[1104] Ultraviolent Rays
└ posted on Monday, 5 August 2019, by Novil
- Yuna: Do you like my hologram?
- Ye Thuza: I do! And I’m happy that you’ve finally built a thing of beauty! How does it work?
- Yuna: Well, it’s complicated, but the technology is fundamentally based on ultraviolent rays!
- Ye Thuza: Violet, Yuna, ultraviolet.
- Ye Thuza: I should’ve known better!
- Yuna: When you hold the hologram against your ear, you can sometimes hear the screams of the air molecules that are being beaten into submission.
S&W in German/auf Deutsch
![[1104] Ultraviolent Rays](/comics/2019-08-05-1104-ultraviolent-rays.png "[1104] Ultraviolent Rays")
You should never get your hopes up with those mad scientists, even when they are good they are bad. 😛
Don’t question the girl who blew up the sun.
I think ultraviolet radiation does that to air, actually … see ozone-oxygen cycle.
I laughed so hard at this one.
Yuna may well grow up to be the greatest physicist who ever lived. Or, she may end up destroying the universe.
Say… why not both?
@ oledakaajel:
Samantha Carter?
I’m convinced that Yuna is the world’s most adorable mad scientist.
Finally! More Yuna! 🙂
The description of Sheldon Cooper comes to mind — “One lab accident away from becoming a super villain.”
@ Wolfhowl:
From the Shaenon Garrity school of mad science
A Clockwork Yuna? “A little of the old Ultraviolence.”
Lol, that’s agood one to start off my day. 😁
@ Gamesman:
She would need a strap on for that. Isn’t she a little young?
YAY for more Yuna
This is so cute and fun, and I really like that also Yuna has grown since she first appeared (along with the other characters).
Ultraviolence! It gets things done.
Alice Macher wrote:
why not, even Washu Hakubi, the greatest scientific genius in the universe, invented the Dimensional Cannon (A weapon of a terrible magnitude capable of destroying entire star systems)
@ PsihoKekec:
Is anyone else remembering the “Night of Long Knives” strip?
Ultraviolent light is the mortal enemy of infrarend radiation.
@ Zach:
Not really the Ultraviolence was not rape though that did occur later in the film. It was basically gang vs gang fights.
That looks in the 3rd panel.
“Srsly, Mom?”
“Oh sh++! She actually meant it.”
Just priceless.
Wasn’t “ultraviolence” some thing from “Clockwork Orange”?
In the German version, the word-play is a confusion of “Hertz” (units of frequency) with “schmerz” (German for “pain”) in the compound noun: “teraschmerzstrahlen” (trillion-pain-radiation).
For reference, visible light is in the 430–770 THz (terahertz) range, which means SOME ultraviolet is in the 770-999 THz range. Ultraviolet is roughly the range from 770-30000 THz.
For conversion, the speed of light in vacuum is roughly 300000 nm ⋅ THz, which is a great aid in conversion between nm of wavelength and THz of frequency.
300000 nm ⋅ THz = 300 pm ⋅ EHz = 300 nm ⋅ PHz = 3000 Å ⋅ PHz = 300 µm ⋅ THz = 300 mm ⋅ GHz = 30 cm ⋅ GHz = 300 m ⋅ MHz = 300 km ⋅ kHz = 300 Mm ⋅ Hz
So I take it the hologram can show all the colors between ultraviolent and infradead?
@ Wolfhowl:
Generally speaking, mad scientists ARE only good when they’re bad; Once they develop a conscience, sanity is just around the corner.
I mean, I was voted “most likely to become a mad scientist and take over the world” in my HS yearbook, and I had a rocking vertigo beam at the functional prototype stage, and plans for extorting world leaders with implanted sinus cavity bombs, but then half way through my dual degree in computers and human biology, I suddenly realized it would be wrong to do that to people.
And just like that, the world lost another promising mad scientist.
Leak wrote:
Presumably. But can it display images in octarine?
@ R. Penner:
There’s an actual defined terahertz band, it’s between microwaves and infrared, at frequencies 0.1 to 30 THz. It shares properties with both, and is what Terahertzstrahlung refers to.
@ atlachan:
Yes it was. Watch the movie but be warned very hard R rating. Rape violence torture.
The screams all merge to sound like an E Flat.
This also makes me think of the explanation of 8-bit theater’s Black Mage about what power his Hadouken blast. For those of you who don’t know think of the magic missile times about a thousand. It’s an all-or-nothing blast of pure absolute destruction and ANYTHING hit by it takes full damage.
He says what power it is love. More precisely it siphons love out of the universe. It’s been rumored that especially powerful blasts have been known to increase divorce rates.
Well as if i didn’t need more clues that Yuna was a escaped spark.
@ Jim R:
You just now noticed that?
Ye Thuza. To be fair. She is your daughter. Should you expect any less. You are the one that literally taught her to weaponize pens.
It took me 3 days to get the joke…
Yuna is so powerful, she can hurt the air and scare the light 😀
I was wondering how invisible ultraviolet light could be seen with the naked human eye.
Clearly ultraviolence is a different matter.
How ironic that this girl is named after about the kindest, gentlest, most morally upstanding character in Final Fantasy… her parents sure missed the mark on that one. They should have called her Yufie. :p
Well, if Yuna ever needs to emmigrate to another comic, she could probably find a home in Girl Genius.
@ Nematrec:
Thank you for the help with engineering jargon. I was not certain how widely adopted the expression was even in English since I have no background in modern wireless communication engineering.
May you have children just like yourself!– as t he curse goes.and as Ye Thuza has found out.
@ Brett Bellmore: A certain ghostly mad scientist named Kathryn would like a word with you.