![[0531] The Special One (Climbing Route)](/comics/2013-11-25-0531-the-special-one-climbing-route.png "[0531] The Special One (Climbing Route)")
I have posted the results of some of our latest polls.
There are now also four new polls in the voting widget in the right sidebar:
- Which of the following story arcs did you like the most?
- How many different video games (including PC games and online games) do you play?
- Do you prefer single strips or strips that are part of a longer story arc?
- Who is your favorite main character?
- Woo: Butterfly is a raccoon. And she climbs. Better than any raccoon before! Last year she discovered a new route near Beech Valley, The Special One. Now she wants to send it.
- Woo: The lower part of the route consists of a toppled beech tree whose mighty trunk is even smoother than that of the infamous Professor!
- Woo: The upper part consists of an exhausting cliff face. It seems to require moves impossible for any animal smaller than a human!
- Woo: But the crux is the jump from the tree to the cliff. The climber has to turn around mid-air and get hold of a hole that’s smaller than a keyhole with his claw! Squirrels had a try at this jump and failed!
- Sandra: Wow, that sounds impressive!
- Woo: Yes. It’s as if a human were to… hmm…
- Woo: … beat Deep Blue in chess in 9.57 seconds!
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as expected Butterfly’s 2nd longest arc just began ^^ btw, 3 questions: how many strips will it last?.. was this strip uploaded 1 hour later, because Germany daylight saving time just ended? Gaia too?
@ Landbark:
shh! don’t jinx her! ;p now that I think about it, maybe this arc will last 20 strips… I think the longest is 21 (Forage for food in winter #352-372), while the next is 19 (Treasure hunt in a factory #117-135) 🙂
Is that an eagle’s nest up there?!
Butterfly: I want Woo to come and watch, well, my back! The eagle will back off if he threatens to eat its eggs!
@ NecroRyu:
Nope, the longest starts with “[244] A new adventure”, and is 52 strips long.
NecroRyu wrote:
The longest storyline was the one where an eagle captured Woo with 52 strips. This one will have more than 30.
At first I was going to make a joke about it, but I googled it and found a bunch of cool stuff on the number of moves in chess. Like the Shannon number.
So apparently the estimated number of possible moves in chess is around 2^155 if I’m reading it correctly. Pretty neat. Of course, I may be reading the article incorrectly.
@ Novil:
@ Vidad:
I see! thanks for your reply! in other words, Larisa’s secret must wait for this arc to end after winter :/
Call me naive, but why does she want to ‘send’ it? I would expect it to be ‘ascend’, or maybe something like ‘take the plunge’ or ‘commit’ to climbing it. The German version has begehen, which Google translate tells me means ‘commit to’.
Granted, if it wasn’t ‘send’, yesterday’s joke about the football manager in the mail wouldn’t work, but it isn’t working for me regarding climbing. Note: I’m a native English (American) speaker.
Hopefull we do not end up with a black and white splat on the ground by the end of this arc…
Chris857 wrote:
Because that’s the term professional rock climbers use.
Say, does anyone know where this Beech Valley is located? Now that we know that Sandra lives about 40 miles away from that place we could figure out in what state she might live in. Pretty pointless, but fun trivia.
Also, just a thought. If Woo is going, then won’t there be lots of other raccoons going who have heard about this? If there is, then how will Sandra watch without scaring all of them away?
Mr_Nabby wrote:
Beech Valley is a fictional place.
Luke wrote:
You can bet on that.
@ Novil:
I guess you’re right, though it looks like it’s just an abbreviation of ascend in the end. I did not know this; thanks.
Neospector wrote:
If you think Chess got fantastic amount of moves, you should check Go possible moves. You’re free to put your stones everywhere on the board and the pro tournaments can go for days.
From quick Google search:
In the same article the authors used two different algorithms to estimate the total number of legal positions on a 19×19 board. This amounts to ~2.08168199382 × 10^170
“I am never forget the day I am given first original paper To write. it was on analytic and algebraic topology of Locally euclidean parameterization of infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifold.
