Grrl Power #552 – 0.1810367 leagues under the sea
For those of you wondering, yes, Sydney has taped her hand to the shield orb. I was going to include dialog to that effect, including how she suspects letting go of it at this depth would be pretty much instantly fatal to at least her, but I decided against it because it covered nearly all of the first panel.
As some people suggested on the previous page, Sydney is holding the shield orb and the Fly Ball, but she can’t use the Oxygenator at the same time, but its easy for her to refresh the air while Maxima flies the shield down from the inside. I’m not sure how fast Sydney can move through water. Probably pretty fast, but on this particular trip she took it somewhat slow so that she didn’t klonk a whale on the head or whatever trouble you can get into racing through the ocean.
For the oceanographers on hand, they are descending the continental shelf, at the top end of the bathypelagic zone. And yes, the water should be almost pitch black below 1000 meters, but you know, an all black panel except for the shield bubble wouldn’t help to establish the setting. It’s like how incredibly brightly lit “pitch black” scenes are in movies. Just pretend you’re watching your partner stumble around in the dark but you’re an anthropomorphic fox person detective, and you’re like “You really can’t see anything? Cause I can see fine.” and he’s all “No, I can’t, and before you remind me, I know your sense of smell is better than mine too. But I can tell chartreuse from mauve you color blind wanker.” Because you have this scrappy relationship and also I guess your partner is British.
I mean, do that if the movie isn’t holding your attention, but that threshold is different for everyone.
Speaking of Leagues, 20,000 is 69047 miles. So… did they circumnavigate the Earth like, 2.3 times in that book? Cause that seems a long way to go in a submarine.
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Uh, in “20000 leagues under the seas” a league is 4 km thus I doubt 20000 leagues = 89 000 miles… oh, and nautical miles please.
Dear me, clearly you do not know about the mermaid sports leagues.
It seems there are a few things that don’t work out here in your post.
First of all, DaveB said 20’000 leagues ≈ [b]6[/b]9’000 miles, not 89’000 as you say in your post.
I don’t know if in the story it is said that a league is 4 km, but if not that is another thing you’re incorrect about.
A league is 3 nautical miles, or 3.452 miles, or 5.556 kilometres.
Google calculations is even more precise and says 1 league is 3.45233834 miles.
Using the above numbers you’ll find that 20’000 ≈ 69’047 miles (rounded up to whole miles) just as DaveB said.
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That should be 69’000, emphasizing the 6.
I think Dabbler would emphasise the 69.
The league in question is exactly 4km.
The reason being is simple: Jules Verne was French and he wrote the story in French to a French audience in 1871. So he naturally used the metric league, which is exactly 4km.
There are many hundreds, possibly even thousands, of different definitions of leagues and miles known to history – insisting on using the current UK imperial standard value when trying to calculate distances in a book written by a Frenchman a century and a half ago because “Google says so” or “because these are the only measurements I know” is a mistake. :-P
For mile he used the nautical mile (unsurprisingly), which is how one ends up with 1 league = 4km ~ 2.16 miles, which is consistently used throughout the book.
That makes the distance traversed 80,000 km, which is very close to twice the equatorial circumference of the earth – which is probably one of the reasons Verne chose [i]20,000 lieues[/i] for his title, apart from it being an appropriately large number to sound awe-inspiring and making for an easy to read title: “Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin”.
Like I said, I didn’t know if in the story it is mentioned that a league is 4km, which apparently it is.
And I realized there are different interpretations of the distance of a league when I went to look it up to write that post and looked at the wiki page of it. At first I only wanted to point out DaveB had said 69- and not 89-thousand miles but then went to check the calculations and decided to add that too.
And during all that I somehow overlooked the wiki page mentioning that in the book a league is 4km, probably because I only paid attention to the use in the English speaking world and the comparison table.
Ahh, 1800s French units of measure. Always so much fun.
