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2019-12-18

by shaenon on December 18, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. Frank
    December 18, 2019, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Invisible paint? But that’s impossible!

    • extremist343
      February 4, 2021, 10:42 pm | # | Reply

      Nothing’s impossible!

  2. awgiedawgie
    December 18, 2019, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Important questions to ask before trying the paint… How long does it last? Can you wash it off, or do you have to wait for it to wear off, turning visible again a little at a time? Or is it accidentally permanent?

    • Stroth
      December 18, 2019, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      Does it melt skin, does it permanently stain you fuschia, will it transform you into a meerkat, will I ever play the piano again, will it make everything taste like apple based sauerkraut for the rest of my life?

      Seriously, this is Mad Science, not regular science.

    • tornadominds
      December 18, 2019, 7:55 am | # | Reply

      “Does only the paint turn invisible, or does it also conceal the wearer?” :}

    • Frank
      December 18, 2019, 10:22 am | # | Reply

      will only the skin be made invisible, or the muscles and bones too?

      • tornadominds
        December 19, 2019, 1:00 am | # | Reply

        You win.

  3. BMunro
    December 18, 2019, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    Do seem to be a fair number of Mads that are more interested in arguing or posturing or free drinks than Learning what Man was Not Meant to Know, Taking Over the World, or Destroying all those Fools.

    • Blofeld's Cat
      December 18, 2019, 4:28 am | # | Reply

      Quite so. This lack of focus is why Rome wasn’t evaporated in a day.

      I’ve always liked to have the boilers stoked and steam raised before the local agricultural workers get wind of what you’re doing, and have their torchlight procession.

      Anyway free drinks are not generally a problem once you have taken over the world.

  4. Robert Nowall
    December 18, 2019, 7:41 am | # | Reply

    If they paint makes you invisible, how come we can see the flask it’s in?

    • David B Huber
      December 18, 2019, 7:53 am | # | Reply

      Notice we see Dr. Walske’s arm behind the flask. Adaptive camouflage isn’t perfect invisibility, merely warping light around you. In practice, I’d expect to need a hood so you don’t have disembodied eyeballs floating around…

      • Lady E
        December 18, 2019, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

        Somehow I must make a Halloween costume where I am a set of disembodied eyeballs. That would be fun.

        • =Tamar
          December 18, 2019, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

          Black coverall with LED-lit eyeballs hanging in front. The LED lighting is to distract people from the black lump behind it. The lights only face forward so you aren’t blinded by them.

    • David B Huber
      December 18, 2019, 8:00 am | # | Reply

      To answer your question, the flask is effectively behind the fluid, proving you could still see out. But if you dropped a frog into the flask, the frog would “disappear”.

      Dr. Walske: “I’ll demonstrate! Watch as I drop this frog into the flask… See!? It’s gone!”
      Sweetheart: “What’s that bubbling?”
      Dr. Walske: “Oops.”

    • Frank
      December 18, 2019, 10:23 am | # | Reply

      I guess it doesn’t work on glass… which could be a problem if you’re blind without your glasses

      • awgiedawgie
        December 18, 2019, 5:02 pm | # | Reply

        But it would work on your frames.

        Besides, the liquid is inside the flask, so it wouldn’t conceal the flask anyway.

        • BMunro
          December 18, 2019, 9:45 pm | # | Reply

          Right, if it worked that way you could just swallow the paint (assuming it’s non-toxic) 🙂

          • awgiedawgie
            December 18, 2019, 9:57 pm | #

            I would definitely not assume it’s non-toxic.

  5. Christian Rose
    December 18, 2019, 8:11 am | # | Reply

    The punchline doesnt make sense.

    • Christian Rose
      December 18, 2019, 8:57 am | # | Reply

      Nevermind, it’s a delayed punchline…

  6. jdreyfuss
    February 5, 2020, 4:30 pm | # | Reply

    The nice thing about having an explosive retaining device that fails deadly is that no one who’s wearing it would be willing to test whether you’re lying about it going off if they try to remove it.

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