![[0837] The Divine Comedy, Page 34: Part 17](/comics/2016-11-26-0837-the-divine-comedy-page-34-part-17.png "[0837] The Divine Comedy, Page 34: Part 17")
Use carbon rod on rubble.
Using the CARBON ROD (INANIMATE) as leverage, you manage to lift the wall plate lying on top of SANDRA’S leg a few centimeters. After a few seconds, SANDRA is able to stand up and follow you.
You successfully saved Sandra’s life (for now).
> Exit.
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So this is the end of this sub-ark?
I would not say that. Chekhov’s pizza slice has not yet been used…
Centimeters! What are those? 😛
Vidad wrote:
+1
TvTropesgotmehooked wrote:
it’s about 0.3937 inches
Wow, Larissa’s all set to make some really, really big charcoal drawings.
I wonder what kind of weapon the pizza doubles as…
TvTropesgotmehooked wrote:
All we civilized people wish that everybody uses standard measurements, but Novil should indeed remember more often that Sandra is on the US of A 😛
@ MaxArt:
I know! That’s my point. 🙂
Does Larisa measure her fires in Celsius? Haha.
@ TvTropesgotmehooked:
I read that as “fries” and now I’m hungry.
*feeds JD potatoe wedges*
And the carbon rod snaps due to being weak to transverse forces, and in fact only being strong when exposed to lateral forces.
*lateral
sorry longitudinal.
@ TvTropesgotmehooked:
Actually yes, she does measure fire in celcius, or at least understands it because in one strip Yuna lights Landon’s arm on fire at around 40 degrees celcius and tells both Landon and Larisa this, and they seem to understand.
So does that mean there’s an Animate carbon rod lying around somewhere that this has to be distinguished from?
An NOBODY suggested doing a barrel roll???
@ Warcraft_III_gamer:
Hahaha, your right for sure! 🔥
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2016/05/05/0783-hot-and-cool/
Namaphry wrote:
A rocket-propelled Molotov cocktail launcher.
I don’t often (this is only about the 2nd) comment. However I just want to say how much I have loved the more simplistic art style. While I suspect that it will revert to the more ‘advanced’ style that has been used until now, I hope that you do some more of this style.
Lost
So are we headed back to the normal Monday and Thursday update schedule?
@ Vidad:
I’m sure that they’re both hungry.
https://www.facebook.com/uniladmag/videos/2449790831710628/
Throw that rod a parade 😉 old people will get reference
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Trimutius wrote:
That’s too complex. I would say 1/2.54 inches
You guys really need to switch to the metric system finally.
All nations in the world use it except very few.
Do you really want to stay in the AXIS OF UNIT CHAOS, together with NORTH KOREA???
Larisa is from rusia; so she knows the metric system.
And this out of date stupid imperial system must be
very confusig to immigrants.
I watched Tested with Adam Savage and you here
something like: “And here a quarter inch, and here
a half inch, here we need 3 quarter inch, ect.”
If only there would be an easier way to measure. 🙂
NASA already crashed a space program because
americans have no idea of the metric system.
It is realy time to change it.
Lol, never! 😛
@ Djkblue:
In Rod We Trust!
But Larisa still needs to take care of those two angels! She has one slice of pizza and two rockets …
@ poko:
Any system is easy to use if one grew up using it, and hard to use if one is having to learn it as an adult.
A decimeter is 3 15/16 inches (to within one part in 8000), but I don’t know of any similarly nice number for a centimeter. (1/2.54 is true but inconvenient; 0.3937 is apparently used in some American systems.)
I’m also from Russia, incidentally, and agree that pretty much everybody uses centimeters (and occasionally decimeters) here but not inches (though the traditional Russian unit for small distances, the vershok, was officially defined as 1 3/4 inches – that’s 4.445 centimeters).
Larisa knows all about pyrotechnics but she (or Novil or Powree) are weak on mechanics.
