God (and maybe Dr. Lee) only knows what Unity’s nanotechnology can do to concrete. Unity may have trouble controlling the little buggers.
As for the missing spoil from the dig, maybe it fell through.
Most matter contains lots of open space. think of it as packing snow to make ice. Depending on moisture content, an inch of water generates 10-14 inches of snow (by most met scales) – now imagine that the concrete is nice fluffy snow to unity’s nanites…..
Just because (freshly fallen) snow is mostly air does not mean that “most matter” is too! An inch of water may make a foot of snow, but it only makes an inch of ice. Most solid matter is, y’know, solid.
I broke [crunch crunch BURP] con-crete!
I broke [crunch crunch BURP] con-crete!
I broke [crunch crunch BURP] con-crete!
Breaking twenty feet, we’re going further down!
We got [kling kling THUD] con-crete!
We got [kling kling THUD] con-crete!
We got [kling kling THUD] con-crete!
You can see Ms. Bee, she’s wearing such a frown!
There’s concrete here a-plenty!
Feet, we measured twenty,
Not eighteen or fourteen or ten!
And for the zombie’s dessert, it’s
Tastier than dirt, it’s
Making Sweetheart say, “Did you, again?”
I broke [crunch crunch BURP] con-crete!
I broke [crunch crunch BURP] con-crete!
I broke [crunch crunch BURP] con-crete!
Going further down, to find St. Charlie town!
OH! One of the catchiest tunes and rhythms ever invented. Now I’ll have the original going through my head for days. Just the name of the song will get me started. Somehow, though, I always get more done when I have this particular soundtrack running through my mind. Thanks, Ed, I guess.
It occurs to me that Anasigma could mean lack of sigma, or missing sigma. The Greek symbol with the missing middle kind of goes with that since sigma is a measure of probability in the graphing mathematical solutions. If the middle of a bell curve is missing then you only have the extreme probabilities left. “Extreme solutions only” sounds like an Anasigma slogan.
Or if you take it as the summation operator, “something missing from the whole” – also appropriate, for an organization where you have to solve arcane language puzzles just to find out who your superiors are…
Sparks is right; what’s scarier is that I think we’re actually nerdier than the xkcd fandom. (Though I’d bet there’s significant overlap.)
I’m pretty sure that I discovered xkcd (as well as Basic Instructions, Freefall, Oglaf and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) because of comments on this site or Narbonic. So, yeah. And thanks from a tyro nerd.
“Sparks is right; what’s scarier is that I think we’re actually nerdier than the xkcd fandom. (Though I’d bet there’s significant overlap.)”
Well; I’m not sure how “significant” I am, but I do read both comics. (Though I confess to understanding very few of the math-related xkcds. I was never very good at math in school [I didn’t even learn to *divide* until I was in my late teens!] and I just barely understand most of the concepts behind higher math like algebra, calculus, etc.)
I’m sort of surprised that Sergio thinks the denizens of St. Charlie’s might care particularly about endurance over something like “Who can solve this problem with the most creativity/best use of mad science?” (U.N.I.T.Y may probably counts as mad science, even if the jury’s still out on the status of Dr. Lee.)
If I was designing the entrance requirements I’d put everyone in a room with dental floss and a pencil and one of those soft artists erasers and ask them to determine the correct time. First group to build a robot that bursts through the skylight with a sundial for a helmet gets a “Welcome Home” muffin basket.
Hearing an android (ok, it’s female-shaped, so “gyndroid”?) use “20 feet” instead of the superior metric measurement is strange! I guess unlike ARTIE she doesn’t have something to prove and her social adaption routines decided to humor the silly americans.
I read that article. The writer doesn’t really seem to know much about the metric system, but is determined to demean it anyway. Look at how he says “The next unit smaller than a meter is the centimeter, which is about half an inch, and the next unit larger is the kilometer, or roughly the length of ten football fields”. Someone should tell him that, even if they aren’t used much, decimeters (10 centimeters), decameters (10 meters) and hectometers (100 meters) still exist.
Some people just have more talent at destruction than others
I laughed out loud at this one.
I’m seeing a certain ‘team rocket’ flavour to those uniforms. If only for the massive chest logo.
It’s a shirt, an’ a sigma!
They have potential to be the world’s most obscure merchandise.
One does not simply break through concrete…
God (and maybe Dr. Lee) only knows what Unity’s nanotechnology can do to concrete. Unity may have trouble controlling the little buggers.
As for the missing spoil from the dig, maybe it fell through.
Uhm, well, it depends. Trust me on this. I spent over thirty years in the Kentucky highway department. 🙂
wheres the rest of the concrete?
and: do i want to know?
Look, they missed lunch.
Most matter contains lots of open space. think of it as packing snow to make ice. Depending on moisture content, an inch of water generates 10-14 inches of snow (by most met scales) – now imagine that the concrete is nice fluffy snow to unity’s nanites…..
