[1137] Carmen
└ posted on Monday, 16 December 2019, by Novil
- Ye Thuza: What happened to your machine?
- Yuna: Awesome!
- Yuna: I must have overlooked a tetrational component with a small base in my motion equations that triggered a self-reinforcing process! The energy density inside the machine was eventually high enough to overcome the Chandrasekhar-Bell barrier and trigger a non-ionizing micronova of type VII/2!
- Ye Thuza: That was my first guess too…
- Ye Thuza: And that spinning thing is…?
- Yuna: … A neutron star of course! Do you know what that means?!
- Ye Thuza: Uhh… no?
- Yuna: I’ve finally found a playmate for Wally!
- Yuna: Say hello to Carmen, Wally! Aw, he’s all excited!
- Ye Thuza: Carmen…?
Damn, Eve would be better though…
Carmen Sandiego, I presume
Carmen Getit.
What is that gauntlet Yuna is wearing while she collects/maneuvers Carmen? And where can I get one?
@ OctopusGardener:
My thoughts exactly
How in the World is Carmen Levitating?
I miss the days we were scared of Yuna just because of her weapons knowledge.
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2012/06/21/0387-fight-the-system/
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2013/06/20/0492-yuna-has-the-atom-bomb/
I wonder what’s the most dense thing in this story ^^ wally & carmen, or yuna’s technobabble ? 😉
Somehow I wonder at the idea of mixing a neutron star (which should have swallowed the Earth and weighed, well, a LOT) and a black hole (which might have swallowed the Earth) in the same box and since, somehow they’re male and female I wonder what havoc their children will cause.
@ Hawk:
I am (vaguely) remembering a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where a group of alien children were hatched in a Romulan engine core because the parents were desperate to find a black hole to be a nursery. I am thinking something similar but in reverse will happen here.
Normally when a neutron star and a black hole meet, the black hole will spaghettify and absorb the neutron with a HUGE release of energy. A Gamma-Ray Burst happening on the surface of the Earth would not be a good thing. Mind you, with LIGO within a few thousand kilometres of the merger, they should get a really clear signal of the gravity waves emitted by the event.
Ye Thuza: What was that huge flash?
Yuna: Oh, I didn’t expect them to mate so quickly. I was expecting a few relativistic effects first. Oh, I get it. They just had a big bang on the other side of Wally’s event horizon. We just created a new universe!
I wonder if these are the first steps to grow a new TARDIS…
Maybe we should applaud the science fair judges foresight (at least now they can pretend it was because they knew the project would go Nova)
David Nuttall wrote:
In the New universe : We realized that our creator was named Yuna and that by our standards she was a child.
Gods / Planet Council: A female?
🙂
Capacitor overload. Got it. But what matter was being overcharged?
It’s a nice dark strip. Poor lighting, and smoke I assume. Too many artists keep everything in well lit areas so that they don’t have to bother with drawing different lighting states and shading.
Yuna _really_ should be keeping that white hole fragment in a different box.
@ Noximilian:
I seem to recall this being a debugging method to fix the problem of two TARDISes coinhabiting the same space.
@ Shadow Threat:
In this universe, the female protagonist of Final Fantasy X & X-2 was instead named “Mana” (and nicknamed “Mani” by Rikku). Players from RPGs where spells are cast from a reserve of “mana” started cracking jokes about how “MP” should be an exclusive stat to the summoner, leading to a #FandomBerserkButton among those who have never played such RPGs and have always known “MP” as an acronym for “Magic Points”.
@ DTIBA:
Probably the glove from page 1134 that she designed to handle Wally.
As I said before: It’s all fun and games until one of your pets decides to eat the other one.
How has Yuna not destroyed the Earth yet?
The most obvious problem here is the gravitational pull of Earth and these super heavy objects. They won’t float, just fall towards the center of the planet. (and of course the planet would fall towards them in a lesser extent) Holding them in place should require a really huge amount of energy. On the other hand, the glove does look like one thing that could work, albeit only if it was directly connected to a huge generator (on the size of larger nuclear reactors) and operated in a vacuum chamber.
Also neutron stars and black holes dont’t mix, unless you want a rather huge explosion, like on the order of one that could take out the whole solar system. This is something that even Star Trek level scifi usually gets right.
ps: The main problem of positive feedback loop generators is that if you don’t take away the generated power quickly enough, they usually destroy themselves. A rather good example are older nuclear reactors where continous external cooling is required for keeping them from melting themselves. Modern ones could self regulate in case of a total system failiure by choking themselves of neutron flux, much like geologically occuring natural fission reactors.
@ Trimutius:
A certain company probably wouldn’t have agreed to that.
We all have to admit Yuna is something else.
Pray that Yuna never turns evil… cause she has shown exactly how capable of science she is.
L’amour est un oiseau rebelle
Que nul ne peut apprivoiser…
@ Jack:
Yes, that was my first thought. I know it’s just a comic, but I find it kind of annoying how the author is constantly showing off his knowledge of various physics related words while at the same time seeming to be oblivious to the physics related consequences of those words.
At one point someone is gonna call bullshit on Yuna’s shenanigans…
Of course Wally is excited, it can suck the life out of that star
Jack wrote:
Gravity affects the same way all objects in the Universe, except for those created by a perpetual motion machine.
In fact, once we assumed that there are perpetual motion machines, mini black holes and talking raccoons, a levitating neutron star isn’t special.
