Empty Slot 2013-05-29

[CraigR]

Either Atsali just acted as the final piece of an activation sequence OR she's suddenly pregnant with the six left over quadbabies...

[Sidhekin]

I like either theory better than mine. I suspect the leftovers are in the bosom of Suzy McBride, though.

[Bud_Fanboi]

Fried Chicken anyone?

[Aleister Crow]

I hope Atsali's shock resistant.

I also hope she didn't just crash the system and wipe out everything in the remaining crystals.

[jwhouk]

The setup just screams "possession incoming!"

... I hope I'm wrong, though.

You had that same feeling too, hey?

[davids4250]

I like either theory better than mine. I suspect the leftovers are in the bosom of Suzy McBride, though.

Lucky "leftovers"!

[Radical_Knight]

Great Googly-Moogly... Well, that was certainly "Enlightening".

[Julie]

Oh shit...that doesn't look good.

[kingklash]

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[illiad]

ROFL ROFL.. a jolt from the 2k line sure tends to wake you up!!!!

Fifteen KV X-ray tube anode supply.

Luckily, max current capacity of 3 mA.

ahh... medical tech??? I'm mainly TV's and PC's...

[Fairportfan]

ROFL ROFL.. a jolt from the 2k line sure tends to wake you up!!!!

Fifteen KV X-ray tube anode supply.

Luckily, max current capacity of 3 mA.

ahh... medical tech??? I'm mainly TV's and PC's...

No, actually - materials analysis equipment; Micromeritics Sedigraph 5000. (I was a tech at Micro in the 1980s.)

Used an X-ray beam to calculate particle size distribution in powders.

Micro's in-house lab did the analysis of the powder that NASA was fusing to make the Shuttle tiles that solved the problem of why they were so fragile; the particle size distribution wasn't what they thought it was, so they were cooking it wrong. (One of the other guys and i maintained the machine in the lab, BTW) The Sedigraph is (or was) the official standard for measuring alumina powders.

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The X-ray beam goes from left to right, through a sample cell that contains a suspension of the powder to be analysed in water (not a solution, a suspension) into a scintillation crystal in the silver tube. The particles begin settling when the analysis starts (until then the suspension is kept mixed and circulated through the cell from the little beaker you see), and the cell moves downward at the same time. The graph drawn on the chart recorder can show percentages of different size particles from .1 micron to (i think) 10 microns in size.

[Yamara]

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Win.

Atsali should have realized... mess around with sacred Lanthian machinery, and of course you'll be electrocuted by the arc of the Covenant!

Come to think of it, Spielberg may have had that pun in mind.

"Shut your eyes, Marion! In the Latin alphabet it ends with a C!"







PunPal has charged me for two millennia of child support for the city of Marseilles.

[zachariah]

Sudden flash of light in my head and it hurts.
Facts:
1. Spider women is a protector according to myth.
2. Vase showed 6 figures with a seventh as a child with the spider over it.
3. Six mothers lost one of their babies due to a programming glitch.
4. Missing crystal probably the one Lilly found in the spider carving and stored in Suzi's cleavage of holding, and has the babies.
5. Lilly was one of six women abandoned in the desert by the spider carving 5000 years ago.

I suspect we are making a mistake about who and what the spider women is. The spider may be a protector but it also weaves webs that catch things. Doesn't that sound like Brandi? I'd give odds the Spider Women is Brandi and the true facts were garbled by time. The six figures are the mothers missing a child caught in the web woven to get the ethians out of circulation. This can easily have become a myth of the Ethian people when they were revived into a barren world with all they building and technology in ruins after being abandoned for a thousand years.
Lilly was probably one of the mothers who was revived in an attempt to return the misplaced baby to them but got lost in the wilderness. For some reason the crystal with the babies was left in the spider carving. The passage of time hid what really happened as the ethians only knew what Brandi told them, which was not the truth. This means Kathy has nothing to do with the spider women beyond finding out who, what, why, and where.
It is possible to make a case the Kathy, or Lilly, might be Bia's descendant though. Depends on which mate Bia used to create that line. This may the final steps in Brandi's plan to repair the damage done by the chimera so long ago. I'll bet on it being Kathy.

Now everyone whose head hurts like mine is free to join me in the corner while the pain wears off.

[illiad]

Fairportfan: hey wow, man... now that is *real* hardware!!!...

