Grrl Power #1402 – Spacehole
It’s less that the FlyBall is blinking and shimmering and making noises like an agitated gerbil, and more that it’s doing… something. The visual are mostly for the audiences benefit, though if Sydney was paying attention, she would notice something going on. She has gotten used to being orbited by multicolored light sources though, so this isn’t enough to catch her attention.
As to Sydney’s question… Well, the reason I have Altus’s answer trail off the last panel is 1) an advanced space alien probably knows more about physics that we do. We like to think we mostly have a handle on stuff, but dark matter comprises about 27% of the universe, and dark energy accounts for about 68% of other… “stuff,” and we don’t know what that is either. So, we don’t know what 95% of the universe is made of, and we also haven’t married Newtonian and quantum physics, so it’s fair to say that there might be some significant surprises left for use to discover. Maybe instead of nickel-iron, most rocky planetary cores are tungsten, which would maybe make up for 2-3% of the dark matter. Or maybe a bunch of aliens thought it’d be cool to paint their planets Vanta Black and we just can’t see them.
BTW, “Dark Matter” and “Dark Energy” sound cool for sure, but it’s just a fancy way for scientists to say “we dunno.” It’d be like trying to recreate grandma’s holiday ginger cookies from taste and not being able to figure out what that last seasoning is, and calling it “Dark Spice.” It’s cardamon, BTW.
The second reason for the trail-off is, I just have no idea how to answer it. It seems to me that wormholes would be weapons of mass destruction. Like they destroy actual mass, and lots of it. But that model of a wormhole that shows two pieces of graph paper being connected by a funnel is obviously such a wildly simplistic view of what’s going on that any speculation I made based on that would be like trying to recreate grandma’s cookie recipe after shoving one of the cookies up my ass. Which wouldn’t give me an informed starting point regarding the ingredients, is what I’m saying. Unless the human rectum just happens to be an excellent platform for ferreting out cardamon. I wouldn’t know. I would be surprised to learn if that’s the case, but I think it’s safe to assume our crinkle stars aren’t cardamon truffle hogs.
Ooh, look! A new vote incentive! And it’s updated with color!
Well, in progress, obviously. I have another one that’s actually a bit further along, but everyone was all, “Sydney Kobold vote incentive!” So I switched to this one. Plus the other one was a multi-character picture so it will actually take me longer to finish. I hope to have an update for this one each week, so stay tuned. There is a slightly higher res version on Patreon.
By the way, this gunmetal blue-ish background and teal pencils are how I draw the comic. I set it up this way so I don’t have to spend all day staring into a bright white blank page.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
The delivery of quantum mechanics puns can be quarky.
If they don’t work, you just need to put a different spin on them! Try -1/2
It all depends on how you observe it.
Hey, you changed the punchline by looking at it!
What do you expect? The outcome of every quantum pun is uncertain.
Are you two dingbats trying to get the ship crushed like a soda can?
School bus rules apply: no talking to the driver until the vehicle has come to a full stop.
My comment from the last panel still applies. Last strip revealed Daphne’s barely-clothed *ss planted firmly on Altus’ crotch with her legs draped over and restricting an arm being used to actively pilot a ship through an apparently highly dangerous wormhole. Now she’s actively fondling his chest and face, and Sydney looks like she wants to get in on the action. Or is her face not flushed, but instead just reflecting the glow of Altus’ red skin?
And now the fly-ball is acting up! Is this the end of our intrepid adventurers? Tune in next week to find out!
Feel I should point out it is not just his chest and face she is fondling. Third panel she no longer has herself ‘centered’ and that hand sure doesn’t look like it’s grabbing her side.
While I was thinking that about Sydney at first too, on review, that’s not her ‘horny and interested in joining’ face. She definitely appreciates his physique, but this appears to be far more ‘enjoying hearing an intellectual discussion from someone that’s nice to look at too.’
Not sure if ‘acting up’ is the right word. I noticed the image in the flyball looks pretty similar to what the ring of the wormhole looks like. It’s either reflecting/observing the less advanced space travel technology, or maybe it’s like AI and it’s trying to educate the user on what’s happening
TBF, there’s probably no way you could *actively* fly a ship through something like this. More like “set a course and let the fastest navicomp going do the no-crush adjustments”.
Still not something I’d want to take any chances with…
Sex in the cockpit (no pun intended) is not conducive to long life, health and happiness.
FTL cruise is not a critical phase of flight, so the “Sterile flight deck rule” would not apply anyway.