“Bozhe moi!
“This I know from nothing.
“But I think of great lobachevsky and get idea – ahah!”
— Tom Lehrer, “Lobachevsky“
As a mathematician, I object to Woo’s equality of a ridiculous rock climbing challenge and the Reimann hypothesis. Still a good analogy for those who understand it.
I am now imagining Woo as an excitable TV sportscaster.
This is fun.
@ Novil:
Don’t they write it as ‘scend rather than send? I’ve only been rock climbing once and I am by no means an expert on rock climbing terminology so I was just curious, like a raccoon. =D
Also, I never comment so since I am posting I want to take the time to say that I adore Gaia and Sandra and Woo, both are wonderful comics with great stories, art, and writing. The sense of humor used in both, especially Sandra and Woo, is awesome and has often caused me to giggle out loud at the computer. Thank you for the entertainment, the laughs, and the time put into providing great comics for us to enjoy. =D
“…Whose mighty trunk is even smoother than that of the infamous professor.”
Does that mean anything that isn’t very dirty?
this must be akin to Mavericks to surfers…
Woo says that as if there is a climbing Olympics for Raccoons, I wouldn’t be surprised if there is one….
Why does that cliff remind me of the Devil’s Tower as seen in the movie; “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”? 🙂
@ Luke:
Who said Sandra was coming along for the ride?
please please please let there be more of Zoey x Michelle!!! ; A ;
I already ordered the ship t-shirts!!!!!
A Woo centric arc with over 30 strips? Rejoice Woo fans!
Can’t be that hard, all you have to do is look for the blue sparkles, jump, and press the circle button.
@ Digolgrin:
I just assumed that Sandra would be, she is the other main character of the strip after all, and her and Woo are best friends. Also, if I were her, I would want to see a raccoon climb up a freaking mountain!
I guess that will be like the super bowl of climbing
And I thought Woo wanted to see real butterfly sending a “special” hurricane.
Ternary wrote:
I suspect a few butterfly collectors would have been VERY interested.
I think that’s already been done…
Sounds like Someone should pack a camera with a good zoom lens.
Considering the distance a squirrel can leap from a stand still (never mind a running start) and that they can lift their entire body with a single claw, I have my doubts a raccoon can do better. (Chitter) But, of course, I might be a biased squirrel. }:3
AckAckAck wrote:
If you think Chess got fantastic amount of moves, you should check Go possible moves. You’re free to put your stones everywhere on the board and the pro tournaments can go for days.
From quick Google search:
In the same article the authors used two different algorithms to estimate the total number of legal positions on a 19×19 board. This amounts to ~2.08168199382 × 10^170
Go is the emperor of board games. It’s the hardest, the easiest, the oldest, the most popular (worldwide), and the biggest. You won’t find many games with a 19×19 board!
If there exists a proof to the Riemann hypothesis, then writing one in a little more than 9 seconds is probably done like this: I and II => Riemann (i.e. all the work is already done in I and II). Finding a proof for Riemann is the challenge, probably not writing “a” proof in a very short time.
But computing all chess moves is implausible. I believe it would be plausible for a human to always make the best possible decision in chess, but computing all the possibilities might be beyond physics altogether.
…so yeah, Woo knows nothing. Hence, he’s Jon Snow.
There, proved that in under 9 seconds.
Chris857 wrote:
A translation that is wrong in this case. Where “begehen” is used in the sense of walking down a specific path or climbing up a specific route. It’s a word with different possible meanings.
Is “send” some kind of rock climbing jargon I’m not familiar with? Like…idk, a slang version of “ascend”?
@ astrocom:
huh, apparently it is. Thank you Novil.
“Send it”? Send it where?
I’ve heard of ascending and descending, but not just “sending” in this context.
@ Novil:
So it is really RacoonCon 2013?
I’ve got to say, I think the average reader is more likely to understand the difficulty of the alternate version than the “main” one.
That’s a smart answer to a difficult question.
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