(TUNE: “Under The Sea”, Howard Ashman & Alan Menken)
We’re here at the Car Sightseeing,
Though tra-vel-ing underground!
The zombie, so far, is being
Delighted at what she’s found!
We see on her face emotion
Of such an ecstatic sort!
Admiring the lovely ocean
Like Madblood and Davenport!
What do we see? What do we see?
Fishes and coral!
Please show me more, I’ll
Giggle with glee!
Now by the signs, you won’t be fooled!
Open your eyes, and they’ll be schooled!
Scenery viewing,
Aah-ing and ooh-ing,
That’s what we see!
Travelling city,
Re-venge is pretty,
That’s what we see!
Now, by my words,
It’s not for the birds!
It’s all for the fishes,
Granting your wishes,
Flipper and fin, yeah!
All For The Win, yeah!
That’s what we see!
Unity’s perpetual wonder seems to drive the Y in the acronym toward Youth.
Today is one of those relatively still crisp sunny mornings here – you walk outside, pause, deep breath and look around marveling in the world around you. (I do live rural – Plenty of trees, sometimes deer even, birdfeeder, brook nearby) Even a rainy day has its wonders.
You are forgetting that UNITY is still VERY young. Her “perpetual” wonder (how long has the strip run, in-story? that’s hardly enough time to call it “perpetual”) is perfectly appropiate for her age.
We have a talking canadian dog, a patchwork nanite zombie and Tip Wilkin. A Massachusettian coral reef (or the potential they’re already just off the coast of New Caledonia) is not beyond the limits of presently established wierdness.
I was about to ask, are they still in Boston, or has St. Charlie a longer range than expected? Coral reefs indicated somewhere in warmer waters than New England, so that would indicated that they are now closer to the equator. These are Mad scientists, so we shouldn’t be surprised at anything, but where does this network end?, if anywhere.
Suggesting they might end up in a galaxy far, far away is becoming less snark and more prophetic.
The sub may be more likely than I thought when I posted that. This strip contains the first of several underwater scenes that Shaenon mentioned in the Narbonic Director’s Cut when introducing the sub a couple of weeks ago.
Add the cost of a few airlocks to the rail system, although I’d think that far less than the cost of all the tunnelling we’ve already seen evidence of. And if those tracks are low enough not to be noticed by casual divers, some severe pressure support is needed for St. Charlie herself.
I recently read (in an article in a Grantville Gazette) that wet tracks would reduce traction. I wonder what mad science lets St. Charlie get around that.
Linear induction drive. Create in phase magnetic fields at the front and back of the train, this induces a current in the rails, an out of phase field in between will interact with the magnetic field created around the rails by the induced current, moving the train. Yes this sounds like Mad Science, but it actually works.
To clarify, I’m surprised because Narbonic and Skin Horse have been a huge influence on me. I’m currently rereading Narbonic (again) and playing a Mad Botanist in an rp displaced from a universe that’s basically the Narboniverse with a few serial numbers filed off.
I know how you feel, Katrika. When I was your age, it was Bloom County (yes, I’m that old.) I never got to rp Bill the Cat, tho, except some mornings after WAY too much drinking.
Shaenon, you influenced someone’s youth. That’s gotta feel…weird…
It occurs to me that an explosive charge underwater could easily flood the city. Of course, it’s possible that no-one would notice and/or the problem would be otherwise easily dealt with (“we’ll just funnel all the incoming water into a different alternate dimension that the one we’re storing most of St. Charlie in!”), but I’d imagine it would briefly satisfy GODOT.
Let’s sea what happens next.
Water we looking for?
Wet! Wet! Don’t tell me!
Is it a sea crate?
Next time on Skin Horse: Wait are those Sea Monkies?
wwwwait holy crap is GODOT speaking? its abiliteis multiply hourly like festering cave rats!
(TUNE: “Under The Sea”, Howard Ashman & Alan Menken)
We’re here at the Car Sightseeing,
Though tra-vel-ing underground!
The zombie, so far, is being
Delighted at what she’s found!
We see on her face emotion
Of such an ecstatic sort!
Admiring the lovely ocean
Like Madblood and Davenport!
What do we see? What do we see?
Fishes and coral!
Please show me more, I’ll
Giggle with glee!
Now by the signs, you won’t be fooled!
Open your eyes, and they’ll be schooled!
Scenery viewing,
Aah-ing and ooh-ing,
That’s what we see!
