Grrl Power #689 – Customs conundrum
Sydney obviously already knew that her orbs were high level loot, but now it’s confirmed she has a matched set of God-Tier artifacts. Or maybe they’re… Ragnarok Tier?
But as seen on this page, that can cause some problems for her in the right environments. Let’s be honest, it’s a “my suitcase full of money is so heavy” kind of problem most of the time.
Basically you can’t take advanced tech to a lower tier civilization. There rules are really specific based on each world, it’s probably pretty exhausting going through customs there. The biggest restriction is polluting pre-FTL civs with FTL tech, because the general belief is that a race has to earn that particular milestone… and survive all the particular challenges that civilizations are presented with on the path to deep space travel. The post-FTL civs have their own tech rules and hangups. Some have religious problems with vat grown meat or… holograms. I don’t know. Religion can be weird that way. Other civs have corporations working on the latest game console and they don’t want alien game consoles with quantum optical chips beating them to market and tanking their stock. I mean, imagine if an alien civilization started selling their own cars with an inexhaustible power supply on Earth. The automotive and oil companies would be done, and the world economy would be fuuuuucked.
Actually, forget aliens. If a supervillain wanted to fuck the world economy, all they’d have to do is sell cars that ran on water or something. Doctor Doom made a time machine in Fantastic Four issue… I don’t know. Two? That dude could legit make cars that got 200 miles to the gallon or that ran on banana peels, Mr. Fusion style. He could do that in his sleep and just own the civilized world in under a decade.
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I’m looking forward to seeing Dabbler baking “welcome Home, Sydney” cookies in a t-shirt that reads, “Someone went to the Fracture and all I got was this t-shirt.”
[Gary Jordan]:
Be fair now — this *IS* Dabbler we’re talking about — that T-shirt would more likely read:
[Someone went to the Fracture, & after I gave them a “Welcome Home”-boink, all I got was this t-shirt!]
It really doesn’t matter whether it’s true-or-not.
She’d wear it just to provoke reactions, for the resulting entertainment-value.
Plus side. until Sydney uses the orbs, she’s walking around with an “accessory” that most aliens will just glance at, wonder what stylish shop sells them for special occasions, and move on.
May eb hiding in the prior 500 comments:
Didn’t the young lady’s space ship get here through an aetherium gate? Or will we find that it’s in the range ‘I considered taking this space station onboard into a freight airlock, makign ti easier to find you, but the locals would get upset.”
Nope, Cora the Explorer’s ship travelled via more conventional (‘conventional’ being relative, regarding FTL travel) means
And that’s not just a space station (and no, it’s not a moon either :P ), it is a station surrounding a pulsar (or quasar or whatever the neck a Dyson vacuum cleaner uses for it’s magical power source)
We seem to have more than one kind of portal, likely meaning there are multiple dimensions or “sub-spaces” a ship could travel through or manipulate. Like Astral Plane, Ethereal Plane, Hyper Space, Neutral Space, Higher Dimensional Planes, Mirror Dimension, Dimension of Burning Darkness, The oh gods who would try to make a portal through Hell…like seriously, ect…
For travel or as different sources for magic, in series that do multiple versions you get different results. For instance in Babylon 5 hyper space was thought to just be direct link wormholes, but turns out if you “slow down” inside Hyper space and go off the hyper space gate linked paths there is a whole universe in there including worlds and massive jellyfish creatures that might try to mate with your ship; but the Vorlons once tried to make a faster gate with a further reach…and ended up linking to a hellish dimension.
Star Trek has warp drives, but also wormhole travel, and one attempt to develop a better wormhole opened up a liquid space with aliens that gave the Borg a run for their money. Also Q spaces and the dimension of the giant tentacle aliens among others.
In magic series what dimension you call power from can change the outcome of magic, *Shaman, Black Magic, Light Magic, Holy Magic (Slayers), and for Fairy Tail they used ether nano (same concept as Final Fantasy’s mist power or whatever), but peeling back the layers could reveal a source of magic that could also create totally different forces *Curses* that didn’t rely on ether nano.
Its not too uncommon in other words, sort of a way to throw a wrench in an established system for so than not though.
It’s not yet been established whether Cora’s ship can USE aetherium gates.
We only know that they can DETECT them, & TRACE their destination, but only while they’re still open.
Beyond that, the Esteemed Author has not yet told us.
We’ll just have to be patient.
