Wilting At Tintmills

@Mark - Lets be honest though, every throw-away gag in Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy had a chance of being a whole other book later in the series.

Harmony Petersen

@Dave To be fair, it'd fit the vibe the Louvre's got going. XD (a bunch of stuff crammed into a very small space)

Harmony Petersen

this post belongs in the Louvre

Onedavewreckingcrew

USB charging ports

Onedavewreckingcrew

Depends on what you paint them onto.

David Howe

OTOH, there's a throwaway joke about superintelligent shades of the colour blue, who I don't think were pandimensional as such.

Mark

In The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy the "hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings" were the ones who played Brockian Ultra-Cricket and pondered the Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe And Everything. They commissioned the Earth and kept an eye on things there as mice. (I'm assuming someone has already pointed this out, but hey.)

John Pallister

@Miyaa Yes, that was terrifying. O_O ... I'm going to put it on loop, come halloween

Harmony Petersen

@dcy665 Thankyou ^_^

Harmony Petersen

Say, did you hear about the “sound” that new telescope “caught” from a black hole?

Miyaa

Clearly you are a nice person, a sensitive person.

dcy665 .

@innpchan I know, interesting thought, isn't it? Instead of some nice neat structure, spacetime is likely more like a body of water with ripples with everybody driving in every which-way (but with a strong basis of time-passage going away from the big-bang, like a big high-pressure current)

Harmony Petersen

she's entertaining when she's excited.

Joe

The interacting and -secting realities theory will require extra thought, and could conceivably replace my current "Time-space continuum as a raggedy spiral" worldview.

@PixelThis I'm not a nice thing? 🥺

Harmony Petersen

@Yonatan Zunger It's not physical black holes, but simulated ones, using un-rounded version of physical data. https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04029 But yea, the implications are pretty intense. They started with a state of a 3-body system of black holes, let it go forward following the data, and found it could not be rewinded.

Harmony Petersen

And this is why we can't have nice things.

PixelThis

Wait wait, what's this new black hole result? Gotta link?

Yonatan Zunger

I personally love it, and now want to figure out how to get my hair like that!

Harmony Petersen

(Arnold voice) It's not a tumor!

Lightsabr2

Okay, that feeling Moray X-21 is based off of me isn't fading in the slightest. Like for example, I was reading this research the other day about how blackholes rotating couldn't be really be reverse-tracked due to required deviations being below planck length, which that in turn means that causality is not absolute, random fluctuation absolutely has an effect, which that in turn got me thinking about quantum number generation for computers systems, because in large servers, keeping a good quantum noise generator is good for cryptographically secure randomness. That in turn emphasizes that this same lack of causality is likely affecting our daily life in the very real impactful circumstance of data protection. Which that in turn would imply with the Schrodinger's cat scenario (which Schrodinger thought was absurded, so him being proved wrong means the experiment is accurate, which has happened) implies that each such shift is an explosion of quantum probability that, in turn, means reality is constantly undergoing human-induced splitting. This in turn makes me wonder how far this "probability wave" extends out. As almost none of this affects anything beyond the Earth's sphere of influence (at least for now), it seems likely that it means that Earth is basically one giant Shchrodinger's box and life on Earth is the cat. This pulls in interesting concept to the book "The Long Earth" (Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter), and makes it appear a lot more feasible than previously considered. Although it does raise the question of meeting alternates, and wondering if the parallel "yous" are connected in some method. But this in turn raises the question of "Why distinct steps at all?" and we can quickly notice that there likely is no discernible method of separating things along fifth dimensional boundaries in the reserach. This implies that things are more of a constant flow rather than static barriers. The fact that we don't notice it could easily be chalked up to a localized take of the Anthropomorphic principle, that we are all constantly slipping through various realities but we don't notice because it's so natural and everything is still interconnected and interacting, so the interesting part is how to identify and navigate this to get closer to the realities that we like. At which point, that correlates well with the fact that I want to find where I put my car keys. I don't have to blame myself for that, I could just currently be in a "parallel" me's reality and they set them in a slightly different spot. This in turn reduces a bit of franticness and guilt, and is pretty good for my psychological well-being, as I'm less likely to beat myself up (mentally speaking) over unexpected variation, which can lead to a happier outlook in life in general. So yea, I should feel better about myself because we can't reverse-track blackholes.

Harmony Petersen

Noticing a pattern of human characters tending to be relatuvely logical and rational while the AI's are zany cloud fairies full of surprises, refreshingly opposite of how AI-emergent fiction tends go :)

Milayna

I keep seeing that drone as a flying roll of toilet paper, even though I know it isn't...

KEITH S GUILEY

Ask May and Roko.

OldGoat

We want to hire you to do... something! Look how well we treat the other human employee! Look at how happy they are! Back away from this one, Claire.

JourneymanWizard

Because why would androids have nipples.

Laura Curry

The gloopy not-hair hairstyle lumps are more disturbing every time I look at them :)

Stephen Wells

So Melon is the director and just forgot about it, right?

TubaGinger

"Dude, where's my lab assistant?" "Maybe they like turned into pandimensional being of light, man." "Woah..."

wargrunt42

Panel 5 sounds a lot like a pothead stereotype…

Mad Marie

yes! I miss that show.

Mad Marie

Getting “dark-side of Eureka” vibes. She needs to check with Yay before accepting.

Richard Lindquist

c'mon Claire, ask the question- why do you need a human librarian?

jimbo