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Post by Yin on Aug 13, 2008 7:01:15 GMT
Ooooh. Just throwing out a wild guess, but I'm betting our favourite Dr with the skull-bowtie will be back in this chappie.
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Post by edzepp on Aug 13, 2008 7:03:08 GMT
Ominous.
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Post by mudmaniac on Aug 13, 2008 7:17:35 GMT
That be one EVIL powah station dawg!
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Post by Mezzaphor on Aug 13, 2008 7:29:05 GMT
It says power station, but the picture looks like a communication tower. Interesting.
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Post by mudmaniac on Aug 13, 2008 7:53:42 GMT
Cell-phone signal repeater tower..... of DOOM.
Sorry. Gots a serious case of stupid head today.
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Post by UbiquitousDragon on Aug 13, 2008 8:08:48 GMT
It reminded me something seen in The Fangs of Summertime, when they were all up on the roof and there were lots of satellites. Found the page: linky, (the picture not the title, btw).
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Post by etcetera on Aug 13, 2008 8:33:34 GMT
Somehow this new title page got me thrilled. I have a very strong and strange feeling of "oh my gawd the story IS going on!!!" and "GC is awesome but there's even MORE!!!". Just imagining the events and pages and mysteries and stories that lie ahead is making me crazy. I think I'm addicted to GC.
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Post by maxie on Aug 13, 2008 9:27:23 GMT
Getting "stalker: shadow of chernobly" flashbacks looking at that page.
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Post by todd on Aug 13, 2008 10:35:35 GMT
Ooooh. Just throwing out a wild guess, but I'm betting our favourite Dr with the skull-bowtie will be back in this chappie. I think that Dr. Disaster's more likely to be a one-shot character (simply because a future Spacemonaut chapter would just be repeating the joke and risk making it stale). Also, the title page looks too serious for a story involving him.
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Post by aijuan on Aug 13, 2008 11:49:54 GMT
It says power station, but the picture looks like a communication tower. Interesting. Well, energy could be transmitted by radio waves, but it's inefficient with our technology. Also, the power station could be giving out GHOST-POSESSED ELECTRICITY
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Post by aijuan on Aug 13, 2008 11:55:18 GMT
It says power station, but the picture looks like a communication tower. Interesting. Energy could be transmitted through radio waves, but that's awfully inefficient. Also, the power station could be distributing GHOST-POSESSED ENERGY or something awesome like that.
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Post by cenit on Aug 13, 2008 14:03:20 GMT
this looks like fun!!
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Post by starburst98 on Aug 13, 2008 17:43:47 GMT
Ooooh. Just throwing out a wild guess, but I'm betting our favourite Dr with the skull-bowtie will be back in this chappie. I think that Dr. Disaster's more likely to be a one-shot character (simply because a future Spacemonaut chapter would just be repeating the joke and risk making it stale). Also, the title page looks too serious for a story involving him. they don't have to do spacemonaut stuff, it could be underwater or something.
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Post by etcetera on Aug 13, 2008 18:24:49 GMT
they don't have to do spacemonaut stuff, it could be underwater or something. Submonauts??
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Post by popo on Aug 13, 2008 20:16:03 GMT
skatemonauts?
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Post by Shunpike on Aug 13, 2008 21:01:37 GMT
Surfmonauts?
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Post by Mezzaphor on Aug 13, 2008 21:18:56 GMT
Maybe the Dr. Disaster we saw in ch 10 was an act he puts on for that class, and in this chapter we'll see what he's like out of character.
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Post by UbiquitousDragon on Aug 13, 2008 22:19:51 GMT
Somehow this new title page got me thrilled. I have a very strong and strange feeling of "oh my gawd the story IS going on!!!" and "GC is awesome but there's even MORE!!!". Just imagining the events and pages and mysteries and stories that lie ahead is making me crazy. I think I'm addicted to GC. Think. There is not thinking about that sort of thing: there is only GC ;D
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Post by Tenjen on Aug 13, 2008 22:37:26 GMT
terranauts?
