Grrl Power #754 – And your race smells of elderberries
Cora is definitely not a diplomat. There are better ways of telling a world that no one is coming for them because their toys all suck, but I guess she’s just getting straight to the point.
I’ve talked about some of the stuff they’re touching on in this press conference in my comments for the comics where Sydney was visiting fracture station, but I thought I should formally introduce this stuff to the in-comic world. I mean, the actual discovery of life besides ours. And not just a fossil of bacteria on Mars or living plankton on Titan or something. Actual civilizations with technology beyond ours. It would change the world utterly. It would be the only thing on the news and late night talk shows and morning news programs for months and months. Some religions would just implode, some would be like “oh yeah, God made them too.” I can’t even imagine how hard the Fox fear mongering machine would ramp up. I tell you what, though, I’d buy stock in any publicly traded company that sold guns, that’s for sure. There would be people so afraid of what they think is about to happen (i.e. the plot of every alien invasion movie ever) violence and suicide rates would go up measurably.
For everyone who didn’t lose their minds though, seeing a hot blue, essentially human looking woman saying “No worries, mate,” I think would allay a lot of fears. Obviously some people will think Cora’s lying so we don’t prepare for invasion, but there’s nothing you can do about people like that. Other people might be thinking “So do you have a sister?” In any case, it would be an interesting time to live.
Actually, this event would be so historic I doubt it’d be at the foot of the Archon building. You can’t tell on this page, but that’s where they are. Really, it’d pretty much have to be at the White House, or better yet, in front of or inside the UN building. But this is technically an informal press conference and as it’s been said, Cora’s not a diplomat. She’s probably not even going to meet and greet with anyone politically important while she’s on Earth.
When I looked up references for the LMG sitting there on the table (that one is an M240 I think) I was disappointed to see that most LMGs are just ugly. I guess I was hoping for something slick looking, like a buff-ass Styer AUG, or an IWI Tavor x95. But no, the ones the US used all look like something the A-Team built out of scrap parts found in a barn. They’re probably made like that because you have to strip them down further to really clean them considering how much more ammo they can run through than an assault rifle, but still.
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This would probably happen.
The culture stuff is what sells.
beads and trinkets eh? Yeah, no…entertainment, streaming movies sure. The whole bead and trinket crap? Uh, no. Ask Mr. Ring what that’s a dumb thing m’kay?
Of course not “beads and trinkets”. But it’s true that nothing on Earth would be unique except for our culture. Beads and trinkets, no, but sculptures and paintings, yes.
everyone makes stone and ink renderings of their own species, beads and trinkets are more valuable. Go to another country, what is selling the best at tourist traps: trinkets, dream catchers, beads, googly eye sea shells. Yeah the high art community may not put big bucks on them, but THEY are a closed group that ascribes value based on specific rules and heritage of the art. Meanwhile remove from that setting and it is down to the aesthetic value, what does that alien find exotic and different and want on their desk, cabinet, their own (alien world’s art gallery).
I’d expect to sooner see a rubber ducky next to Mickey Mouse plush toy and various cultural common place trinkets on display as examples of Earth culture; in the Jurain art gallery or whomever than to see copies of Roman statues and paintings that only exist in Earth’s art museums and private collections as they don’t represent Earth culture at the greater scale. That and *this is different* effect.
Never thought I’d find anyone on here who had ever heard of the house of Jurai… apon reflection I guess I should have known better
My personal thought is, “what happens if they find out that chocolate is virtually impossible to duplicate?”
In John Ringo’s Troy Rising series, Earth’s one valuable interstellar export is maple syrup.
As a Canadian I have to agree.
because to most aliens in that setting, it acted like high proof alcohol would for us. prior to finding that, the only thing that earth had been able to make money on (and that not much) was art, statues, and other such unique cultural items.
Also because the first-contact aliens weren’t on a cultural or diplomatic mission, IIRC they were a ‘low-class’ species that was strictly there to strip-mine the asteroid belt and otherwise exploiting Dirtlings as much as possible, and only trading with us at all to satisfy intergalactic regulations. They took complete control over humanity’s interaction with the rest of the galaxy, both coming and going.
