Grrl Power #355 – Aerial areal detour
Sydney’s wrist-com and choker… (I mean cool tactical throat mic that’s not sexualized at all, especially when Maxima confronted Arianna about it when they were originally proposed…) Anyway, they both have trackers in them, so it would be simple for Maxima to find her.
When you ask people what super power they’d like to have, I think the answer varies based on their demographics. Kids tends to want to fly, partially because that would be awesome and partially because they haven’t thought of more subtle and complex powers like probability manipulation that would let them clean up in Vegas or lotteries or whatever. Especially young males may give you the answer along the lines of “Be able to drive a tank” or “Have a dinosaur as a friend” because the concept of super powers may not be entirely clear to them, though both of those things would certainly be pretty sweet to a 6 year old. Adolescent males will as often as not answer “invisibility”… because they are adolescent males, though that may be an artifact of every generation before recent ones where unlimited access to seeing naked women is a few keystrokes away. “The internet in my head” might be a viable answer these days.
I have little insight into what females of any given age may answer beyond the usual popular choices of flight and, well, to be fair, invisibility still probably ranks highly, though perhaps not for as unrelentingly prurient reasons. A female friend of mine once answered the question with “invisibility” but it was so she could not be noticed… not like a thief, but so she could escape embarrassing social situations.
If I had to pick now, excluding any big universe altering power like one might find on the Infinity Gauntlet, I’d probably go with Harem’s power, so I could draw this comic faster, but also work on one or two other comics I have buzzing around in my head. (And still have time to play video games) That or some sort of skill copying powers like the Taskmaster. I’d go around conventions shaking the hands of all my favorite comic artists and writers. And maybe one guy who was a super successful commodities broker.
Update: Fixed Max’s missing hat logo and posted a wallpaper-ish sized version over at DA.
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One super power i’ve always wanted is control of my personal perception of time.
train journey due to take 3 hours? fast forward. in a fight? slow your perception right down so you can react to things much faster.
Oddly enough – I’d probably slow down my perception of the train travel: just so I could see more detail in the terrain visible out the window.
That’s fair. you could do both of course. enjoy the terrain for a bit, then when you’re done, return to fast forward
Nah…If I don’t HAVE to be the one driving (or otherwise responsible for how the vehicle is moving), I’d rather stare out the window & imagine somebody running alongside.
I miss doing that when I was a kid…
Yeah, but while you’re sitting still for 5 seconds everyone else sees a woman/man sitting completely still for 3 hours, not even breathing or blinking for the entire time.
You would probably have to wear a sign: ‘I am not a corpse’. :D
“I hain’t dead” – Granny Weatherwax, DiskWorld.
“I feel happy! I feel happy!” – extremely old peasant, Monty P.
The airplane scene from the Schwartzenegger movie, Commando:
“Please don’t disturb my friend here. He’s dead-tired.”
Then again, if you only go to fast forward at a ratio of about 6 to 1, that 3 hour train ride would take about a half hour, and if somebody came up to you, you’d have a reasonable chance of adjusting your timescale to be able to interact with them if needed.
It’s always important to remember that others will expect others around them to react to certain things, such as close approach, conversation, noises, perhaps smells.
If you push your perception too far (without pretending to be asleep), you might become a comparative oddity and attract far more attention than you’re conscious of, or comfortable with.
Technically, Albion only said ability to control time perception, rather than time itself, which, if I’m understanding the power correctly, wouldn’t affect the speed of one’s movements.
yea, it was just perception, not time itself.
for the journey you’d just be someone staring out the window spaced out for the trip to anyone outside.
One of the things I love doing at the beach is swimming out far enough that you are beyond the breakers. Then just floating and letting your mind drift too. I can stay out for ages.
And once had a life guard poke me, to ensure I was still alive!
“Picks up a pointy stick”
Sounds like someone wants a Phantom Cigar…
I am glad those 3 Marines in France didn’t ignore everything when they stopped the moslem with 200+ rounds for his full auto AK-47 which can’t be bought in France because of gun control.
Gun control was not implemented as an anti-terrorism capability. Terrorists will find a way to kill, no matter what restrictions you put in place. 9/11 was conducted with pen knives after all. What it is designed to do is to stop the general populace from killing each other.