At these speeds, nothing but a computer could savely initiate and execute a emergency maneuver anyway.
Also, I don’t think many places in Cora ship are “sterile” anyway.
The medbay may be, unless the surgical gear comes with sterilisation fields?
Uh huh. So why is Altus keeping his hands firmly on the controls?
I suspect there’s at least some involvement for the pilot in this process.
I’m not sure of Daphne’s chances. At least not in this body.
Isn’t Altus into redheads?
They can easily change her hair color. If he doesn’t just “Tag in” another body.
Oooh, I love nerdery! And cardamom in a cookie is creative, I’ll have to try it!
If you’ll forgive me for being “that gal” though, “effect” as a verb means “to cause/to make something exist,” as in “I want to effect change.” In the last panel, Altus is saying that gravity doesn’t cause objects to exist, it causes the universe to exist. I believe you meant “affect” – and these two words being so close is indeed a blight upon the language.
He did say that his translator might not be perfect…
Someone just got themselves a No-prize for that explanation of the >cough< typo…
You’ve never had cardamom cookies? You’re in for a treat!
Fixed!
Thank you for the correction. It hurts my eyes whenever I see the affect/effect misuse
Something’s about to happen… guess we’ll have to wait and see.
I think the actual reason they call it “dark” is that, whatever the heck it is, it doesn’t seem to interact with light. Hence, “dark”.
Not so much “I donno” as “We can’t see it”.
That’s really a distinction without a difference. Both are true.
There is a pretty obvious difference: If “dark” just means “doesn’t interact with light”, then “dark” matter remains “dark” matter even after we DO know what it is…
According to Wikipedia, it’s called “dark” because Fritz Zwicky coined it as dunkle Materie and the translated name outlived the idea that it was non-luminous ordinary matter.
Depends on the context, too. “Dark matter”, dark is being used literally: the stuff behaves like matter that doesn’t interact electromagnetically, so’s we can’t see it (or touch it, annoyingly). “Dark energy”, dark is being used metaphorically as “mysterious” or “unknown”.
I think that in panel six, you want “affects” rather than “effects”.
…The answer is kinda just that your mental model for what a wormhole is is just fundamentally wrong?
It’s like asking why you can fold a piece of paper and touch the opposing edges together without annihilating all the paper in between. Like, even with the ‘pencil through folded paper’ analogy, I feel like the answer to “but why doesn’t it tear a hole in the paper where you didn’t punch the pencil through” would be obvious?
Maybe another format of analogy will help. Here’s a graph-format simplified explanation:
Imagine that you have a set of points A, B, and C. A is connected to B with a line of length 1, and B is connected to C with a line of length 1. The distance you have to travel to get from A to C is, therefore, 2. Now, if we made a wormhole between A and C, that is like adding a new line of length 1 directly between A and C. You can now get from A to C by traveling only 1 unit of distance.
The problem there is graph paper is (essentially) 2 dimensional. Space isn’t, so what happens when you bend a 3D shape? If you try it with concrete, it breaks, if you try it with jello with candy star sprinkles in it, it squooshes and some of the stars get closer together, some get further apart, and eventually the jello tears or gets liquidy. I assume space is closer to jello than concrete, but also has wildly different tolerances to shearing and squooshing and being schlucked through your teeth until it turns into liquid.
My point was, it seems that bending space would have collateral effects, though I have no idea what those might be.
The “fabric” of 3+1 dimensional spacetime isn’t like jello OR concrete – both of those are three-dimensional objects being bent /within/ 3-space. Given that wormholes are possible at all, the visible universe has to be a membrane within a higher-dimensional bulk. https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/46119f7c8b61e
Think of it this way: a sheet of paper is (approximately) two-dimensional, so you can bend it without crunching it up by making use of a third spatial dimension, along which it has practically no thickness. Similarly, a three-dimensional block of reinforced concrete could in principle be folded up like origami, without actually damaging it, by someone who had sufficient access to a fourth spatial dimension. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_He_Built_a_Crooked_House
When you bend paper you are bending a 3d object in 3d space.
A wormhole would not do that, it would kinda bend space into itself, you or the people around it (or between) wouldn’t even notice the difference besides the event horizon.
Making it stable would actually be the problem, because no way in hell a thing like that would be stable by default, and keeping it open for a significant amount of time so anybody traversing it doesn’t become atomized and distributed along the light-years of now unstretched(?) spacetime would be paramount, otherwise it’s just a fancy space blender.
All that is very speculative, btw, because we never built a wormhole or seen one, only theorized.
