummm… almost all radar is microwave. They discovered how well it cooked meat by observing birds roosting on the radar arrays flopping to the deck “extra-crispy”. That’s why the folks who introduced the product to the consumer market named it the “RADARange”.
Nick’s array is “broad-spectrum”, meaning he can tune the frequency to various ranges based on the resonant frequency of the subject to produce the best ummm… image. :p
mnem
*Dirty old geek*
Thanks for the info, I didn’t know that. I just picked microwaves because I knew that they interact with water. It’s actually an interesting technical problem, you need to run through the electromagnetic spectrum until you find something that clothing is transparent in but flesh is opaque in.
As an interesting aside, this would likely make wet t shirt contests actively counterproductive for Nick: it’d be like watching naked people be sprayed with paint that formed itself into tight clothes. Actually, that’s a pretty interesting image right there…
Just happened to think on this… thermal scanning isn’t really redundant as it returns different data than merely “seeing” through the clothing does. “Seeing” through the clothing allows you to… strip someone with your “eyes”… thermal imaging would return different results depending if they’re flustered or otherwise….
Ok, I gotta stop there. I’m finding myself thinking too much down the same line as mnementh’s comment above…. :p
Thanks to the well documented laws of quantum fetish mechanics (citation http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=715 ), by now there is almost certainly a website dedicated to pornography filmed in thermal infrared. As well as an entire community of enthusiasts for other ranges of the em spectrum. And backlash against the ‘perverts’ who mix frequencies. Though I admit, even I find 3D X Ray/Thermal imaging crossover crowd a bit odd…
Hi group. Any idea why “Big Bad Wolves” is not in chronological order with the rest of the chapters on the drop-down menu below today’s comic?
I’m not familiar with website design, but I wonder if it was a foo-pah when they were attempting to resetup the site after the upgrade? I noticed that the different entries came back a few at a time, like Shaenon and/or Jeff were having to manually set them back up themselves.
Okay so totally off-topic but this game has the best incident of mad science ever: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
Once you get enough antimatter condensers an upgrade pops up called ‘big bang bake’. That’s right. The player creates the universe IN ORDER TO BAKE MORE COOKIES.
Tell me that’s not mad. as hell.
Reference to Carl Sagan’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s664NsLeFM ?
I recall, back in the shoulder-mounted video camera age, a report of a camera being hastily recalled… It seems that the sensor was sensitive to millimetric waves… to which clothing was transparent… Not infrared, not radar, but it’d work…
Okay, I’m seeing two possibilities here;
1. Mr. Green is on Skin Horse’s side, and Our Heroes have a, not an informant, but a “friend” in Anasigma.
2. There is at least one, and probably three, hidden backdoors into Nick’s systems, and he’s being used as a very large bug so Anasigma can keep tabs on Annex One.
Either way, this adds a level of paranoia to this tale of Black Ops and Mad Science. Like it needed it.
TTTO: “Mr. Kite”
For the benefit of Dr. Lee,Nick explains, explicitly,Just how things lie.
The mystery of Mr. GreenIs not profound, it’s just obscene Which she denies.
But Nick knows that his has it right, for He has radar, and he knows his stuff.Caught unprepared, Ginny declared, “That is enough!”
Too sleepy to finish this. Anyone?
Formatting fail…
As sung by the Beatles, or as sung by Eddie Izzard?
Where are our usual filkers? They’ve gotten me spoiled, so thanks for stepping up, K.! ^_^
BTW, I nominate Eddie to play Tip, when Shaenon & Jeff make the live-action movie. ^_^
Hmm, they are holding hands. Are they an ‘item’? *Squee!*
Regrettably, they’re not. It’s just a trick of the lines, if you look harder you’ll notice Nick’s hands are both in his pockets.
Dang, you are right. Nothing to see here, folks, just a premature squeeing.
*sad face*
So Nick has seen Mr. Green in person?
He’s following Dr. Lee’s assumption that Mr. Green was Violet’s pilot in St. Charlie.
Yeah, just ask Sergio how accurate that radar of yours is.