But yeah even so, if they’d been able to resell our “priceless art” they would’ve done that instead of trading a bunch of it back to the protagonist for a equivalent of a few jars of moonshine.
The fact that they make the most powerful battle stations around and kick complete ass makes the series wonderful.
I really need to see Cora’s full outfit here.
Off-topic topic of the day:
Who gets more entertainment out of seeing the Archon flag (2nd last panel) every day? Harem or Dabbler?
Dabbler would probably better appreciate that the Archon flag says “cum” on it.
I bet Halo or maybe Maxima gets more entertainment out of the seal because it has a comic book quote.
I decided to see what Latin would come out of Google Translate for the original phrase – while I was typing it in, the autocomplete assumed I wanted “With great power comes great electricity bill.”
…I’m afraid I have to award today’s internet to Translate now, even though it feels like cheating. I prefer my AI prediction weirdness a little less tongue-in-cheek.
“With great power comes great electricity bill.” It’s not wrong, though…
It’s all good until aliens start kidnapping K-Pop bands
:(
To be fair, those are as numerous are grains of sand in the Sahara, so a few dozen won’t be missed.
It’s worse when the kidnappers can escape off-world…
….Not that I’ve tried doing that…… >_> <__>
Fool, where do you think K-pop bands come from in the first place? :P
actually, WE are the ones secretely kidnapping aliens to make them into pop bands
Interstella 5555!
“Elvis ain’t dead son, he just went home”
+1
Oh My God! That’s awesome! Thanks, I needed a good laugh today!
Point: We’re not here for your women!
Counter-point: That.. significantly cuts down on potential porn parodies of this press conference. The Presser. Pressing the Hot Button Issues. Come, take me to your leader.
Counter-counter-point: We are here for your men!
Actually, a fair number of them are here for our women. They’re just not wanting to enslave said women. Alien sex tourism works far better than alien zoo.
Incidentally, laws that prohibit the sex industry decrease our intergalactic appeal. I mean, if porn is our number one best seller, curtailing its production is probably not a good plan. If prostitution is our number two best seller, curtailing that is probably not a good plan.
Sure, there’s the STD argument – except that a completely alien lifeform is virtually guaranteed to not have viruses that could make enough sense of us to infect us. Bacteriological and fungal alien pathogens are more likely to be a problem than alien viral pathogens, but there’s still a pretty big ‘they need to be adapted to us’ in order to infect us.
And that’s just the fundamental theoretical issues to alien STD risks. From a practical standpoint, alien science is far more advanced than Earth science in every way, including medical research. Alien STDs have mostly been eliminated – at least, as far as we’re likely to encounter, because only technologically advanced races can get to us.
Probably the biggest STD risk that the alien sex tourism business provides is of the Typhoid Mary variety – aliens who are completely incompatible with all Earth pathogens are likely to be pretty carefree regarding their sex practices. While most STDs can’t survive long without a host environment – and these aliens are by definition not a viable host environment – these aliens are likely rather polygamous, and one shouldn’t forget the various n-way couplings that they could be interested in partaking in – even if they’re not capable of sticking a dick-like appendage in a homo sapiens at once. I mean, even if they’re nominally humanoid, that gives them at least five things that can be stuck in people.
I doubt it that porn and prostitution would be our best selling products. I mean yes, space has succubi and people like Cora, but I’m sure there are also a ton of civilizations that aren’t nearly so sexually oriented. And if you want prostitutes, then succubi are 10 times as skilled and eager.
No, it’s probably still art and culture.
Again, lots of assumptions that are made up out of whole cloth. You know, humans pay to go into rooms they have to escape from.
Sex tourism on Earth has some places you DO, and some places you DON’T have to dodge the authorities. Pick which one seems like more fun. it’s not as if you don’t have the tech to get out of whatever you get into.
That LMG doesn’t look much different from the M60 I field stripped as a second grader at Schofield Barracks in 1967 (it was very worn out as I discovered when I tried to do it 20 years later in Basic Training). I’m sure if you put them side by side I could see lots of differences, but just from 50 and 30 year old memories I can’t see much difference.
