Grrl Power #159 – Safety is job one. Well, maybe two or three
I guess that eyepatch has one of those snap off straps like every necklace in every movie ever. Just once I’d like to see someone yank off a necklace in a movie and just to have someone point out that they just broke the clasp.
I didn’t get a chance to update the vote incentive this week due to some social obligations, but in it’s place there actually will be a comic up on Thursday. It’s not really a full comic, it’s just an extension of this page. Originally the last panel of this page looked the same only with a big explosion behind Sydney (and the last few text bubbles were slightly different) but I’ve been reading Onepunch Man (google it) and I’ve decided in preparation for upcoming action scenes, I need to start practicing that sort of thing. (Speed lines, perspective, sense of motion, etc) Instead of compressing the action to the point that I’m basically not showing it, I broke it off it to it’s own page. I may have the inks on Anvil done by then too.
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At first I thought it was just a hole in the cloud, but is it just me, or is her finger doing some glowy stuff in the next to last panel?
Yes.
Is she charging up an Ion Beam…. This is going to be hilarious.
She’s a chargin’ her LAZAR!
Special Beam CANNON!!!
makansa..makakasapa..Mekasaba…OH TO HELL WITH IT! SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!
Yeah she’s charging a shot. I could probably make that more obvious.
Can Max choose any place on her body to shoot the beams like her toe or knee or the side of her forearm? I ask because it might be easier to show the energy focus if her veins glowed around the focal point or something, but it kinda depends on the mechanics of her powers.
…immediately I pictured nipple lasers. I refuse to apologize or be ashamed of this fact.
I pictured : Men everywhere, ” I can write my name in the snow!” Maxima , “I can write my name IN CONCRETE”
My idea was good, your idea was better. And I’d be a damn liar if I didn’t say I’d love to see that idea get a reference in the actual comic itself.
Just had a funny image pop into my head, followed by a question. I’ll just put the question here.
Since Math goes by, well math, for his name, does he ever jot down an equation instead of his name?
Yes, but it’s an incorrect Algebraic equation.
…which will result in an irrational number…
Which will summon HALO THE MIGHT-Y!
That’s “Halo the Mi-Tay!”
Well my name (yes the fullname) is a math equation. The first part is the integral of cotangent of t…
Middle name is David –which is part of the origin of “divide” and so on.
His signature: 4M*((16^-2)-4)A=(4*awesome) / ((2^2-4)T*((4^3)-64)*H)
Solve for awesome.
That’s MATH=awesome. Ignoring a couple of ‘issues’!
DAMN! Put the spoiler in the wrong place. Apologies, “Crimson”.
I imagined the same thing =D
Sweet a lazer show is about to start.
I’m hoping that she can choice where the lazers beam comes out of, thou beating that she will never do a nipple lazer or anything else like that, that might cause damage to her clothes.
This does beggs the question can she shoot lazers from any part of her body?
If so, can she fire more than one lazer at a time?
Can she fire a full body lazers as well?
“lightning from her ass quote that i don’t actually know”
I believe that some day so much energy will be stored up in her body that it will burst out of her from all angles and Halo will have to form a shield around her to keep her from destroying the planet, there by helping Maxima release unneeded energy and keeps everyone safe.
According to https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/720 Max doesn’t need to charge up, she just needs someone to startle her.
The difference between squeezing the trigger and reflexively grabbing it maybe?
I didn’t say anything about charging up, her powers are powered by the sun (more or less as from waht iv read) and sooner or later i would assume that so much power would stored inside of her that it just comes bursting out.
Don’t be so sure about never seeing nipple lasers. Peggy mentioned nipple lasers in her “I usually don’t have to ask about powers” speach. Since she is such good friends with Max, I assume that’s who she was talking about. It was probably just a silly example and nothing more, but it could have been based on experience.
Nah, dunworryaboutit, subtle has its place too.
How quick is she on flipping through her powers?. Ion beam fires towards target, switches powers to invulnerability in half the length of time a light beam would take to reflect off the target?.
An important thing to remember is that Sydney is just a normal person. And unlike Math, who has gone through cinematic martial arts training, she will probably not be able to develop extraordinary talents like his. Simply because having the orbs provide her an irresistible crutch to fall back on when things get tough. Rather than having to plumb the depths of her inner strength to unlock the powers.