Bit of trivia: The French used the foot as a unit of measure, but it was longer than the English foot. This is one reason that people think Napoleon was short: 5’2″ in the French units at the time was approximately equal to 5’7″ in British (and now American) feet.
If anyone want the definitions, the French inch of the time equaled 2.71 cm, while the Imperial inch is 2.54 cm.
Couple other reasons why most non-Frenchies believe Nappie to be a midget: based on a peep hole found looking into Jo’s bedchamber (error with that, is if he was peeping and playing with his ‘little Boney’, he would more than likely have been sitting down not standing up, less chance of falling over when you fire the ‘cannon’), the other, and more likely reason: English propaganda! They simply started spreading false information (ie political lies) that he was a shortie, and seeing how camera’s and the paparazzi’s hadn’t been invented yet, there was no way to get proof otherwise (not that the non-French cared)
Do you mean to say that Hitler had two testicles as well?
Surely megalomaniacs, bent on invasion, must have some undesirable characteristics, by which people can recognise them? Otherwise how are folks to tell who is the good guy, and who is the baddie, if they take their hats off?
Although I must admit that people will probably rely on spotting silly moustaches, rather than going straight for cupping the goolies.
I swear to God, I stop checking the forums for a couple of days and I come back to see stuff about Hitler’s testicles and midget Napoleons resulting from an OP about nautical distances.
See what you have been missing!
Plus we missed you too.
*offers a platter of yummy Yorpie Snax™*
They probably didn’t mention in the book that a league was 4km because at that time, in France, it would have been almost common knowledge
When doing translations and calculations, you need to check with the units of measure used at the time and to the locale, not what they are now. Was playing a porn adventure game yesterday about an expedition to find Atlantis (which has been found by the way, north of Knossos, not out in the Atlantic!!!), but even though they used modern skills and computers and whatnot, they made an easy error: they either used the wrong year or the wrong dates when doing the calculations (but again, they wouldn’t have found it anyway in the Atlantic)
It hasn’t been found. There have been several sites proposed. The two most likely contenders are:
1. a spot just northwest of the “Pillars of Hercules” aka the Strait of Gibraltar in the area of the Doñana National Park in Spain (the description in the tale is that it was just past the Pillars a short distance/short tail,
and 2. the “Eye of the Sahara” aka the Richat Structure in west-central Mauritania (a considerably longer distance away from said Pillars, but the geographic features are pretty good there, too).
The Doñana NP location is the most likely location, as it is literally just past the “mouth” of the Mediterranean Sea, as described by Plato. Though today it is a marshland, it is hypothesized that it was wiped out by a giant tidalwave (as was most likely what happened when the glaciers in North America finished melting on the continent, broke free, and swooshed straight into the ocean in a very frighteningly fast manner several thousand years before Plato’s time) overnight. It faces in a good direction for that sort of thing, and there do appear to be hints of non-natural geometric features as seen from satellite images and ground-penetrating radar…except it’s a protected sanctuary so no excavations are allowed, so it’s hard to tell for sure. It has the mountains to the north with the rivers flowing down it, it could have had the requisite canal to the south or southwest, etc, all described in the account. It’s hard to tell if it had the “vast, broad plain” described by Plato, but it could have. Most importantly, it is directly past the Pillars of Hercules, the Mouth of the Sea, within a short distance of sailing (compared to sailing the length of the Mediterranean from Egypt, the sourcepoint of the tale). Its positioning and proximity to this specifically mentioned location makes it the most likely location candidate.
