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Post by legion on Aug 15, 2011 16:14:50 GMT
Is there anything that solar winds can't explain? No, except when it's, Venus, lens flare, sun dog, Chinese lantern, Swamp Gas, a particle of dust, a bug, weather balloon, a plane, helicopter, hot air balloon, hang glider, bird, firework, cloud, or top secret government plane. But all of those can be explained by solar winds!!!</crazy>
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Post by rosefae on Aug 15, 2011 16:52:55 GMT
She looks much less angry by the bottom of today's page. Good work, Matt, improving Court - Moon relations like that.
Also, I like how her research is all written on scrolls.
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Post by fish on Aug 15, 2011 17:58:04 GMT
Hahaha, I just love the way she "asks" him for help.
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Post by basser on Aug 15, 2011 18:30:51 GMT
But why did she come to the Court to complain? Of all the places on Earth that could have had something to do with mucking up her moon-garden, the Court is automatically the most likely culprit? Interesting.
Unless, of course, they already know it was Coyote, and are so used to him plucking their home out of the sky for cheap laughs that they've just accepted it as a matter of course and have started giving presentations about what a dick he is.
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vollie
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Post by vollie on Aug 15, 2011 18:31:26 GMT
Now I'm worried this sequence is gonna end up like this.
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Post by aviana on Aug 15, 2011 18:38:41 GMT
She's not looking for the rabbit all that hard. This is looking more like Friday's theories, guys.
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Post by Per on Aug 15, 2011 18:47:21 GMT
But why did she come to the Court to complain? As far as we know she's there to give a presentation, not to complain. Unless, of course, they already know it was Coyote, and are so used to him plucking their home out of the sky for cheap laughs that they've just accepted it as a matter of course and have started giving presentations about what a dick he is. 87th Annual Gunnerkrigg Court Moon Symposium: Coyote Is Still a Dick
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Morpheus
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Post by Morpheus on Aug 15, 2011 19:05:23 GMT
I look forward to the inevitable story arc in which Annie will have to explain to this moon-girl, that she did it, in order to help her research, ya know.
Also: Hi!
I'll go right back to lurking now.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Aug 15, 2011 19:20:10 GMT
{edit}And, if you look at the photos, some of them are clearly taken on the moon (with the Earth in the background). For example: the one she's holding in the image of the two of them together in the bottom left hand corner of the main screen. Nice catch. Do we think that that's confirmation that she's from the moon, or does someone have a space program? They've had a few years to put someone up there to look at it, after all. I think it's been one year at the longest. Annie's visit to Gillitie where she left her mark on the moon was in the first semester of year 8 (probably near the end of the semester). Now it's the first semester of year 9 (probably near the beginning of the semester).
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myzelf
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Post by myzelf on Aug 15, 2011 19:39:36 GMT
It never occurred to me that the Court would try to keep the reason for the moonprint secret. It couldn't be hard to pin it on Antimony, could it? It's a giant thumbprint.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Aug 15, 2011 19:49:38 GMT
I actually asked Tom about that way back when about a month after Annie first made the fingerprint on the moon. Tom said that no one's taken records of Annie's prints, so nothing in the existing biometric databases would link the moon to Annie. Link.
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Post by TigerStrike on Aug 15, 2011 19:57:41 GMT
Interestingly, several of those photos seem to have been taken from the surface of the moon.
Moon rabbit with a camera?
