Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 14, 2011

My brain too!

This is why I’m glad that I’m single.

She’s right you know. Bring material up out of Earth’s gravity well is not harder but more expensive using, say, asteroids or even the Moon. However, to utilize space mining/construction you need an infrastructure. And that require components that currently can only be made on Earth.I belive they call that Boostrapping.

Jet engine? Think again…

it’s a pretty big picture to think of.

Not to pick nits but as space is a vacuum there is no friction or resistance to work against (just gravity wells) so why is there a need for fuel to work the “jet” engine for 4,000 years? Unless we’re talking 2,000 years of acceleration and 2,000 years of deceleration? Surely a few planetary gravity well slingshots would be more effective and efficient to build up speed?

@ weasel-monkey

Very good point!

Danae’s plan has a hint of Ben Bova’s “Exiles” trilogy, with the moon replacing the traditional steel-hulled generational ship. She better retain a lawyer…

For the World the World Is Hollow, And I Have Touched the Sky. One of the worst shows of the original series, in my opinion.

Ladyfingers, IIRC it was “For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky.”

I, too, am glad I spared myself from girl logic and never married.

Mine, too.

Keep trying, Danae. You’ll get it sooner or later!

feels glad that so many Trekkies lurk about in unexpected places ;-)

As light speed is impractical and superluminal impossible then generational voyaging where a population lives out their lives for thousands of years aboard a traveling world is the only feasible means of star travel.

Girl-logic is a void.

You have to achieve escape velocity which is 17,500 mph for the earth, or less than 35 mph here or the cops give you a ticket.

Yep, I remember that episode.

Dr. Who had a pirate planet that was hollow, moved around and engulfed other planets to strip them of their resources.

@Grog, @Gmartin997 – I was thinking of the same episode. Granted, this particular episode is bad; not “Spock’s Brain” bad but bad nonetheless. Not every episode can be “The City On the Edge of Forever”.

Wish I could remember the author, but a trilogy of books “Cities in Flight”had cities for space ships, then planets, then I don’t remember. It made perfect sense to me as a teenager but then, so did Timothy Leary.Anyway, if I remember correctly (doubtful), the cities propulsion was increased by its mass. Made sense then.You go Danae!

Danae logic =/= “girl” logic just because she happens to be a girl. Come on, Wiley. Your female readers expect better. Even if you don’t intend it to be a slam, some idiot will come along and make a misogynistic comment out of it (ahem). Do you want to be reminded that you live in a world where people devalue your mind when you come to read a comic strip? I don’t.

It was "Star Trek: TNG “Relics” " in which it’s a DYSON SPHERE, with a small sun encompassed by a ship. (We also get a view of Scotty … “N-C-C-1-7-0-1. No bloody A – B – C – or D!”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relics_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation%29

Also, gmartin – the ‘ship’ had a diameter of the size of Earth’s orbit around our sun so something like 2+/-AU’s in diameter.

try working with GIRL LOGIC in the work place when she is your manager

It’s not girl logic, it’s Danae logic. Which is no logic at all.

“Allon enfants de la Quaalude, le jour de gloire est arrive!”

All this girl hate reminds me of an all dude bar..

I agree—the problem here is not so much girl logic (I know plenty of logical girls, as long as you can figure out their axioms, their logic works), it’s Danae logic. Which pretty much seems to begin, “assume what I want is possible,” and figures out things from there.

I guess it’s Danae’s girl logic that leads her to hate booger-brained boys.

The battle of the sexes was a lot more fun as children. It was pretty much limited to name-calling and cootie avoidance.

male chauvinist pig? havent heard that since the 60’s. yer showin yer age, lf!

For the people who are complaining about there being comments about girl logic, have you read the comic strip?

DUCK!

Thanks, those nits were making me itchy (tho to be really picky on my own analogy it’s the head lice that do that :) ). You remind me of having a discussion with my brother who is in Quantum Research. He always picks out the inaccuracies in my assertions but neglects to inform me how that changes the overall premise. (Maybe he thinks I’m too dumb to grasp any further information??). Are you saying that there is resistance in space and that stellar craft do need to keep a rocket burning to stop themselves from coasting to a stop somewhere out amongst the stars? Hmmm, interesting if you are…

Sorry, I re-read my earlier post and realised it could’ve been interpreted as being framed by a person in a bad mood… which was not the case. It amused me greatly to encounter another person who discusses like my beloved brother. He’s a genius but exceedingly scatter brained hence his method of debate which seemed to mirror your own. Thanks for your patience! :)