The Richat Structure has all the visible formations, the concentric circles of upthrust land, mountains to the north with signs of former rivers that would have cascaded down their slopes (fun fact, the Sahara was green and lush with water and vegetation several thousand years ago), it has a channel to the south-ish that could have fed water to the center, and it definitely has an area that would qulify as a “vast, flat plain” nearby. Unlike Doñana, where it is difficult to tell where the water for the city would have been sourced from, a single point at or near the center of the Richat Structure does produce sweet freshwater, whereas most other locations around the Structure holds salty water. True, the Structure is admittedly sitting at several hundred feet above sea level, but it is also geologically in an area that is slowly rising, rather than sinking. (Another fun fact; though sea levels are rising in most areas in the world due to global temperatures rising, causing the water to swell and expand with the extra heat…along the coastlines of Sweden and Finland, the sea level is *dropping*…not because the water is going down in those locations (it isn’t!), but rather because the land is rising faster than the sea levels are.) At a rate of a couple centimeters to a couple inches of lift a year, it is possible for a land that thousands of years ago was down at sea level to now exist several hundred feet up in elevation. It’s biggest flaw is that it is not near the mouth of the Mediterranean, nor a “short sail from the Pillars” by any stretch of the imagination…but instead, the entrance to Atlantis would have been thousands of miles away.
3. These locations are not the only ones; there are other locations that have been proposed, a location near Knossos, Santorini (also called Thira or Thera), Malta, Crete, so on and so forth…though those are all within the Mediterranean and wouldn’t qualify nearly as well. The most likely of these locations would have been Santorini (Thera/Thira), which was a volcano-island that exploded and wiped out most of what few traces there were of a proto-Minoan civilization on that location. The volcano exploded in the 1600s BC, which would not be the “thousands of years before our time” as cited in Plato’s tale, but it is possible the ancients liked to exaggerate numbers to make them seem much more grand and shocking. Either way, it isn’t past the Mouth of anything…unless you mean past the edges of Crete, Kasos, and other islands along the southern edge of the Sea of Crete, instead of the Pillars of Hercules. This seems less likely, however, as Plato was known to recite precise names, places, and locations for various stories, and he would have undoubtedly pursued clarification on whether it was “just past Crete” or “just past the mouth (entrance) of the Mediterranean” when listening to this tale.
(To be fair, I favored Santorini as the most likely candidate for a long time, until I heard of Doñana National Park and saw a video showing some of the satellite imagery suggesting geometric formations under the ground, altering the look of the various terrain features. This sort of thing is pretty much how we use the same technology to uncover the ruins of lost civilizations in other locations.) (Fun fact number three: there are discernible traces of lost farmlands, roads, causeways, and cities under the flatter terrain of the Amazon jungle in Brazil, exactly where nobody expected to see signs of what appear to be agricultural earthworks.)
(Crap, forgot to mention the other major drawback (aside from not being past the mouth of the Mediterranean) for Santorini is that it does not, in fact, have the terrain features proposed, and even if you drained the water via glaciation a few hundred feet, you’d still not have enough land for the size of the city described, nor the mountains to the north with the cascading rivers, and definitely no vast, broad, flat plains nearby. The whole region is frikkin’ rugged as Tartarus…and if it had been anywhere near Greece, Plato would’ve been happy to claim neighboring kinship at the very least (Atheneans were neighbors to Spartans, and though they didn’t usually get along, at least they were neighbors). Instead, he did no such thing, but simply asserted that, according to what he learned, it lay far to the west.)
As soon as I saw “illusory” used (as opposed to the incorrect word constantly and mistakenly used by so-called professionals authors), all other dialogue flew from my mind and I did mental double-fist pump in the air. (And no, I shall not degrade myself so as to write said offensive word here.)
Gods bless you and your knowledge of proper English sir!
Allusory boulders might give away the entrance.
Allusory boulders would only hint at the entrance.
Well, I’m from the states, so my knowledge of English is purely Illusionarily.
>_0 *twitch*
Must. Contain. Urge. To. Correct.
Don’t rise to the bait :D
Few people in the states realized when we stopped using English and started using American as a language so you are ahead of the game.
I am sure that FireSpark‘s would not ascent to that.
Isn’t bait technically lowered? :)
Yes, which is why you rise to get it, being a lawyer, one would have expected you to have known that >_>
Guesticus is a lawyer?