Also, it occurs to me that there may be an advantage in having multiple forms of “FTL”-tech. Some methods might be easier-than-others to trace, & the sophonts who own-&-maintain the Fracture might be very unhappy indeed, with someone who leads a destructive tribe of “world-wreckers” right to their front door.
Doesn’t get Star Trek reference but openly references Warhammer 40K
thats because only one of those are fiction
But by mentioning “psykers” Cora has implied a method of space travel similar to that used in Dune…Which also seemingly explains the ship shown (at a distance) just above the insert-panel in the lower-right corner of this page.
[MidnightDStroyer]:
If you mean that ship which looks like an exaggerated dragonfly-nymph, I thought that it was the LEXX:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKghwDfUQ2o]
I think there is some sort of translation effect on the Fracture and/Cora that translated ‘psyker’ from some sort of similar term to something that Sydney would understand.
Or psykers are real and whoever created 40k in Grrl Power’s universe is from space.
FYI: it was also referenced before when Sydney was first interviewed by ARCHON
technically if she’s not actually using the orbs, they don’t show up as anything, so she can go where she wants as long as she’s not using them. kind of a catch 22, but those are the breaks.
Its a double edged sword.
Magic wise they are practically cloaked by passive magical senses. But a direct attempt to scan by magic or high technology presents an alarming anomaly. If you scan something you can plainly see and it comes back as a void of absolute nothing in that space…well that’s eldritch territory and going to raise more than a few red flags. Its not like they perform a substitution signal like you scan it and it comes back as glass bobbles with levitation cores inside them set to a synchronized orbit *what one might suspect as an ornamental orbital*; so they go to the portals, by eye the being operating the gate will just think that, but do a scan just in case the levitation cores are above the allowed tech grade for the target destination…comes back as seven spheres of empty space where neither light nor air are present despite what they see and no signals of anything that could cause this like a psychodimensional layer interference wave *psychic block*, just…nothingness….that is going to raise some red flags via the “what the hell am I even looking at” variety.
Pretty much. I can imagine a conversation between someone doing the scan and someone listening to the results of said scan. The conversation centers around trying to explain the concept of abolute nothing as a substance rather than a lack of anything unusual.
Like… “it’s not as if the orbs aren’t there and the scan is just returning air, that would at least be SOMETHING. No, this is a whole other level of nothing. As in you can see in the scan where the orbs are, and where they are, the scan shows nothing. Not air, virtual particles, not energy, not even space. It’s just… nothing…”
Just paint them and let the scanner scan the paint.
When Tubey was scanned, the scan detected that the inside of the tube was “too empty”
paint would have the same problem, and look even more suspicious. As the scan would reveal spheres of paint floating in the air with nothing inside to support them, in fact absolutely nothing inside.
Even Earth level scanning tech (X-ray machines) and (Radar) can penetrate paint. Pretty sure an advanced alien system (which one would hope given their rules would also be looking out for smugglers) would have a somewhat more in-depth scan than that.
I figure they could get around it if they purchased a duffel and some clothing and just packed the orbs in with the clothing. You know like balled up socks mixed in with the bag of dirty clothing.
The problem I am seeing is the arrival and departure roister. if this planet works like an airport they know who is on every ship and who came on the planet and since Sidney didn’t come through a gate she isn’t listed and would be considered literally an illegal alien. They may detain her to question her as to how she got on world without going through the docks. during that time search her bag and find the orbs.
ah hell at this point im just rambling but the duffel could work.
I spy with my little eye a silhouette of Taxidea tax in the last panel.
You are all using the term “dimension”, incorrectly. W are multidimensional beings, 4 dimensions, the 4th being time. The current term is membrane, “branes” for short, different universes.
Yes, because when I think of 12 same but separate spaces that coexist in the same location yet are separate at the same time, over simplifying it to membranes is so what I want to do.
No offense to current scientists, but I foresee a future where future scientists look back at that terminology and roll their eyes Pbranes…gross over simplification of a concept and made into a bad pun.
Dimension has more than one definition: one of those…while also yes a gross simplification based on earlier 1900’s terminology still has a better ring to it than Parallel Membranes (which seems more a specification attempt).
Dimension can mean an aspect or feature of a thing, in other words the different Parallel Membranes, coexisting spaces, ect…would be dimensions of the universe. So a multi-dimensional being in this broad stroke sense would be something that exists knowingly and actively in these layers. Where as humans in this sense while existing in them, are only aware of part of the chemical dimension of the universe directly.