It does a very good job at that. Just compare European death by firearms figures, to those of the U.S.A., to see how marked the different policies have on mortality rates.
Not to diminish the heroism involved on the train, of course, those guys did a great job. Along with the others who helped.
I’m not sure what this has to do with the post you’re replying to – other than being a political troll.
random troll poster, yes. ignore it
I have a super power in mind. Or rather, a combo.
Super strength plus unlimited regeneration. Not like Wolverines, but to the extent that I could survive being decapitated.
Read Curveball. See Vigilante.
Alternatively, see Deadpool.
I’d like the standard F.I.S.S. flying brick powerset + energy blast, but I’ve always been a major Supergirl fangirl anyway.
Wait, Halo’s orbs leave a multi-colored light trail behind her when she flies…
She’s Nyan Cat! Or possibly Rainbow Dash!
at that speed, her whole body should be leaving tracers, let alone any light source
I’ve always wanted super-speed, specifically the Flash’s variant (yes, the ridiculously overpowered one). It just seems like that wonderful combination of “make normal life so much easier”, “lets you do amazing, wondrous things outside the normal human experience” and “being nigh-unstoppable”.
It also is great for ignoring the physics that say its a terrible power as it would kill you so fast. (hur hur) Friction would ignite your body and turn it to ash? Speed force. Sonic booms shattering windows and eardrums everywhere you run? Speed force. You tried to evacuate a city before an atom bomb explosion could kill them all but dont want to cause a far worse explosion just by moving? SPEED FORCE!!!!
All you need is a small anti-inertial field. Anything in the field can be moved with almost no energy, air would move around you without friction/ heat Because the air outside the field wouldn’t move their wouldn’t be a boom.
Speed Force!
Gotta go fast.
As context, this is built for the EGS universe:
Can transform into a dragon and back. Changing form heals injuries; whatever I’m wearing will be restored when I change back to human.
Slowed aging (1:500).
Can sense heat (like a thermograph) within a certain radius.
Can manipulate heat energy (make more/less, move it around).
Can mix #1, 3, 4 together to make more abilities.
Drawback note: takes a certain amount of energy to do #1, 4, 5 (full transformation = 1/4 of max). Fully recharges energy in 6 hours.
I’ve been working on this one for a while. There’s a lot more to it, but this is the simplest explanation.
El Goonish Shive?
In that case, I think the best superpower is Ellen’s V5 beam. Imagine all the good it could do for this world…
Also, it’s a great power to have when cosplaying.
But you can’t fly with it.
If you’d asked me when I was little I’d have picked flying too.
.. and now that I’ve seen that last panel I might just pick it again now! That would be pretty sweet.
My superpower pick? The ability, once a year on my birthday to send a short message (2 sentences maybe?) back to my past self, at any age.
The trick is, it’s seldom enough and of such short length that I probably couldn’t wholly screw myself over trying to correct TOO many of my past mistakes – but just enough to tip the scales in my favor, should I actually believe my future self.
The worry is that I’d try to use it to alter world history and end up in a looney bin of course. Tell teenage me about 9/11? Sure – but who would listen to me? Who wouldn’t interrogate the crap out of me after I turned out to be right? Then of course those who knew would guilt trip / coerce me into using this power for their / the world’s benefit.
I think most people would confine themselves to a message like “Buy a EuroMillions lottery ticket next week, and put down the following numbers: …”. No need to change world history, just your own!
Better idea: Buy Apple’s stock in 1995. You’d get rich, but not as fast, but you also wouldn’t be subject to so much bad stuff as winning the lottery. (In 1995, Apple’s stock was $500 per share.)
Evidently, less than and greater than signs are not to be used here. The parenthesis section meant to say:
“In 1995, Apple’s stock was less than $5 per share. By 2010, it was greater than $500 per share.”
Man – I still kick myself for not getting any of their stock back then. I was a hardcore Mac using teenager during those dark days and had seriously considered asking for like 1 stock as a keepsake christmas present.
Very good point about the problems lottery winners have managing their spending / family / friends once large Gobs of money become involved. I’m certain that at least 2/3 of all my messages back to myself would be each trying to correct some unforeseen problem with what I had already told myself to do in previous messages.
If you’re holding the jackpot lottery ticket, first step should be: Get a lawyer!