No, Pander is
A Land League is three Land Miles (Modern Land Mile = 5,280 feet)
A Nautical League is three Nautical Miles (Modern Nautical Mile = 6,000 feet = 5.556 kilometers)
20,000 Nautical Leagues = 60,000 Nautical Miles = 69,047 Land Miles (as the author said above)
According to “How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement” by Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “In the classic Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers) the unit in the title is the French metric lieue, equal to exactly 4000 meters.”
In this case 20,000 Leagues = 80,000 kilometers = 49,710 Modern Land Miles = 43,197 Modern Nautical Miles.
The title refers to the total distance the nautilus and nemo traveled over its lifetime. Some people confuse it as how far the sub is under water, which is impossible, or how far they traveled in that one adventure, which is nuts
Ahh, so you suspect the machinations of the evil squirrel admiral?
We already knew that Squirrels are evil.
Just so! Brave Budget Halo fighting off the evil monster! I hope she is doing well, wherever she is.
Probably heading up a squirrel hunting task force! Or researching a cure for squabes and squirrel pox.
Ask a weresquirrel if there’s a cure for squabies or not.
*watches one walk by outside*
*runs out of the apartment to ask*
Sorry everyone it wasn’t a weresquirrel, it was just a furry.
:-D
Never trust Big Squirrel. They are the enemy of freedom and truth.
Down with Big Squirrel!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C95cRJ6U0AAiVBG.jpg
Grey squirrels are evil. They are fighting a war of attrition against red squirrels, among other species. If you live in a city and there are squirrels, doubtless they are greys.
Whatever you do… now you know!
Doreen Green, Grace Sciuridae, and Anna Parsons would disagree with that. These are not, generally speaking, women you want to disagree with, especially Doreen. Though Anna would probably just pout and pet her little friends rather than saying anything about it.
Frothy would disagree, too, but he actually is and insane evil squirrel, and would probably bite your knees while chittering maniacally about how stupid you are for saying that, so I don’t think his opinion really helps their case, here.
*awards BRET several internet trophies, for actually being someone who either read the book, or did a bit of research before yammering about the 20,000 leagues…or focusing on the WRONG part of that numerical bit of information…BRAVO, Bret, BRAVO!*
Hmm no, I’m pretty sure that the 20000 leagues refer to the distance traveled by our protagonists, as the title is dropped by the Professor claiming to have escaped the Nautilus after having traveled “20.000 leagues under the sea” on it. Also he was venturing a guess.
The adventure takes several months and Nemo is taking the scenic route, which is why the travel was so long, boarding in the Pacific, traveling along the great coral reef, under the Indic, the red sea, trough a natural underwater tunnel conveniently located under Suez, the Mediterranean, then the Atlantic down till the Antarctic, then the Atlantic again up till the Arctic where the Professor and co managed to reach Norway.
Captain Nemo have been traveling the undersea long before the main characters arrived and already had several “favourite spots” so the idea of that being the total distance traveled for the Nautilus is nuts.
Eloquently argued.
Cashews or peanuts?
I would argue peanuts because the idea is pedestrian as peanuts.
I think somebody needs to cast a seriously high level remove curse here. Otherwise next thing that will happen is that Gojira will come calling!
Casting Remove Curse on Halo will need to be a very high level version to be effective.
Don’t let them do that Sydney!
Besides which it is ’bout as useful as casting ‘dispel illusion’. Unless she has been cursed with beauty, intelligence and wit. In which case see my warning.
Agreed her cursing is an art form that we should respect not try to destroy
Heh, I missed that side of cursing.
There is a large strong door inside the moon pool chamber. In front of the door lies a mat. I says, “WELCOME”.
*pokes it with a 10 foot pole, and runs away*
For Ghu’s sake, Yorp, what are you doing?! There are some things you shouldn’t touch with a 10′ pole, and ‘creepy Welcome mat in the middle of vampire dungeon’ is among them!
*hands you an 11′ foot*
There, that’s better.