Her hands are closer to the fulcrum than the fulcrum-to-wall-plate distance.
Therefore, she’s working at a mechanical disadvantage.
She moves a short distance but has to exert great force — much more than it would take to lift the load directly!
@ Rico:
Metric is fine for a number of things (especially science because of it’s ease at being computed and dealing with extremes) and is used there in the US, but the English system is based on biometrics and is easier for other more normal uses (fabric, clothing, buildings, furniture, cooking, and other things that deal with being human sized and shaped).
So has anyone one pointed out the Simpsons reference?
Richard Hernandez wrote:
The carbon rod is a reference to the Simpsons episode, where Homer
is an Astronout. He damaged the door of the space shutle, but with the
help of the carbon rod the door could be closed, and the shutle landed
safty. So the carbon rod was the hero of the space misson; not Homer. 😀
@ poko:
Units of measurement is far from the only area in which the USA is proud to be behind the rest of the world… Lots of people think the rest of the world only adopts things because they’re part of a conspiracy, and that clinging tightly to things they cherish is inherently virtuous, even if it doesn’t serve any practical purpose and might lose them some fingers.
@ Edda:
Presumably she had to insert the end of the rod, first, so she had a big advantage for the first few inches. Then she had to push it forward, so she could lift it higher, since the height of the lift was limited by how far the rod was extended. Eventually she’d have to push it quite far, because the ground would get in the way, otherwise. By the time in the picture, the slab would already be lifted, and she’d just have to keep it propped up.
Though she must be pretty strong to do that as shown. I’m guessing this is related to how she doesn’t get knocked over by recoil; either she has super-strength, cyborg limbs, or it’s more convenient for the author to use artistic license.
Or the wall is made of plaster, instead of concrete. I don’t think that was specified.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement
P.S.: In most places tires/tyres use both forms of measurement!
I read that some places in Europe have MPH signs, but no km/h. That is weird.
First, we need chek the situation, and form an escape plan.
Those angels have a backup plan for sure!
@ poko:
i did subtly
M. Peach wrote:
So you measure some things in thumbs (inches), some in hands, some in feet (which are actually longer than most human feet), some things in arm’s length (yards). Then for land measure use the length of a pole-arm (or perch or rod), or the length an ox can plough without stopping (furlong – originally furrow-long).
Long distances in thousands of paces (miles).
And remember all the conversion factors.
Cups were never an English measure for cooking, we used ounces/fluid ounces, or spoons of various sizes.
I grew up using the imperial system, the back of children’s writing books came covered with all the conversion factors.
It’s not easier than the SI units, just different.
We changed over, now things that used to be measured in foot increments (like shelf widths and fence heights) are now measured in 30 cm (or 300mm) increments. No practical difference unless trying to fit SI pegs into Imperial holes.
@ M. Peach:
As a fashion designer and hobby baker I beg to differ. In what way is 2/3 cups easier than 1,5 dl (unless you only have imperial measuring cups)? And mm is a far more acurate measurement than fractions of inches.
Kara wrote:
Lol no, they are both ‘accurate’. Sometimes I measure using 64ths-of-an-inch markings…
TvTropesgotmehooked wrote:
OK. I’ve never heard of anything less than 1/8 of an inch, and that is quite a lot in some situations. Would one ever use anything that is not a halving of the previous fraction? Could one measure anything to 1/47 on an inch?
@ Kara:
In professional settings, we just use decimal.
On a CNC machine it would display 1/8th as .125.
1/47 is about 0.02128; would just enter that into the keyboard.
There are a lot of misconceptions on both sides of the pond. Almost everything scientific or medical is done your way. 😀
@ Vidad:
Throw the pizza slice to distract the grue.
Huzzah! At last the end of the obvious homestuck parody!
Gotta love the fact that Novil didn’t just do a homestuck reference, but actually alluded to a lesser known MS Paint comic called Problem Sleuth. Also, I love how nobody questions the grenade.