Looks like a 60 to me, too – based on memories from Navy Counter-Insurgency school – of course, that was literally 50 years ago as of last week, but…
If I remember later today i’ll ask my son in law, whose Iraq memories are only 13 years old.
Looks like a 60 to me, too – though the last time i saw one was literally fifty years ago last week in Navy CI school.
If i remember, later today i’ll ask my son-in-law, whose Iraq memories are only thirteen years old.
Its definetly the M249 SAW. I handled a M60 in basic and later the SAW. The 60 is larger and long, bulkier. ONe give a way point is that carry handle. With its weight and that handle, the SAW can be carried 1 handed like a brief case. Not so with the 60.
Carried a 60 myself for years. Very easy to carry one handed, just don’t try firing it that way unsupported!
Opus and Fairportfan, considering the M240 replaced the M60 in service, that would stand to reason.
Closest you are going to get to “slick” is going to be some of the newer stuff that is either not standard issue for the US Army, OR isn’t issued at all yet because its still in testing. Form follows function though. The more “slick” housings you have, the more complicated it is to field strip [cleaning] or clear a malfunction. The M240B [which is what is depicted there] is the general purpose verison…and its HEAVY. There are shorter, lighter versions, as well as the M249 SAW [5.56x45mm NATO, smaller cartridge, same as the M16/Tavor/AUG, but lighter and easier to manage than the M240 which is 7.62×51 NATO] and a few things used by special forces [one is a scaled up M249 that fires the same cartridge as the 240, but is, as I said, lighter] …I’m curious to see if Sydney is going to try to pick it up…
Also, due to the weight, even with the full power cartridge, Sydney should have no issues controlling it, which may be why Peggy picked it out for her. Lots of footage from Knob Creek of smaller build individuals firing M60s and M240s for reference.
While I can’t swear to it, I suspect the lack of slickness is due to the quick change handle hanging off the side. A quick google image search says that the NEGEV or CM16 might be possible slick LMGs, but I’d want to get Dave’s perspective first.
Da. The most effective weapons are very often the “ugliest”. I’m put in mind of the British Sten-gun of the WWII era. And Mikhail Kalashnikov’s AK series. The Bren gun was indeed “slicker”, but shared most of the attributes.
These machines are designed to be cheap, disposable and dirt-tolerant. As against the Thompson submachine gun and the Schmeisser MP40, which were wonderful to behold and actually hold, but fainted at the first signs of dirt.
War is an ugly business, and has no place for beauty.
The M249 LMG is a variant of the Belgian FN Minimi, like so many other countries main LMG.
By 2010 extensive improvements left it looking like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M249_light_machine_gun#/media/File:Improved_M249_Machine_Gun.jpg
The UK uses Minimi’s in 2 variants, Standard L108A1 and Para L110A2.
The M240 is more boxy than the M60, and 4 pounds heavier. It’s more reliable though, and you can’t put the gas piston in backwards.
I’d still rather have a PKM. Preferably the Polish UKM-2013 variant in 7.62×51.
I’m *pretty* sure that that Archon motto translates to “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”…
Yeah. Literally, which means it’s terrible Latin.
It is a word by word translation rather than a proper translation. A proper translation would be “cum potestate magna venit magnus responsabilitate”. I will Dave points for trying.
Damn, read that as ‘Cum Prostate Magma’ at first…
Or, if you wrestle with the phrasing a bit, you can go from ‘with great power must come great duty’ to “Cum potentia magna venit magnus necesse est officium”
Potentia is a better translation of ‘power’, because ‘potestate’ inherently includes powers of office, or social authority, while ‘potentia’ specifically refers to strength or ability.
Daniel here. I got to fire an actual Australian Army Styer at a Army trial weekend. Good weapon. Didn’t get point scores, only times hit, but managed to get 8/10 hits, having missed both 800 meter shots
Making an 800m shot with that would have been some seriously good shooting. And that’s on a silhouette.
From memory, the rest of the shots were either 500 or 300 meters if I remember right. Again, no point value scores, just “you hit the metal target backing, that’s a point for you” type scoring. Still, did better than many others there…
Who is C?