For Ghu’s sake, Yorp, what are you doing?! There are some things you shouldn’t touch with a 10′ pole, and ‘creepy Welcome mat in the middle of vampire dungeon’ is among them!
*hands you an 11′ pole*
There, that’s better.
*Super Super Glue’s them together, and pokes with a 22′ pole, from behind David K. Storrs*
Thanks! Don’t worry, I’ve got your back if a vampire shark comes at you!
…Where’d the extra foot of pole come from? 10 + 11 != 22
Lots of Super Super Glue.
You should have glued the 10′ to the 2 11′ siva gave you
Sorry david storr gave 2 poles 11 feet long
In that case, why didn’t Yorp glue all 3 and make a 32-foot pole?
No thumbs. Gets hard to hold that horizontally, whilst using it effectively, if just using your mouth. Might pull it off. But might loose a tooth.
And inside the door is an undersea restaurant run by the Council members from Atlantis. They are very proud of their prepared meats. Their slogan is ‘We put the shark in Charcuterie!”
Navigation! If Halo’s spaceballs are a spaceship, then the final orb pretty much has to be navigation, right?
The flyball has a flight speed indicator (of some flava). So that tree may well have the desired navigation skills within it.
somewhere in that mess has to be a an actual replication ability where she can reproduce herself and use more than just two balls at once…
As much fun as it is to come up with ways for Sydney to use more abilities at once, the ‘only able to use two abilities at once’ limit is very crucial for the story.
+2
Actually at those depths you would have Bio-luminescent organisms, fish, plants, and etc. However, around the edge of the continental shelf you would have less living things from what I’ve heard. I will be the first to admit I really don’t know for sure though. Can anyone else add to what little information I have on this?
Vas Rel Por.
You first.
Which Virtue do you favor? I always ended up with Compassion.
I find modesty to be my best virtue. I am but a titan of modesty wading ankle-deep through fields of braggarts.
Simultaneously Valor and Humility.
They are great spots for deep sea bungee jumping. Just imagine the thrill of not knowing if a shark is going to nibble your cord, and you will carry on falling down the abyss until you reach crush depth.
Then you can walk into the light.
‘Sioux,” Eye sighed.
Ahh, Crazy Sea Horse. ‘Tis a good day.
Regarding “It should be dark” Why don’t we just accept that dabbler rigged up a luminescent non-toxic gas that she’s released inside the shield to provide a light-source. Or hell that the shield glows!
Have a look at the pictures above, the shield is glowing.
That is only illuminating the immediate area though. Dave just wanted to make the wider landscape visible too.
And then used extremely low light photography for the shot
Just so! And a pretty expensive underwater camera to boot, let alone all the other gear needed, to capture that shot. I am guessing renting a ROV would have been the most cost-effective way.
Unless able to hitch a lift with James Cameron, or some underwater research project.
Yeh, but Cameron will just keep postponing the trip
Umm, the cast page seems to be empty. I was trying to find Dabblers name.
Plz help.
Xuriel Shahara Tantalis
The cast list is down indefinitely due to an incompatibility with a WordPress update. Hopefully Dave may get a chance to repair it some day. Until then though you may want to bookmark the Grrl Power Wiki:
https://grrl-power.wikia.com/wiki/Cast
Thank you to whoever has started updating that. It is proving invaluable now.
Thanks.
My pleasure.
*wags tail approvingly*
Heh, that reminds me of a few Levels in teh Original “Ecco the Doplhin”. Just about as spikey, just about the same shart turns. And air was a issue too.
For those interested, yes, there are vampire fish, and the damn suckers are costing a local city council an extra $3million to fix up an intersection (that’s right, not only are they vampire fish, but they are invading cities, the aquatic invasion has begun!!)
“Damn suckers,” eh? :)
I like the composition of this page. It has good flow and it’s quite stylish.
…so it’s approximately 550 fathoms?
or…
39,370 inches
2187 cubits
198.8 rods
4.97 furlongs
1.0058399 Angstroms.
x10^13, darn it.
