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Post by asianborat on Mar 28, 2012 7:10:27 GMT
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Post by Serenissima on Mar 28, 2012 7:21:46 GMT
Now I want my own payload delivery satellite.
Obviously, I'd also like to find out what he's doing with all of those supplies and why he can't get them - but as this is Gunnerkrigg Court, that may well take longer than becoming wealthy enough to start launching satellites.
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Post by SpitefulFox on Mar 28, 2012 7:25:26 GMT
What's with the fzzap? Does he have an etherical rocket assembler too?  |
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Post by whatwashere on Mar 28, 2012 8:05:45 GMT
What's with the fzzap? Does he have an etherical rocket assembler too? Extradimensional storage space? They weren't lugging that stuff around. My question: does orbital delivery of medical supplies seem inefficient to anyone else? Or maybe I should just be nestling down in the rule of cool? |
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Post by Alexandragon on Mar 28, 2012 8:18:42 GMT
Can't wait next page!)
P.S.: Awesome hobby ;D
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Post by cass on Mar 28, 2012 8:24:18 GMT
Wow, who else's home-made rockets get to orbit? |
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Post by ryos on Mar 28, 2012 8:34:42 GMT
My first thought: Yowza. What a hobby.
My second thought: wherever Anthony is, whatever he's doing, he must really not want to be found. Otherwise they could just overnight the things.
Unless he just needs them right the frick now, like probably within 8 hours or so.
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Post by Max on Mar 28, 2012 8:47:10 GMT
Maybe Annie should just stick a GPS transmitter to whatever they send...
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Post by mochakimono on Mar 28, 2012 9:14:01 GMT
I guess it seems obvious in retrospect why DOCTOR Carver would need medical supplies. Whatever could a medical professional do with those?
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Post by legion on Mar 28, 2012 10:59:49 GMT
Artificial satellite AS A HOBBY! Next they'll tell us that Donny once built a particle accelerator during lunchbreak because he was bored.
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Post by zale on Mar 28, 2012 11:10:54 GMT
What's with the fzzap? Does he have an etherical rocket assembler too? What? You don't have a Rocket Building App on your magical supercomputer? ;D |
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Post by moosie on Mar 28, 2012 12:02:15 GMT
Maybe Annie should just stick a GPS transmitter to whatever they send... Haha, I can imagine her just slipping her blinker stone into the mix. She said she doesn't really need it much anymore, so she'd try to keep it near her father to pop in and spy on him etherically. Then occasionally close his laptop and annoy him or something. Hmm. Wonder how far her reach with the stone actually can go. |
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Post by cass on Mar 28, 2012 12:42:13 GMT
I guess it seems obvious in retrospect why DOCTOR Carver would need medical supplies. Whatever could a medical professional do with those? Why doesn't the medical professional already have them?.... |
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Post by Cleo on Mar 28, 2012 13:03:06 GMT
I guess it seems obvious in retrospect why DOCTOR Carver would need medical supplies. Whatever could a medical professional do with those? Why doesn't the medical professional already have them?.... Said medical professional is not in a hospital setting and probably doing things some people would prefer not. The mind boggles at the possibilities but I'm guessing it's something quite illegal and something Annie should be kept well away from. |
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Post by tustin2121 on Mar 28, 2012 13:38:07 GMT
Artificial satellite AS A HOBBY! Next they'll tell us that Donny once built a particle accelerator during lunchbreak because he was bored. No no, that's his daughter, Kat. Remember? She built an antigravity device just so she could DO her science fair project.  |
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Post by bulwersator on Mar 28, 2012 14:11:51 GMT
"whatever he's doing, he must really not want to be found" - I doubt it, delivery will be quite noticeable.
I am quite interested how "payload delivery satellite" is supposed to work.
And again, I wonder whatever this comics will explore topic that powers used by children in GC are extremely dangerous. Teleporting party hat is funny, but probably bomb may be moved in the same way. And launching intercontinental missiles as a hobby is nothing special. Annie used her fire to attack Eaglamore, so it was mentioned.
