[0448] Under A Killer Balloon: Episode 1, Page 6
└ posted on Monday, 21 January 2013, by Novil
- Sandy South: Qoo’s interrogation of the prime suspect brought nothing new to light. In the meantime, I carried out a detailed analysis of the case’s chronology.
- Sandy South: EUREKA!
- Sandy South: I immediately informed my partner of my groundbreaking findings.
- Sandy South: The figure was last seen yesterday night at 9 o’clock. Assuming the thief has no access to an Alcubierre drive, he…
- Sandy South: … can’t have gone further than the outer edge of the Kuiper Belt.
- Qoo: Please promise that none of your calculations will ever leave this room…
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That may be a correct assumption, Sandy, but it sure doesn’t narrow your search any. 😛
I had to wikisearch both Alcubierre drive and Kuiper Belt for this strip.
And these findings present us with…absolutely nothing useful. You were just wasting out time.
Hurry! You can still catch them if you leave now!
Is Sandy assuming that the thief actually kept to the orbital plane, instead of making a break for (what is theorized to be) the nearest part of the Oort Cloud. *tsk* *tsk* The figure is probably on another world, even as she speaks…
Skeletor: “Ha ha ha ha haaaa! Those foolish mortals will never be able to catch me here! The prize is mine!! HA HA HA HA HA HA-”
Ye Thuza: Skeletor never had a laugh as manly as that, darling. He had a more weedy and nasal voice. Anyway- “No! I am She-Ra, come to rescue Tifa from your dark clutches! Riding Princess Celestia, no less! Side saddle!”
David: Curses! I never thought the voice casting did Skeletor justice. *ahem* “Not so fast, princesses! Simmons! Frehley! Stanley! Criss! Give them… THE BIG KISS-OFF!”
I thought she was good at maths.
Then again, never actually saw proof of it. Just that she wanted to be an important smart person someday.
This makes almost no sense. I’m not even sure I understand Qoo’s little remark at the end there. XD
*puts on tinfoil hat*
MARTIANS! It was the Martians who did it, I tell you!
Greenwood Goat wrote:
I like it!
Woo: And what’s your margin of error on that?
Sandra: ±15 astronomical units. Why?
Woo: Well, at least you have all your bases covered.
If only she had carried the three she could have had them somewhere in the Degobah system
Yay science and astronomy jokes! Sandra & Woo has attained a new level of awesome! 😀
At least we know that has not traveled with the Enterprise!
Qoo is trying to keep essential information under wraps! I sense corruption! Watch out, Sandy!
Let the “Narrowing it down” begin! 😉
I say either Mars or the dark side of the moon.
I feel happy beuse I already knew what the Kuiper Belt and Alcubie Drives wre.
The time your pet has better calculations than yours???
Miss Sandy, I am terribly disapointed… You absolutely neglected possibility that he/she has access to stargate or hyperspace engine…
(none has actualy been disproved by any mathematics I know)
@ Ali:
Actualy given the second level precision we can narrow it to roughly 300000 kilometrs… radius from Earth… though the volume of space rapidly grows with time…
Did you know Qoo was a non-carbonated soft drink here in Japan? It’s named after the delighted sound the character makes when he drinks it (which seems very appropriate for Woo)
Toys IN SPACE!
@ ekimmak:
SANDRA was good at maths.
Which means SANDY (The opposite) must be bad at maths.
Hahaha!..
Please! x3
NeonJ wrote:
Unfortunately maximum possible distance object could have traveled at subluminal speed takes only simple multiplication of speed of light and time elapsed.
I thing a dog can be trained to do that.
So….. Is his name now Qoo? 🙂
Congrats Sandra, you just narrowed it down to roughly six billion suspects, give or take a million.
@ C. W. Roden:
well scietific metodology from stargate:
Zelenka: “So we now know jumper has sunk somewhere in this area.”
Weir: “It does not look like you have narrowed area down much.”
Zelenka: “Well in fact we have extended it a bit”
Weir: “How does that any good.”
Zelenka: “We are not guessing anymore.”
Those numbers were astronomically high! For those calculations, she gets a star in my book.
@ C. W. Roden:
Seven billion.
I had to look up Alcubierre as well; Alcubierre’s warp bubble solution immediately sprang to mind but I’d forgotten the author’s name in the 19 years since I read the paper.
Roachester wrote:
What kind of Warped thinking is that?Crestlinger wrote:
“Just zooming along protecting the human race!…”(apologies to Mel Brooks)
@ Hydrargyrum:
I recognized it right away. There’s actually been some recent developments concerning Alcubierre’s theory, some NASA physicist claims he has a hypothesis for changing the drive geometry and oscillating the warp bubble. He says the amount of energy needed to power the drive would be about 1600 pounds of equivalent mass, whereas the original Alcubierre drive required the mass-energy equivalent of a planet roughly the size and composition of Jupiter.
Auriga wrote:
Slightly more precision- it would be ship with volume of Enterprise-D and it would travel at maximum 1 LY using this energy…
Greenwood Goat wrote:
You know, if she were riding Princess Twilight, she’d have point-to-point quantum teleportation available…
@ Mito:
In this fantasy play story line.
At those speeds, distances and times, simultanaity is thrown out the window. The now where she is will not be the now of the target.
I expect that the
dollaction figure is actually still on Earth and more than likely still on the property.@ Paeris Kiran: Eh thank you. I’m not sure where I got that number from but what you said was correct.
Paeris Kiran wrote:
OK, you apparently don’t know either the difference between maths and physics, or the basic scientific method. I’ll give you a clue: you don’t need to disprove anything when nobody has suggested how it could possibly work in the first place.
Auriga wrote:
I would love to see a source for that, given that the Alcubierre drive is a theoretical possibility that, to my knowledge, nobody has ever considered even remotely plausible.
ummm… Yuna is involved… i wouldn’t be so sure she needs an Alcubierre drive. She could just stick it between the borders of reality and fiction.