I feel especially sorry for the woman unfairly denied her lottery ticket win. The company claims the machine cut it in the wrong place. But has the person who bought the counterpart ticket claimed the win?
How could they, their ticket does not say “winnner” on it. On an outside chance they might have asked their vendor to check it in the machine. More likely they would have just claimed a refund for a duff ticket. Or thrown it in the bin, as it was not a winner.
So more than likely the relevant prize will never be claimed by anybody. Which means that it goes back into the organising companies profits. And who is it who arbitrates on whether the win is valid or not? The company.
“Mmm, shall we let this woman have her win, or shall we increase our own Christmas bonus?”
Their decision is tantamount to theft. The customer needs a competent lawyer.
My answer to what power I’d want has always been shapeshifting. Being a trans woman, I find that to be a common thought in the community though.
Same here! Not only would it help with my gender issues, but imagine being able to gain or lose weight/height/muscle based on need as well! Though, to be fair, I’d settle for a one-time shift into my ideal self.
(You ever visit BigCloset/BCTS? It’s a good online trans lit community — check us out!)
As a member of both the physically-disabled and Aspie communities I completely understand the desire to have “fixed” body. If someone handed me a pill to magically fix my legs, I swallow in a heartbeat. A pill to magically fix my brain….. is much tougher call. As an adult my response would be somewhere between “no” and “F*** NO”. But as a teenager, crying into my pillow, trying to understand what was so wrong with me? And I’ve seen exhausted, frustrated parents that would pay anything to get that magic brain-pill for their Aspie kid. And I’m not sure if the adult that Autistic child COULD have been would fault their parents for that choice.
From my perspective the choice to surgically change genders is uncomfortably close to that “magic brain-pill”. For me long, hard journey to accept and love the body my genetics gave me was worth every step of the way.
+100
In truth it’s much closer to the pill to fix your legs, in that we embrace WHO we are — who our brains tell us we should be — and it’s the physical elements that we wish fell in line with that.
If I were presented those same two pills — fix your body, or fix your brain — I would take the first one in a heartbeat as well, but I would never touch the second, because my brain is what makes me ME, the same as yours. It’s what makes you special, what makes you different, what makes you a person and not just another body filling space.
Walking around in the body I have is kind of like wearing clothes that are tailored for someone else’s frame. Sure, they might LOOK like they fit, and you can pretend that they are comfortable, but in the end it still isn’t your clothes, and that’s emphasized every time you move or interact with others. Eventually, the fit is going to start chafing, to the point that you just can’t imagine having to wear the clothes for another minute. Living with that feeling, every minute of every day of my life… yeah, I want to change it :)
Samaritan totally understands Sydney
Samaritan totally understands Sydney
As a small kid my power choice would have been invisibility. Don’t know if that is typical for girls, but for me it was so that I could escape bullying.
Very, very interesting the influence Sydney has on Maxima here…
As for what power I’d want, Harem’s power no doubt. I’m one of the least multitasking people on the planet, and at any given moment I have at least five different things I want to be doing. And somehow I really want to *do* all that stuff, the normal way, I don’t really want the shortcuts such as “Internet in my head”.
Super power I would be interested in:
1. Being able to stop my aging
2. Read people’s minds
Panel four, sandra and woo–gaia, page 3 (link seems to be deleting my comment).
Yeah, complete control of electromagnetic fields would be sweet enough, and grant you everything from flight, to starting your car simply by sitting in it, to being your own electricity generator.
You’d be able to control brains with that, if you knew how.
Brain cells use electricity to comunicate with eachother
With respect to one YouTube video I can’t remember the title of, this would also give you The Force. All aspects. (Push, Pull, Choke, Jedi Mind Trick, Lightning, etc.)
You might have the ability to control someones brain with that power, but unless you’ve got some major upgrades on your own noggin you won’t have the processing power to do anything useful with it.
Fair enough.
A better verb would be ‘mess with’
“No, witty retort? Oh I forgot, Your in the middle of a seizure. Sorry mate. I can’t read your mind but I can sure as hell muck about with your brain.” Manchester Black, Superman vs the Elite
If I could pick *any* power: omnipotence
I guess that’s kinda cheating, but I’m one of those people who’d want to know the rules and limits on my wish before I decided.
