Well, this answers some of the questions of why Endtown hasn’t been growing its own food. I assume they’re having trouble assembling the equipment needed, or getting ahold of it in the first place. The surface is trashed, after all. . .
Wonder why they don’t dirt farm? With the right lights you can do that in a cave. Plenty of dirt up top and some Endtown residents are particularly useful at creating fertilizer.
I don’t like the two bubbles for one person in cell three. Duck Guy: I’m an idiot, I should have know. Vitamin cake won’t be sufficient Duck Guy (?): No, It’s not your fault. You didn’t know the people of the top-side would build the rocket.His ego is so big that it split o_O
Professor Mallard didn’t even cringe when Finneman called him “Mister”; perhaps this indicates the level of distraction that the current events have engendered. But he’s a mellower Mallard by far than when we first met him. I’d have to say that it is rather troubling to have a fatalistic person, ready to give up in the face of a threat (or even sound like they were), in charge of securing against that same threat. Apparently she is capable (and we’ve seen a bit of what she’s capable of, as well) — but they’ve already faced extraordinary circumstances in order to have made it this far. Why make noises like that now? As dkram noted above, Philomena (“Blackie”) Flask cuts a fine figure. But she needs to get in shape as a leader, else she will figure into their doom. A satellite launch is an amazing coming-together of high technology, precision, and massive construction. It requires more than a little bit of luck for everything to go right. Even without the relative high-tech of a Topsider blaster, a single shot with a good, long-range conventional sniper rifle into the fuel tank might be enough to spoil the Topsiders’ day. Endtown and similar habitats might even have more to fear from seismic exploration; the presence of large underground chambers would be relatively quickly revealed. But the Topsiders seem to have been distracted by other things; their own survival cannot have been easy, as any accidental exposure dooms almost all of their population. =|====/ Level Head
Mallard always did want a job where he could work in his bathrobe.*You can’t make fertile soil without the biomass that was disintegrated on the surface. Almost everything that poops or decays to make soil is gone. Human feces isn’t quite suitable for fertilizer. They have to develop systems to accept Endtowner poop first before they collect it, because the poop will go bad, unless they’ve been storing six years of poop in the fridge. Then the people have to accept the concept of produce produced from their own poop.*Is Endtown working on cloning at all? Or regeneration? In real life we’re nearly ready to mass-produce vat-grown meat with nutrients readily available to Endtown. If there are samples of animal and vegetable tissue available, that can be an option. *I wonder how the Topsiders have been handling these issues.
Attacking the rocket would be a suicide mission. The Topsiders are not idiots, and would know that a rocket of this size would attract mutants from all over to stop it, as that seems to be the only reasonable course. So they would guard it with their lives, and in a roundabout way use it as bait to get more mutants. Oh boy, thinking about the situation makes it get only worse…
I just started reading this strip recently and I don’t know who Blackie Flask is but in my opinion, that is just the way she volunteers for a suicide mission.
I am in agreement with rvonluchen. I think she might be using sarcasm to tell the others that they can either do the suicide mission now, or suicide later by letting the rocket ruin their only chances of survival. I don’t think she’ll be the only one to go to the surface, but I think she might bring a team up there.
It would be really nice if they could sabotage the Recon GPS and communications satellite (without being caught OR detected). Then, let the topsiders send up the rocket- – -wasting their resources. It would be like the uproar over the Mars missions of NASA things malfunctioned, and people were screaming about the waste of taxpayer’s money.
Ida No almost 13 years ago
Heh. Blackie doesn’t know when to keep quiet. Mallard’s already halfway towards pushing her out the door on a suicide mission…
perceptor3 almost 13 years ago
Well, this answers some of the questions of why Endtown hasn’t been growing its own food. I assume they’re having trouble assembling the equipment needed, or getting ahold of it in the first place. The surface is trashed, after all. . .
spamster almost 13 years ago
Wonder why they don’t dirt farm? With the right lights you can do that in a cave. Plenty of dirt up top and some Endtown residents are particularly useful at creating fertilizer.