In here, not just Piltover.
Who is C? https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/character/c/
In here, not just Piltover.
An error
Maybe another agent of Arc-Dark who is unknown to us?
you know… premotion (or whatever is it called)?
or yeah, probably just an error.
That’s exactly what C wants you to think. That the mere mention of C’s top secret name is ‘an error.’
Oh…
but… wouldn’t he be the error?
“You have nothing we want.”
“Contact the Galactic Entertainment Committee ASAP.”
You sure that she isn’t a diplomat?
No mention of the aliens on Earth secretly who have probably been recording TV shows for years.
(If the recordings go back to the 40s, we’d be buying our own stuff back.)
(1936: BBC’s First TV broadcast! I’d like to see that.)
Or all the missing Adam Adamant episodes.
(Everyone knows about the Dr Who episodes, but there’s a lot of other good stuff that was also destroyed and lost)
If you have FTL and good sensor technology you could go out there and capture any radio or TV broadcast we’ve ever made. It’s all out there, radio waves fading slowly into the cosmic microwave background.
Pun: Inverse square law and signal to noise ratio dispute this assertion.
Also, line of sight with multiple transmitters on the same frequency.
The Earth’s curvature kept them from interfering with each other.
You could have used a MG-3, and say that it was confiscated from a Canadian Leopard tank some very polite rednecks were joyriding with on the wrong side of the border…
Or that it’s one they have in the armory because it’s a quite common older gun that they are likely to come across in the field. (Special Forces train with other than just their standard weapons. Proficiency with the opponent’s weapons can be the deciding factor in a fight)
Or you could use the MG14z version, because everyone loves a double-barrelled LMG…
Could have used the Stoner KAC LAMG.
the seal declares ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ in latin :D
So, the founder of Archon, is Uncle Ben? o_O
Let’s just say that in this universe Stan Lee didn’t just publish comics
Or anyone paraphrasing Luke 12:48 as uncle Ben was doing.
Ironically, Luke 12:39 would have been more on-point for Peter re: Ben: “And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.”
I can’t imagine all the ways this might become a P.R. problem. Her insistence that they’re not here for our women, is rather undercut by her love of porn. That’s sure to go down well in the deep south. And she uses Sydney’s name live, associating her with them. Sydney’s life may become even more interesting.
Sydney did come off a ship with them during a live broadcast though, pretty sure there’s already some association
I mean, let’s be honest, the kind of people who would be offended by the fact that aliens like our porn are the kind of people who would never get along with such a sex-positive planet *anyway*.
Sydney has advanced to causing Ariana aneurysms whithouth even being within hearing distance or sight!
“I can’t even imagine how hard the Fox fear mongering machine would ramp up”
Oh dear GOD, don’t get me started…………
“Pathetic leetle tiny hands babyman think we will build WALL around the earth!”
I honestly miss the day when all you had to do to “remove” a sitting US Head of State was not MISS.
Old and busted: “Mars Needs Women!”
New wokeness: “Alien patriarchy sexually exploiting Earth women!”
CptNerd gets it. RoWan missed the point entirely.
Watch 30 minutes of Fox and 30 minutes of CNN…You’ll get entirely more fear mongering from CNN and more shaking of heads at stupidity from Fox than anything else. There’s CONCERN for something, and then there’s fearmongering… Learn the difference.
Kinda of a hard sell considering which station repeatedly pushed the racist Birther Conspiracy over Obama.
Or the “Terror at the Border” slogan over imaginary terrorists. A tactic they use every midterm to stir up irrational fear: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/arts/television/fox-trump-midterms-caravan.html
if you really think CNN puts out more “fear mongering” and that fox is just “shaking of heads at stupidity” you really need to step away form the koolaid and start learning facts. start with learning what the kruger dunning effect and how it completely explains why you think the way you do.
more 75% of all fox “news” stories are known lies its why they all themselves an entertainment channel not a news channel. honestly other countries don’t allow them airspace because they lie so much
Fox news is right-wing propaganda. CNN is left-wing propaganda. Neither have any relation to actual news services. Which one is more ‘fearmongery’ depends on whether you lean right or left and whether the butt currently parked in the Oval office is a Dem or a Repub. When Obama was in the office, Fox News was losing its collective mind trying to stir up fear and resentment. Now that Trump is in the office, CNN is doing the stirring. Not that it needs to, but this isn’t the place for a political rant.