Also want to add popular medium impact on cultural terminology.
I say the entity is a multi-dimensional eldritch horror. The average reader or viewer of science fiction is going to have a pretty clear idea of what is going on.
If I say, the entity is a multi parallel membrane co-present Newtonian physics defying and redefining presence that presents to the observer a feeling of dread…I’m going to end up having to EXPLAIN that, or I just asked the reader to do homework.
We have to find that balance between too dumbed down and not dumbed down enough.
Oh jeeze, Sydney best check her utility belt, make sure she’s got everything.
Because I see a certain Sqid in the background.
Kinda surprised Sam is surviving that close to Schlock without getting eaten. He’s noted for being particularly delicious, and Schlock isn’t noted for being able to resist things that smell like food.
Sam’s contact suit should be hiding his scent I believe.
Schlock also adheres to the “Food that talks is not food” rule.
Mind, “food that will talk once it’s been raised right” is slightly more ambiguous… But in fairness, in his native universe, there’s a race selling kids that weren’t raised right as pets or food. (they need to be properly bred to be one of People, Pet, or Provision. Schlock wasn’t picky on provision versus pet, but he did apologize when he ate a fellow crew member’s newborns.)
Food that talks is not food, but I don’t see any word bubbles coming out of Sam’s mouth.
Well that ‘pig’ from the ‘Restaurant at the end of Universe’ would cause them all sort of issues. :)
It even says it wants to be eaten and which parts are the best.
To quote from a quite different guide, It’s a cow.
He also breaks the rule for ‘food that talks but does or says enough mean things to his friends’
Don’t… mention ‘squid’ this soon after “The Battle on Alari Prime”
Sqid vs squid?
It’s not the spelling, it’s the sound (unless ‘Sqid’ sounds like ‘Skid’…)
And, as usual, Florence looks irritated.
I am wandering something right now.
Cora expressed a concern over “what” Dabbler sent them to go looking for. We also have that when left alone this “supposedly” stranded Terran just happened to open an ultra tech gateway to a well known tourist location, and located what Cora knows thanks to Dabbler is her favorite food, and was just there “chilling” and chatting with someone when Cora showed up.
So right now, yes Sydney is naïve to the ways of space and learning stuff; but from Cora’s point of view she should still be suspicious of Sydney and have at least in the back of her mind the idea of (cosmic being or high level entity playing dumb right now after being caught by someone who knows the people she was playing dumb around on that little back water planet) after all of that. *Oh, so NOW you don’t know any of these huh? Really…). Yeah we the readers know it is all serendipity, but Cora should at least have that eyebrow raised about all this still.
The thing is Cora does know Dabler, how well she knows her is debatable, but Cora aparently already knew that they were dealing with Fermi paradox Level tec when she said that if half of what Dabler had told her was true then Syd could not go through any gate on the fracture.
For thoes who don’t get the references to to Fermi paradox tec, it’s one explanation to the Fermi paradox that is solved by the overall technology level getting so high that the civilization that created it removed itself from our ability to observe them, while leaving some of there more advance tec behind because they were not willing to completely clean up after themselves, or they considered the tech to be mostly useless from there point of view,
Again, it’s not that Sydney can’t go through the gates, just there may be customs agents who will deny her access
Knowing Dabbler wouldn’t negate the possible suspicion given the astronomical coincidences presented here that Sydney is something pulling the wool over Dabbler’s eyes as well.
So trusting Dabbler and knowing some of what the orbs can do *which didn’t include the much bigger revelation of the Aetherium Causeway given what has been stated in the comic regarding this as Sydney hadn’t unlocked that yet*, but Cora wouldn’t know any of this.
She is a space cop, bounty hunter, adventurer or whatever; who was asked by a friend to rescue some poor lost terran friend of her friend. Only to run into this suspicious string of events. It would only be natural to at least be a little suspicious; at least till being around Sydney long enough for those to subside.
You don’t need Doctor Doom for a 200mpg car; the technology has been around since 1973 for a 300mpg car – see https://www.376mpg.com/. I also know of at least one inventor that independently came up with similar technology in Australia in the 1980s. Why don’t car companies use it? Because companies are by the nature of the law greedy psychopaths who have no legal requirements to care for the environment, the future or even their customers (see e.g. https://www.acuitymag.com/opinion/machiavelli-inc—are-corporations-psychopaths), and routinely avoid doing so unless forced to by government-assuming you can find a government that puts the interests of its citizens ahead of those of the numerous and well funded lobby groups.