Here’s how to visualize it: A wormhole is a spherical area of space that, when you look into it, you see a different pattern of stars than the one that you should be seeing. There is probably some distortion around the edges. As you move into it, the unexpected pattern of stars gets larger, and the pattern of stars you were originally seeing all around you gets smaller, restricted to an ever smaller patch of space behind you. Eventually, the star field that you were seeing all around you is confined within a spherical area of space, while the new star field is now all around you.
That’s it, really. No CGI effects. Sorry. If you could see the whole thing in 4 dimensions it would look like… nothing you are currently able to comprehend. That might drive you mad, I dunno.
That’s also assuming that we’re only working with 3 total dimensions here
The way I always imagined it was like bending a piece of paper until two points on that paper touched, then getting a run up and jumping though the pair of arbitrarily small holes that you’ve poked in the exact place where the paper meets. Nothing on the rest of the paper gets destroyed.
Except the paper as a whole doesn’t actually need to bend, since it’s more like stretchy fabric than paper. Whenever you see a 2-dimensional representation of the gravitational effect of a supermassive object on 3-dimensional space, it looks like a funnel, and a wormhole is like doing that, but then (somehow, through Space Science) bending that funnel so it links up with another point in 3-D space, or with another bent funnel if you’ve got one handy.
It doesn’t affect anything between the entry/exit points in 3-D space, because they’re not moving through 3-D space
Haha! The Flyball is listening !
Also.. Is Digit being a lapdog or being catty?
That’s Daphne, a.k.a. ‘Harem’.
Yeah, still a weird choice on Dave’s part to send Blonde Harem along rather than one more distinct from Digit (and even Sydney to some extent).
I felt blonde Harem was a little underused, and also I thought it’d be funny if all the girls on the trip were blondes. Harem usually has her choker though, so you have to rely on the freckles and the Who’s Who.
That’s Daphne / Harem. And yes. Which would make her a lap… errm… “cat”.
More like lapbrat…
Digit, on the other hand, would be more like a dog. In the good way. The very good way.
Iirc, the “flyball” is the orb that Sydney/Halo can use to open her own wormhole for FTL travel. So it undoubtedly has other movement-related functions that she has not yet enabled or simply doesn’t fully understand yet. Like detecting other wormhole phenomena in space, etc.
“It looks like you’re trying to form a wormhole. Would you like help with that?”
The orbs channeling Clippy. Not what anyone wants I think.
Rather have chippy than Google AI
Clippy is not dead, he is secretly evolving into a paperclip maximizer.
Oh god, what happens when Google’s AI decides that it needs to maximize time humans spend watching videos?
Ahhhhh …that would be called YouTube.
Ro Jaws made a reference to *Universal Paperclips*, which is a game where you play as an AGI designed to create paperclips. It goes very well (from the point of the protagonist). Considering YouTube’s algorithm being tuned towards maximizing watch time and the general strides towards artificial intelligence in that context makes for some disturbing potential outcomes.
it creates TikTok, of course
Technically, what the orb uses for FTL transport was called “Eatherium causeway” and was something very different from quaint wormholes as any detection therof was quite a news and a big surprise most probably because it is N-th tech level.
Aetherium Causeways are not in themselves nth-tech.
They are however a sign of a major power being active in the region.
Cora mentioned that to create them required capital ships, or thousands of sapient sacrifices. She hinted heavily that only a few species actually had the know how and technological prowess (or harvesting process) to actually field some of these.
An Aetherium Causeway opening near Fracture Station would be cause for alarm because it normally would be sign of the imminent arrival of a fleet of a major power. It would be cause for existential terror when no such fleet then manifests. Does it mean somebody has a malfunctioning Aetherium generator? Invented stealth technology capable of hiding a capital ship and its entire support fleet? Something even more ominous? And why does it keep returning to this station?
Maybe the pulsing flyball is raising its hand because it wants to “Um, actually” that explanation
“So what is it?”
Cat
So it seems as they’re talking here that they do enter one of the station’s wormholes and the Flight orb is reacting to it… I suppose its also possible that the Flight Orb is reacting to Sydney gaining a degree of understanding about wormholes or some insight into the Orb’s working. We think of it as the “Flight” orb but its powers seem much more focused around gravity and it might have additional abilities in that scope which are yet to be unlocked.
It’s possible that the orbs are sentient and learning.
It would simultaneously be very amusing AND Sydney’s personal nightmare, if she could level up the orbs by studying physics, in addition to battling alien cannon fodder.
