Shortpacked! by David Willis

Discussion (18) ¬

1. 
   Peregrin

   September 15, 2010 at 6:47 pm | # | Reply

   Aaand Sarah Palin was born.

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     Tegan

     September 5, 2011 at 1:11 am | # | Reply

     Somehow, I have a hard time seeing Palin describing anyone as “my lesbian”.
2. 
   JacquieH

   October 27, 2010 at 8:20 pm | # | Reply

   “can they computate the power of love?”

   Yes, yes they can. They can also tell you if you’re likely to break up, and why breaking up sucks.

   Because science is awesome like that.

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     BD

     January 19, 2011 at 6:30 pm | # | Reply

     “The Power of Love” isn’t even that hard to compute… er, “computate”, anyway. Any old MIDI player can do it, even. No, the hard part is finding a way to compute your relative location in space-time, and then find it again after traveling through time.

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       Lesharo

       February 3, 2011 at 10:43 pm | # | Reply

       Which is why appearing in the same spot on the Earth when you travel through time as when you left makes no sense. The planet’s surface rotates and gets pulled (not as much as the oceans) up and down by the moons gravity, the Earth moves around the sun, the sun moves around the center of the galaxy, and the galaxy itself is travelling through space…we’re never in the same place twice even just in a subjective, linear understanding of time.

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         Wackd

         November 8, 2011 at 8:57 pm | # | Reply

         I always assumed time machines in fiction had some unmentioned system that pinpoints the exact latitude and longitude of the spot you left and then tells the machine to find that spot when you arrive. The scientists never bring it up because it, unlike the rest of the machine, doesn’t require manual operation.

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           Platty

           October 20, 2012 at 2:01 pm | # | Reply

           But that doesn’t explain how you end up back on the earth and not in the middle of space…

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             Henry

             November 24, 2012 at 6:46 am | # | Reply

             You could argue that the time-machine places you in the same location in comparison to the most relevant gravitational field – a more sensible use of time-machine would be that it can only transport something to itself in the past (limiting the time you can travel to “No earlier than the first day this machine was finished”).

             Then again, time-travel plots quickly get confusing and boring since there are very few things you can’t solve if time travel were to work as it does in most movies, and to prevent the characters from solving the plot right at the start, they are all made into idiots that are too stupid to use the time machine in any sensible fashion.
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         dcmeserve

         February 23, 2013 at 12:04 pm | # | Reply

         The real universe does not allow for time travel, period. So you’re already breaking one rule — why should any rules about the planet moving thru space matter either? Especially when they’d be so inconvenient to the story.
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         foL

         April 24, 2013 at 9:59 am | # | Reply

         Wouldn’t it just sort of move with the planet?

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           foL

           April 24, 2013 at 10:01 am | # | Reply

           Like, wouldn’t the Earth’s gravitational field keep the machine in position just like it does with everything else?
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     LtWolfie

     February 17, 2011 at 2:57 am | # | Reply

     As long as they get a number lower than 3

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       Mayhemzero

       April 29, 2012 at 10:55 am | # | Reply

       But the answer to every problem is 42! *head explodes*
3. 
   Cormac

   December 7, 2010 at 10:44 pm | # | Reply

   Global warming?
   Keynsian Economics?
4. 
   Shadow12000

   January 14, 2011 at 3:18 am | # | Reply

   Wait…wait wait…she really is in Congress? I thought that was a dream and it seemlessly transitioned back into the normal story O-o

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     Rognik

     April 20, 2011 at 2:33 am | # | Reply

     No, and it had rippling rammifications throughout the storyline. Including a bill for world peace. Kind of more foreshadowing of her being the one to solve all the problems… until Sydney takes her seat.
5. 
   Dragoonchris

   January 12, 2012 at 7:02 pm | # | Reply

   Can’t be an Alien Invasion because Robin fought in one.
6. 
   Angel

   October 17, 2012 at 11:09 am | # | Reply

   I forget, this comic was made in 2006, did they already have Eureka on the Sci-fi channel or is this just a coincidence?