Assuming I couldn’t come up with anything totally broken, I’d probably look for something like bio-manipulation. Agelessness and healing factor would be the big reasons, but shape-shifting would also be cool.
It also depends whether or not I’d have to fight super-villains, though.
Omnipotence sounds great till you actually think about it. What happens if you have a nightmare one night and wake up to find it real? Or have one of those too human moments when you wish someone would just die, and they do.
And there is always the concern when asking for ‘unlimited power’ that the easiest way to grant it is to simply drive you insane, forming a mindscape where you can do anything you wish to do while your actual body lies catatonic.
Well as for your initial worry, as an omnipotent, you can blink and reset everything, making sure noone remembers it all and any harm has been reversed. Thats the cool thing about omnipotent, it means you can literally do anything, including undo stuff you have already done.
Unless your nightmare is about loosing your omnipotence. Or something else which has a similar effect. And all that would take is the merest thought. But would be irreversible.
What if I never existed?
*poof*
Having unlimited wishes, and wishing you can longer wish anything.
If I ever got unlimited wishes or anyting like it, my first wish would be for a confermation button on all my wishes (and my second would be to install some default ‘save me’ command incase of danger, so I can still wish myself to safety when time is short)
“Do you really want to do that?”
How many times can you be asked that before you just automatically say yes?
As always, I think the words of the Genie portrayed by Lenny Henry. “Use the words ‘I wish’ with the same care and attention you would if saying ‘please castrate me’ “
Take special care when combining the 2 phrases
I was thinking more in the lines of a forced waiting period, to stop drunk wishes and stuf
Make your first wish ‘I wish to not screw up my wishing power in the future.’
To answer all of your questions & concerns over omnipotence: If you don’t have complete, conscious control over every aspect of that power on every level of its effects, then by definition, you’re not omnipotent.
Maximus makes a great boss.
My personal favorite ability is friction manipulation. For the character that I imagine having it, it comes in two modes, increasing friction and decreasing friction. Each mode is attached to an alternate personality, so the character is two different heroes.
well as some poeple said,,,telekinesis, but with superior control and perception,so you could sense and manipulate mater at subatomic level and energy.
that or the power of one of my own character, argent beast.
she is,, fused,,with a kind of biotech flowing metal,, as in its part of her cell ann the cells are part of it,, and she can absorb other material to make more,and has perfect control over it, wich include shedding it off to create permanent objects.
this give her polymorphic abilities,, technokinetic power, technopathic powers,amd the ability to do pretty much anything technology can do.
And as alway you would have to have some serious brainpower just to keep track of everything if you intend to manipulate more than one atom at a time. Kind of makes it a frustrating power. Sure you can add or remove an electron at a time from an atom. Problem is it will take a long time just to transmute any significant amount of matter unless you’re able to do this a few million times per second.
A few Avogadro’s number times per second is still too small as that’s only a gram. So more like 1.23×10^99 and you might be able to do transmutations of multiple tons per second, depending on the molecule size and density.
This is an adorably sweet page.
The one power I would like to have, is not needing to sleep
The heck you say. I love sleep.
need and can are two very different things
I need new glasses. Those sentences read very differently when seeing “sheep” instead of “sleep”.
I hope you can find some that are a bit more stylish than these…
https://www.northportlandvet.com/general/contact-lenses-for-who/attachment/dog_glasses/
You only fall asleep because of the need to sleep (being tired).
So you’d better include being able to sleep when you want to in that power. And make sure you include a limit to the lenght of your sleep, so you don’t fall in eternal sleep at that command (depending on the mood of the genie that granted you this power)
Not to mention sleeping is a requirement for reaching an REM dream state, and extended periods of time without reaching that level of sleep for REM state can result in diminished mental capacity, lowered motor coordination, and insanity.
This is supposed to be what happened on that ship in Star Trek: TNG’s “Night Terrors.” Everybody could still sleep, but nobody could dream, so they slowly went nuts and eventually killed each other. I always wondered if that was just something the writers came up with or if it could actually happen.
It is real. Albeit enhanced for dramatic effect. Pander’s explanation gives the more realistic symptoms. But it can result in homicidal behaviour.