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Post by nero on Mar 28, 2012 15:54:48 GMT
So they are sending supplies to Anthony. I like how it takes three panels for Donny to assemble a rocket launcher. It must have taken just a few minutes. Reading how Tony has his own satellite really makes me hope that Annie is doing her own homework and isn't cheating anymore.
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Post by Afalstein on Mar 28, 2012 16:13:08 GMT
What's with the fzzap? Does he have an etherical rocket assembler too? Extradimensional storage space? They weren't lugging that stuff around. My question: does orbital delivery of medical supplies seem inefficient to anyone else? Or maybe I should just be nestling down in the rule of cool? Yeah, go with the rule of cool. I think most of the point is that Anthony REALLY can't be found. If they sent the supplies by package or something, it'd be simple to track the mailing. But hey, a payload satellite that not even Donny knows the location of? That's as untrackable as you can get. Unless you stick in a homing device or something, but I'm pretty sure Donny would frown on that. Anthony goes to crazy lengths not to be found. Wonder why. Is he avoiding the court? Brinnie? Or is he just a very thorough hermit? |
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Post by atteSmythe on Mar 28, 2012 16:53:52 GMT
Haha, I can imagine her just slipping her blinker stone into the mix. She said she doesn't really need it much anymore, so she'd try to keep it near her father to pop in and spy on him etherically. Then occasionally close his laptop and annoy him or something. Hmm. Wonder how far her reach with the stone actually can go. Excellent idea! |
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Post by bingli on Mar 28, 2012 19:05:18 GMT
Where is he that he can't get medical supplies? He's a doctor (presumably in the 'civilian' world) shouldn't he be able to get drugs? Did he lose his license? Which part of the world was Good Hope in in the first place?
questions! questions!
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Post by Tierra Y Libertad on Mar 29, 2012 1:00:00 GMT
Does Anthony have access to the magic computer network? How will he unpack what's being sent in the rocket if he can't undo Donny's spell? The etheric nature of the "computer" seems like it would be a turn-off for Tony.
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Post by hal9000 on Mar 29, 2012 5:26:12 GMT
I'm curious about how no one knows where Microsat 5 is or where it's going. Normally if you know the parameters of a satellite's orbit you can predict where it will be just by doing a bit of math, and if the world of GC is anything like ours somebody will be keeping track of space debris (which will include any unofficial satellites in long-lived orbits). I also think that it'd be hard for Microsat 5 to change its orbit enough to be truly unpredictable without using all its on-board reaction mass, but I suppose it could be using magitek reactionless thrusters or something.
I'm also curious about how they're going to use the satellite to deliver supplies, since if they have a rocket that can reach high orbit they also have a ballistic missile that can deliver a payload to anywhere on earth.
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Post by Georgie L on Mar 29, 2012 7:20:34 GMT
It may be that it is tracked but nobody knows who it belongs to outside of the court and so it's just treated as an unclaimed satellite by the outside world (There must be more than one unclaimed satellite I expect?)
The supply thing I'm not sure.