Oh, now I get why Yuna called it “Wally”. But since she’s American, shouldn’t she have called it “Waldo”?
@ God-Emperor Max:
You’re a couple pages late on that comment. In any case, there are several American works that make reference to “Where’s Wally” rather than “Where’s Waldo” simply because it better flows off the tongue.
someone said one part but I’ll say it together
Where’s Wally (if I remember correctly, that’s the version of “Wheres Waldo” outside of the US)
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Two elusive objects..two elusive people…yes I just saw the last comment snarking about being a page late but it’s still fun to say “Eureka!” amongst friends.
Yuna would fit right in over at r/VXjunkies
Lol those are some Strong boxes.
Just don’t let Wally get too close to Carmen…
side note: everyone is now officially dead, the resulting GRB from the creation of Carmen would render the entire planet sterile (at least if not the solar system) and Yuna must be extremely strong to be able to more something more massive than continental United States…
@ Keulan:
She hasn’t ‘tried’ yet.
If this is what happens when she’s happy, let’s keep her happy.
I followed her description mostly.
not really sure what type of bell that barrier was, but it definitely led to a surprise.
“micro-nova”? couldn’t you have just said “EXPLOSION”?
after all, a nova is an explosion of a star.
“micro” means very, very small.
So we had a very, very small explosion of a star?
somehow, I don’t think that’s very safe.
Neutronium isn’t stable in masses smaller than about a tenth of a solar mass. Not only will a mini neutron star not form naturally, a small piece of neutronium would be highly radioactive.
I never played Final Fantasy VII/2
MFW people start to argument with logic and physics about neutron stars in a comic of a talking raccoon, which also showed the selection process of the gods.
People, take the joke and stop complaining. If you want a more serious science comic, try Dr. Stone.
i’ve never seen a black hole emit hawking radiation in such a gleeful manner… O.o
Ayutac wrote:
The story needs to operate under the laws of reality established by itself. And the more you leave to “well, it just is”, the more weaker you grow your overall story.
It wouldn’t be problem if these were like Garfield of old, each basically a separate strip that had no bearing to another, where everything was possible.
But this story boasts to have continuety beyond this haa-haa-funny arch of poking around your black-hole until you’re all spaghetti on your hands, so certain “well it is possible” just makes the next wonder “of course it’s possible, next!” where nothing really gives you anything. Kinda like using too much drugs. Sure it’s trippy as heck for a while, but soon you’re just throwing in more celestial bodies and wanking them for your dear life and still getting no milkyway out of them.
Kinda like blowing a capital ship with another spaceboat. Cool? Yeah, kinda. Possible under the stories laws? Not really… Oh, it is? Then what was the problem with any Death Stars and whatnot? Just ram ships into them.
People, please, one reader said it best:
Yuna is not practicing science, she’s practicing mad science! Adhering to the laws of physics is optional.
Novil wrote:
This is what you get when you get a bunch of physicists reading your web-comic and enjoying themselves immensely. You should see our physics, chemistry and biology discussions in the superhero comic GrrlPowerComic.com. 😉 Your comment reminds me of a comment from Cam Wooley, an expert and former police officer on Canada’s Worst Driver: (paraphrasing) Some people think they can get away with breaking the traffic laws if there isn’t a copy around to catch you. But when you try to break the laws of physics, you pay for it immediately, whether a police officer is there or not.
Yuna, not so much. For her, the laws of physics and the resulting laws of chemistry, biology, etc. are either just suggestions or challenges for her to overcome. Hmm, I wonder how she would be during driver training in about 8 years or so.
I get it, Where’s Wally? & Carmen Sandiego!
People seem to forget that in the world of the comic there are gods, devils, succubuses… So it is reasonable to assume that guardian angels are exist as well.
I suspect that Yuna has not one, but a whole squad of guardian angels who are working in an hourly shift to maintain the shields that protect the world from the real effects of Yuna’s creations.
Also, a piece of neutronium as large as Yuna is holding would have a mass of hundreds of gigatonnes, or about 500 skyscrapers.
Charles Bowditch wrote:
One of the series was Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? It was even used as the theme for a PBS game show for kids (Sequel to Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?) I can imagine a few temporal effects from the interaction of a cubic centimetre neutron star and a 5 cm Schwarzschild radius black hole.
Novil wrote:
When it comes to Yuna, the laws of physics probably sit up snf beg for her.
jb wrote:
Hey our Author has little regard to physics, at least in his created Universen.
We all in a metaphorical sense create reality by the fact of our existence.
Then there’s Yuna, who is heading towards being the goddess of her own creation.
Eh, an inquisitive ten-year-old girl strikes me as a far better creator than the senile old toe-rot fool I’m increasingly convinced must be the driving animus of our reality.
If Yuna’s taking applications for her reality, I’m applying!
I can easily see myself as the Maxim to her Beverly Brook!
Comedy aside two things that should be apparent despite the suspended disbelief: one, neutron stars and black holes don’t exist. According to the Electric Universe Paradigm, they fall under the category of FAIRIE DUST (as in Fabricated Ad Hoc Inventions Repeated Invoked In Efforts to Defend Untenable Scientific Theories). You’ll have to Google the results to do your homework but while they’ve been a staple of science fiction and even some science factoids, they’ve never been proven to exist. Two, even supposing they did exist, their accretion disks would give off deadly synchotron radiation that would kill a human being instantly.