They’re sturring by reporting on things Trump says and does.
Out of context (and straight up lies)
Not sure how telling certain members of congress, all women of color, to “Go back to where they came from.”, is out of context.
He said it, and it is indeed a common talking point among, well, racists.
Telling them to go back to whatever town they are from is racist? o_O
Like said: out of context
You seriously think he meant town? Ahahahaha, no. It’s blatantly obvious he wanted them to go to “whatever country they came from.”
Only obvious to a racist who believes that bullshit themselves
Wow, seriously? “No u”? That’s all you’ve got?
This must be what it feels like facing down the Black Knight after both of his arms and one of his legs have been cut off.
He expressly, literally said they should go back and fix the countries that they came from before they criticized the USA. You’re believing the lie he told to spin it instead of actually reading and remembering his actual statement.
Purely as an aside: having read much of what you have written here and seeing how you treat other commenters, it does not surprise me at all that you are a Trump supporter.
Not a Trump supporter, not even a fucking USAsian
Have always treated other commentators with respect, unless they attack me
These are things that can and should be discussed in civil manner but I would prefer if we did it somewhere else. Let’s just use this forum for relaxed comments about our dear funny superhero comic please.
Nothing wrong with political discussions, as long as it doesn’t get personal or deliberately offensive
Another day, another screeching cacophony from the political activist crows, who dive bomb comic book discussion with stinking droppings of political harping.
Talk about taking things personal and deliberately offensive…
It already was deliberately offensive.
How about not fill the forum up with it every day.
I know, right. Every comic seems to have the mass Guesticus rage topic of the day. If only he/she had some filter, some ability to tone their statements in such a way, as to not sound like a raging douchenozzle.
Hmm, someone else starts a heated topic, and it’s me who is the ‘raging douchenozzle’? o_O
Show me where posted ‘mass rage topic’, other than in reply to someone getting personal
Minor nitpick: the American flag in the background of the press conference is the wrong way around. The blue field goes at the upper left whether the flag is horizontal or vertical.
In ‘our’ universe. :)
Was looking for this comment or going to post it myself. Please Dave fix the flag, kinda a pet peeve of mine when its not hung properly, especially when it is a branch of the military in your world. Blue always on the left when hanging on a wall.
So much for the good news, what’s the bad news?
The Vogon constructor fleet will be arriving shortly to start work on that hyperspace bypass.
No they won’t. You’re forgetting that thriving alien sex tourism business. There’s a lot of aliens who would be rather put out if something happened to their alien sex tourism business. For a pre-interstellar civilization, we’re probably fairly well protected from that sort of threat.
“Let me rephrase that”
“We are not here for your UNWILLING women.. or men”
Less awkward phrasing would be:
“Let me rephrase that. We are absolutely coming for your willing persons of all sexual orientations. or perhaps cumming?” *knowing wink* *Myotonic jerks all over body as Ariana snaps and tasers Cora on live TV.*
Arianna has worked with Max and Sydney enough to not initiate the first (known*) human attack on an alien on live TV.
…which is too bad, because that’d be hilarious.
* surely with the extent of alien tourism, at least a few have been beaten up over cultural misunderstandings or just getting too far out of line while drinking maple syrup.
Will Arianna have some words for Sydney(the kind you can’t say in public)?
Why is Peggy giving Sydney a nasty look?
Umm, because she is watching the news instead of loading her weapon? Because she told Cora to that about Dirt’s leader? Because of panel six?
Take your pick or take them all
Arianna is lucky that Sydney didn’t convince Cora to hold up a book entitled, “To Serve Man”
Or have Cora’s press conference evolve into a Redd Foxx routine….!