Angst leads to cursing.
Cursing leads to hatred.
Hatred is unfathomable.
Waves newspaper “bad comedy. Naughty yorp” opens paper to start reading
Doggy-paddles away and tries to blend in with a school of dog fish.
Busts out laugh that scares fish away “you redeemed your comedy rating with that one”
It’s kind of hard knowing whom is speaking each bubble here…
Helpful having the bubble tails pointing to the speakers
It just occurred to me that as soon as they leave the bubble they’ll get all sorts of pressure sickness.
Unless the Oxygenator Orb also regulates the pressure according to some local frame of reference.
Which is bullshit, but still plausible.
The shield is rigid and therefore the passengers are unaffected by external pressure. Exactly the same as with a submarine. This is perfectly normal physics.
If they exit it here, Sydney will not need to worry about pressure sickness, she would be dead, due to being squashed by 100 atmospheres of pressure!
If they want to exit the Halomobile they will need to go through some variety of air-lock (be it mechanical or magical) which can adjust the pressure, until it at safe levels, before entering the facility proper.
And of course it is bullshit that the Oxygenator Orb might adjust the pressure. The shield orb does that (but only when embiggening, or unembiggening, whilst the force field is raised). The orbs are capable of rewriting the laws of physics whenever they choose. That is the way they are coded.
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Yea, each several football pitches in length!
Sydney should’ve referenced the first TMNT game, the dam level
All Sydney needs is at least two more pairs of arms. The creators and owners of the orbs designed them to be us as many as you can handle. Or rather how many they can handle.
That should be “to be used as many as you can handle…”
Of course this is just a hypothesis I have. Only DavidB knows for sure…
The main reason why Halo can only use two powers at once is to make her more interesting. Here she is having to work with Maxima in order to compensate for the fact that she needs three orbs just to get to this base. The alternative is to do very inelegant swapping over, and then having to recover depth after the Halomobile bobs up, when she releases the Flyball, in order to refresh the air.
This gives Sydney challenges to overcome and allows for situations to occur where she will need to make moral choices, take risks or come up with some cunning plan. As opposed to always being able to solve every problem by simply using three of four orbs simultaneously.
The only way Dave would go down that route is if he did not mind loosing a lot of readers, when they got bored with that.
Here’s a thought. What if Sydney learned to juggle? Could she then (effectively) use three or more balls more or less simultaneously?
With the use of her mental control of the orbs Halo would be a superb juggler, no learning required.
Using the powers effectively? That is another matter. A shield which is only on for, say, one third of each second would not be very good at protecting against bullets or energy blasts during the time that it is not in place. Likewise anything being held by the tentacle would well not be held very much. And the flyball would have… unfortunate results from that technique.
PPO blasting would be effective mind, especially with Sydney’s ability to track multiple things occurring simultaneously. Using truesight for a third of a second should be effective for most purposes, such as spotting invisible or illusion altered opponents.
Plus refreshing an air supply that frequently would be no problem. Say some sort of diving helmet, although taking a gulp of air from a momentary bubble could be done, it would be adding an extra level of complexity to a very tricky operation.
I think Sydney could practice to make a good show at the Archon Christmas party. But would probably die if she tried this fighting style in real combat.
You are most possibly correct: the original creators may very well have designed them to be handled as many as they can, Sydney just happens to only have two hands, it’s possible if Dabbles had found them she would be able to use up to three (it’s debatable if her cyber limb could use them if her cyber eye can’t even detect them, certainly couldn’t record the HUD), but she didn’t find them, Sydney did
They are heading back up, so hopefully that will help with the pressure when they get to their location
Only if that tunnel goes up about a mile. Otherwise they will need some kind of airlock to adjust the pressure. Or a magic spell or super-technology gizmo which does something similar.
Well just because earth may not have oceans that deep, it other planets might have.
Take https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_1214_b for instance. Quite a bit larger and 75% water. if the core looked like swiss cheese you might be able to go down that deep.