Just because (freshly fallen) snow is mostly air does not mean that “most matter” is too! An inch of water may make a foot of snow, but it only makes an inch of ice. Most solid matter is, y’know, solid.
(TUNE: “Steam Heat”, Richard Adler & Jerry Ross)
I broke [crunch crunch BURP] con-crete!
I broke [crunch crunch BURP] con-crete!
I broke [crunch crunch BURP] con-crete!
Breaking twenty feet, we’re going further down!
We got [kling kling THUD] con-crete!
We got [kling kling THUD] con-crete!
We got [kling kling THUD] con-crete!
You can see Ms. Bee, she’s wearing such a frown!
There’s concrete here a-plenty!
Feet, we measured twenty,
Not eighteen or fourteen or ten!
And for the zombie’s dessert, it’s
Tastier than dirt, it’s
Making Sweetheart say, “Did you, again?”
I broke [crunch crunch BURP] con-crete!
I broke [crunch crunch BURP] con-crete!
I broke [crunch crunch BURP] con-crete!
Going further down, to find St. Charlie town!
OH! One of the catchiest tunes and rhythms ever invented. Now I’ll have the original going through my head for days. Just the name of the song will get me started. Somehow, though, I always get more done when I have this particular soundtrack running through my mind. Thanks, Ed, I guess.
(To the tune of “Working In A Coal Mine” by DEVO:)
I’m-a eatin’ me some concrete,
Chowin’ right down,
Eatin’ me some concrete,
URP! Gotta belch now!
Lookin’ for St. Charlie,
Hidden deep underground!
Goin’ with the drag queen,
And that bossy hound!
Wait-in panel one Violet’s braid is straight down! What is this nonsense???
Since it’s Violet’s hair we can assume it is synthetic.
Teflon coated Kevlar or something similar.
It occurs to me that Anasigma could mean lack of sigma, or missing sigma. The Greek symbol with the missing middle kind of goes with that since sigma is a measure of probability in the graphing mathematical solutions. If the middle of a bell curve is missing then you only have the extreme probabilities left. “Extreme solutions only” sounds like an Anasigma slogan.
I’d like to just observe that we are the weirdest, nerdiest webcomic fandom out there.
And that is awesome.
Or if you take it as the summation operator, “something missing from the whole” – also appropriate, for an organization where you have to solve arcane language puzzles just to find out who your superiors are…
Sparks is right; what’s scarier is that I think we’re actually nerdier than the xkcd fandom. (Though I’d bet there’s significant overlap.)
I’m pretty sure that I discovered xkcd (as well as Basic Instructions, Freefall, Oglaf and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) because of comments on this site or Narbonic. So, yeah. And thanks from a tyro nerd.
“Sparks is right; what’s scarier is that I think we’re actually nerdier than the xkcd fandom. (Though I’d bet there’s significant overlap.)”
Well; I’m not sure how “significant” I am, but I do read both comics. (Though I confess to understanding very few of the math-related xkcds. I was never very good at math in school [I didn’t even learn to *divide* until I was in my late teens!] and I just barely understand most of the concepts behind higher math like algebra, calculus, etc.)
I’m sort of surprised that Sergio thinks the denizens of St. Charlie’s might care particularly about endurance over something like “Who can solve this problem with the most creativity/best use of mad science?” (U.N.I.T.Y may probably counts as mad science, even if the jury’s still out on the status of Dr. Lee.)
If I was designing the entrance requirements I’d put everyone in a room with dental floss and a pencil and one of those soft artists erasers and ask them to determine the correct time. First group to build a robot that bursts through the skylight with a sundial for a helmet gets a “Welcome Home” muffin basket.
Hearing an android (ok, it’s female-shaped, so “gyndroid”?) use “20 feet” instead of the superior metric measurement is strange! I guess unlike ARTIE she doesn’t have something to prove and her social adaption routines decided to humor the silly americans.
Or she’s aware that the metric system really isn’t that “logical;” certainly not for someone more predisposed to power-of-two thinking than power-of-ten!
I read that article. The writer doesn’t really seem to know much about the metric system, but is determined to demean it anyway. Look at how he says “The next unit smaller than a meter is the centimeter, which is about half an inch, and the next unit larger is the kilometer, or roughly the length of ten football fields”. Someone should tell him that, even if they aren’t used much, decimeters (10 centimeters), decameters (10 meters) and hectometers (100 meters) still exist.
Also, the one time someone disagrees, they are dismissed as “humorless juveniles”.
Power of ten is still better than power of nothing.
I accidentally the concrete.
UNITY is a walking lolcat macro.
It’s always good to see such a fine display of the difference between Villain Luck and Hero Luck. ^_^
“Again” again.
Yeah, “Again?” jokes always crack me up ^^
To be fair, Unity is more than “one”.