Contraception doesn’t require being “very, very careful”.
Condoms are simple and easy. Intrauterine devices involve a simple clinic visit to put in place and then work for years. It’s really not hard to avoid getting pregnant before you want to / are ready to in the modern day.
@D. Walker: IUDs can hurt! when implanted; women are advised to “take some Advil” before coming into the procedure. Many of these devices work, but 1. Girls aren’t taught about them (in their absence, kids make up myths about reproduction, such as “you can just piddle it out” and “use a can of Spirite.”) and 2. Women’s reproductive health is poorly studied and supported. An Advil is all they give someone during an IUD implant? D:
So, don’t disagree; just felt this was worth mentioning. Dr. Lee is educated enough to know all of this, and maybe in their world, some mad scientist got tired of all of the crud and has addressed women’s repro for the realz.
Nah, once his Mad Science gene fully expressed, he lost the ability to do Mad Tech Support. The Mad Tech Support Guy from St. Charlie is available, though.
It just needs to be wound tight enough! They’re just as possible as hammers whose strikes yield megaton-scale impacts, though those just need to be really *heavy*, and moving *really* fast.
Finding suitable materials might be hard.
Extra fun: gravity is not just a function of mass. It’s just that the other things that contribute to it are rarely noticeable outside of inhospitable places like the cores of stars. But one of the things that contributes to gravity, a commonplace in primers on general relativity, is tension and compression: the examples usually use (totally impractical) springs!
Sooo, going by that: if you hold the spring under compression (which certainly requires new forces of nature to hold the springs together since the strong force is not remotely strong enough and just forgeddabout electromagnetism) you will find local gravity increasing perceptibly. Wind too tight and you get a black hole! But new forces of nature are what a mad scientist *does*.
But the fun part comes if you stretch the spring instead, when you get reduced gravitational mass. Put it under *enough* tension (which is, of course, quite utterly mad amounts) and you might even end up with *net negative* gravitational mass and thus antigravity. Doesn’t Tigerlily canonically have antigravity?
(Of course, if you can generate detectable amounts of antigravity this way you can probably shatter the entire planet using the same spring just by releasing the tension. But that would also reduce the amount of nearby funk a lot, so Tigerlily of course never even considered doing such a thing. A spring under that sort of tension would store *way* more energy than the uranium in a mere paltry nuclear reactor, so combine the two and you can reduce Annex One’s mass, making walking easier, and use the same thing to power it for, oh, probably millions of years before it needs a recharge. Just don’t ask where the power came from to charge it in the first place, since it probably holds about as much energy in tension as the Sun radiates in a year or two. NEVER BREAK IT.)
Man, I am having a weird moment of jealousy in that I don’t think any of my partners have ever offered to have me lie down with some math when I was distressed! Nick is so good to Dr. Lee <3
Of all the girls I’ve known or I’ve heard of,
Until we met, I was a nerd, love.
And when you came to hand, dear, a fat old man,
Then a beautiful girl I could see.
You made me a big flying wonder,
Then you made this drone body ,
And you preserved my brain, so I should explain
What you’ve done that I’ve come to be.
Bei mir bist du schön, look, I can explain,
Bei mir bist du schön means that I’ll try.
Bei mir bist du schön, I’ll try it again,
It means you’re the one that made me fly.
I could say Ginny, Ginny, worship you from afar,
But that would never help me tell you how great you are.
I’ve been such a pain, bei mir bist du schön.
So Ginny, I hope you understand.
—from “Bei mir bist du schön,” written by Jacob Jacobs (Yiddish lyrics), and Sholem Secuda (music), English lyrics by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin, most people know the Andrews Sisters version.
Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
Won’t you chill with some math?
Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
Well Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
Won’t you chill with some math?
Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
Maybe take a rest now
I’ll run you a bubblebath
Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
You made a spring-power’d robot
Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
Well Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
You made a spring-power’d robot
Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
Baby, don’t you worry
Tigerlily’s gonna plotz
Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
You don’t have to do it all
Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
Well Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
You don’t have to do it all
Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
While you’re kickin’ back
I’ll reinstall the disco ball
…Huh. Interesting.
…Well, well, well… Seems there’s going to be another Zerhakker/Lee in the future.
Oh, my. I find the idea of what kid of mother Dr. Lee might be both terrifying, and intriguing.
Has she told Nick yet?
Just one?
You typically see that level of husbandly hovering more with the first pregnancy.
I had more in mind her apparent size.
After (about) five years, it seems strange that this would be their first child, unless, they were very,very careful.
And with these two that is unlikely.
Probably the same level of care that just led to Annex One stepping on Jonah Yu’s car.
Stepping on Jonah’s car wasn’t carelessness… it was precision.
Contraception doesn’t require being “very, very careful”.
Condoms are simple and easy. Intrauterine devices involve a simple clinic visit to put in place and then work for years. It’s really not hard to avoid getting pregnant before you want to / are ready to in the modern day.
@D. Walker: IUDs can hurt! when implanted; women are advised to “take some Advil” before coming into the procedure. Many of these devices work, but 1. Girls aren’t taught about them (in their absence, kids make up myths about reproduction, such as “you can just piddle it out” and “use a can of Spirite.”) and 2. Women’s reproductive health is poorly studied and supported. An Advil is all they give someone during an IUD implant? D:
So, don’t disagree; just felt this was worth mentioning. Dr. Lee is educated enough to know all of this, and maybe in their world, some mad scientist got tired of all of the crud and has addressed women’s repro for the realz.