Travelling city,
Re-venge is pretty,
That’s what we see!
Now, by my words,
It’s not for the birds!
It’s all for the fishes,
Granting your wishes,
Flipper and fin, yeah!
All For The Win, yeah!
That’s what we see!
edddd: There is a handy speaker grill — I presume GODOT wasn’t *intended* to communicate by induced paradolia…
Unity’s perpetual wonder seems to drive the Y in the acronym toward Youth.
Today is one of those relatively still crisp sunny mornings here – you walk outside, pause, deep breath and look around marveling in the world around you. (I do live rural – Plenty of trees, sometimes deer even, birdfeeder, brook nearby) Even a rainy day has its wonders.
UNITY is a philosopher w/ ADD….
You are forgetting that UNITY is still VERY young. Her “perpetual” wonder (how long has the strip run, in-story? that’s hardly enough time to call it “perpetual”) is perfectly appropiate for her age.
wait… is that a coral reef off the coast of Massachusetts?
Hmm, the car shrank and is in the big tank at the New England Aquarium?
We have a talking canadian dog, a patchwork nanite zombie and Tip Wilkin. A Massachusettian coral reef (or the potential they’re already just off the coast of New Caledonia) is not beyond the limits of presently established wierdness.
Uh, they’ve been in a moving train for two days…
Hey, I hear Y’ha-nthlei is pretty this time of year.
Could be a deep water reef. The largest known such (the Røst Reef) is at 67° North.
I was about to ask, are they still in Boston, or has St. Charlie a longer range than expected? Coral reefs indicated somewhere in warmer waters than New England, so that would indicated that they are now closer to the equator. These are Mad scientists, so we shouldn’t be surprised at anything, but where does this network end?, if anywhere.
Suggesting they might end up in a galaxy far, far away is becoming less snark and more prophetic.
Ruby introduced St. Charlie as “the city that never returns”, so Boston is about the only place they couldn’t be.
It’s a reference to The MTA Song by the Kingston Trio
You’re assuming that it needs rails.
“Where we’re going, we don’t need… rails.”
I keep looking for Madblood’s submarine in the background of panel 3.
Is GODOT driving the train now as well?
The sub may be more likely than I thought when I posted that. This strip contains the first of several underwater scenes that Shaenon mentioned in the Narbonic Director’s Cut when introducing the sub a couple of weeks ago.
Add the cost of a few airlocks to the rail system, although I’d think that far less than the cost of all the tunnelling we’ve already seen evidence of. And if those tracks are low enough not to be noticed by casual divers, some severe pressure support is needed for St. Charlie herself.
I recently read (in an article in a Grantville Gazette) that wet tracks would reduce traction. I wonder what mad science lets St. Charlie get around that.
Probably the same mad engineering that keeps that air-filled tube from floating away.
Linear induction drive. Create in phase magnetic fields at the front and back of the train, this induces a current in the rails, an out of phase field in between will interact with the magnetic field created around the rails by the induced current, moving the train. Yes this sounds like Mad Science, but it actually works.
Yes, in fact it does!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun
It works for human transport as well!
“Prettiest revenge!” sounds positively Shakespearean. Smart Unity rocks!
Holy cheese, Skin Horse has been running for 5 years? It seems much less than that. I can’t remember if I was reading from the beginning or not.
…considering I was 14 when it started, maybe, but probably not.
To clarify, I’m surprised because Narbonic and Skin Horse have been a huge influence on me. I’m currently rereading Narbonic (again) and playing a Mad Botanist in an rp displaced from a universe that’s basically the Narboniverse with a few serial numbers filed off.
Wow. 5 year? Crazy.
I know how you feel, Katrika. When I was your age, it was Bloom County (yes, I’m that old.) I never got to rp Bill the Cat, tho, except some mornings after WAY too much drinking.
Shaenon, you influenced someone’s youth. That’s gotta feel…weird…
Grats!
Now who was it that was asking whether GODOT could mess with sound?
It occurs to me that an explosive charge underwater could easily flood the city. Of course, it’s possible that no-one would notice and/or the problem would be otherwise easily dealt with (“we’ll just funnel all the incoming water into a different alternate dimension that the one we’re storing most of St. Charlie in!”), but I’d imagine it would briefly satisfy GODOT.
Why is it that nothing’s exciting unless there’s a bomb involved?
You know, I don’t think they’ve established just how big St. Charlie really is. I wonder if you can fit a coral reef in one of those cars…