There is a fundamental flaw in your reasoning. Non Sequitur – it does not follow.
If you could build a car that got 300MPG, the first car company to do so would earn enough money to completely buy up all competition and monopolize the industry. to NOT do so would be goes against the most fundamental law of the marketplace…profit motive.
Try to duplicate the Opel. I’ll bet you can’t. I am guessing it had a hidden second gas tank to let it drive that far with only 1 gallon in the “normal” tank. And the so-called “engines that run on water” are hoaxes. One uses a “Bubbler” that is supposed to be a filter, but actually hides Calcium Carbide inside it which, when you pour water on it, produces Acetylene, which is what the engine actually runs on.
Surely anybody able to see through the fundamental laws of physics will also know the fundamental laws of the marketplace are deceptive shams….
Actually a fairly important key to understanding conspiratorial thinking is to recognize that there *are* no competing actors. Everybody with any significant power at all is part of THEM.
How True.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w05naS4E-g4
As I stated, I know of at least one inventor that independently came up with a similar technology; it does work, and it doesn’t break the laws of physics. The truth is that ICE are *incredibly* inefficient at converting energy from fuel into forwards motion – engine advances in the last 80 years have concentrated on torque and acceleration. Liquid fuel does NOT burn very well or quickly – it is actually the fuel vapour that provides engine power; even atomising it doesn’t help that much. So most of the fuel you use just turns into waste heat in the tailpipe. The technology to improve it is not rocket science – it’s what the refineries use for turning long-chain hydrocarbons into short-chain hydrocarbons (i.e. dense oils and tars into diesel, petrol, AV fuel, propane, etc); cracking mainly with waste heat. As such the liquid petrol is turned into gaseous propane/butane/ethane/methane which are then a lot more efficient at combusting.
Don’t think there’s enough energy in the petrol? Consider modern electric cars – they get about 5-10 km per kWh, and that’s without a terribly efficient electrical system (i.e. only one motor, not one per wheel) and carrying around a half-tonne of batteries. One kWh = 3.6MJ. One US gallon of petrol has a thermal energy density around 130 MJ. So that’s already equivalent to 180-360 km/gallon, i.e. about 110-225 mpg. Solar car records vastly exceed that – over 1000 mpg equivalent; obviously that’s infeasible for a normal vehicle, but some of the technology is transferable and could see EV get much better ‘mileage’.
As to the first car company putting out the tech and putting everyone out of business – there are two problems with that argument. One is that they would also put themselves out of business with the current car sales business model; this technology vastly improves the efficiency of ICE which also means it vastly improves the lifespan of the engine, reduces the need for parts, and so on. Unless the company does an extremely good job of making everything else fall apart (which might be a bit too obvious) they’ll no longer be able to turn over cars every 5-10 years. There have been car companies in the past that have come out with very good models that could last for decades, and they either went out of business or quickly learned that you need to design your cars to fall apart in only a few years, i.e. built-in obsolescence. Also, many car companies, especially in the USA, have spent tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars persuading governments, especially CARB in California, that it’s physically impossible to build a car that has the really low levels of emissions that the government was originally requiring of them. This technology vastly reduces the level of vehicle emissions, not just because of reduce fuel usage over distance, but also because gaseous hydrocarbons burn a lot cleaner.
And Calcium Carbide is … what exactly? What about it makes reproduction impossible?
Nothing, but you have to count it as part of the fuel. Your engine doesn’t run on water, it runs on acetylene, which you make by reacting the water with calcium carbide (the other product is, calcium hydroxide, which is a solid and a strong base, so you’ll need a disposal plan).
There was a guy that managed to make a car that ran on salt water and produced clean water from the exhaust. in California back in the early 90s. Christler bought the mans blueprints and under legal contract told him he was welcome to use his car as much as he wanted but could not make another.
I agree with you that the car companys are one of three big greedy corporate overlords that only care about the money and for the most part run the governments of the world.
What guy? Got a name? Any proof at all? If not, this is just another hoax.
Any engine that “runs on water” is suspicious (See the Calcium Carbide trick, above) and Gasoline simply doesn’t generate enough energy to get the kind of mileage claimed by the Opel article.