I see that Texas has a new airbag and seat-belt testing facility.
Don’t try this at home.
Driving? Or going to Texas? o_O
I think the thing to avoid is being underneath it when the car falls.
Shouldn’t Dabbler be tagged in the character list on the side?
Only if she speaks, Maxi is speaking in the first panel
Small details check:
Dabbler seems to be a bit jittery. Note how in panel 2 (and presumably in the panel 1 where the silhouettes seem to match) Dabbler is in the front, getting a great view. Then, when the spiky tunnel looms into sight, in panel 3, she scoots back, behind both Maxima and Sydney!
Control issues maybe? Although, to be fair, it must be worrying having her life depend on Sydney maintaining her grip. Dabbler may have a wide range of abilities, but none that we have seen would allow her to survive the crushing effects at one mile below the surface.
Not helped if Dabbler was just envisaging a soap bubble bumping into a cactus.
Here is a great example of good policing, for Sydney to take note of. Mind you the trick is being able to tell the difference between someone spinning a line, and a situation like that linked. Although good interview techniques, and other detective work, can help spot any inconsistencies, to help expose any lies.
One last thing … Sydney might find this to be aided by wearing a shabby raincoat and hat.
Sydney, through no fault of her own, is about to kill everyone (except maybe Maxima.)
If Syd is using fly (to fight bouyancy) and force-field then she isn’t using atmosphere to equalize the pressure of the water she’s moving through. No problem, her shield can easily handle the difference, it’s only several bizzilion pounds (I ain’t doing the math), and her shield is nigh unto impenetrable. but the moment she drops it, the pressure difference collapses in and crushes the life out her poor team (except maybe Maxima)
That’s why she has taped her balls to her hands
You are making a big assumption there. Sydney is a fully trained and qualified scuba diver. She knows all that. Unless the base they are entering has a pressure-airlock, and an interior which is at sea-surface type pressure, the shield will be staying up.
It would make for a rather boring scene though. So I am sure there will be something like that (as in there may be a magical or super-science equivalent, or versions which allow guests to survive the pressure).
Don’t forget that the super villain prisons have cells which use pressure differential as a means of containing Opal (the portal creating villain) and other teleporters (such as Harem). So clearly the author is very well versed in such issues.
Does that armpad/computer thingie that Sydney has also contain intertial navigation system incase someone knocks out the GPS?
If so then blindfolding is quite useless.
Dabbler is also a possible hole in this security through obscurity though she is less of a problem seeing that she could fill several of the slots on the council at the same time. If not her teleport system must know at all times where she is.
Per my brother a GPS signal does not even penetrate a jungle canopy. I doubt very much if it will go 1 mile underwater.
Plus Sydney was only complaining about the blindfolding because it was hard to fly. There was no reason for her to bring up the other precautions which were doubtless stipulated too. Such as disabling the tracking devices and any inertial or other navigation system.
I am sure that Dabbler’s teleportation system is not a gossip.
The reason for asking about the INS is the water.
And it might be harder to disable then you think seeing that all I need to do is check the data left behind by the accelerometers (yes that means your average modern phone can be turned into an INS).
I did stipulate “Such as disabling … any inertial… system”. Which is another way of saying “accelerometer”.
I’d say that their lair was designed by the same guy who designed the underwater stage of the original TMNT NES game.
What’s that you say?
No, I don’t think so. The British know how to spell “colour” correctly.
Just because their partner is British, and thereby has a superior spelling advantage, does not mean that the individual also being addressed is British. To the contrary, as the speaker is denoting something unusual, to gain a conversational advantage.
So it would be more logical to assume that the person being spoken to is American (given that is where the comic is set) or perhaps a supernatural of more vague origin (given they are also present in the scene depicted).
it occurs to me that if Sydney went as fast as she could, given compressibility, displacement, and the impressive bow wave; we are talking tsunami level damage here. not to mention massive sea life death. like fishing with C4.