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Post by theonethatgotaway on May 30, 2018 7:02:53 GMT
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Post by arf on May 30, 2018 7:03:50 GMT
A chainsaw on that... seriously?
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2018 7:12:13 GMT
I remember when, back in the day, this comic would feature elaborate art such as two rows of the letter E; in this Iron Age, it seems that we have regressed to one column of the letter R and might in fact be moving along the standardized American keyboard just as the winedark ox tills or the quick brown fox jumps. |
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Post by Nepycros on May 30, 2018 7:14:39 GMT
Man, Parley's power is just so convenient. I wish I could teleport like that.
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Post by Timberwere on May 30, 2018 7:22:32 GMT
A chainsaw on that... seriously? Percussion drill. But yeah. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on May 30, 2018 7:35:18 GMT
I really don't know what to say about this page. They may have a collapsible scaffold nearby that lets them remove material as high as they've apparently done but doing this work manually instead of drilling boreholes and excavating using explosives..? I can think of two reasons to do it this way; one is to take samples with strata intact but the holes are way larger than that should require. The hole they've started is nearly large enough for vehicle entry which brings me to possibility #2, that they're trying to make access to a specific area inside, like a hollow area under or in the tree, in which case it might make sense to use these tools to avoid killing someone/damaging something in/under the tree. But hole that big why? I guess that latter possibility is the more likely. Or maybe I'm just missing something obvious. No wait, one other possible reason is they have some weird personnel or equipment issue that mandates this. Maybe they have no people qualified to use explosives, or the only explosives they have are warheads so large they need to make a REALLY big borehole and they just don't have any better equipment. Or it's just a make-work project to keep troublesome people from having too much time on their hands. [edit] Gory and very improbable explanation: I suppose this might be something that they'd do if they could see human remains partly consumed by the tree but any people there at the time the tree-bomb went off should be in the higher parts of the tree, as those parts would have emerged first. [/edit] |
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Post by fjodorii on May 30, 2018 7:40:54 GMT
I bet they are turning that tree into the biggest tree house ever.
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Post by philman on May 30, 2018 8:25:17 GMT
I bet they are turning that tree into the biggest tree house ever. This was the Omega project all along. The plan proceeded perfectly. |
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Post by Angry Individual on May 30, 2018 9:17:11 GMT
Well, I am looking forward to James getting angry at Tony for even breathing the same air as him as he tries to ask him to protect his daughter.
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Post by madjack on May 30, 2018 9:37:28 GMT
MM, yep, super awkward conversation incoming.
Semi related: I wonder what's going to happen on the day that Eggers, Renard and Anthony all realise the thing they share: They all lost Surma and were always going to.
Then what happens when they realise they're going to lose Annie too (assuming they all live through this).
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on May 30, 2018 10:51:56 GMT
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Post by keef on May 30, 2018 10:58:55 GMT
Can't imagine they are going to chop it down like this; the falling tree would crush a lot more buildings. So tree house building is the only logical explanation. (or they're working on a way to burn it down from the inside, or something weird like that)
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Post by hnau on May 30, 2018 11:41:18 GMT
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Post by imaginaryfriend on May 30, 2018 11:49:00 GMT
Can't imagine they are going to chop it down like this; the falling tree would crush a lot more buildings. So tree house building is the only logical explanation. (or they're working on a way to burn it down from the inside, or something weird like that) Well, one guy with a demolition hammer could probably excavate a decent-sized room per day. Maybe two. Guessing by the shape maybe the headmaster is getting a new desk or custom kitchen countertop. Or his yacht needs new decking. But you're right, this can't be an effort to demolish/remove the tree.* Even supposing that they could dismantle it in a spiral outside-to-in method that would let them make a ramp to the upper areas so they could eventually work down from the top (thus minimizing the risk of collapse and damage to other buildings) that would take a very very long time. I might think they were trying to harvest enough cells to make something useful but they appear to be going too deep for that. The fact that they're here doing this at all suggests that rescue/recovery is complete and everyone is accounted for one way or another (hopefully). Before removing the trees I would think the logical first step would be to render the trees dead. In other words, they should make the trees no longer a threat in any way other than a really large object would naturally be. The fastest way to do that would be to slant drill in from several angles and inject mass quantities of herbicide... maybe using hydraulic fracturing to make it go in faster. The tree sucks the poison up, end of tree. *I say that but of course one should never underestimate the ability of people who are leading from the rear to completely deny the realities of things at the front. |
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Post by torontoregonian on May 30, 2018 11:58:35 GMT
Drat, there goes my laser cows theory.