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/100-mpg-on-gasoline/
Yes… and there have been other such engine patents released and buried by big oil… since the early 70’s. The Water Engine is nothing new. Although, it would be great to have an engine that ran forever on just a glass of water, here is an inherent problem with the water engine. It runs on WATER… the life blood of us water drinking humans. If the number of vehicles currently on the road were all running on water instead of fossil fuels… all the water on the earth would be burnt up and broken down into hydrogen and oxygen within 50-100 years. The inventors of the water engine all failed to recognize that. And even in a closed loop system where the water vapor exhaust is simply fed back into the system, there will always be some loss. Over time you would have to fill the tank with more water and more salt… both of which are VITAL to the survival of the human race. The water engine is great on paper, and works as designed… but it is a disastrous failure because it could end the human race entirely.
First, it is literally utterly impossible to run any kind of engine Other then fusion / Mass conversion
on Just water.
Any and ALL claims to the contrary are in the same category as magic feathers that let you fly.
it IS conceivable to have an engine Design that uses water as PART of the combustion cycle
to increase the energy efficiency of a fuel burn, so less power is simply wasted as heat,
but water In and of itself is literally at the lowest
energy point It is possible for a chemical substance to be.
Secondly, it is estimated that there are more than 326 million trillion gallons of water on Earth.
(and that’s just the water that’s on the surface, let alone the water that’s dissolved into the rock)
if every person on the planet had a water car and if every single car ran 24/7, 360,
with the same energy density as gasoline, let alone the supposed hundreds of miles claimed
it would still take- billions- of years to use up all water.
and if said engine converted water into hydrogen and oxygen,
( a complete and utter violation of the laws of entropy and thermodynamics )
all you’d have to do is a mix them, burn them,
and you have all your water back plus a lot of heat!
so an engine that runs on Nothing but water is a perpetual motion machine
myth and as completely and utterly impossible as a flying elephant.
/// the myth is based on an apparent actual device that a mechanic developed
that improved fuel efficiency by recovering wasted Heat through steam generation
which he demonstrated, but it’s still used Fuel, just a little more efficiently.
supposedly killed in an auto accident before he could Sell his plans.
Lotta conspiracies based on that one.
pretty much all of the other ‘water engine’ Claims that Float around the Internet
are either really bad science, scams, or just flat out hoaxes ///
I’m thinking the next panel would be a good (for storyline) time for Deus to show up. Or at least see Sydney. The latter might be a more entertaining option.
…
*blinks*
The orbs go inactive when the user is asleep (or dead).
They’re “God-Tier”.
She found them at the bottom of the sea.
There’s another god down there, asleep (specifically ‘dead and dreaming’), god-tier, and from another world.
Is that who they are supposed to belong to?
Additional point: The giant world-destroying squid recognized the orbs.
Yeah, the orbs are really a very young eldritch abomination theory. it has a few problems, namely behaving like a game skill tool stuff; but a bored entity playing at being the tool to a host wouldn’t be a new concept.
It is entirely possible that the orb’s previous wielder didn’t die, she just wanted to retire and pass the orbs on to a young new hero. My money is on Ms. Boonliang.
So, this tellsus that those giant ship beast things she pummeled to death are Atherium users, and Sciona’s civilization was most likely wiped out by them giant douches for them to use their life energy to manipulate Atherium on a larger scale than what they are each individually capable of alone, or even by teaming up and pooling their power.
Earth… is… screwed.
Sydney is about to lead those chuckle-heads right back to HQ.
No it doesn’t.
We didn’t see anything like the gateway Sydney opened, yeah their ship got their crazy fast, but we didn’t see a portal. Nor was its forcefield deflecting her shot a sign of using similar energy, just that her beam wasn’t strong enough to cut through it.
I think there is more evidence those guys were related to the one Sciona was using as a “battle thrall” that was copying everyone’s powers and had a brief moment revealing it wasn’t a robot before we saw a tiny piece of it sneak away after the fight; than any direct connection to Sydney’s orbs.
the only connection is they freaked out and called in back up/return of the invasion fleet after scanning Sydney. We don’t know why yet. For all we know they just freaked out from an unknown force; or they could have recognized the orbs, or any number of things.
A bit jumping the gun to assume they didn’t just use regular warp drives or other FTL to get back to the Alari planet; for all we know that giant ship was actually pretty nearby (as in still in the system) when it was signaled. (Also again; the Aetherium Causeway was pretty colorful and distinct, the giant squid ship just popped there).