Plus there are bound to be some aspects that Math has which he simply had to be born with to achieve his current expertise. Even an ‘average’ person can choose to become a black belt martial artist and succeed if they have nothing more than determination. But the same thing cannot be said of an Olympic gold medallist. Be it as simple as having a suitable skeletal frame for the sport in question, or as complex as having mutations which allow you to carry more oxygen in your blood. Or something else which gives you an edge to make you a contender against the best in the world. Unless you are lucky enough to grow up in a generation where no other competitor has an edge either, simple determination and training may not be enough on their own.
Which is a lengthy way of building up to saying that although Halo can practice swapping techniques, which will allow her to pull off some power stunts, there is an upper limit to how well she can do that. And she will come a cropper if she thinks she could behave like she has access to more than two orbs at will when facing foes with innate super powers. Even average super hero reflexes will likely be as good as Halo’s can become after extensive training. Whereas somebody with Maxima’s level of reflexes or super speed could stroll through the gap between one orb deactivating and the replacement coming up.
One counter-argument to my own case is that it makes the assumption that the super heroes who are born looking like they are a combination of super model, Olympic athlete and body builder actually have functional capabilities that go with it. For instance being strong, fast and fit. If their package is simply cosmetic then they will be on a par with Sydney, when keeping super powers themselves out of the equation. But those with relevant super powers (super speed, super reflexes, time distortion etc) will still allow the core of my argument to stand.
Wait a minute! Thursday is Talk Like a Pirate Day! It’s too early to remove her eyepatch today.
Hmm. Since it’s still day 1 of the story, what date is it supposed to be, anyway?
If I recall properly, Tuesday.
Yup, which is significant for a minor story point later on, but it makes me wonder why Arianna would hold the press conference on a Tuesday. I’m sure she has bar graphs on news cycle relevance that I don’t.
I only really know that the “News Dump Day” is Friday, for when people want things buried and not coming to haunt them, so I would guess any news day is just as good as another. But then, I’d also guess Monday is the day for attempting to cover the weekend and the News Dump, so maybe Tuesday would be a good choice :P
But Tuesday is taco day, you cant have taco day and news day on the same day, that’s just madness.
Madness? THIS! IS! TACOS! *crunch crunch*
I know Apple always holds it’s news conferences on a Tuesday.
Slowest day in a bank is Tuesday. Monday everydeposits their money from the weekend, Wednesday they need more lunch money for the week. Thursday and Friday is payday for most people on weekly or bi-weekly pay schedules. Saturday everyone is out of the office. Sunday we sleep.
To have the bnak robbery foiled before the press confrence was the more important thing and Arianna would want the fewest civilians around for *staged* robbery.
Sound thinking.
Heh. Tuesday
Over a hundred comments, and no one has mentioned the scars in the steel block? The next few pages are going to be very interesting.
I’m going to assume it is a firing range. So it could be quite a few thing, powers, or just mundane weapons.
I’ve seen sabot rounds leave marks like those in tank armor.
Let’s see (top to bottom): Automatic rifle strafe, probably, from left to right, rising. Large bore explosive round, like a small mortar. The next one looks like a windshield wiper; someone scratched this but good. The one on the right looks more like a gouge rather than a groove. Not sure what would have caused the last two.
Yes, we are missing a pattern of 3 deep parallel grooves, but he isn’t available in this reality. He has shown up as a fictional character a couple of times already.
One mark might pass for Captain America’s Vibranium Shield.
Another, the hole, with what may be scorch marks, might be Maxima’s handy work. Depending on how focused an energy beam she can produce. Though with no light shinning through, it just may be a punch.
Three parallel grooves come off the gouge on the lower left.
Those scratches do not look deep enough nor wide enough apart for the character I have in mind.
Automatic rifle marks? On a steel block? Only if the marks were the remains of the rounds themselves, and not actual divots in the steel.
yeah could be an .50 cal or a 20mm. based on how big she is standing next to the block I would venture .50 cal. and yeah sabot rounds fired from an M2 would look just like that.