[dex drako]

I don't think I want to know what inside that crystal because it's no longer 6 babies.

remember there was a reason everyone had to have their own crystal in the first place and if they didn't it would be bad.
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/buffers-in-place/

I'm hoping that means more making one new person and less something like "the fly"

[Fairportfan]

Fairportfan: hey wow, man... now that is *real* hardware!!!...

Yep.

BTW: While watching the first episode of Hill Street Blues i deduced that it was shot on location in Chicago (the first three were, actually) because a major sequence took place right in front of Eureka X-Ray Products, who supplied our tubes...

Micro built other stuff: a materials porosity measuring device that used mercury ... under 20,000 pounds per square inch...

High Pressure Liquid Chromatography equipment - the engineers designed a photo-detector that had to have the photodiodes it used mounted in blocks of virgin white teflon, because brown delrin allowed too much leakage current. (The damned thing produced a measurable voltage out put for input currents in the femtoamperes...)

[kingklash]

I like either theory better than mine. I suspect the leftovers are in the bosom of Suzy McBride, though.

Lucky "leftovers"!

For some reason, it makes want to be a cold meatloaf sandwich. Which she probably has in there somewhere.

[Grantwhy]

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Q: What does it look like?

A: It feels smooth.

*facepalm*

I was going to make a 'typical teenager' comment, but I know adults that would do the same thing

[KnightDelight]

Sudden flash of light in my head and it hurts.
Facts:
1. Spider women is a protector according to myth.
2. Vase showed 6 figures with a seventh as a child with the spider over it.
3. Six mothers lost one of their babies due to a programming glitch.
4. Missing crystal probably the one Lilly found in the spider carving and stored in Suzi's cleavage of holding, and has the babies.
5. Lilly was one of six women abandoned in the desert by the spider carving 5000 years ago.

I suspect we are making a mistake about who and what the spider women is. The spider may be a protector but it also weaves webs that catch things. Doesn't that sound like Brandi? I'd give odds the Spider Women is Brandi and the true facts were garbled by time. The six figures are the mothers missing a child caught in the web woven to get the ethians out of circulation. This can easily have become a myth of the Ethian people when they were revived into a barren world with all they building and technology in ruins after being abandoned for a thousand years.
Lilly was probably one of the mothers who was revived in an attempt to return the misplaced baby to them but got lost in the wilderness. For some reason the crystal with the babies was left in the spider carving. The passage of time hid what really happened as the ethians only knew what Brandi told them, which was not the truth. This means Kathy has nothing to do with the spider women beyond finding out who, what, why, and where.
It is possible to make a case the Kathy, or Lilly, might be Bia's descendant though. Depends on which mate Bia used to create that line. This may the final steps in Brandi's plan to repair the damage done by the chimera so long ago. I'll bet on it being Kathy.

Now everyone whose head hurts like mine is free to join me in the corner while the pain wears off.

Well, 4 & 5 are still suppositions actually. Nor do we know what the spider crystal contains at this point. Still, the point about the spider woman being Brandi is a good one. I'm sure the GGs have been the source of many legends over the intervening millennia.

[Jabberwonky]

Sudden flash of light in my head and it hurts.
Facts:
1. Spider women is a protector according to myth.
2. Vase showed 6 figures with a seventh as a child with the spider over it.
3. Six mothers lost one of their babies due to a programming glitch.
4. Missing crystal probably the one Lilly found in the spider carving and stored in Suzi's cleavage of holding, and has the babies.
5. Lilly was one of six women abandoned in the desert by the spider carving 5000 years ago.

I suspect we are making a mistake about who and what the spider women is. The spider may be a protector but it also weaves webs that catch things. Doesn't that sound like Brandi? I'd give odds the Spider Women is Brandi and the true facts were garbled by time. The six figures are the mothers missing a child caught in the web woven to get the ethians out of circulation. This can easily have become a myth of the Ethian people when they were revived into a barren world with all they building and technology in ruins after being abandoned for a thousand years.
Lilly was probably one of the mothers who was revived in an attempt to return the misplaced baby to them but got lost in the wilderness. For some reason the crystal with the babies was left in the spider carving. The passage of time hid what really happened as the ethians only knew what Brandi told them, which was not the truth. This means Kathy has nothing to do with the spider women beyond finding out who, what, why, and where.
It is possible to make a case the Kathy, or Lilly, might be Bia's descendant though. Depends on which mate Bia used to create that line. This may the final steps in Brandi's plan to repair the damage done by the chimera so long ago. I'll bet on it being Kathy.

Now everyone whose head hurts like mine is free to join me in the corner while the pain wears off.

What if Kath is the missing babies? All six of them? Might explain her personality...eccentricities.