As with more than a few aspects of the brain and our minds, we can observe the effects, but science can only speculate as to the reasons. We know that every mammal has to sleep (as do most other higher animals). Dolphins even go to the extent of sleeping with only half of their brain at a time, and using the other half in a reduced capacity to allow them to carry on station keeping swimming and surfacing for air.
So even species which will die if they ever fall fully asleep, have found a mechanism to carry on dreaming.
But we do not know why.
The most probable is that it is necessary in order to process the day’s events, convert short term memories into long term memories and similar processes. But those are all mechanical functions. Why would dreams be part of such a process? And we can detect such brain activity in other sleeping mammals, so we are not alone in dreaming.
Of course, once you realise that what is happening in ‘dreams’ is actually the real world, and what happens here is just the dreaming that occurs when asleep in that world. And in that world, I can fly!
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
When asked the question I’ve always had the same answer: Super intelligence – because when you’re smart enough you can create something to give yourself any other powers, and know how to put them to best use. Yeah, I wanted to fly but I wanted to fly like Ironman or Falcon. Invisibility? Why be invisible when it’s safer to be elsewhere and send micro drones in to “see” for you. For shape-shifting, regeneration & immortality I’d inject myself with nanites.
What a beautiful series of pictures. Even better than normal. And helping to get the hat to grow on me. A bit.
100% same brain wave.
Most people seem to not consider long tern effects with a “power”, and any single power eventually becomes banal, as such my answer to the any one power is Ultipotence, which simply put is omnipotence with the limeting factor that you have to know how to do it first, so it never really grows boring as it is virtually always going to be a challenge to use, but may require heightened intelligence for it to be used to its peak.
On those lines I would like omniwisdom. Kind of like omnipotence, but incorporating infinite wisdom, which limits the knowledge to the level which can do the most good. And would ensure that no idle thought or action would have unintended harmful consequences.
Infinite wisdom would probably be get very boring.
Nothing would be new anymore
Actually… That would be interesting. Infinite wisdom does not mean infinite knowledge (necessarily), which means you could get surprised by something you didn’t know. It’d be something that would be odd to see play out, and interesting therefore.
See “The Orb of Omniscience” in Nodwick.
https://comic.nodwick.com/?comic=2010-12-24
I have to admit, I love how maxima and sydney interact. You could see the protege/friend angle forming really quickly and here it is in front of us. Yeah sydney sometimes pisses max off, but they have some surprising stuff in common (even if she wont proclaim she used to be a nerd with the pride it deserves) Plus it helps that sydney seems to have a power set that matches up surprisingly well with maximas in both power and scope. Yeah its not exactly the same, but super speed and flight (Hey, she only has to float an inch off the ground to “fly” so she can travel at window shattering speeds at ground level if she wants) Super durability with that shield, super strength with her lighthook, energy blasts with her ppo. I said in a way earlier comic that sydney is basically maxima lite and it seems to prove itself out. Sydney is not on maximas level, but she is only a step or two down in some cases, and with flight at least, is faster than anyone else but maxima (with room to grow)
I like Harem’s power, but I’ve always followed the Bones opinion in that teleportation scares me witless. I’d settle for Naruto-style Shadow Clones. Specifically the ability to spam them like he does. “Why yes I DO want to graduate from University two days after enrollment.”
Superpower?
Magic,
with being able to cast any spell from literature, games(pen & paper, electronic and so on).comics and other sources.
Are you familiar with the White Wolf “Mage” system? You have to have some theory of how magic works – ANY theory will do – and if you can describe how magic, working the way you think it does, can produce the effect you want, you have a chance of producing that effect.
Been there played that.
To do all the spells I have seen in 35+ years of gaming, I would need to be an oracle.
My favorite character doing Mage was a guy who didn’t need a theory.
He realized it was his will not belief that did it.
That’s pretty much every Mage.
I love Mage. I usually wind up playing either a Son (Daughter) of Ether or sometimes Akashic or Hermetic (usually Ex Miscellanea or Solificati). I love the entire logical way they go about what magic is. The idea being that everyone has the capacity, at some level, to shape reality, and just happens to be dormant in most people, and the Technocracy figured a way to reshape reality by making magic that even the sleepers can use – something repeatable, understandable, and relatively safe for the masses (compared to the old type of magic) – Science.
I liked playing orphans.
See example above.
Most mages have some sort of world view / philosophy that guides and directs their use of magik.