Those are not generally referred to as ‘automatic rifles’. Machine gun is a more appropriate term.
you can run but you cannot hide.
just waiting on a flying spining kick bouncing of the forcefield and Maxima leaving a crator when she lands on her back.
the other alternative is an artillary shell being used – not Maxima attacking.
She can project energy beams
Cliffhangers, the bane of my existence…
Every now and than I go back to the start and read the whole thing. No cliffhangers that way
… She has a wave-motion gun as her finger. OHSHIT.
If the force-field does fail, I have this image of the block being knocked over, and Halo lying underneath it, armour intact, with her limbs flailing out from underneath. Snow-angel style.
I expect it to fail, seeing as her shield is transparent. We’ve established early on that at least the light energy should penetrate a transparent shield.
depends maybe the shield only allows the internal atmosphere at the time of activation to remain unchanged so if the shield is activated in a dark location then brought to a brighter location the shield would block all the extra light
To be more specific, a forcefield that let’s light through would not block photon based damage. Windows don’t block photons, but they still block IR radiation (you don’t get a sunburn when sitting behind a window)
Maxima shoots energy beams, she didn’t specify what kind of energy
That might be what one of the two ‘unknown’ orbs does- detect probable threats, and calibrate the shields and healing abilities accordingly depending on the enviroment. Therefore, allowing the whole ‘sphere’ system to remain simple, flexible, and incredibly powerful.
Think ‘Main Control’ Orb. Or ‘Support’ Orb.
That might be what one of the two ‘unknown’ orbs does- detect probable threats, and calibrate the shields and healing abilities accordingly depending on the environment. Therefore, allowing the whole ‘sphere’ system to remain simple, flexible, and incredibly powerful.
Think ‘Main Control’ Orb. Or ‘Support’ Orb.
Ummm, wouldn’t that mean that a plant left in or near a window would drop dead eventually? Or do you mean that a window blocks MOST UV radiation? I’m assuming of course that you meant ultra-violet and not actually infra-red.
Right, ofcourse. I meant UV
Actually, most high-quality glass will block both, if it can: It effects the efficiency of the window; an ideal window would be 100% transparent at all human-visible frequencies and 100% opaque at all other frequencies.
No window is actually that good, but they are getting pretty close. And yes, plants usually do better just outside the window than they do just inside – though since they don’t work entirely off of UV, and windows aren’t perfect, they don’t just die.
No one’s mentioned that Maxima’s blast might not be “light” persay but a Particle beam. as opposed to be Laser-type blast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_beam
I expect the full power attack to knock her back very slightly causing her to fall on her back. She proceeds to flail around unable to get up because of the armor while cussing at full throtle
My own prediction is that the surrounds will be totally messed up by Max’s blast, but the spot covered by Sydney’s Force Field will be pristine.
Hmmm, now there’s another thought. Maybe, instead of simply absorbing the blast (which would raise some intriguing questions in itself), the FF will basically deflect / dissipate the blast in various directions.
I was thinking along similar lines. Multiple scenes of Maxima shooting increasingly stronger energy beams, until the final scene where Max stops and says something along the lines of “Have to stop here, the range is only rated for mid range artillery.” At which point we see Halo standing around the pristine steel block inside a large crater.
Y’know, I actually grew rather attached to the eyepatch. And seeing as she’s barely worn it for an hour-and-a-half, I don’t see the sense in removing it so soon.
…
Other than the fact that her doctor has healing powers. Yeah…
Don’t let Maxima give you the finger… the finger of death/god or something.
That’s a nice megabuster Sydney has in the last, and third from last, panel.
I wonder how the sheild is going to react should it hold against maxima’s attack will it flex (either inward or become more rounded to help deflect what its getting hit with), is the sheild more like a solid mass of power that dosnt exactly block attacks but simply ignores them (like the weeping god mara attempting to attack garrion while he was possessed by the prophesy of light in the belgariad), is it like a wall, or does it act sort of like some kind of mirror shield to attacks (anything that hits it is reflected back on itself)
Guess that is what we all will be finding out soon
‘Commence Primary ignition….’
That finger is fully armed and operational.
You may fire at will. Er, Sydney.
can she make the shield opaque?
if so this will be interesting in combat. temporarily being blind wont do much good without projecting herself elsewhere so she can see in third person.