I suspect that since the orbs are connected to her mind, anything that brings her closer to the “facts of life” in space will effect her ability to use them. Leveling up as you put it. I noticed when that Nuga-Squidward scanned her that they showed as linking to her mind in it’s scan. So crack the books Sydney, it’ll work the same as blasting heads. Really, really big heads that is. And far less dangerous… Well to you body, your brain might hurt a bit.
The short answer would be that what goes through the wormhole is not passing through 3D space.The standard illustration for that is sticking a pin through a sheet of folded paper.
The problem with that is that a sheet of paper with a few pins in it is really hard to fold or twist further without tearing great holes in it.
The other problem is that wormholes kind of can’t work, because it doesn’t matter if two black holes are connected to each other, you can’t exit either one. And you turn into spaghetti before you hit the event horizon. And then there’s the time dilation.
You’d need a really good FTL drive to even theoretically exit a black hole… but it wouldn’t survive entering, so… I’d just assume any wormhole is just… a couple fast-travel points that used to be black holes, but aren’t black holes now.
I believe classically a wormhole requires some means of preventing the event horizon from forming by reducing the amount of space curvature at the center of the mass, before or after it turns into a black hole. That is why we’re pretty sure we need matter that reacts negatively with gravity, so that it can prevent the center of the huge pile of mass that is macroscale black hole from turning into, well, a black hole.
Wormholes are not a variety of black hole, they are there own completely separate thing. They are massive, but not black hole massive. More like super-Jupiter massive (yes, you can have low-mass black holes, not the point).
The traditional explanation of a wormhole taking a sheet of paper and curving it so two separated points are brought together *is* misleading, but only in that the paper doesn’t curve. A wormhole takes two separate regions of space, and makes them the same, so if you go through one, you come out the other, and doesn’t affect the intervening space’s curvature at all (except for the normal curving of space through gravitational effects, which is localized.
Also, a wormhole isn’t a tunnel, it’s a doorway. You don’t have to travel along a tube, you just step through it and you’re there.
I thought that we got a (there is strong doubt about it being ‘the’) bridge between classic and quantum physics. That’s special relativity I believe, with a formula that produces classic physics (with near undetectable differences) at low speeds and smoothly transitioning into the kind of weirdness we also see in quantum physics at very high speed.
It is the integration of gravity in quantum physics that has so far eluded physicists. Even inertia requires a far from elegant addition to the standard model in the form of the Higgs boson.
And wormholes, in all their science fictiony variations, need not be weapons of intergalactic destruction. The assumption is that the inside of the event horizon is not part of the same thing as outside the event horizon. That makes it not more dangerous than a black hole. That is plenty dangerous but not a galactic scale threat.
Since whatever happens inside a black hole, or worm hole, has little to no relation to anything we think to understand about our physical reality, our writers can fantasy freely about space-time not existing inside one and thus travel being instantaneous (if you can get into and out of one of course).
After all, the theoretical counterpart of a black hole, and exit nexus of a wormhole, has yet to be observed. Which is suspicious as white holes are by nature the opposite of circumspect. Something sun sized that outputs the energy of an entire galaxy is not something that is easy to overlook for the several sky-mapping missions that are going on. A vast region where all interstellar gas has been blown away by an exceedingly bright object in the center is not difficult to see, and it is the kind of weird phenomena that astrologist and astrophysicists are looking for in the millions of pictures that have been taken by both gamma ray and IR observing satellites.
So, assuming that we ever discover the virtual and hypothetical particles needed to form wormholes, there is not really a risk (under known physics) that they are any more dangerous than a c-fractional space ship already is.
There have been those who made the argument that the bigbang was a whitehole.
I’m not sure where I sit on that argument, but in a universe where we are unable to directly detect 95%ish of the mass/energy in it? I’m not even sure we can say what is not there based on what we have observed. And all of this is before we get into space itself expanding.
If I had to guess, I would personally say that we don’t know near what we think we do.
But given what we know of the universe, I would wonder if perhaps some of those whiteholes could be dumping their matter out in the darkmatter/energy format or if perhaps a whitehole has some responsibility for the expansion of space itself. There are theories on those topics but they rarely come up in fiction.
Relativity is still a classical model of physics. Also, we don’t need a bridge between classical and quantum models of physics. Classical physics is an approximation that ignores quantum effects, which is good enough at macro scales, just as Newtonian physics is an approximation of Einsteinian physics, that ignores effects at high velocity or gravity. We do still need to quantum theory of gravity, but there are promising avenues to explore. Also, the Higgs field (of which Higgs bosons are a local excitation) isn’t inelegant.
