[0707] Hole In The Rug
└ posted on Thursday, 6 August 2015, by Novil
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- Ye Thuza: Don’t be sad, little warrior.
- Ye Thuza: Sei nicht traurig, kleine Kriegerin.
- Ye Thuza: First, we’ll eat a g-i-a-n-t sundae!
- Ye Thuza: Okay…
- Ye Thuza: And at home, I’ll help you construct version two of your cold fusion reactor.
- Yuna: Wow! Thank you, mommy!
- Ye Thuza: … Which hopefully no longer creates dark matter as a byproduct.
- Yuna: Sorry about the wormhole in the rug…
![[0707] Hole In The Rug](/comics/2015-08-06-0707-hole-in-the-rug.png "[0707] Hole In The Rug")
Those pesky miniature wormholes.
Always ruining your carpet.
They’re worse than termites, I’m telling you!
I have mixed feelings about the cold fusion reactor.
Which set of Cloud’s figurines will this reactor run on?
….that statement sounded like present tense. Is the wormhole still there?
How many people are gonna get swallowed by the wormhole? Where does it go? i wanna find out…
If Yuna just published her work, we could have Sandra and Woo Star Trek spin off.
Well, that’s disappointing. I was hoping that Ye Thuza would treat this setback as a learning experience. After so many years, her inability to admit fault is really starting to grate on me. She never seems to reflect on any of the questionable things she does.
Darkstand wrote:
probably not… a microsingularity required to create it would evaporate in duration of few Planck time units… of it´s own timframe…
which would mean that the wormhole would collapse before we know it in our timeframe…
I guess she does not have Ancient/Asgard/Nox/Ori technology to maintain it longer…
(edit cold fusion is unfortunately nothing but fewered dream of madmen)
If Yuna is seriously at that level of smarts, I don’t think you need to worry about finding a tutor for her Ye Thuza. She could probably tutor most of the people in the field all on her own.
Hmm.
If Yuna was to end up in the past and met her yet to be parents, I see her imparting this bit of advice: “”Oh, and one more thing, if you guys ever have kids and one of them, accidentally creates a wormhole in the living room rug – go easy on her.”
That good parenting.
Dark matter doesn’t create wormholes; only exotic matter does that. Also, seeing as neutrinos are dark matter, ANY nuclear reactor, fission or fusion, will generate dark matter as a byproduct; it’s just a question of quantity.
@ Antiyonder:
Can’t happen. While wormholes can be made into time machines, you can’t use one to travel back to a time before it became a time machine. Also, making a wormhole into a time machine requires either accelerating one of the mouths to relativistic speed or a strong gravitational gradient between the mouths (technically any relative motion or gravitational gradient would be sufficient eventually, but it wouldn’t be very useful unless the relative motion/gravitational gradient was a substantial fraction of the speed of light, with the gravitational gradient being measured in terms of escape velocity). Unless she has a miniature black hole, she can’t make a time machine, and even then, there’s the issue of fitting into the wormhole without being speghettified or killed by radiation.
Great garbage disposal, though.
Oddly, Yuna reminds me of Reed Richards from that Fantastic Four movie that came out yesterday, except with parental (non-)guidance…
Paul wrote:
Comparing Yuna to Reed Richards is kind of an insult to Yuna, isn’t it?
Also, a family of gamers should know that it’s not a wormhole, it’s a warp zone!
She’s smart but she can’t see opportunity to make money and take over the universe
@ Kyran:
Kyran wrote:
What questionable things has she ever done? Really, what? Inability to admit fault? Keep this attitude up and you’re going to be joining that Cambridge ‘woman’!
I wonder if that wormhole led to a bunch of beans as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhKg0F49MHY
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@ myth buster:
Hardly. Neutrinos are not dark matter.
Let’s hope they don’t get Spongebob to serve them the sundaes.
eek o_o
Will Sandra-and-Woo-world survive long enough for Sandra and Cloud to get married…?
Oh, oh… kids and their imagination…^_^’
@Novil
The transcript has Ye Thuza’s first line twice, both in English and in German.
It also has Yuna’s “Okay…” listed as being said by Ye Thuza.
Unless someone else already pointed this out and it’s been changed but I just haven’t refreshed my page yet.
I first thought, wow, that ice-cream parlor was conveniently close but then I remembered that those things are all over the place in Germany. Sort of like Tim Horton’s here or Starbucks in the states.
I don’t think a wormhole smaller than a proton would damage the carpet much.
Dark matter would be even less objectionable. It doesn’t, by definition, interact with “normal” matter in any way except gravitationally.
Now, if Yuna could generate larger singularities, Ye Thuzas’s first instinct would be to use them towards overthrowing Myanmar’s military.
Naa they wouldn’t do that, they’re called W.I.M.P’s for a reason.
Weakly Interacting Massive Particle’s
Welp. Nothin’ to do around here anymore… (Blasts off to the oort cloud and pitches a tent on a comet)
You know … an on demand wormhole in the rug could be a good thing.
Companies charge good money for built in vacuuming systems and the HEPA filtration for those and the regular portable vacuums.
A wormhole has none of these issues depending on where the exit is.
