That's not a double meaning. Ennesby is 100% meaning the Oafans should change.
Edited by Adannor on Jan 8th 2019 at 9:08:14 PM
Well, it's double meaning in that while just straight from the words Ennesby could be answering their query of how much of her they should change, his actual intent is a dig at them and how they should themselves change.
Too serene
. My wife gets on me for this sometimes. Some of it is macho stoicism. Some of it is that I'm just very good at compartmentalizing my emotions and I have a fairly low affect when I'm not excited.
Well, at least he's trying:
Guess who's trying to be a moment killer here:
Fermi Paradox, and what it means for your employment opportunities.
Considering the whole immortality thing, it's not a bad idea to consider the collapse of civilization as something you might personally have to worry about, even if it's thousands of years away.
Yup. You see that happen in scifi works with uplifted species all the time. Species that were uplifted from animals or primitive societies almost always have Creative Sterility going on, at least in technological aspects, because they just had everything handed to them and never had to work out solutions to problems themselves.
Think of the mooks!
Forgiveness might be easier to ask for than permission, but Tempting Fate is too expensive regardless.
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Yeah, that last panel made me twitch a little bit.
Think of the mooks!
Paranoia of that degree suggests at least some knowledge of someone who already is out to shoot you.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.
You do not pack your civilization into a wandering planet and launch yourself out of the galaxy into millions of years of void unless somebody is shooting at you a hell fucking lot.
This seems to be the default way for immortal civilizations to survive the long-gun. I suspect Petey is going to find them in this book. Not just these civilizations, but these specific characters.
Even allowing for time dilation 54 million years seems a long time for the same characters to be around, even with their own equivalent of the Lazarus nannies
They already had 10. All-Star also had gone through that timescale just fine.
Edited by Adannor on Jan 18th 2019 at 12:32:43 PM
Hmm, let's see... Andromeda is two and a half millions light years away, and they have done 0.5 mil. light years in 10 mil. years. Given the imprecision of those numbers, they may currently be passing through Andromeda if they aimed there.
Edited by Adannor on Jan 18th 2019 at 1:21:24 PM
Small talk. By "locally anti-entropic" are they just talking about life building things, or do they mean they actually figured out a way to beat entropy?
By "locally anti-entropic" I assume it's just the fact that life affects its environment, usually in an orderly way. As it gets intelligent and starts building things, that effect is magnified. So no, I don't think they've found a way to beat entropy, yet. Which is why it's classified as "small talk".
Yeah I think they're talking about just the ordering of things intelligence brings, not forestalling the cold death of the universe.
The core generator could do that, but it's coming far after their time.
Looks like one of those talking dinosaur-type things let something a bit important slip out in conversation:
The lack of security with the sphere's communications, since it appears just anyone can answer incoming messages.
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The last panel's speech bubble actually has a double meaning. It could mean that either they would have to change a lot of Chinook's programming to make her stop disliking them - or they should change themselves.
Welcome to Estalia, gentlemen.