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Post by etcetera on Aug 13, 2008 22:58:07 GMT
True. Zergmonauts!! It's also funny to notice how we come up with ideas, jokes and character and plot discussions without any actual content delivered by the recent strip. I mean, what we have so far is basically this: Chapter 19: <insert random word here> <insert random pic here> All this eventually leads to several conclusions: We are geeks. GC is awesome. So is Tom. Thank you for helping us help you help us all.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Aug 14, 2008 1:19:42 GMT
It says power station, but the picture looks like a communication tower. Interesting. Energy could be transmitted through radio waves, but that's awfully inefficient. Also, the power station could be distributing GHOST-POSESSED ENERGY or something awesome like that. "Dr. Disaster is Nicola Tesla in: Gunnerkrigg Court, Chapter 19: Power Station!"
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Post by mudmaniac on Aug 14, 2008 5:06:47 GMT
Psychonauts!!
Cuz that power station is obviously transmitting MIND-CONTROL WAVES.
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Post by popo on Aug 14, 2008 6:18:38 GMT
IT'S GOGGOLOR
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Post by xux on Aug 14, 2008 9:05:54 GMT
It's obviously the wireless power source for the Tick-Tocks.
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Post by Bobonfire on Aug 14, 2008 15:16:29 GMT
Powerstation. Intriging.
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Post by Per on Aug 14, 2008 16:34:53 GMT
It's obviously a reference to Ray Bradbury's "Powerhouse" which is all about schoolgirls and mechanical birds if I remember it clearly.
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Post by todd on Aug 14, 2008 22:18:33 GMT
they don't have to do spacemonaut stuff, it could be underwater or something. It would still be using the core concept, just giving it different trappings. Like doing another story in which Kat likes a boy who's turning into an animal, only this time it's a dog or a horse rather than a bird. I don't think that Tom's likely to repeat himself in that way.
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Post by myself on Aug 14, 2008 23:14:34 GMT
This is a 4-legged tower, folks. Everything comercially deployed in the last 30 years has been 3-legged. The square ones were used almost exclusively by AT&T (manufactured by Western Electric) during the Cold War era, for their Long Lines microwave relay network. In the US, anyway. I'm not sure about the 4-vs-3 thing in the UK but I'd assume engineering follows similar lines, so this tower's squareness indicates its age.
It's also obscenely tall, which separates it from the stout, sturdy beasts of the Long Lines era. The presence of so many small microwave drums among the large ones suggests that the eponymous power station is also host to a nontrivial amount of infrastructure gear, which uses short-haul radio links for control. The larger drums are for high-data-rate or long-haul links, because either would require more antenna gain. Do we get to see Kat hack a SCADA system in this chapter?
The rack of cellular antennae is remarkable only for what it lacks: There's only one sector shown here, so the others are probably below our view. (Asymmetric height is common, when some sectors serve a dense urban area and some fire farther into a rural or suburban area.) The power station, therefore, is on the edge of the Court's central region.
And up at the top of what's depicted here, we see a number of typical omnidirectional antennae. I'm guessing pager systems, two-way radio for public safety usage, maybe even some FM broadcast, though those usually use multibay rings that I don't see here.
Now, in the middle of the tower, is that a clubhouse? It might just be scribbled "these aren't the girders you're looking for" abstraction in the drawing, but I think not. There's a pretty clear door there. It's relatively common for small amplifiers and things to be tower-mounted, but an entire room-sized equipment shelter? That's rare and curious. The wind loading must be immense, so someone had a pretty clear reason for putting it up in the air, rather than at ground level or subterranean like most shelters. Makes me think of the BREN tower. Oooh...
Nucleonauts!
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Post by Mezzaphor on Aug 14, 2008 23:51:53 GMT
Ooooh. Just throwing out a wild guess, but I'm betting our favourite Dr with the skull-bowtie will be back in this chappie. I think that Dr. Disaster's more likely to be a one-shot character (simply because a future Spacemonaut chapter would just be repeating the joke and risk making it stale). Also, the title page looks too serious for a story involving him. Putting Dr. Disaster in a different chapter with a different plot would make him a more rounded character. Just like Mort was initially a one-joke character (A ghost who's bad at scaring people! Ha ha!) but subsequent appearances hinted at other facets of his character and tied him into the overarching mystery of the Court. And really, Disaster must have a life outside that simulator class he runs, and I for one am interested in seeing it.
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Post by kilthmal on Aug 15, 2008 7:56:54 GMT
Myself just won an internet for analyzing that picture with such precision.
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