Considering the famously hilarious DnD story “about a magical ring” (http://i.imgur.com/ZxOBoG1.jpg) that turned out to be a small bi-directional gateway … which then was tossed in to a deep lake out of boredom … the exit aperture of Yuna’s wormhole could be a whole bizarre story line in itself.
@ nicktyrong:
my thoughts exactly. a tiny wormhole in the rug and you never need to vacum again – just sweep everything into your handy bottomless sucking hole 😉
Their homeowners association will need some new bylaws soon
I guess we now know Which parent Yuna inherited her Math Talents from.
Ye Thuza seems to Know what caused the Dark Matter problems with the previous reactor but she followed the Science Fair rules that competitors must perform their Own experiments.
Besides, how is Yuna ever going to Learn if Ye Thuza just gives her the answers?
hamstap85 wrote:
The Association has learned Not to Mess with Ye Thuza.
The neighborhood has been So Peaceful since she had that little discussion with the neighbor who used to own the 90,000 Watt Stereo system.
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Ahhh, that’s how that Zug got under there!
…scary.
Yes, let’s help the girl build another nuclear device when she can’t handle double digit multiplication.
This is a field in which a misplaced decimal place is the difference between powering your home and exploding it, and she is treating it like it’s astronomy where you can guesstimate the number of digits and still be called correct.
@ hola:
(a misplaced decimal place)
I meant forgetting to carry the one.
@ hometownboy93:
I have mixed feelings too.
Awed admiration and stark terror!
I don’t mind wormholes in the carpet… black holes in Earth’s core are another matter entirely!
Wow, these people are at the bleeding edge of research and technology, and they’re seeking the approval of the booger-brained people from the cutting edge side? O_o
Alright so Yuna made a worm hole in the rug and I am sitting here reading a comic I am so useless I will just go and cry in the corner QnQ thank you Yuna
@ Kyran:
What fault are you referencing in this case? If you have the capability to afford it, knowledge of it and your child clearly has the ability, wouldn’t you want to help them pursue something they love?
As for the past, I can’t really see a point that Ye Thuza was ever so much in the wrong as a morally gray area at best. Worst case was probably the blackmail picture of the officer, but that was still arguable since it was only on a fairly small personal level; not career/life ending by any extent. Making the feminazi lady disappear…that’s up in the air I guess, but at the level she was taking things I would agree 100% with that course of action.
@ Iranaryluch:
In this case, the fault is Ye Thusa not even bringing as much as an IQ result for Yuna. She merely brought what she already had, a very flimsy evidence of Yuna’s prodigy. She didn’t put the effort to produce any additional evidence.
@ hola:
Which is why you never do engineering calculations in your head. You always do them on paper and have someone check your work.
N0083rP00F wrote:
They meat the protential tutor on campus didn’t they. lots of stores like ice cream plaurs try to be as covient to canpmus as posible.
Antiyonder wrote:
I think it was less about the rug which would have been accidental but rather the willful distruction of her brother’s stuff that landed her in the hotseat.
@ Iranaryluch:
Crystalgate has already answered part of your question. Besides that, the two most notable instances are (IMHO) the ones that you listed: Blackmailing the police officer; And ‘disappearing’ another person.
At first glance, the blackmail might not seem so bad. After all, coercing someone into modifying a roundabout is hardly high treason. But that changes when you remember the order of events. Ye Thuza didn’t just happen to stumble across this embarrassing information: She went out of her way to gather it, far in advance of the incident. Whatever her reason for spying on that officer from inside a vent, it had nothing to do with roundabouts. Apparently she just wanted to have some dirt on the man, on the off-chance that it might be useful some day. For me, that crosses the line.
As for the teacher, my opinion is the complete opposite of yours. Where you ‘agree 100%’, I agree 0%. Yes, that woman was indeed a horrible person: But no amount of radical feminism justifies being kidnapped and stranded in Saudi Arabia. Even basic knowledge of that country’s laws will let us predict the consequences. For someone like Dorothy Cambridge, being sent there could easily be a literal death sentence. Ye Thuza knowingly forced another human being into a situation where death was a likely outcome. If that doesn’t qualify as a ‘questionable act’, then I don’t know what would.
Kabuto5 wrote:
If she hopes to publish, she will need to refrain from calling her detractors “boogerheads”
@ Kyran:
Naw. Dorothy Cambridge got exactly what she deserved, whatever it was that happened to her. The woman bullied others based on their gender. There is a point past which tolerance and respect for others’ opinions becomes stupid and demeaning. Permitting Cambridge to spew her filth is like permitting creationists to ‘teach the controversy” in public schools. She was entitled to her opinion, she had no right to treat her facts as opinion. She was given a choice; accept a teaching position in Saudi Arabia where she would have really had to deal with sexism, or disappear. She choose poorly.
@ Demarion:
That’s what’s known as a false dichotomy. There is plenty of middle ground between ‘let her teach sexist garbage in school’ and ‘forcibly deport her to Saudi Arabia’. Mrs Cambridge definitely needed to be stopped: But that was far from the only way to do it. The ends don’t justify the means.
@ Kyran:
No offense but the end always justifies the means. The means though don’t always justify the end. Results matter most methods help get you the results. Just remember all results should be accounted for for choosing a method,(deaths, injuries,cost,time and the main goal). Ye thuza’s method I give a 7 out of 10. -3 for probably resulting in a death.