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Post by notacat on Mar 29, 2012 7:34:00 GMT
I'm curious about how no one knows where Microsat 5 is or where it's going. Normally if you know the parameters of a satellite's orbit you can predict where it will be just by doing a bit of math, and if the world of GC is anything like ours somebody will be keeping track of space debris (which will include any unofficial satellites in long-lived orbits). I also think that it'd be hard for Microsat 5 to change its orbit enough to be truly unpredictable without using all its on-board reaction mass, but I suppose it could be using magitek reactionless thrusters or something. Maybe the mass of the various payloads being up- and downloaded is used to displace the satellite in pseudo-random fashion. Obviously Anthony would know the figures to enable him to track the changes but to anybody else it would be unpredictable. Make sense? |
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Post by basser on Mar 29, 2012 8:24:36 GMT
I'm curious about how no one knows where Microsat 5 is or where it's going. Normally if you know the parameters of a satellite's orbit you can predict where it will be just by doing a bit of math, and if the world of GC is anything like ours somebody will be keeping track of space debris (which will include any unofficial satellites in long-lived orbits). I also think that it'd be hard for Microsat 5 to change its orbit enough to be truly unpredictable without using all its on-board reaction mass, but I suppose it could be using magitek reactionless thrusters or something. I'm also curious about how they're going to use the satellite to deliver supplies, since if they have a rocket that can reach high orbit they also have a ballistic missile that can deliver a payload to anywhere on earth. Maybe the satellite just directs the supply missile somehow? |
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Post by hal9000 on Mar 29, 2012 8:53:13 GMT
I'm curious about how no one knows where Microsat 5 is or where it's going. Normally if you know the parameters of a satellite's orbit you can predict where it will be just by doing a bit of math, and if the world of GC is anything like ours somebody will be keeping track of space debris (which will include any unofficial satellites in long-lived orbits). I also think that it'd be hard for Microsat 5 to change its orbit enough to be truly unpredictable without using all its on-board reaction mass, but I suppose it could be using magitek reactionless thrusters or something. I'm also curious about how they're going to use the satellite to deliver supplies, since if they have a rocket that can reach high orbit they also have a ballistic missile that can deliver a payload to anywhere on earth. Maybe the satellite just directs the supply missile somehow? Maybe, but if you can get off an encrypted message of sufficient length to tell someone what orbit your satellite is in, you can probably also just send target coordinates of sufficient precision to target a missile with. Maybe it's some kind of teleportation device and the launch vehicle they're using is just a sounding rocket to get the payload to the proper height for it to work? That'd explain a lot. |
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 29, 2012 13:09:03 GMT
Extradimensional storage space? They weren't lugging that stuff around. Or merely acces to a well-hidden local stash. My question: does orbital delivery of medical supplies seem inefficient to anyone else? Or maybe I should just be nestling down in the rule of cool? Depends on how exactly it works. And where it will be delivered. I start to suspect the damaged Moon base again, that is.  Of course, even on Earth he may be in some "maybe you can get here by air, in very good weather" sort of a wonderful place, over 300km from the closest small town (Antarctica, Sahara, Siberia, ship in the middle of an ocean...) Unless he just needs them right the frick now, like probably within 8 hours or so. ..also, yeah, ICBMail is the fastest service known. Uless that thing really is a teleporter and until "Parley & Smitten Mail Co" opens. Haha, I can imagine her just slipping her blinker stone into the mix. She said she doesn't really need it much anymore, so she'd try to keep it near her father That would be lovely, except it's a few extra grams of load, and on return Annie takes the stone anyway, unless she's going to fly all the way to the Court. I also think that it'd be hard for Microsat 5 to change its orbit enough to be truly unpredictable without using all its on-board reaction mass If it can be resupplied so easy, not a big deal. |
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Post by foresterr on Mar 29, 2012 18:15:46 GMT
Does Anthony have access to the magic computer network? How will he unpack what's being sent in the rocket if he can't undo Donny's spell? The etheric nature of the "computer" seems like it would be a turn-off for Tony. It must be a self-extracting archive! ;D |
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Post by Kriselia on Mar 29, 2012 18:25:53 GMT
Haha, I can imagine her just slipping her blinker stone into the mix. She said she doesn't really need it much anymore, so she'd try to keep it near her father to pop in and spy on him etherically. Then occasionally close his laptop and annoy him or something. Hmm. Wonder how far her reach with the stone actually can go. This would be pretty awesome actually, we need some update on what Anthony's up to. She had the perfect opportunity to do it too when she was messing with that jar earlier. And it is rather interesting why he's going to such lengths to get some medical supplies delivered... Maybe they're not just sending up some regular scalpels and the like, but Anthony needs some Court-specific hyper advanced medical supplies that you can't really get anywhere else. |
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Post by atteSmythe on Mar 29, 2012 18:36:54 GMT
Scalpel and a specimen jar, he just needs to biopsy a mole, no big deal.
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