Handlebar tassels! Wheel generator for the light, and Schimmelhorn time machine gearing! Cards in the spokes! Wire support for pennant flag! AM radio mounted on the handlebars!
The advantage of telling someone they’re wearing a lethal control device that fails deadly is that no sane person would be willing to test whether you’re telling the truth unless they’re truly desperate.
I love that Joshua has to ask whether Tip actually wants it removed. Then again, we have it on good authority that wearing one does improve your concentration so maybe it was wise of him to check first.
It’s like trying to play with little kids
“And then he drove through the dangerous mountain pass”
“But the brakes were out!”
“So he fell off a cliff!”
“But he had a jetpack!”
“And he flew right into a giant eagle”
“But he shook it off with his cattle prod!”
“Cattle prod?”
“He has big pockets”
“Ah, that makes sense”
I think the flamethrower would be more useful. If you cut off a piece of the Biomass you risk it having the limited autonomy individual parts have had when separated. If you burn it, it’s gone. Of course, green plant matter is notoriously difficult to burn, so until it does completely burn away you’ve got a large, angry ball of fire chasing you.
If we’re dealing with ordinary high explosives you may not be far off.
High stability HE will generally burn normally without some kind of shock applied.
Witness that it was common in Vietnam for US troops to heat their C-rations with a little bit of C-4 with the caution that you let the charge burn out rather than try to stomp out the fire.
Mythbusters actually tested that one a while ago. While you can set C-4 on fire and cook over it, it basically will not detonate for anything short of a blasting cap. Setting it on fire and stomping on it won’t do it. Setting it on fire and dropping an anvil on it won’t do it. Even setting it on fire and shooting it with a high-velocity rifle won’t do it.
The build team had a similar one where they were trying to get a trunk full of explosives to go off by ramming another car into it. Even mounting the second car on a rocket sled and slamming it into the trunk full of explosives at like half the speed of sound wouldn’t do the job. The collision was satisfyingly spectacular, but nothing actually detonated.
The toilet probably isn’t plumbed in. If you found yourself looking up at someone using an invisible mobile toilet, you may have more pressing concerns than what you may or may not be able to see.
Tip’s “mojo” seem to work the same way as a Mad’s science abilities, so all it should take is convincing him that the collar’s going to ruin his sex life and it should just pop right off.
Tip’s mojo works to further a prospective romantic (or sexual, or both) encounter. But the potential has to be there. I don’t recall it ever kicking in to prevent a potential negative impact on his sex life.
Besides, he’s already demonstrated that he can have an active sex life even with the collar on.
One wonders just what marvelous attachments will be revealed shortly. I’m hoping for a bell.
And maybe a squeaky little horn?
How ’bout collectible baseball cards clipped to the spokes?
Handlebar tassels! Wheel generator for the light, and Schimmelhorn time machine gearing! Cards in the spokes! Wire support for pennant flag! AM radio mounted on the handlebars!
You forgot the basket.
And BMX-style foot pegs.
The idea of Papa Schimmelhorn and Skin Horse meeting boggles the mind.
You are all bringing tears of nostalgia to my eyes!
At this point I can’t help but wonder if the collar detonates – providing Unity with a new body…
The thought of Unity going all Giggerota on Tip… pleases me…
The advantage of telling someone they’re wearing a lethal control device that fails deadly is that no sane person would be willing to test whether you’re telling the truth unless they’re truly desperate.
Be glad for small favours, Tip. At least the plants aren’t trying to eat you any more.
i wonder if the roasted plant people smell like fried okra or fried green tomatoes?
Being from the South I’m kinda partial to fried green beans.
Mushrooms sauteed in butter. Yum!
Hickory smoke, perfect for roasting hot dogs over.
Remember the magic words: “You can’t take this off without detonating it.”
Did you just imply it was IMPOSSIBLE? Say that louder so Walske can hear you!
Seriously, two reality-warping Mads, Tip’s mojo powers, and an invisible not-attack helicopter. That collar doesn’t have a chance.
