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Post by GK Sierra on Nov 5, 2012 8:08:17 GMT
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Post by blahzor on Nov 5, 2012 8:09:15 GMT
she's a deep sleeper, those comets hitting the earth aren't even waking her up
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Post by legion on Nov 5, 2012 8:09:38 GMT
Immune to hot molten rock: check.
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Post by fronzel on Nov 5, 2012 8:09:59 GMT
Her eyes are closed.
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Post by preus on Nov 5, 2012 8:10:34 GMT
I know the story isn't advancing at all, but the gorgeous artwork on the last several pages makes it impossible for me to care.
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Post by GK Sierra on Nov 5, 2012 8:12:53 GMT
So almost to the end of the history of the earth. Up next: Jones in SPAAAAAAAACE
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Post by blackmantha on Nov 5, 2012 8:13:55 GMT
Maybe this whole chapter is just an excuse for Tom to draw a lot of thing he doesn't usually.
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Post by sapientcoffee on Nov 5, 2012 8:14:14 GMT
I beginning to think this isn't far off! Perhaps she was orbiting the Sun, and then her body mass began attracting particles from her surroundings, so that Earth gradually formed around her. Eventually magma streams, tectonic movements and erosion brought her up to the ocean floor.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Nov 5, 2012 8:15:31 GMT
In order for the molten rock to move her hair like that her hair must have the same temperature as the molten rock around her. If it was colder it would pull her hair down; the greater the difference the more force it would use (sorry LOTR fans but its true). Also: Is it geeky of me to look at naked Jones and be thinking that? And in case people missed it last time, here's this again. I probably won't repost it with each additional jump.
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quoodle
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Post by quoodle on Nov 5, 2012 8:16:24 GMT
Sierra, You realize she throws the "first life" arrow all out of kilter.
BTW: Cool Graph, thanks.
(keeps saying to self... This is fiction... this is fiction =)) )
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Post by secondofnone on Nov 5, 2012 8:17:13 GMT
Maybe this whole chapter is just an excuse for Tom to draw a lot of thing he doesn't usually. Or it's Jones having a flight of fancy as she decides how best to troll Annie.
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Post by SpitefulFox on Nov 5, 2012 8:20:37 GMT
That's so hot.
* dodges thrown tomatoes *
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Post by ryos on Nov 5, 2012 8:20:43 GMT
And we, the readers, saw in the stone the shape of a woman, and we called the name of the stone Jones; and we understood it not.
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Post by ctso74 on Nov 5, 2012 8:23:01 GMT
Sierra, You realize she throws the "first life" arrow all out of kilter. This seems to be post Theia impact. Jones could have something to do with life on proto-Earth or Theia. I'm still leaning toward time travel or retrograde creation, though.
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Post by peppypangolin on Nov 5, 2012 8:24:24 GMT
In order for the molten rock to move her hair like that her hair must have the same temperature as the molten rock around her. If it was colder it would pull her hair down; the greater the difference the more force it would use Err... really? I was under the impression that whether things float or not is a function of density. Temperature affects density, but keratin is plenty less dense than rock, so oughtn't her hair float even if it's quite a bit colder?
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Post by GK Sierra on Nov 5, 2012 8:27:26 GMT
In order for the molten rock to move her hair like that her hair must have the same temperature as the molten rock around her. If it was colder it would pull her hair down; the greater the difference the more force it would use Err... really? I was under the impression that whether things float or not is a function of density. Temperature affects density, but keratin is plenty less dense than rock, so oughtn't her hair float even if it's quite a bit colder? I was thinking this as well. She's not very conductive, otherwise she would be on fire, hair and all.