1. Each civilization’s goal is survival, and 2. Resources are finite. Like hunters in a “dark forest”, a civilization can never be certain of an alien civilization’s true intentions. The extreme distance between stars creates an insurmountable “chain of suspicion” where any two civilizations cannot communicate well enough to relieve mistrust, making conflict inevitable. Therefore, it is in every civilization’s best interest to preemptively strike and destroy any developing civilization before it can become a threat, but without revealing their own location, thus explaining the Fermi paradox.
If you are space faring then you have capabilities far beyond any planet bound civ. Planet bound civs are not a threat. If the other civ is space-faring, then any conflict is unlikely to happen due to the huge vastness of space. If there is interstellar war, destroying the home planet of the other is child’s play with a few asteroids launched at a reasonable percentage of light speed. Resources are very abundant in asteroid belts and nebulae clouds and very easy to harvest there. The only real danger is if you get a totally paranoid psychotic species make it to the stars. And to do so before they self destruct is not likely.
The one advatange of becomming space faring – the Idiots propably manage to nuke themself into extinction centuries ago.
Even if they are spacefaring, after 1-3 Colonies they propably have rampant paranoia between the home planet and the colonies. So again, self-resolving.
And for everything else, there is the Xevoarchy.
Resources may be finite, but that finite amount becomes a lot bigger with reliable space travel. Asteroids, moons, even uninhabitable planets would be good sources of resources that are less likely to result in conflict.
Many uninhabitable planets could be made fairly habitable from the proceeds of making use of their resources.
For example, Mars. If you want lots of iron, Mars is a pretty good place to get it. Also chlorine. And if you’re going to Mars for the chlorine, every bit you take makes it that much more habitable.
For example, Venus. We don’t even need to *land* on Venus to start getting one of its excessively abundant resources, as one of the reasons it’s not habitable is it has about 60 times too much atmosphere. Bring some of that to Mars, and you balance both planets out a bit. Of course, with Mars being such a lightweight, you might want to build structures to put that new atmosphere in, but Mars has plenty of iron to do that with.
Note that doing this sort of thing doesn’t really detract a lot from the resources of these planets. You may need to balance out a certain amount of your material redistribution, or you may mess up the solar system stability. Replacing iron with dirt and air is probably a pretty good exchange, from our perspective.
Of course, the ‘may’ in the prior paragraph should probably be mentioned – with sufficient computing power, one can work out models of exactly what would happen on the interplanetary level with various changes to the mass distribution in the system. One could even find out that there’s a *need* to perform a certain amount of mass redistribution at particular points in time, to adjust orbits so that the comet that’s going to smash into the homeworld in another orbit or two will miss instead.
Redistributing mass on a planetary scale to avoid world catastrophes doesn’t really make for an edge of your seat movie, but it’s probably going to be a lot more effective than flying a rocket to the comet of doom to set a bomb off. (How was that even a plot for a movie? Just shoot guided missiles with explosive payloads at it. I mean, we *had* that technology long before that movie was even written. We had movies depicting that technology long before that movie was even written.)
Why would you want to expend the energy necessary to get those resources out of a planetary gravity well? There’s far more resources in an asteroid belt than in any single planet, and if you can put those asteroids inside a sealed environment you would have a far easier time extracting those resources than it would take digging into a planet. And then you could form the excess matter into an O’Neill cylinder or other interesting space habitat. Let alone the question of how much energy FTL travel costs. Would it even make sense to ship matter that isn’t unique (like, sentient beings that want to see and experience things) between star systems?
There is another reason to travel great distances and get into fights with other cultures: “My deity commands me to do so.” Or more accurately, “People who claim to communicate with and represent an invisible all-powerful being command me to do so.”
Resources may be finite in the very long run, but in the short term (and even in the medium run), they become effectively unlimited once you reach spacefaring technology. The chain of distrust is less of a thing in a world where faster-than-light travel and time travel exists (although admittedly it’s possible for one or both to be rare).
