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2012-10-11

by shaenon on October 11, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Anderson
    October 11, 2012, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Ah well. Whatever they score, they’re having a blast.

  2. Andrew
    October 11, 2012, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Angry Ruby is very Angry.

    • Darkstarr
      April 22, 2016, 6:22 am | # | Reply

      Yes, but she’s cute when she’s angry.

  3. Prodigal
    October 11, 2012, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    Not like it matters what score Ruby records, though, since GODOT will most likely pick who wins and rearrange the text accordingly.

  4. Jason
    October 11, 2012, 2:22 am | # | Reply

    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?

  5. davidbreslin101
    October 11, 2012, 5:34 am | # | Reply

    Ooh! Fancy floating transparent computer interface! (and Ruby has chosen not to be a Bluetooth compatible device. Sensible.)

  6. E.T. The Eccentric Type
    October 11, 2012, 7:10 am | # | Reply

    I don’t get what the big deal is.
    Ruby’s already friends with created life, so she knows it’s possible.

    • Frank
      October 11, 2012, 7:20 am | # | Reply

      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?

      • Stickmaker
        October 11, 2012, 8:31 am | # | Reply

        Given a few million years of attempts, we will. 😉

      • Jack
        October 11, 2012, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

        I thought she meant in a “half android/half gelatinous blob” way.

      • WJS
        September 25, 2017, 4:34 am | # | Reply

        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.

    • Axel
      October 11, 2012, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

      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.

      • Frank
        October 11, 2012, 6:41 pm | # | Reply

        Ah, yes. A Douglas Adams level annoyance

  7. mnementh
    October 11, 2012, 8:16 am | # | Reply

    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

    • VonZorch
      October 11, 2012, 3:58 pm | # | Reply

      I had always heard that as “There is no problem that cannot be solved by a suitable application of high explosives.”

      • mnementh
        October 11, 2012, 10:28 pm | # | Reply

        “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.

  8. Manifesta
    October 11, 2012, 10:49 am | # | Reply

    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

  9. Andrew
    October 11, 2012, 1:50 pm | # | Reply

    “I was about to create life.” Is that what they call sex now days?

    • Axel
      October 11, 2012, 4:03 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe she was making one of those Railway Children the story title refers to.

    • Shadowmehr
      October 11, 2012, 5:08 pm | # | Reply

      She is a cyborg, it could mean both ways . . . , er, maybe not the best way to put that, but you see what I mean.

    • Tetra Valent
      October 12, 2012, 11:13 am | # | Reply

      She and Mike just solved the problem they set themsevles when we last saw them in Narbonic.

  10. Towering Barbarian
    October 11, 2012, 6:25 pm | # | Reply

    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

    • Scott's Folly
      October 15, 2012, 5:28 am | # | Reply

      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.

  11. bjexcou
    October 11, 2012, 8:35 pm | # | Reply

    I think Sergio looks more chagrined than indignant.

  12. JET73L
    February 20, 2015, 9:12 am | # | Reply

    They blew up Ruby’s mini-fridge!?

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