Comments on: Job http://www.shortpacked.com/2006/comic/book-4/03-whoremongering/job/ Toys are serious business. Mon, 20 May 2013 21:55:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: foL http://www.shortpacked.com/2006/comic/book-4/03-whoremongering/job/#comment-126565 foL Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:01:38 +0000 http://test.frumph.net/2006/10/25/job/#comment-126565 Like, wouldn't the Earth's gravitational field keep the machine in position just like it does with everything else? Like, wouldn’t the Earth’s gravitational field keep the machine in position just like it does with everything else?

]]> By: foL http://www.shortpacked.com/2006/comic/book-4/03-whoremongering/job/#comment-126564 foL Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:59:06 +0000 http://test.frumph.net/2006/10/25/job/#comment-126564 Wouldn't it just sort of move with the planet? Wouldn’t it just sort of move with the planet?

]]> By: dcmeserve http://www.shortpacked.com/2006/comic/book-4/03-whoremongering/job/#comment-114978 dcmeserve Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:04:27 +0000 http://test.frumph.net/2006/10/25/job/#comment-114978 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. 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.

]]> By: Henry http://www.shortpacked.com/2006/comic/book-4/03-whoremongering/job/#comment-100108 Henry Sat, 24 Nov 2012 11:46:35 +0000 http://test.frumph.net/2006/10/25/job/#comment-100108 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. 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.

]]> By: Platty http://www.shortpacked.com/2006/comic/book-4/03-whoremongering/job/#comment-94786 Platty Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:01:04 +0000 http://test.frumph.net/2006/10/25/job/#comment-94786 But that doesn't explain how you end up back on the earth and not in the middle of space... But that doesn’t explain how you end up back on the earth and not in the middle of space…

]]> By: Angel http://www.shortpacked.com/2006/comic/book-4/03-whoremongering/job/#comment-94542 Angel Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:09:22 +0000 http://test.frumph.net/2006/10/25/job/#comment-94542 I forget, this comic was made in 2006, did they already have Eureka on the Sci-fi channel or is this just a coincidence? I forget, this comic was made in 2006, did they already have Eureka on the Sci-fi channel or is this just a coincidence?

]]> By: Mayhemzero http://www.shortpacked.com/2006/comic/book-4/03-whoremongering/job/#comment-75064 Mayhemzero Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:55:33 +0000 http://test.frumph.net/2006/10/25/job/#comment-75064 But the answer to every problem is 42! *head explodes* But the answer to every problem is 42! *head explodes*

]]> By: Dragoonchris http://www.shortpacked.com/2006/comic/book-4/03-whoremongering/job/#comment-63796 Dragoonchris Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:02:42 +0000 http://test.frumph.net/2006/10/25/job/#comment-63796 Can't be an Alien Invasion because Robin fought in one. Can’t be an Alien Invasion because Robin fought in one.

]]> By: Wackd http://www.shortpacked.com/2006/comic/book-4/03-whoremongering/job/#comment-57077 Wackd Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:57:56 +0000 http://test.frumph.net/2006/10/25/job/#comment-57077 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. 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.

]]> By: Tegan http://www.shortpacked.com/2006/comic/book-4/03-whoremongering/job/#comment-46622 Tegan Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:11:30 +0000 http://test.frumph.net/2006/10/25/job/#comment-46622 Somehow, I have a hard time seeing Palin describing anyone as "my lesbian". Somehow, I have a hard time seeing Palin describing anyone as “my lesbian”.

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