architect and engineer

War · Post by **War** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:43 am

Of course, it's really a battle between engineers as a structure like that belongs to the field of civil and structural engineering

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Aren't architects just for making things look nicer?

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:48 am

Whohoo, I'm liking this comic!

MechaByrd · Post by **MechaByrd** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:53 am

Eh, but the elevator system is going to require mechanical too....

I'm kind of getting lost here. It looks like no one is going to die. I can't tell who's winning anymore. The last bit may have been the "work together" message, but one seems visibly upset that the other has a space elevator. And shouldn't she be IN the elevator as the first one to GET TO the star? Of course, they've reached the point where they both know that where they're going is a mass of incandescent gas [a gigantic nuclear furnace], so I guess they have since decided on an abitrary radius from the star as the finish line.

[...where hydrogen is made into helium at temperatures of millions of degrees. The (star) is hot. The (star) is not a place where we could live...]

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:01 pm

Now that song is stuck in my head!

MechaByrd · Post by **MechaByrd** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:20 pm

I'm sorry...

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

Did that help?

Nishichi27 · Post by **Nishichi27** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:23 pm

MechaByrd wrote:I'm sorry...

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

Did that help?

Great, now it's in MY head!

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:25 pm

YarpsDat wrote:
Sortelli wrote:
RPin wrote:Why don't you tell me the end of Matrix revolutions too?
The good guys win.
Great.
Maybe next time tell me Memento makes more sence backwards.
I haven't seen that movie, yet. But every freaking review mentions that, sometimes they think they are really smart by dropping "tiny hints", like, oh say, writing the whole review BACKWARDS.
Of course no "spoiler warnings", no sir, because they didn't actually say it, they just gave you a TINY HINT

Actually, it goes both ways. One part of story that goes backwards is interrupted by the other that goes forward.

MechaByrd · Post by **MechaByrd** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:28 pm

Sorry, guys, I'm not trying to be annoying at all.
Just don't read what's below and you'll be OK.

I'm your only friend
I'm not your only friend
But I'm a little glowing friend
But really I'm not actually your friend
But I am

Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
Who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

MechaByrd controls the jukebox that is your mind!

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:31 pm

So do you have any of their albums aside from Flood?

MechaByrd · Post by **MechaByrd** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:39 pm

rkolter wrote:So do you have any of their albums aside from Flood?

Actually, I don't even have that one.

Severe Tire Damage
Mink Car
Apollo 18

They pretty much cover Flood, but you know I'm going to buy it anyway.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:56 pm

I like the Mink Car album. Cyclops Rock is Woot's theme song.

Well, one of them. I have lots of EOI theme songs.

I think I have every TMBG album EXCEPT Flood... and that new one of kiddie songs.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 1:13 pm

YarpsDat wrote:
Sortelli wrote:
RPin wrote:Why don't you tell me the end of Matrix revolutions too?
The good guys win.
Great.
Maybe next time tell me Memento makes more sence backwards.
I haven't seen that movie, yet. But every freaking review mentions that, sometimes they think they are really smart by dropping "tiny hints", like, oh say, writing the whole review BACKWARDS.
Of course no "spoiler warnings", no sir, because they didn't actually say it, they just gave you a TINY HINT

I don't think it's really a spoiler to say that it makes more sense backwards... I mean, if you didn't figure it out within the first couple of scenes anyway, I'd have to question whether you weren't leaving the room every couple of minutes.

Taiwanimation · Post by **Taiwanimation** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 4:00 pm

Mecha Byrd, no I haven't read that particular article, though I have read "Fountains of Paradise". Great read by the way.

Taiwanimation · Post by **Taiwanimation** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 8:58 am

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 9:39 am

Is it just me, or does the lady staying behind have a cheesy grin on her face as if to say, "I know something about relativity you don't..."

I wonder how far away that star is, and how fast she's actually going? She may end up awfully hungry and thirsty in her rocket ship before it gets to the sun.

Keep 'em coming Taiwanimation!

Brockway · Post by **Brockway** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:23 am

She's immortal, so it doesn't matter! She can only be killed when another immortal takes off her head, gaining her powers... THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! j/k, I think. I guess the architect won, thanks to the physicist...lol. Sweet comic, its an epic of EPIC proportions. Damn relativity, if she is going as fast as she needs to, she'd have come back already! But since she hasn't appeared coming back earlier in the comic... I guess she dies!

MechaByrd · Post by **MechaByrd** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:51 am

brockway wrote:She's immortal, so it doesn't matter! She can only be killed when another immortal takes off her head, gaining her powers... THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! j/k, I think. I guess the architect won, thanks to the physicist...lol. Sweet comic, its an epic of EPIC proportions. Damn relativity, if she is going as fast as she needs to, she'd have come back already! But since she hasn't appeared coming back earlier in the comic... I guess she dies!

Yay! I finally get the death I predicted! Now all that needs to happen is for the architect to be squished by something big. The boundless hubris of humanity loses again. WOOOOOH!

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 12:20 pm

You could argue that you've gotten lots of deaths MechaByrd - how many generations of archetects and engineers did it take to get to the point of making that ship?

If she's going fast enough, she could in theory get there before her food runs out, take a quick tour around, and come back. Unfortunately her friend would be dead. But would it count? It'd be no different than all the generations that had died before the trip...

I don't think you're gonna see them get into a slide-rule vs protractor knife fight.

MechaByrd · Post by **MechaByrd** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 12:33 pm

rkolter wrote:You could argue that you've gotten lots of deaths MechaByrd - how many generations of archetects and engineers did it take to get to the point of making that ship?

If she's going fast enough, she could in theory get there before her food runs out, take a quick tour around, and come back. Unfortunately her friend would be dead. But would it count? It'd be no different than all the generations that had died before the trip...

I don't think you're gonna see them get into a slide-rule vs protractor knife fight.

No, I already qualified that it must be death due to the boundless hubris of mankind otherwise its just death. I suppose however, they could die in some other significant, symbolic way.

Brockway · Post by **Brockway** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 1:16 pm

Yayy hubris!!! Gotta love it... lets mown down the rain forest so we can build a statue to it!