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Post by faiiry on May 30, 2018 12:53:10 GMT
A chainsaw on that... seriously? My thoughts exactly. |
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Post by netherdan on May 30, 2018 12:54:21 GMT
I bet they are turning that tree into the biggest tree house ever. This was the Omega project all along. The plan proceeded perfectly. If they had a sample of the seed bismuth they could inject it to turn that tree into the biggest tree shaped building in the court. Kinda like that Tic Toc started growing mechanical stuff at the bottom of the ravine |
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Post by keef on May 30, 2018 13:03:03 GMT
Drat, there goes my laser cows theory. Might still be valid for the other tree, the one in Young's Park.
That was my first thought too! |
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Post by ctso74 on May 30, 2018 13:32:17 GMT
Drat, there goes my laser cows theory. I was imagining them up high, lasering the tree-brush, jumping limb to limb like cow ninjas. Occasionally, a tree sized limb would fall to the ground. They would obviously wear little black ninja masks and hoods. With the right-angle hole, I don't know if Tom is showing how the Court's "artifical-ness" is trying to interact with the Forest's "natural-ness", or if the Court is actually doing something. What if they have to cut in a specific place and way, to etherically interact with it? They may be planning to make the tree shrink back down, and store the energy Coysengrin put in it. Or worse, they testing out an etheric poison, for the next time. |
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Post by Per on May 30, 2018 13:45:34 GMT
A chainsaw on that... seriously? I see a jackhammer. Man, Parley's power is just so convenient. I wish I could teleport like that. The twist is that every time she teleports, she dies and is replaced by a copy. |
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Post by autumnrook on May 30, 2018 14:08:50 GMT
Man, Parley's power is just so convenient. I wish I could teleport like that. I can't help but think that a few cell phones here and there could be just as effective in this instance though. They have mag-lev trains, but no one seems to have good long-distance communication devices. |
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Post by Trillium on May 30, 2018 14:12:01 GMT
Man, Parley's power is just so convenient. I wish I could teleport like that. The twist is that every time she teleports, she dies and is replaced by a copy. If it is a perfect copy there is no difference and a difference that makes no difference is no difference. |
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Post by pyradonis on May 30, 2018 14:16:34 GMT
No wait, one other possible reason is they have some weird personnel or equipment issue that mandates this. Maybe they have no people qualified to use explosives Or the people that were qualified have been killed in the attack.  |
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Post by Zox Tomana on May 30, 2018 14:53:19 GMT
What an update!
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Post by Druplesnubb on May 30, 2018 15:27:13 GMT
Why would she need to teleport away to check up on Andrew when she's already standing next to him?
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Post by darlos9d on May 30, 2018 15:30:06 GMT
Man, Parley's power is just so convenient. I wish I could teleport like that. I can't help but think that a few cell phones here and there could be just as effective in this instance though. They have mag-lev trains, but no one seems to have good long-distance communication devices. Yeah the "heroes" in this story are kind of a coordinated team at this point. I dunno what actual exact time this story takes place in, but they could at least have radios or something. Cell phones are still creeping into fiction at an astonishingly slow rate. I guess having easy, instant communication can eliminate a lot of the tensions that writers still like to set up. |
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Post by blazingstar on May 30, 2018 17:18:36 GMT
I can't help but think that a few cell phones here and there could be just as effective in this instance though. They have mag-lev trains, but no one seems to have good long-distance communication devices. Yeah the "heroes" in this story are kind of a coordinated team at this point. I dunno what actual exact time this story takes place in, but they could at least have radios or something. Cell phones are still creeping into fiction at an astonishingly slow rate. I guess having easy, instant communication can eliminate a lot of the tensions that writers still like to set up. They have cell phones. Jones' is a push-button phone because her fingers can't create the same electronic response that touch-screens rely upon, which implies that smart-phones exist at this point. They have walkie-talkies as well. Students just probably aren't allowed to have phones on campus. |
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Post by novia on May 30, 2018 18:57:26 GMT
Quite the syrup collection project they have going on there.
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Post by bedinsis on May 30, 2018 19:21:10 GMT
I wonder if Marcia could be of any help in these circumstances. |
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Post by Runningflame on May 30, 2018 19:49:37 GMT
The twist is that every time she teleports, she dies and is replaced by a copy. That's not, perchance, a reference to the wormgates in Schlock Mercenary, is it? Why would she need to teleport away to check up on Andrew when she's already standing next to him? That was my first thought, too. But if you look more closely, you'll find that the big guy is Eglamore.  |
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