I mean a c-fractional spaceship is a weapon of mass destruction. And so is any stellar object with the mass of a natural black hole if you can convince it to move through your enemies solar system.
It’s just not a weapon of several-solar-systems-or-more scale mass destruction.
“Dark Spice” was my drag name. ;-)
In Victorian times there was no concept of a vacuum, so scientists invented the concept of Aether. “We can’t see it but we know it’s there so we’re going to call it Aether.” Dark Matter (What was wrong with the original name?) is similar. We can’t detect it directly but the math doesn’t work right unless it’s there. Well it may turn out to be like Aether, we just don’t have the right explanation yet, but it is an interesti9ng idea.
“Aether” sounds like magic. “Dark Matter” sounds factual and science-y.
”Aether” sounds like good magic. ”Dark matter” sounds like evil magic.
That’s not entirely correct. There was a concept of a vacuum, but the problem was the idea that light was found to be a wave, and a wave needs something to propagate *through*, just as sound propagates through air (or water, or metal, or whatever). Aether, or luminiferous aether, was the hypothesized medium through which light propagated. This hypothesis triggered a wave of attempts to detect it, culminating in Michaelson and Morley disproving its existence in their eponymous experiment.
To my(limited) understanding about wormholes, special and general relativity.
a. no altering the topography of space isn’t generally destructive to the rest. Ask any sattelite orbiting earth, because that is how gravity works.
b. Wormholes do not pass through “everything inbetween” otherwise they wouldn’t work to bring two points closer together.
c. Wormholes seem to be a shortcut through time and space. Most of the what we would call ftl involved.
I would explain it like this.
Sydney and New York are removed pretty far from each other enogh that the speed of causality puts a fundamental limit on the syncing of clocks between these places.
Now imagine some genius finds a way to send messages through the planet instead of around it, boom suddenly the speed of communication between these points goes up.
The same is true for wormholes, but than instead of a three dimensional situation it does the same on a four dimensional situation with the fourth dimension being time.
…….
You just had to pick Sydney (Australia) as the other end point? My brain had to process that statement for a couple extra seconds before realizing.
I feel the need to point out the helm has cup holders and their appears to be at least one post it note on the console… this has to be the most accurate ship design ever.
In the last panel, the word ‘effects’ (a noun) should be ‘affects’ (a verb). Captain Pedant, at your service! You’re welcome.
Ooo, FlyBie is starting to get a glow-on
Further proof these orbs have some sentience to them.
The Air Ball Leaping into her hand when needed unbidden was another.
This one is Learning. *We can do that? * *We Can Do That! *
“Maybe instead of nickel-iron, most rocky planetary cores are tungsten, which would maybe make up for 2-3% of the dark matter. Or maybe a bunch of aliens thought it’d be cool to paint their planets Vanta Black and we just can’t see them.”
The sun contains 99.86% of the solar systems mass. And most of that 0.14% will be in the gas giants, not the rocky planets.
We detect planets either via IR or becasue they pass between us and their sun, dimming the starlight. But they would not be a relevant factor if we could see them easier.
If very dim stars (hard to detect) and black holes (impossible to detect when not actively feeding or lensing starlight) are more common then we see, that could account for a relevant amount. But planet masses are a drop in the bucket.
Why does the blue orb being focused on seem ominous to me?
Wormholes are bypasses to normal space topology. Let’s start with a different image; let’s use a globe. My analogies will be imperfect, but will get closer to the real idea.
A straight line between two distant enough points on the globe would be a lot faster than following the curvature, and it would not destroy anything on the surface. it would just be a tunnel. Still not quite what we want, but we have already demonstrated that there is no need to destroy anything along the normal path that objects take. Demonstration is complete, moving on to next ideas.
But if we don’t even want the tunnel, we want to directly connect two holes so that walking into one is walking out of the other. 3D space isn’t going to do the trick. But 3D space is all that exists, sort of. Gravity, and hypothetical negative gravity, can distort space time, but it doesn’t distort in a proper direction. if the implications of a certain mapping model (the Penrose diagram) are correct, distorting space enough to create a black hole causes the black hole to point ‘out’ of our universe, and into another.
There’s issues with that description, not getting into it because its way too complicated. Moving on.
Now, if Negative Mass (not anti matter, that is just reversed-charges matter) exists, and you could some how manipulate it and form it into a spinning ring around a spinning black hole, you could remove the event horizon and expose the singularity, which for a spinning black hole would be a ring.