Opaque to the attack’s spectrum only would be good mind. Allowing her to see any colours not being used in the attack. Or, if broad-spectrum (aka white light for simplicity) perhaps learning how to darken the side facing that opponent only?
The shield might not be a binary resist like in the RP at the beginning. It could also be a partial resist that stabilizes any incoming frequency’s energy over a given threshold by deflecting and/or absorbing anything above that level. Such a shield could then be tuned to reduce the incoming energy to a visible but harmless level while also preserving the user’s ability to see past the incoming beam. You don’t see photons until they reach your eyes, so placing a cap on the photons passing through would make the incoming beam appear transparent.
…and then the press arrives via teleport just as Maxima lets loose. Suddenly everyone knows why they’re called the Press as the sonic Boom blasts forth.
That is probably a power stunt she can develop later. Unless one of the mystery orbs allows her to change the colour of things. Probably too boring for her to have tried it. But subtly powerful if it is. Not just for shield opacity either.
Oops. That was meant to be in reply to Lucky‘s
She probably could but she would miss all the pyrotechnics from Maxima’s power bolt.
Darn, losing the eye patch but gaining stereoscopic vision. More than a fair trade.
it is going to look like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtWryumimgc
only question who is iron man and who is galacus?
Dressed in the bomb suit, I would say Sydney is channeling Iron Man and Max is therefore channeling Galactus.
the shield could be a multy layer defensive matrix, incoming attacks interact with the outer layer and the inner layers change to counter the attack. there you go an Invisible Sheild that blocks visible spectrum light attacks, of cause their will be an opaque or highly distorted part of the shield visible from the inside, a section that will be blocked by any reactive and/or reflected effect from the attackers side.
I shall miss the eyepatch.
So shall we all
RIP Mighty Eyepatch of the Mi-tay HALO
You know, if something goes wrong here at the live fire test, someone may be using that patch real soon… Sydney or Max –place your bets.
Now this is more like it. “Okay, I’m going to hit you full power. If it kills you, I’ll dial it back a notch or two.”
people die if they are killed!!! lol snort sorry i could not help myself!!!!
She isn’t touching the forcefield orb
All together now: “OH YES SHE IS!”
If that begs another question, you will likely find the answer on the previous page of comments in the thread started by Areleh.
the better question is how did she use it to fly?
By mis-direction. Look above her head in panel 10. No blue orb. She has two hands. Guess where the Fly Ball is.
But….mittens are her kryptonite?
Ahh, but Sydney is a wee little girl. Whereas the suit was built for some burly, body-builder of a bomb disposal guy. Her arms do not even reach far enough down the suit arms, for the gloves to be put on!
No mittens, no kryptonite. Fortunately, given her situation.
Guessing the steel’s the target, the shield’s the test subject, and the bomb-proof suit’s for any splash that gets through the shield and around the block. It’s a fail if the steel gets marked up, and an error if the testee gets marked up. Behind the block of steel is probably the safest place to be ATM, but you don’t want Halo thinking that, you want her thinking: “tough shield that nothing better pierce. Please, let nothing pierce my shield. I need a shield as hard as Mount Rushmore if it were made of rock… Wait, that’s a bad example…” You learn more about her limits that way…
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the force-field ball still circling her head while she’s putting up a force field in the last panel?
Have a look at the Who’s Who section to the right of the comic. DaveB recently updated it to include Halo’s orbs. The Force Field Orb is the purple one, which is in her hand. The Energy Tentacle Orb is somewhat similar, but is pink rather than purple, and can be distinguished by the patterns within it. Although others have been mistaking the blue Fly Ball for it, so you are not alone, if that is the case.
Note to DaveB: you may wish to make the purple of the Force Field Orb in the Who’s Who section a wee bit more vibrant. It may just be my monitor, or an optical illusion caused by the background, but the shade/tone seems closer to the blue of the Fly Ball in the Who’s Who section than the dark purple in the comic itself. If others agree that the two seem too close, you may wish to artificially darken it, even if it is from the same stock as you use for the comic. Just to emphasise the difference. It would also help to differentiate it from the Pseudopod Tentacle Orb, at the same time.