Dark Forest theory doesn’t apply to a setting where you can fly between planets on the scale of a week or two, a’la Grrlverse here. There’s also the argument that any multisystemic spacefaring civilization is in such a crushing position of absolute superiority over a single-system planetbound civ that there’s no need to feel threatened by it, and every reason to observe and monitor that planetbound civ for valuable ideas. It’s not like they’re going to break out into interstellar flight without you being aware of it, and even if they did start experimenting, what’re they gonna do – close hundreds or thousands of years of breakneck post-singularity technological development your own species benefits from overnight?
I wouldn’t want the job as a PR manager in this madhouse.
It should be possible for Sydney to use the Hentorb to handle heavy weapons right? That could be a potentially useful talent to train, just in case. For example she could make a dramatic entrance trough a roof, dual wielding Ma Deuce while screaming: “Cavalry has arrrrived!”.
It may be a little to thick for most triggers.
Two Words: ‘Winter’ ‘Trigger’
Google it. :-)
A good armourer, and ARCSwat probably has the best, can make one up.
Maybe when she unlocks the ‘enthinning’ and ‘enthicking’ buttons?
Though… I’d wager using it to shoot from her pistol/machinegun/whatever would not cross her mind.
Ari’s faces on this page, all of them, brilliant :D
Specially the first two, specially how they go from ‘Joy’ to “what did she say? SYDNEY!!” :D
Peggy: “Okay recruit, let’s see you do ten laps. No no, don’t put the ammo box down, ten laps while carrying it!”
*grabs flight orb*
“PUT THAT DOWN! Five more laps!!”
That closeup of the blue freckles in panel seven, that’s going to set off plenty of self-action in bunks across the planet :D
Hee hee hee, good way to start my day. Yeah, Alien invasion is extremely unlikely even if half the stars with planets developed a space-faring species. As I have seen it very well put, getting anything out of a gravity well is a lot more effort than harvesting raw materials out of dust clouds and asteroids. If they come here, it will be to harvest our asteroid belt. Enough out there to make several very nice cruisers and accompanying support ships. A few medical ships might land to get life samples to see what unique chemical compounds life might have developed here, but once they have a sample, then reproducing it in space would be a lot more effective than yo-yo-ing up and down our gravity well.
sorry, sorry, sorry, can not un-imagine pog porn, now
and yes, i spelled it correctly
Yeah, baby, slam that milk bottle cap down JUST right….
And Arianna was thinking that Sydney was trouble in front of a microphone.
Lol perfect opportunity to bring back those three nuns as newly appointed intergalactic missionaries.
We now know why Arianna joined and remains with ARC – she is a challenge junkie. No-one would stay in that position who did not enjoy and even thrive on extreme challenges.
On a different note, Cora’s act might actually be the right tack to take. One of the ways that you can convince someone that you aren’t a threat is comedy.
If you want a slick looking lmg look no further than the Knights Armament light ASSAULT MACHINE GUN! Check out gun jesus “testing” both standard calibers on a range for good referencing if you’d like. https://youtu.be/6hsOrULshco
Soldiers don’t care how pretty a weapon looks. How well it performs, how well it holds up under field conditions, and how easily and quickly it is maintained are true signs of beauty to us.
Unless you are the Kree, in which case put glowing bits on your weapons during a stealth mission; or Atlantians and have giant glowing panels right in the middle of central mass for your body while fighting in otherwise dark watery conditions.
Looks good on film for a sci-fi effect, incredibly stupid in practicality.
LOL!
I’m pretty sure the first confirmed alien visitors would get the full diplomatic treatment, including meeting assorted world leaders, simply because the world leaders want to be associated with (and take at least a degree of credit for) the friendly contact with galactic powers – it’s the same phenomenon as Western tourists getting the royal treatment from the natives when they were rare visitors.
“Western tourists getting the royal treatment from the natives when they were rare visitors.”
That faded very fast, speaki9ng as a person of some American Indian descent!
Can we get a zoom in on chibi cora in panel two? Kinda like you gave us with chibi dabbler?
If you wanted a non-fugly US LMG, your best bet would’ve been Stoner 63.