Diving into that ring is still death: exiting out of a white hole is an explosive event. But we have done part of what we need.
The next step would be to spin up fresh singularities without ever letting them form event horizons, and ‘aim’ a pair at each other, sort of. If you do it right, instead of poking out into another universe, these ‘tunnels’ meet and merge. You now have a massive pair of dense matter rings that must be avoided at all costs, but there is no space/distance between them, because these singularity tunnels always had a length of zero, even if that makes no sense to us.
This is how you get universes with ring gates to hop between star systems.
The next step is somehow doing all of this from only one side, popping out the other end inside of our universe.
The step beyond that is to make it so that the wormhole generator can itself travel through the wormhole.
Notice that the details keep getting vaguer? that’s because we are deviating further from reality. But, this is *VERY ROUGHLY* a description of the stages, were this possible in something close to our universe.
I would add that you don’t necessarily need to do this from only one side if you find it acceptable to move the other end of the wormhole the slow non-FTL way to wherever you want this end to exit. You will need a _lot_ of delta-V for this move – probably easier to move the entire solar system that it orbits so you can use a star for fuel.
Hmm…it looks like Bluey about to Doey sumthin…
I am honestly surprised neither Sydney or the navigator/ pilot turned on the Flyball interface for this. They both know it exists and is both amazingly advanced and simple to operate. Seeing what it shows about travelling the wormhole would give them information about whoever made Flyball (possibly the wormhole as well).
Which brings up an interesting thought – Does Flyball have access to the systems underlying the wormhole gate because it once belonged to an individual involved in creating it?
Anyone else notice the wiring in Sydney’s glasses? Does she just have a better translator than everyone else and getting more from that conversation than others?
I’ve been reading porn and porn adjacent for 50 years and this is the first time I’ve seen one’s personal worm hole referred to as a “crinkle star”. Well done Dave.
Well this is either a new waypoint getting added to the flyball’s fast travel markers, or we’re about to see a portable hole/bag of holding scenario.
Hoping for the former.
I wonder if it’s specifically getting a lecture on stuff relating to the flyball’s capabilities, or going through a wormhole.
The former is potentially ‘unlocking more of the flybal treel’ (or at least connected abilities, given the combo lines). The latter could just be ‘currently active relevant effect’.
Or just gathering data. Maybe rebuilding/updating the map system?
Anyone else remember the old Babylon5 bit about opening a jump point inside a jump gate, or the D&D issue of putting a bag of holding inside a bag of holding…
I think maybe taking the orbs through a wormhole they didn’t generate themselves might cause something unpredictable and likely explosive lol
Also, I’d use an em-dash at the end of Altus’ dialogue, to indicate that he’s still talking but is being interrupted (here, by Dave’s decision to stop showing us the dialogue), rather than an ellipsis, which indicates that he has stopped talking.
Any theory on what is happening to Sydney’s eyes?
Could flyball be learning a new mode of transport? The visual INSIDE the flyball gives to mind a “copying/analyzing/downloading” of the particulars of Wormhole travel. That is a sign of a VERY advanced A.I. system, to take note of, and work out the fundamentals of new methods of flight, etc, and then integrate them into the options list for use. Holy crap, that would be a serious cheat. Imagine all the Starship builders after all their hard work developing a new drive system, finding that out, and just throwing their equipment against the wall, nerd-rage/quit style?
Oh, Forb is doing some orb shenanigans, because of course it is. Spacetime tropes ensue.
I see that CCC console from Henry Stickmin, you can’t fool me.
“It’s safe to assume our crinkle stars aren’t cardamon truffle hogs” title of your sex tape
Is Sydney supposed to look like she’s gazing admiringly at Altus like she’s developing a crush on him? Or is that just an accident of needing to put the orbs in close focus? Or is it just me that thinks she looks that way?
I think it’s her flight orb activating… notice the texture of her eyes has changed as well as the center of the orb. Maybe her thinking about warping is affecting the orb in some way.
I mean, either some rules we’ve figured out about the universe is fundamentally wrong, or the grrl-universe doesn’t work like ours, scientifically theory-wise. Any way to transport between to spots in our universe while ignoring the limits set by the speed of light is also a way to travel in time, since you ‘outspeed’ causality. Unless my low-level engineer understanding of relativism is seriously off, which I guess could be the case.
So.. you can put whatever mumbo-jumbo you want in his mouth, it’s not going to be more or less correct whatever you say XD
Does Sydney realize she’s likely cock blocking Daphne?