I see. It looked like the same one she grabbed in the earlier panel when she was flying. But I see that she probably grabbed that one at same time as fly ball, and released it when she landed behind the concrete slab.
In the comic pages, they have a glow on them that makes them considerably more vibrant. I could probably tweak the Who’s Who panel a little.
The government doesn’t need vivisectionists. They let Maxima take the experimental subject to the firing range….
Okay, looked back a ways and when she uses the projection ball, she is intangible in the image and it looks exactly as she is (clothing etc.) So she could set up, say something like “Look a giant robot!” and duck around behind the steel, crouching, while projecting a bombsuit-wearing force field surrounded grinning like an idiot face… And if it is exactly right I want a check to see if she dressed as a ghost last Halloween and scared the bejeesus out of some poor schmoo down by the shop by floating her image out the wall.
Back on current subject. I want it (the beam) to bounce, but I really want it to hit and scroll up so it paints an “arc” from just above Max’s right ear upward –shaving her hair close on one side– the upward into the atmosphere and knocking down a communication satellite. The she can be blamed for taking down Oprah (insert current gab show) doing a story on Mosques… Let the flames begin.
Crazy idea time. Imagine Sydney in a training drill doing mock urban assault on doors. Line up several of the balls: pew pew up front, flight and force field reachable by the right hand –the line of balls representing a sort of rifle. Leaning back against the wall to the side of the door she could use the comm ball to form an image right on top of herself, have it lean back through the wall to peek inside before blowing the door and going for force field as she moves in.
I was just going to say that sounds like a good idea. Put and hold the balls in a geometric pattern and learn to play it like a xylophone, burn it into muscle memory so she can switch between powersets *fast*. But then I thought… is it really faster to move her hands than just command the appropriate balls to go to where her hands are? I see arguments both ways. The balls are going to be physically faster. But are they going to be able to parse her thoughts to know what she wants faster than prepared ballistic motor pathways can react? Very hard to say.
Of course, if Sydney encounters the idea, she’s go with balls-in-a-geometric-pattern, because then
she could make use of 3-or-more-powers to solve a problem look like an air-guitar power chord, maybe perhaps.
And hey, if she then gets the idea that maybe the force field could be commanded to vibrate and act like the worlds biggest and least breakable speaker… well, one can only imagine. Probably not on the scale of Disaster Area, the well-known plutonium rock band, but reminiscent.
Why has nobody mentioned the fact yet that she’s wearing one of those bad-ass EOD suits that the military uses to disarm IEDs?
I mean that should be some suggestion at how crazy-powerful Maxima is.
Because the forcefield and the steel block each give more protection than the bomb suit.
Pretty sure somebody did. Somebody with the handle ewitwins.
The bombsuit is just to catch fragments of the iron block should the shield fail.
If nothing else, Syd can always fly out of the kill zone.
If things went horribly horribly wrong, she could be flying anyway – just in several different directions at once.
Which is almost, but not quite, as bad as having all of your body’s component atoms deciding to take separate vacations at near-light speeds.
I’m predicting a callback to the first time she “tested” the shield…
Only instead of the booms being heard in the same building, we’re going to cut back to the press release, where Arianna is interrupted by increasingly spectacular light shows on the horizon.
So is anyone else reminded of “The Tick” series and the “CHA…” written into the face of the moon?
Let me introduce our new superhero troop that will be used in your city.Lets start by showing you the powers that level whole city blocks.
and than we’ll show you the powers that can STOP the powers that level entire city blocks!
Ummm, wouldn’t it be better to show the powers that can STOP city block-leveling attacks at the SAME TIME you show the powers that can level city blocks? Less collateral damage & less chance of killing the reporters that way.
Then how can you prove that the attack can level city blocks.
I can knock down whole building but can be stopped by this piece of paper, I will show you me hitting the piece of paper.
Dave, we need an ARC recruiting poster: Sydney pointing outward, force field up and fending off a Maxima bolt. “Join ARC, if you got the balls!”
+1
+1 too. :)
Here come the BOOM!
Wait a second. They couldn’t find her a uniform that fits, but now she’s in a shrapsuit? That is too funny. Plus, she’s so damn cute in that rig. Forgetting she can fly and hup two-ing away in her Stay-Puft armor cracked me up. She’s such a good sport.