The blue field for the US flag should be hung up on the upper left hand side. That’s my nitpicky thing of the day. :p
https://www.aflag.com/flag-etiquette/
The last true works of art as far as machineguns go were the old Vickers water cooled ones. Highly machined and polished brass fittings. When they went out of service with the British army one was fired constantly by teams of men to use up old stocks of .303 ammunition. It fired for a week straight and i believe over 6 million rounds of ammunition without a jam. They literally don’t make them like that anymore.
Though I still have fond memories of the old M60 I used to carry. It’s an American classic like a muscle car. Loud, proud and gets the job done.
.303? Isn’t that a rifle ammunition? Fairly sure have heard of a point-three-oh-three rifle…
Yups, just looked it up: the ole Lee-Enfield’s fired .303’s
M60 uses 7.62 NATO, just like the H&K G3 battle rifle.
The M14 also uses 7.62 NATO.
And the MG-3…
That thing was fun to fire, but a real pain in the seating area to clean afterwards.
I just wish I had got more than half a belt to fire off…
The G-3 is an ‘Assault rifle’ not a ‘battle rifle'(whatever that is)
It ‘climbs’ like a mountain goat(leaps and bounds) when fired in auto by an inexperienced user, but causes havoc downrange in the hands of an expert.
I think the Pakistani Special forces used the G-3 with great effect a couple of years ago to defeat terrorists that had occupied buildings.(with 7.62 NATO, a brick wall is no longer ‘adequate cover’)
A battle rifle is distinguished from an assault rifle by a heavier powder charge and larger caliber projectile. Though the term may be falling out of use as heavier weapons have become less common, the G3 is absolutely a battle rifle and was listed as such for decades.
Weren’t talking about the M60, was talking about the .303 ammo, and what fired it
While heavy machine guns use ammunition designed specifically for the purpose, lighter MGs typically use rifle rounds, preferably the same caliber as your standard battle or assault rifle. Using the same ammo for both greatly simplifies logistics.
In most cases weapons are designed to integrate ammunition use across several platforms.
If some machinist Smith’s out a new machine gun which becomes adopted into heavy use someplace you can bet someone somewhere will make a sniper rifle using that now available round.
British rifles and many of their machineguns fired the same .303 British (7.7mmx56R) cartridge from the 1880s all the way through the 1950s when they converted over to 7.62×51 NATO. That’s why they literally had millions of rounds of it laying around to do something like that.
Automatic rifles, light, general purpose, and most medium machineguns use the same rifle rounds as the rest of the infantry just to save on the supply headaches of having to keep multiple types of small arms ammunition around. My M60 was designed in the 1950s and used the same 7.62mm (.30 caliber) ammunition as the M-14 rifle which was the main US infantry rifle at the time. The modern M249 SAW uses the same 5.56mmx45 NATO rounds as an M-16 or M-4, and can even use the same magazines in a pinch if the gunner runs out of belted ammo.
And some Commonwealth countries were still using WWII era weaponry until at least the late 80’s
Hell, even British planes fired .303 ammo during WWII. Wasn’t very effective, however.
I have fond memories of being last in line for the M60 in Basic and the range Sarge saying “I’m not taking these two full cans back to the armory, you have to shoot them.” And there was an almost full can already loaded up, so basically three cans that I had (got) to burn up. Even with earplugs it took about a day for my ears to stop ringing.
I remember many times getting to burn off blank ammo for C6 and C9 (Canadian versions of M60 and M249), as it was a pain to return unused blank ammo.
I think the aliens would be more interested in our other toys, vibrating or not.
I watched a show a while back where it was basically a bunch of scientists and experts who seriously discussed aliens and invasion. Basically they said the only think they would want from us is if our planet matched their range for habitable and this kind of planet was rare. Other then that, they agreed there was nothing we have they would want.
By the same reasoning, Dirtlings wouldn’t be interested in anything from an alien planet either. I find that pretty hard to accept, even after establishing relations with dozens of worlds. The near-infinite variety of culture, art, food, and scenery around the galaxy would take a long time to lose it’s excitement.
Yeah, just look at how popular culinary-tourism is right on our planet
Not to mention other ‘cultural’ tourism and regular old tourism to ‘see the sights, natural and man-made’