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Post by hifranc on Aug 15, 2011 21:04:30 GMT
[...] I think it's been one year at the longest. Annie's visit to Gillitie where she left her mark on the moon was in the first semester of year 8 (probably near the end of the semester). Now it's the first semester of year 9 (probably near the beginning of the semester). In England we use a term system rather than a semester system. We have 3 terms: 1 from Sept to Dec, 1 from Jan to Easter and 1 from Easter to Summer. The terms are normally called "Autumn", "Spring" and "Summer". I can't verify whether the years are right because letting the year numbers run on from primary/lower school only happened after I was an adult (that makes me feel old). It never occurred to me that the Court would try to keep the reason for the moonprint secret. I don't think they see it as keeping anything secret. Despite the fact that they accept there is an "etheric" way of looking at things, they don't really believe in magic so they would not accept the explanation that it because of an intereaction between Coyote and Annie without an explanation of how he pulled it off. The only etheric stuff they seem willing to believe are those that they control. The history of science is littered with attitudes such as that. For example: over 100 years ago (possibly 2- or 300 years ago) a scientist did experiments which proved that bats could not navigate if they could not hear. His theory was not generally accepted until we invented sonar.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Aug 15, 2011 22:44:15 GMT
[...] I think it's been one year at the longest. Annie's visit to Gillitie where she left her mark on the moon was in the first semester of year 8 (probably near the end of the semester). Now it's the first semester of year 9 (probably near the beginning of the semester). In England we use a term system rather than a semester system. We have 3 terms: 1 from Sept to Dec, 1 from Jan to Easter and 1 from Easter to Summer. The terms are normally called "Autumn", "Spring" and "Summer". I can't verify whether the years are right because letting the year numbers run on from primary/lower school only happened after I was an adult (that makes me feel old). Fair enough. My real point is, going by in-story chronology, Annie's fingerprint has been on the moon for a year at the longest. The fingerprint happened during Annie's second school year at the Court, between the summer holiday and the winter holiday; it is now Annie's third school year at the Court, between the summer holiday and the winter holiday.
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Post by descoladavirus on Aug 16, 2011 2:26:50 GMT
It never occurred to me that the Court would try to keep the reason for the moonprint secret. It couldn't be hard to pin it on Antimony, could it? It's a giant thumbprint.Its a index fingerprint. www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=492
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Post by smjjames on Aug 16, 2011 3:02:11 GMT
[...] I think it's been one year at the longest. Annie's visit to Gillitie where she left her mark on the moon was in the first semester of year 8 (probably near the end of the semester). Now it's the first semester of year 9 (probably near the beginning of the semester). In England we use a term system rather than a semester system. We have 3 terms: 1 from Sept to Dec, 1 from Jan to Easter and 1 from Easter to Summer. The terms are normally called "Autumn", "Spring" and "Summer". I can't verify whether the years are right because letting the year numbers run on from primary/lower school only happened after I was an adult (that makes me feel old). It never occurred to me that the Court would try to keep the reason for the moonprint secret. I don't think they see it as keeping anything secret. Despite the fact that they accept there is an "etheric" way of looking at things, they don't really believe in magic so they would not accept the explanation that it because of an intereaction between Coyote and Annie without an explanation of how he pulled it off. The only etheric stuff they seem willing to believe are those that they control. The history of science is littered with attitudes such as that. For example: over 100 years ago (possibly 2- or 300 years ago) a scientist did experiments which proved that bats could not navigate if they could not hear. His theory was not generally accepted until we invented sonar. That could be explained by not having the recording technology sensitive enough to sense such sounds until the dawn of the 20th century at least. If it was 200-300 years ago, it would be before recorders were invented that could sense sounds beyond our hearing and retransmit them into sounds we could hear.
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Anthony
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Post by Anthony on Aug 16, 2011 4:41:55 GMT
Hmm. It seems that these pictures were taken by some moon folks. Which brings the question: what did they see when Annie poked Moon?
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Post by basser on Aug 16, 2011 7:40:58 GMT
Hmm. It seems that these pictures were taken by some moon folks. Which brings the question: what did they see when Annie poked Moon? Widespread terror and destruction.
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Post by aaroncampbell on Aug 16, 2011 13:55:37 GMT
Did anyone else notice how the fading of the background texture around this girl makes her look like she's glowing? Does Matt even care that she's glowing? Well, moon-glow is easy to overlook in the daytime. If he had seen her at night, I bet he would be even more wide-eyed (moonstruck?) than he already is...
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Post by paxjax123 on Aug 16, 2011 20:40:31 GMT
Hmm. It seems that these pictures were taken by some moon folks. Which brings the question: what did they see when Annie poked Moon? "I hope there's not any expensive equipment up there."
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Post by TBeholder on Aug 17, 2011 9:27:42 GMT
From out of space we came on to the Court From far away on solar beams ;D Annie! You still got some 'splaining to do. ...and it's going to be awkwaaard. I get the feeling she is too engrossed in her conversation with Jack to really notice what's going on with the other kids. What conversation? Jack is playing with her blinker. Interestingly, several of those photos seem to have been taken from the surface of the moon. Moon rabbit with a camera? Slightly above the surface of the moon. Moon rabbit with a camera?
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