So, now we know that the fly ball can handle a bigger load than usual. Good to know.The block of steel INSIDE the force-field worries me. If Goldfinger there gets through the shield, it’s like a big lump of danger waiting to drown Syd in meltiness. If Max manages to blast it into steel wool before setting it on fire, it might get downright explodey. Maybe she’s just seeing if Syd can extend her shield, and how far. Can she shield anything that doesn’t include her?
“Forgetting she can fly and hup two-ing away in her Stay-Puft armor cracked me up. She’s such a good sport,”
I think it has more to do with the idea that Sydney’s been TRYING to keep a low profile with her use of the orbs. Perhaps she still needs to get used to the idea that she doesn’t HAVE TO hide her abilities any more. Sydney is no longer restrained by her own sense of individual secrecy anymore & she can pretty much cut loose…
God help us all when that idea really does kick in with her…
Maxi isn’t targeting the block, she is targeting the shield, the block is just added protection in case the shield fails (Maxi probably knows how much power the block can withstand so will probably keep it below that level)
This is just a controlled test before the ‘official’ press show
The funniest thing about it to me is that the suit is clearly several sizes too large. Presumably helmet attachment points are standardised, so she has suitable headgear on. But the fact that she can barely peek over the top of the suit’s breastplate gives me the giggles. Especially so in her startled bunny impersonation in the final panel.
And, as you say, she is so darned cute in it. Much of which being because she is so small compared to the armour. I am guessing that it is meant to be worn with chunky gloves on the end, but that her hands simply did not reach down that far. Hence how the orb is able to fly into her hand through the sleeve opening, as pointed out in an earlier thread.
Betcha it passes straight through, I reckon Sydney’s powers are limited by her imagination/perception… if she can’t see the threat, she can’t stop it… this also explains her being able to keep pace with Maxima, (she didn’t realise she was going faster) and the fact that there are 2 balls which don’t do anything (she simply ran out of powers to think of).
Followed the line of reasoning up until the suggestion that Sydney’s imagination had fizzled out after 5 balls. She could probably list an extra 20 powers she would like, without pausing.
Definitely. Just look at the very begininng of Grrlpower, where she is rules-lawyering that game referee. The real trick would be to make her STOP coming up with new power ideas.
mmm good point…
Hmmmm. Jusr realized. Check out the very beginning of Grrlpower, where Sydney is in that superhero role-playing game, and has an argument with the referee about the whole business of transparent forcefields.
I’m now wondering if that is based, at least in part, on her personal experience. Guess we’ll find out shortly.
could be that she has to BS J.Q. Public for security reasons, so many disinformation angles from misinforming nerds in a comic book shop, that bit of counter-Intelligence will have gone viral before Syd hit the parking-lot.
Been a reading this comic since damn near the beginning, and it’s been great throughout, but I got my heartiest belly laugh of them all from this one. Just the image of her waddling along in that suit, until she realizes she can lift it into the air. Goddamn whimsical.
The “budget stay-puft astartes armor” remark was a giggle-inducing bonus too. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! Sometimes it’s the offhanded comments that people find the funniest, which is why I like them so much. Along of course with the images that the non-animated comic can induce.
Can’t remember who mentioned it, but it’s possible panel 8 is the limit to how much the Florb can lift her in that “budget stay-puft astartes armour” (kinda like bouncing on the ‘moon’ in the old studio-based moon-landing videos)
Speaking of: is there a reason it is spelt ‘puft’ instead of ‘puffed’? Is ‘Stay-Puft’ a brand or something? Like Jell-O is a brand of geletin-based dessert (and ‘jelly’ is something you spread on toast or waffles)
Possibly, but there is nothing to indicate that Halo is struggling when flying in panel 9. Granted the visual imagery is very akin to astronauts in space suits on the moon. But much of the resulting impression comes from her struggle with gravity in the earlier panels. Which is just down to Sydney muscles vs Stay-Puft Astartes armour. I would argue that the “heave” motion-text in panel 8 is her just heaving her legs in the ongoing struggle, as she is doing that whilst Maxima is speaking.
But will concede that it may be signs of the orb struggling to lift her off the ground, if that follows Maxima’s reminder. Personally I read it as being contemporaneous, but if I am wrong then the implications of your interpretation stand.