Even if Sydney led them right to earth, earth is by no means screwed. For one, the Squiddles are great are tackling armies apparently, but as Sydney noted, they have no point defense. Earth would have a huge advantage over them because as while their army sucks in comparison, all of the supers and magic casters on earth mean countless opportunities to really grind in the advantage of the Squiddles lack of point defense. Worst case scenario, Maxima, Varia, Jiggawat, Heatwave, Sydney, etc all have non direct forms of attacks and/or movement which should be able to take down numerous Squiddles on their own. Worst Worst case scenario, they throw Periwinkle Butt Sniffer and possibly Kevin at the problem, trusting in their abilities to scale to whatever the threat is. Weird case scenario they just excessively power up dabbler with a few thousand people multi-day long mega orgy until dabbler is more or less a living god and can will them out of existence. worst weird case scenario they do this with every succubus and malumi on earth until they have a small army of physical gods to curbstomp the Squiddles with.
If all of that fails, then there should still be the core group alive unless the Squiddles shattered the earth in one blow. Even then, 3-1 that Sydney survives and proceeds to kill the Squiddles as she has shown that she can easily enough do.
It took me a moment to recall Death Toll’s other secret identity, good callback.
On another note, I hope they release Kevin at some point, Kevin was awesome.
I loved Kevin.
Bring Back Kevin!
“Watch behind them when you shoot someone, assume you will hit that” does not seem to really be a issue for these guys. The risk would be too high – the more or less razed buildings and environment are signs to not let them anywhere near a habitable planet.
Not to worry Syds like two level ups away from oneshotting entire starsystems regardless of tech level =)
Yknow this is why I have a hard time with Sydney as a character,This page has literally made it canon that the only thing with a chance of ever defeating Sydney is Sydney-Kind of kills the tension whenever she comes face to face with a threat.
Even at the start Sydney was noted to have an incomparably wide range of quite powerful abilities. She has two forms of meta-invulnerability (being a MC and in a flashback) so her dying was never really a possibility in a meta sense. Though she was still defeated and possibly killed by sciona, the only thing that saved her was someone who was able to hack the universe.
Seriously, for all of her power, it isnt something she actually has, it is something she wields. If her hands are trapped, someone gets inside her shield, etc, she is VERY vulnerable.
Also consider that overwhelming force and physical incapacitation are not the only ways to defeat someone. An opponent with the right leverage could easily prevent Sydney from acting effectively against them – hostages, concerns of collateral damage, or even just being squishy enough that Sydney can’t take them down without violating no-kill orders.
I still want to know what’s so damn big about an Aetherium Gate damnit. lol
Well this explains how Sam and Helix got to earth so they could frame Calvin for the Noodle Incident.
1000 psykers I like that 40k reference. For the Emprah
Panel 4 honey badger don’t give a f*ck!
Ok, I feel like I’ve seen the individual to Sidney’s left, (top right of the page, the fellow that looks like they’re made of poo.) but I can’t place where I’ve seen them. Can somebody help me out here and tell me who that is?
That’s Sergeant Schlock, from Schlock Mercenary, Howard Tayler’s long-running space opera.
Oh man, I was thinking earlier “hey that seems like a reference to my favorite Greyhawk trilogy” and now if it isn’t The Justicar, Cinders, everyone’s favorite fairy, polk the badger teamsters and everybody.
It’s crazy how happy that made me.
Sidney’s orbs are sacrifice-thousands-of-psykers level, and the most terrifying thing on this page is *still* the mundane chaos you risk bringing about with her, Sam, and Schlock in the same room.
How the heck is that station surviving having two individuals with notorious self control issues onboard?
aka Sydney and Schlock.
A suitcase full of money would be pretty heavy though. US paper money weighs about 1 g per bill and takes up 0.068 cubic inches (1.11 mL). A standard 20″ duffel bag holds about 2,880 cubic inches, or about 4.7 liters. If you could stuff it perfectly full, it would hold about $4,179,412, which, in $100s weighs about 41.8 kg, or just over 90 lb. A standard 30″ large suitcase would hold $11,885,200 and weigh 262 lb (118.9 kg).
And once you get through the various problems of having oversized or overweight luggage, you still have to somehow get that bag of money through customs.
“have corporations working on the latest game console and they don’t want alien game consoles with quantum optical chips beating them to market and tanking their stock.”
Like the buggy whip manufacturers.
I like the cameos in busy hubs. :-) Woo for Schlock and Freefall!
Woo? I didn’t notice any raccoons….