Comments on: 05/19/10 Down to Tornitus 6 (15 Comments)

By: Danna

Danna — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:41:36 +0000

I love how Yuri mentions that Dustin’s stuck in the bathroom, and the comic zips ahead. It’s so quick and so damn funny.

By: Night-Gaunt

Night-Gaunt — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:11:10 +0000

I’m expecting a full page panorama shot of them disembarking unto a wide concourse loaded with aliens and the sprawling city around them.

By: Spacetrawler - 07/14/10 Back at the Parking Garage

Spacetrawler - 07/14/10 Back at the Parking Garage — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:01:36 +0000

[...] you want to read their visit to Tornitus 6 all together, it starts here in the archive, or read it via the TAGS [...]

By: Stig Hemmer

Stig Hemmer — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:27:36 +0000

@Toby: Thanks for the links!

By: JKCarroll

JKCarroll — Sun, 23 May 2010 17:48:55 +0000

@Toby:

See! It’s people like you that give the citizens of the southwestern portion of the galactic spiral arm a bad name!

By: Toby Bartels

Toby Bartels — Sun, 23 May 2010 02:35:53 +0000

Does part of the definition of the legal term ‘sentient’ say ‘And by the way, when we say ‘sentient’, we really mean ‘sapient’, and not ‘sentient’ at all.’? Sorry, pet peeve, I really like your comic! Helpful links (see the end of each): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapience http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Sentience

By: daniel wolff

daniel wolff — Sat, 22 May 2010 19:27:37 +0000

I thought it was just me who liked that movie!

And in regards to the possibly sentient translation computers, Carl Sagan recounted a story (in “The Dragons of Eden”) about an American senator who was asked to enter a phrase into a program that would translate anything he wrote into Russian and then back into English. He entered “out of sight, out of mind.” The phrase he got back was “invisible idiot.”

Could be tough organizing a galaxy.

By: Connor

Connor — Sat, 22 May 2010 19:25:40 +0000

@JKCarroll–Exactly.

(If you’re curious, “no one factor of which is dispositive” is judge-speak for “we have a list of things to consider in deciding this question, but no one of the things we consider, by itself, answers the question.” These show up all the time for tricky legal questions, such as: whether a person is an employee or an independent contractor, whether a person’s salary is “excessive” for the purposes of federal income tax, whether a regulation on the use of land is so restrictive that the government effectively “took” the land, etc. etc.)

By: JKCarroll

JKCarroll — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:30:13 +0000

@Connor, I think your entire argument can be summed up in your phrase, no one factor of which is dispositive.

Oh, yeah! Sure! That’s what I meant!

(huh?)

By: gridsleep

gridsleep — Sat, 22 May 2010 12:00:06 +0000

I prefer the espresso scene from The Iron Giant. Is that kind of what you mean? (And I have no clue about angle bracket tags, so if this doesn't work, blame the lack of a manual.)