Having just looked at the scenes again, I have lost any doubt. The “heave” actually occurs whilst the Fly-ball is still in orbit. Therefore can only be down to struggling leg muscles and cannot be taken as signs of power limitations. And Halo’s subsequent “whee” certainly does not imply that she is suffering from unexpectedly slow flight speed.
Fairly sure at least one of the astronauts in 1969 was heard going “Wheee!” (heavily classified and sealed in a vault under the White House’s doghouse)
If I had been high up in the US administration during the moon race, and given how politically important succeeding was, I may well have arranged fake footage of astronauts on the moon. To give contingency material for use in the event of a problem. Be it not actually reaching the moon or the genuine footage being unavailable for live broadcast due to mundane technical problems.
Nations have re-created or outright faked such images since newsreel was first shown, the USA being no exception. Such footage might well include noises inappropriate for the near-vacuum atmosphere of the moon. But it would show extreme incompetence if any copy survived past the point it was obvious such would not be required. Even discovery of good faith reenactments, such as raising the flag on Iwo Jima can cast the shadow of doubt on a genuine event.
Wasn’t being serious (personally believe they did make it to the moon, also believe the famous quote is “One Small Leap For Man, One Giant Leap For Mankind”, not the edited version with the extra word to make it ‘sound more gramatically correct’), just fun to rattle the padded rooms of the conspiracy ‘enthusiasts’ from time to time :P
We are of a like mind. I was six when I encountered my first moon landing sceptic. And easily saw through the flaws in his arguments. Doing the same with the more sophisticated theories as I later encountered them. The evidence is overwhelmingly in favour of genuine landings.
However, even one of my present day friends is keen on the moon landings being a hoax, despite all of his favourite arguments being convincingly demolished by Mythbusters. I consider him sane, intelligent and an extremely practical hands on guy, not given to any flights of fantasy.* So it interests me as to why he clings to the idea. Obviously I cannot resist tease him about it, but I keep an eye on any interesting developments.
You never know we may eventually discover that the landings were genuine, but there was a cover-up about having to send out their captured Roswell UFO on a repair mission part way through.
* Of interest his wife thinks he is weird believing in that conspiracy. Naturally enough, being a former university lecturer herself. However it was very hard for both him and I to convince her that there was nothing to the 2012 end of the world craziness. Fortunately she has realised the error of her logic on that one now. Although I do have fun, at times, if we are in the vicinity of a calendar.
I’ve probably linked this in the comments before, but this is one of my favorite, if non-serious-even-though-it-brings-up-a-good-point takedowns of the moon landing hoax conspiracy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw
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Know your classic movies ;)
Stay-puft is the brand of marshmallow of which the ghostbuster have to take out the giant mascot version at end of their first movie
Someone needs to tell Sydney to turn around. The heaviest armor on those suits is on the front. Really isnt much of anything, ballistics wise, on the back. Just a lot of cushion and bracing to protect the spine and neck for when you get thrown backwards into something.
Just in case no-one mentioned this: every necklace has a safety-link, a simple O-ring that isn’t soldered shut, next to the clasp, where the necklace will ‘break’ if yanked. The object is not to avoid causing physical injury, but to avoid being sued for causing physical injurie. Even pearl necklaces, which are basically just beads on a thread, have this safety link, so the string itself won’t break and the pearls will be kept together. After all, the value of the a pearl necklace isn’t in the sum of the values of the individual pearls. It’s in composing a matching set. As products of nature, pearls aren’t all the same size, colour or even shape.
So all those movies where the pearls fly all over the plave? Nope, ain’t gonna happen in real life.
Wait … hasn’t it been established that Sydney can’t use her powers through gloves? Back when she was first interviewed at Archon if I remember right … How is she manipulating the orb through the material of the bomb suit?
I can’t be the only one who noticed this … maybe it’s sitting somewhere else in these 353 comments.
I think it was brought up, but she’s not wearing the gloves. She just sucked the orb up into the sleeve.
Yep, we spotted that. Personally I loved the detail, because, along with the fact that she was too short, so could barely get her eyes above the top of it, her hands did not reach far enough down the sleeve, to even put the gloves on!