But it does bend for the collar! Just think of all the times that he forgot he was wearing it so it became invisible!
And if you want really bending reality, go back and review the footage, and you’ll see it was there all along.
Not always, a bunch of strips never got fixed.
Loud declarative sentences are an important part of Mad Science Mojo generation.
This reminds me of some of the crazier test logs at the SCP foundation.
I love that Joshua has to ask whether Tip actually wants it removed. Then again, we have it on good authority that wearing one does improve your concentration so maybe it was wise of him to check first.
Joshua isn’t there. That was Dr. Kirk who asked him that.
It’s like trying to play with little kids
“And then he drove through the dangerous mountain pass”
“But the brakes were out!”
“So he fell off a cliff!”
“But he had a jetpack!”
“And he flew right into a giant eagle”
“But he shook it off with his cattle prod!”
“Cattle prod?”
“He has big pockets”
“Ah, that makes sense”
I think the flamethrower would be more useful. If you cut off a piece of the Biomass you risk it having the limited autonomy individual parts have had when separated. If you burn it, it’s gone. Of course, green plant matter is notoriously difficult to burn, so until it does completely burn away you’ve got a large, angry ball of fire chasing you.
If we’re dealing with ordinary high explosives you may not be far off.
High stability HE will generally burn normally without some kind of shock applied.
Witness that it was common in Vietnam for US troops to heat their C-rations with a little bit of C-4 with the caution that you let the charge burn out rather than try to stomp out the fire.
It’s a flamethrower, not an explosive.
Mythbusters actually tested that one a while ago. While you can set C-4 on fire and cook over it, it basically will not detonate for anything short of a blasting cap. Setting it on fire and stomping on it won’t do it. Setting it on fire and dropping an anvil on it won’t do it. Even setting it on fire and shooting it with a high-velocity rifle won’t do it.
The build team had a similar one where they were trying to get a trunk full of explosives to go off by ramming another car into it. Even mounting the second car on a rocket sled and slamming it into the trunk full of explosives at like half the speed of sound wouldn’t do the job. The collision was satisfyingly spectacular, but nothing actually detonated.
Thus the reason national and professional armed forces like to use C-4. There’s basically no way it’s going to explode accidentally.
Setting it on fire and stomping on it did set the boot on fire, iirc.
Chainsaw, fire, rolling wheels, invisible. Now we just need one with a mini fridge and the other have a toilet and we’re good to go!
Do you really want to use a toilet in a room that has effectively no walls?
jdreyfuss: What do you think the long white coat is for?
The long white coat doesn’t do much good for people looking up from below.
The toilet probably isn’t plumbed in. If you found yourself looking up at someone using an invisible mobile toilet, you may have more pressing concerns than what you may or may not be able to see.
I wasn’t concerned about the safety of the people below. But if I were the one up in the air, I wouldn’t want them to be able to see anything.
And of course there’s still the question of how you would get your pants down while you’re riding, and then what do you do when you’re done?
I realize that Mad scientists aren’t limited by the practical – or even the possible – but still, I just don’t see it being worth the trouble.
Who are doomed anyway, if they don’t move…
I meany that for Awgiedawgie’s comment, sorry…
When you gotta go…
Tip’s “mojo” seem to work the same way as a Mad’s science abilities, so all it should take is convincing him that the collar’s going to ruin his sex life and it should just pop right off.
Tip’s mojo works to further a prospective romantic (or sexual, or both) encounter. But the potential has to be there. I don’t recall it ever kicking in to prevent a potential negative impact on his sex life.
Besides, he’s already demonstrated that he can have an active sex life even with the collar on.
It would be highly amusing if it turned out that, while Tip was still wearing the collar, he’d incidentally removed the bomb at some point.
Chainsaws, flamethrowers – why do I feel like these two don’t go anywhere without at least three multi-tools about their person?
Bah! If you need more that one multi-tool, it clearly isn’t multi enough.