Personal experience tells me IUDs don’t just hurt when implanted. They can hurt at random for pretty much their entire expected life.
plotz
/pläts/
collapse or be beside oneself with frustration, annoyance, or other strong emotion.
I am not sure if this mean Tigerlily not approving of Spring-powered robot or in other hand, she collapse because how she liked it.
I share your uncertainty. Hopefully, we will find out soon.
Given Tigerlily’s love of spring-powered robotics, I think the strong emotion will be positive.
If she has any trouble reinstalling the disco ball, she can always call Mad Tech Support.
And there would be the Dave Davenport cameo we’d all been hoping for.
There was Mad Tech Support in St. Charlie, but I think he got eaten by the zombie horde.
He did, but like Palpatine he somehow returned: https://skin-horse.com/comic/to-sit-still/
Nah, once his Mad Science gene fully expressed, he lost the ability to do Mad Tech Support. The Mad Tech Support Guy from St. Charlie is available, though.
Long as she’s been fixing things, I hope she fixed Mary’s vocoder.
Or is it Gussie? Hell, it’s early.
I hear ya. Way too early. I had to go back and look it up. Mary’s the one with the shades. Gussie’s the one with the bad vocoder.
Second post in a week where I got the character wrong. (The other wasn’t here.) I’m not alert until I actually get out of bed and bathroom.
Geddout? Plotz? Have I been living under a rock?
Perhaps a speck. “Geddout” is just “get out” with a strong accent (Bostonian?) and “plotz” is corrupted Yiddish (“to burst”)
He’s from Philly…and he knows quite a few Yiddish swear words.
And lots of other jawns.
I want to see the spring that can replace nukes!
On second thought, no I don’t…
It just needs to be wound tight enough! They’re just as possible as hammers whose strikes yield megaton-scale impacts, though those just need to be really *heavy*, and moving *really* fast.
Finding suitable materials might be hard.
Extra fun: gravity is not just a function of mass. It’s just that the other things that contribute to it are rarely noticeable outside of inhospitable places like the cores of stars. But one of the things that contributes to gravity, a commonplace in primers on general relativity, is tension and compression: the examples usually use (totally impractical) springs!
Sooo, going by that: if you hold the spring under compression (which certainly requires new forces of nature to hold the springs together since the strong force is not remotely strong enough and just forgeddabout electromagnetism) you will find local gravity increasing perceptibly. Wind too tight and you get a black hole! But new forces of nature are what a mad scientist *does*.
But the fun part comes if you stretch the spring instead, when you get reduced gravitational mass. Put it under *enough* tension (which is, of course, quite utterly mad amounts) and you might even end up with *net negative* gravitational mass and thus antigravity. Doesn’t Tigerlily canonically have antigravity?
(Of course, if you can generate detectable amounts of antigravity this way you can probably shatter the entire planet using the same spring just by releasing the tension. But that would also reduce the amount of nearby funk a lot, so Tigerlily of course never even considered doing such a thing. A spring under that sort of tension would store *way* more energy than the uranium in a mere paltry nuclear reactor, so combine the two and you can reduce Annex One’s mass, making walking easier, and use the same thing to power it for, oh, probably millions of years before it needs a recharge. Just don’t ask where the power came from to charge it in the first place, since it probably holds about as much energy in tension as the Sun radiates in a year or two. NEVER BREAK IT.)
Okay. But then why was Annex One still heavy enough to crush Jonah’s car?
There was obviously intention behind that.
Man, I am having a weird moment of jealousy in that I don’t think any of my partners have ever offered to have me lie down with some math when I was distressed! Nick is so good to Dr. Lee <3
She just didn’t just marry him….she built him. (for the most part)
What kind of repair job is it, that, you don’t replace the Disco Ball!
Those things are mission critical…
The Disco Ball, in all its glory: https://skin-horse.com/comic/of-skin-horses/
Of all the girls I’ve known or I’ve heard of,
Until we met, I was a nerd, love.
And when you came to hand, dear, a fat old man,
Then a beautiful girl I could see.
You made me a big flying wonder,
Then you made this drone body ,
And you preserved my brain, so I should explain
What you’ve done that I’ve come to be.
Bei mir bist du schön, look, I can explain,
Bei mir bist du schön means that I’ll try.
Bei mir bist du schön, I’ll try it again,
It means you’re the one that made me fly.
I could say Ginny, Ginny, worship you from afar,
But that would never help me tell you how great you are.
I’ve been such a pain, bei mir bist du schön.
So Ginny, I hope you understand.
—from “Bei mir bist du schön,” written by Jacob Jacobs (Yiddish lyrics), and Sholem Secuda (music), English lyrics by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin, most people know the Andrews Sisters version.
Excellent deep cut! I’ve always loved this song.
Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
Won’t you chill with some math?
Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
Well Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
Won’t you chill with some math?
Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
Maybe take a rest now
I’ll run you a bubblebath
Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
You made a spring-power’d robot
Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
Well Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
You made a spring-power’d robot
Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
Baby, don’t you worry
Tigerlily’s gonna plotz
Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
You don’t have to do it all
Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
Well Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
You don’t have to do it all
Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
While you’re kickin’ back
I’ll reinstall the disco ball
Jenny, Jenny by Little Richard, https://youtu.be/HLIlRvEa3Ls
Good one.
Virginia could soon be a-birthing. Nick’s kindness and her heavy girth-ing. But it might be a hurry, and I start to worry—is her OB-GYN of worth-ing?
Ahh, Mary! I loved the little house storyline, it’s nice to see them pop up again here at the end.