Francis362003 almost 13 years ago
Sounds like they should of thought of this before Entown was built
Dkram almost 13 years ago
I will say one thing about Blackie Flask, she dose cut a fine figure..\\//_
Pelicanator almost 13 years ago
I don’t like the two bubbles for one person in cell three. Duck Guy: I’m an idiot, I should have know. Vitamin cake won’t be sufficient Duck Guy (?): No, It’s not your fault. You didn’t know the people of the top-side would build the rocket.His ego is so big that it split o_O
TheDOCTOR almost 13 years ago
I smell a Combonation of “Mission:IMPOSSIBLE and Hogans Heroes” coming on.
Level_Head almost 13 years ago
Professor Mallard didn’t even cringe when Finneman called him “Mister”; perhaps this indicates the level of distraction that the current events have engendered. But he’s a mellower Mallard by far than when we first met him. I’d have to say that it is rather troubling to have a fatalistic person, ready to give up in the face of a threat (or even sound like they were), in charge of securing against that same threat. Apparently she is capable (and we’ve seen a bit of what she’s capable of, as well) — but they’ve already faced extraordinary circumstances in order to have made it this far. Why make noises like that now? As dkram noted above, Philomena (“Blackie”) Flask cuts a fine figure. But she needs to get in shape as a leader, else she will figure into their doom. A satellite launch is an amazing coming-together of high technology, precision, and massive construction. It requires more than a little bit of luck for everything to go right. Even without the relative high-tech of a Topsider blaster, a single shot with a good, long-range conventional sniper rifle into the fuel tank might be enough to spoil the Topsiders’ day. Endtown and similar habitats might even have more to fear from seismic exploration; the presence of large underground chambers would be relatively quickly revealed. But the Topsiders seem to have been distracted by other things; their own survival cannot have been easy, as any accidental exposure dooms almost all of their population. =|====/ Level Head
Demonick almost 13 years ago
Level Head’s thoughts are profound even when not in verse.
Coyoty Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Mallard always did want a job where he could work in his bathrobe.*You can’t make fertile soil without the biomass that was disintegrated on the surface. Almost everything that poops or decays to make soil is gone. Human feces isn’t quite suitable for fertilizer. They have to develop systems to accept Endtowner poop first before they collect it, because the poop will go bad, unless they’ve been storing six years of poop in the fridge. Then the people have to accept the concept of produce produced from their own poop.*Is Endtown working on cloning at all? Or regeneration? In real life we’re nearly ready to mass-produce vat-grown meat with nutrients readily available to Endtown. If there are samples of animal and vegetable tissue available, that can be an option. *I wonder how the Topsiders have been handling these issues.
Franz Obern almost 13 years ago
Attacking the rocket would be a suicide mission. The Topsiders are not idiots, and would know that a rocket of this size would attract mutants from all over to stop it, as that seems to be the only reasonable course. So they would guard it with their lives, and in a roundabout way use it as bait to get more mutants. Oh boy, thinking about the situation makes it get only worse…
rvonluchen almost 13 years ago
I just started reading this strip recently and I don’t know who Blackie Flask is but in my opinion, that is just the way she volunteers for a suicide mission.
SapphireDragonStudios almost 13 years ago
I am in agreement with rvonluchen. I think she might be using sarcasm to tell the others that they can either do the suicide mission now, or suicide later by letting the rocket ruin their only chances of survival. I don’t think she’ll be the only one to go to the surface, but I think she might bring a team up there.
noreenklose almost 13 years ago
It would be really nice if they could sabotage the Recon GPS and communications satellite (without being caught OR detected). Then, let the topsiders send up the rocket- – -wasting their resources. It would be like the uproar over the Mars missions of NASA things malfunctioned, and people were screaming about the waste of taxpayer’s money.
Great job today, Aaron!KUTGW,Noreen
Bronkster Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I don’t want to belong to any cult that would have me as a member!