My character did not, he just thought/willed what he wanted.
No words of power, directing gestures, or any other props required.
Though on the other hand allumancy with fulchemy would be fun to.
Absolute Existance
https://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Absolute_Existence
My choice would be basic telekinesis. Nothing subatomic, but the ability to grab/move things at a (visible) distance. Logically, that includes flight. Just nowhere near as fast as Sydney.
Basic hovering
See Grace, EGS.
https://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1565
I have to admit, I love that grin on sydneys face. Its stretched so wide its almost painful to show how incredible of a time this is for her. And who can blame her? Not even the permanent wet blanket max can deny how awesome it is to just fly because its fun.
I’m sure if I would need to choose just one superpower I would be disappointed later. Sure, flying looks like fun, but I would be scared to use it in public just like Sydney was.
… I think I would prefer something where I could’ve get more powers with enough training. Like, always having something to look forward to. Even if it would mean that the really cool powers would come later.
If I believe I’m one of a tiny number of people with superpowers, and hardly anyone knows that anyone has superpowers, I want something inconspicuous.
If superpowers are common enough that the simple fact of having one is non-astonishing, that becomes a lower priority.
In the Sydneyverse, by now pretty much everyone knows that there are at least three dozen people with superpowers. That’s sufficient that being inconspicuous is not a high priority.
I approve so much of this page, I can’t even say. ^_______^
From talks with friends, a lot of us between 18 and 28 would choose teleportation/telekinesis (but that might be ecause all the girls in my group, including me, always have more things to do than time to spare, so it would be a great quality of life improvement) …telepathy also ranks pretty high, followed by super-strength and elemental manipulation.
(though the sample is no more than a hundred women over a 4 year timespan, and only around Europe -mostly Italy- but still… thought it would be worth mentioning ;) )
WOO HOO!!! You Go, Maxima!!!
Enjoy those 5 minutes.
Aren’t there flight restrictions in the grand canyon?
Maxima has filed a flight plan, so any restrictions will have either been complied with or an appropriate exemption granted.
The detour may or may not be within the scope of that flight plan. But military exercises tend to have fairly flexible scope.
Look, no bugs in her teeth! Bonus points for those who know the reference, and I am not talking about the recent, gross one you get when looking up similar terms.
Due to it being a phenomenon that dates back to the invention of the automobile and motorbike there are very many references. Whichever one you are thinking of almost certainly alludes to the cultural phenomenon too.
Close enough – something like:
“How do you tell if a Harley owner is happy?”
“By the bugs in his teeth.”
There doesn’t seem to be a definitive original quote, but I heard something like that a long time ago.
You picked one of the best ones. I had been assuming you were alluding to one of the movie quotes, but I prefer the witticism. :)
The totally underappreciated Astro City dealt with this.. throughout the book, the Superman-alike kept count of seconds.. portions of seconds… and at the end of the book, he sank into bed and rejoiced that he’d had a total of something like 32 seconds of flight time..
A worthy topic well re-addressed, DaveB.
Yeah, I loved that story. It really put the finger on how much someone with that much power and the sort of personality that feels obligated to help if they can help at all would have to sacrifice to keep as many people as possible safe. It made me feel really sad for Samaritan (and apparently his fellow heroes felt he was overdoing it as well as a later story has them setting him up for a date with the Astro City Wonder Woman equivalent and orders to “have fun, the rest of us will pick up the slack for the night”).
The one power if i had the choice would be able to control shadows, so i can jump in one come out another or constrict/ suffocate someone. Even to the point of making minions :D
I’ve recently decided that the super power I’d like is the ability to clone myself and reabsorb my clones…so yeah, like Harem. Then I’d be able to keep doing my job and have fun elsewhere at the same time…so maybe I wouldn’t want Harem’s kind of quantum entanglement (or however she explained it)…because it would be kind of good for my working self (or selves) to not be distracted by my playing selves.
That also sounds a lot like Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man from X-Men fame.
That’s actually the character that made me decide on my preferred super power. :P Well…him and Naruto. :D
Best boss ever. If I’d had more leadership like that in the military, I would’ve made it to retirement.
Sydney, just stay above the water’s surface, when flying at mach speeds! You will survive, the canyon may not.
Think of all the poor fish… =o