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2016-02-18

by shaenon on February 18, 2016 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Looking Glass Land
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  1. Jay Eff
    February 18, 2016, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Quick, Sweetheart!

    Through the portal, before they tell you just what the Zeppelins will be transporting!

    • Ron
      February 18, 2016, 12:21 am | # | Reply

      Lead?
      And the Zeppelins will be the Stairway to Heaven.
      Sorry,it was too easy,couldn’t resist.

      • Darwin
        February 18, 2016, 5:36 am | # | Reply

        I don’t think that they’d stop being sure that all that glitters is gold

      • Ken
        February 18, 2016, 9:43 am | # | Reply

        No, the Stairway to Heaven will be in the skyscraper, duh!

      • Robert Nowall
        February 18, 2016, 10:03 am | # | Reply

        It goes over like a lead zeppelin.

    • theysabet
      February 18, 2016, 12:43 am | # | Reply

      Ooooh; It makes me wonder…….

    • oneuniverse2
      February 18, 2016, 1:11 am | # | Reply

      Now they can only check out, but never leave.

      • oneuniverse2
        February 18, 2016, 1:15 am | # | Reply

        So I shifted to an Eagles point of view.

    • Gerald Costlow
      February 18, 2016, 8:47 pm | # | Reply

      It’s worse than that. They didn’t say they were going to build Zeppelins, only the docks. We assume too much.

  2. oneuniverse2
    February 18, 2016, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    Too bad the one on the Empires State Building was never used: I wonder if this universe will figure out how to do it with all the shifting wind up there?

    • Robert Nowall
      February 18, 2016, 7:41 am | # | Reply

      Build giant counter-wind-generating fans?

  3. B
    February 18, 2016, 2:30 am | # | Reply

    But is this one of the apocalypses that left buildings standing? If not first they need to find an intact skyscraper to put the dock on, or build one.

    • Seph
      February 18, 2016, 5:21 am | # | Reply

      I doubt humans under the influence of rage virus are capable of operating any kind of explosive.

      • SVGeezer
        February 18, 2016, 8:06 am | # | Reply

        Isn’t the problem that they would be all to capable?

      • Frank
        February 18, 2016, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

        Not them, their victims

  4. C. Hampton
    February 18, 2016, 3:17 am | # | Reply

    You know, this makes sense… in a mad sciencey way. To build those zeppelin docks they are going to need new skyscrapers. Because skyscrapers look silly standing alone in the middle of nowhere they will have to build cities to house them. But in order to build those cities they will need to rebuild industry and infrastructure. To do that they will need to increase the population. That larger population will have to eat, so restoring agricultural production to pre-apocalypse levels will be their first task. And to do this they will need airships. To transport crops to market, obviously.

  5. Blayzeing
    February 18, 2016, 5:00 am | # | Reply

    Reminds me ablot of Fringe, what with the alternate realities and zeppelins

    • Daibhid C
      February 18, 2016, 5:08 am | # | Reply

      All alternate realities have zeppelins. It’s the law.

      If you have several hours spare, there’s a TVTropes page on the subject:
      http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld

      • davidbreslin101
        February 18, 2016, 8:10 am | # | Reply

        My favourite take on this is in the Long Earth books: after discovering thousands of alternate universes, we invent universe-hopping zeppelins as the best way of travelling through them.

        • Smithnik
          February 18, 2016, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

          Great reference. There’s also The Two Georges, by Richard Dreyfus and Harry Turtledove, where George Washington and George III made peace, and America has zeppelins because, well, in a very British world, nobody’s in a hurry.

        • DarkStarling
          February 18, 2016, 10:43 pm | # | Reply

          I liked so many ideas in the Long Earth books, the zeppelins being one of them, and yet hated the books themselves. It’s irksome.

    • casimir
      February 18, 2016, 10:40 pm | # | Reply

      There’s also The Golden Compass series, which is fraught with zeppelins.

  6. midwestmutt
    February 18, 2016, 6:59 am | # | Reply

    Get out of there guys, you’re starting to acclimate.

  7. Robert Nowall
    February 18, 2016, 7:42 am | # | Reply

    Now all they have to do is step through and, maybe, they’ll wind up back in *their* universe. *Maybe.*

    • Shadowmehr
      February 18, 2016, 9:26 pm | # | Reply

      Now, I’m wondering which would be preferable for the viewing audience.

  8. Frank
    February 18, 2016, 11:59 am | # | Reply

    They finally agree on something!

  9. Ogden Wernstrom
    February 18, 2016, 8:02 pm | # | Reply

    *** BREAKING ***

    ASTRONAUT ICE CREAM IS A LIE

    “Our years of creative effort were completely wasted,” say webcomics duo.

    • Rex Vivat
      February 18, 2016, 10:03 pm | # | Reply

      Astronaut ice cream is a thing that exists, it just has nothing to do with actual astronauts.

    • Forrest M Davis
      March 5, 2020, 1:54 pm | # | Reply

      I think the real problem is that Unity expected it to be ice cream MADE from astronauts and was mildly disappointed that it wasn’t.

  10. BrokenEye, The True False Prophet
    February 20, 2016, 5:51 am | # | Reply

    Wouldn’t that first necessitate zeppelins? And skyscrapers?

    • awgiedawgie
      March 5, 2020, 2:34 pm | # | Reply

      Technically, no. They’re designing zeppelin docks for skyscrapers. You’d need a skyscraper to actually install one, and you’d need a zeppelin to make it useful, but they don’t need either one to design and build the docks.

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