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Post by Rex on Nov 5, 2012 8:29:05 GMT
Hmm, so humans' effect on the ether is retroactive if what Coyote says is true. That's pretty damn powerful, and it makes Ysengrin's inferiority complex somewhat understandable.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Nov 5, 2012 8:35:37 GMT
In order for the molten rock to move her hair like that her hair must have the same temperature as the molten rock around her. If it was colder it would pull her hair down; the greater the difference the more force it would use Err... really? I was under the impression that whether things float or not is a function of density. Temperature affects density, but keratin is plenty less dense than rock, so oughtn't her hair float even if it's quite a bit colder? All else held equal density does determine sink/float but the differential here is overriding. If you drop a magically-invulnerable hair at standard body temperature into molten rock it would shoot to the bottom of said mass of rock with tremendous force. [edit] It will shoot to the bottom until it equalizes in temperature, of course. Once it does that then the hair can float like in the comic. [/edit]
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Post by noone3 on Nov 5, 2012 8:46:07 GMT
Err... really? I was under the impression that whether things float or not is a function of density. Temperature affects density, but keratin is plenty less dense than rock, so oughtn't her hair float even if it's quite a bit colder? All else held equal density does determine sink/float but the differential here is overriding. If you drop a magically-invulnerable hair at standard body temperature into molten rock it would shoot to the bottom of said mass of rock with tremendous force. And what physical phenomenon would be responsible? Also the whole thing reminds me about Superman's problem with facial hair. As far as I remember he had to use his laser-eye-beams, reflected in the mirror for shaving.
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Post by foxurus on Nov 5, 2012 8:49:23 GMT
Funny how we're covering so much time, and yet my first reaction to this page was "This chapter is moving so slowly!"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 8:50:49 GMT
*throws hands into the air*
WELP. I don't...I don't even know anymore.
I guess one thing to note is that I -think- this page implies that she did not arrive with one of those meteors. But, y'know, that could be wrong to.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Nov 5, 2012 9:03:38 GMT
And what physical phenomenon would be responsible? I would call it suction from thermal eddy but I am not a vulcanologist. They probably have a term for it.
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Post by Cakes on Nov 5, 2012 9:10:39 GMT
I love how young she looks. Jones looks young and lovely usually but she looks somehow.. more youthful. I'm not sure what it is. Beautiful beautiful artwork
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Post by philman on Nov 5, 2012 9:17:16 GMT
I was just starting to waste the next 30 mins of my morning calculating relative densities of hair and molton rocks (molton lava is around 2.5-3.0 g/cm^3 depending on the type of rock, human hair has a density of 1.32 g/cm^3.) Then I came across this article by an actual geologist so I gave up trying to amateur my way through it! Basically, humans float on lava (while suffering extreme burns) www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/the-right-and-wrong-way-to-die-when-you-fall-into-lava/(edit: typo)
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Post by Stately Buff-Cookie on Nov 5, 2012 9:19:27 GMT
Funny how we're covering so much time, and yet my first reaction to this page was "This chapter is moving so slowly!" It is moving slowly. It's moving more slowly than any chapter previous despite the lightning pace we're burning through the years. We may be jumping eras, but very little has actually been shown or said definitively. Funny how that works, huh? All we have to show for it is even more guessing and endless conjecture. Granted that last part is part for the course for Gunnerkrigg, but we usually get something to chew on as a consolation prize. Tom, truly you are a tease. You're like a date where, when the guy thinks he's successfully bagged a fun night, turns around to let the girl in to his home only to discover she's run halfway down the street and laughing madly.
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Post by Weeaboo on Nov 5, 2012 9:28:19 GMT
Jones is a time lord! (an indestructible one at that)
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Post by ctso74 on Nov 5, 2012 9:28:50 GMT
only to discover she's run halfway down the street and laughing madly. Or screaming... every Friday... for a year... dating's so hard.
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Post by faythofdragons on Nov 5, 2012 9:32:12 GMT
I'm not saying Jones is an alien...
But she's an alien.
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Post by hajo on Nov 5, 2012 9:37:53 GMT
Indeed ;D But maybe Jones is just using some tee-time to look into this universe, to see if her new receipe develops nicely ?
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Nov 5, 2012 9:55:45 GMT
I was just starting to waste the next 30 mins of my morning calculating relative densities of hair and molton rocks (molton lava is around 2.5-3.0 g/cm^3 depending on the type of rock, human hair has a density of 1.32 g/cm^3.) Then I came across this article by an actual geologist so I gave up trying to amateur my way through it! Basically, humans float on lava (while suffering extreme burns) www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/the-right-and-wrong-way-to-die-when-you-fall-into-lava/(edit: typo) ^Excepting viscosity Mr. Klemetti omits fluid dynamics from the situation completely.
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