Grrl Power #450 – Bang jail
So… yeah, I’m trying something new with Sydney’s hair for a few pages at least. Sydney’s bangs are distinctive as Decollete says, but they create certain art problems, like when I draw Sydney in profile, they mysteriously just out from her face more than they should just so they don’t overlap her eyes. Her bangs are like Lion-o’s hair, which would often stay pointing the same direction even though he’d turn his head. It’s not like I’m reinventing her look either, I mean I had planned on having her wear a French braid at the beginning of the previous day but I discovered very quickly that they’re a lot more work to draw than a ponytail. Full disclosure, I was also watching an anime called K-ON and one of the characters in (Ritsu) wears a headband. I realized her hair looked a lot Sydney’s only with the bangs pinned back, so I thought I’d try it out for a bit.
Succubi can’t feed off each other. Well, they totally can, it’s just not sustainable. It’s like trying to breath back and forth into someone else’s mouth while you’re both underwater. It’s a game of rapidly diminishing returns. It doesn’t mean they don’t like trying, but they probably have some recharge options on speed dial. Succubi hook up text doesn’t read “You up?” it reads “Carb up!”
Max doesn’t want any Succubus zonking her team, but it’s got to seem like a wasted resource from their point of view. Of course not all supers work for Archon, and any Succubi on Earth probably has a few regulars supers for mutually beneficial… you know, exchanges. To them, Supers are like a big meal full of protein and fiber and healthy fats, only they taste like a pie made out of Twix and Nutella. (Or whatever gets your sweet tooth going. Maybe a giant gooey chocolate chip cookie and big cup of milk for dunking.)
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Britain just launched their newest airship this week. For some reason it reminds me of Decollete.
https://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/16/33/1600×800/landscape-1471528265-britain-giant-airship-mose.jpg
Thats on ass ugly mose of a airship
Looks more like a flying arse
Saw that on the news last week, one thing they never mentioned: how many passengers and crew it could hold
Potter went and blew up his aunt again.
Did we learn nothing from the Hindenburg?!
Seriously though, those things don’t exactly have a great record in that they are more vulnerable to the weather than other kinds of aircraft. How many were reported as breaking up in a storm and crashing to earth, killing all aboard?
Hindenburg used Hydrogen, which is flammable. Modern airships use Helium, which isn’t flammable.
I know this. I was being silly with that first part of my post, which is why the second part started with “Seriously though.” As I was saying, my real concern with airships is how sturdy they were when the weather turns bad.
It’ll behave like the latest crash-dieting celebrity?
“Oop. strong wind…” *Gets blown away, floating down the street…*
If I recall correctly analysis of hydrogen ones showed that their safety record, per mile flown, was actually very good. It is just unfortunate that the Hindenburg created such bad publicity for how unpleasant it was, when they did fail. But even then only for the spectators – it was over fast for the victims. Again, going by memory, it not being something I feel like checking up on.
However, as regards the present-day, modern airships are incredibly sturdy.
They would not get an air-worthiness certificate, if they were not. So my link just points out the additional things that they have been tested for:
Considering how sturdy fixed-wing planes were at the same time…
The reason, and only reason, why the Hindenburg got such widespread notice was A) because it happened in America, and 2) “Oh the huge manatee!!”
Until Iron Maiden did their tribute song, how many people would have known about the R101? Other than zeppelin enthusiast or aviation disaster followers (or the similar)
Tell me about it! My grampa was a pilat in that era and he crashed, like, three times in three years!
helium isn’t flammable? then why would it make a fireball if you light a latex balloon (filled with it)
with a match?
The helium will not ignite. Not even in a party balloon. The balloon itself will just rupture. Not only is it inflammable, helium actually has fire-retardant properties!
In fact its asphixiant aspect is actually what makes it dangerous. People wanting to have silly voices, at parties, can deprive their lungs of oxygen, and kill themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV_YevDYIv0
inflammable and flammable mean the same.
As noted in the comments of that video: it was hydrogen, not helium
Yea, Guesticus is right, that will have been a hydrogen balloon. Guys dicking around, on YouTube are not necessarily the best at typing in the right word. If they even know the difference.
Err not that I did much better, with “inflammable” though. Helium is outflamable… ahh… anti-flamable… it don’t burn!
This is the reason that many style guides for manuals prohibit use of the word inflammable. They recommend the use of the terms flammable and non-flammable.
It doesn’t. That’s hydrogen. Helium is completely inert and won’t react with anything.
Would that be because of the similar amounts of silicon involved in the construction?
Sydney:Don’t make me turn a hose on you two!!!
Now we’ll have two drenched succubi!!! :D
A succubus wet T-shirt contest . . .
o.O
Vanity; my favorite Sin. Is Decollete trying to seduce Sidney to the dark side? One step at a time…
Deco needs to start using the Geek-side to entice Sydney
Geekiness which Dabbler can push in spades.
The Hindenburg was painted with iron oxide red primer with a coat of aluminum paint on top of that. Once the paint was dry that made a layer of powdered aluminum in contact with a layer of finely divided rust. There is a name for the the combination of powdered rust and powdered aluminum, “Thermite”. It takes a hot spark to get it going but once lit thermite burns rapidly at over 2000 degrees F. Most of the Hydrogen probably escaped into the air before it could burn. The Hindenburg was a flying incendiary bomb just waiting for a spark, but don’t blame the hydrogen, blame the paint.
I only vaguely recall what happened when the Mythbusters looked at that question. I’ll have to look it up . . .
My father was a chemist. As a child I had various
lethalchemical substances made available for my use, including large amounts of hydrochloric acid and pelletized zinc. I can attest that hydrogen is woefully inadequate at burning in any kind of spectacular fashion. More of a soft blue ‘pop’ than a bang or an explosion. Of course, I’m certain I never managed to create as much as the Hindenburg must have contained…I managed much more spectacular pyrotechnics via elemental potassium introduced into water. Did you know that only a tablespoon full or so, when dropped via the holes in a manhole cover into a sewer, is capable of creating a volume of fog which will pour out of a 4′ diameter sewer opening 30 yards away from said manhole cover? And by pour I mean it will exit said 4″ sewer opening like a 4′ snake of fog, completely filling the damn thing top to bottom.
Luckily the cop who arrived was convinced by our (my two co-conspirator friends and I) innocent “Looks like fog, sir, dunno…” explanations. And never bothered to ask why I had a test tube holder sticking out of my back pocket. I think that the lack of any apparent burning, since it was indeed essentially fog, convinced him to let it go more than our looks of wide-eyed innocence.
Tgabt’s the secon time the camera is just way to high on the interesting bits.
Agreed, it should have pointed more at Sydney!
:-D
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Horse mouth explosive.
Sounds like a password mnemonic.