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Bio note: Daylla and mom are made of living metal.
EDIT: Paul says she's non-ferrous.
Bio note: Daylla and mom are made of living metal.
EDIT: Paul says she's non-ferrous.
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Re: Instead Of 2017-19-92
date in subject line: 2017-19-92? The 92nd day of the 19th month?
(Let's see... wow, that turns out to be two days short of a year off. Sept 30 2018.)
(Let's see... wow, that turns out to be two days short of a year off. Sept 30 2018.)
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Re: Instead Of 2017-10-02
Typing in less than optimal lighting conditions... I caught the typos in the bidy....
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Re: Instead Of 2017-19-92
I read a short story, recently, that had a country declare that in order to save on resources, people would be "allowed" so many days per month to live, depending on your job/status. Writers were only allowed to live 15 days or so per month. To make the system work, people were given day tickets, and when their tickets ran out, they vanished, until the first of the next month.Warrl wrote:date in subject line: 2017-19-92? The 92nd day of the 19th month?
Naturally, there rose a day ticket black market, so that the protagonist ended up living 10 or 12 extra days in a particular month...
The program was soon canned, because it did not manage to save on resources...
Now hang on: how many days are you assuming per month, in your calculations?Warrl wrote:(Let's see... wow, that turns out to be two days short of a year off. Sept 30 2018.)
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Re: Instead Of 2017-10-02
Are they still plantiform, or is that no longer canon?AmriloJim wrote:Bio note: Daylla and mom are made of living metal.
EDIT: Paul says she's non-ferrous.
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The canon has been blown away, it seems...lake_wrangler wrote:Are they still plantiform, or is that no longer canon?AmriloJim wrote:Bio note: Daylla and mom are made of living metal.
EDIT: Paul says she's non-ferrous.
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Re: Instead Of 2017-10-02
Was that ever canon from Paul? I know some people have said that Daylla is another plant-form of some sort but I cannot recall a statement by Paul to that effect... but I don't follow his Facebook page and so may have missed it.jwhouk wrote:The canon has been blown away, it seems...lake_wrangler wrote:Are they still plantiform, or is that no longer canon?
Even if so... if metal can be alive, why can't it take a plant form by preference? There are plenty of figurative references of that sort (silver vine and the like) and quite a few plants concentrate various metals in their tissues.
The real question is: if Daylla is non-ferrous, can she still be a Metallica fan?
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Re: Instead Of 2017-10-02
Just FYI, calcium is a metal according to the periodic table. And it's para-magnetic.
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I hope Daylla isn't made of metallic calcium. She's be less tolerant of water than the Wicked Witch of the West... let's just say it would leave her with an explosive temper.Opus the Poet wrote:Just FYI, calcium is a metal according to the periodic table. And it's para-magnetic.
Could do Springsteen well, though.
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Personally, I thought this page was a pretty strong hint, anyway... We know that Castela wasn't using it metaphorically, so I guess we just assumed that neither did Dayla...Dave wrote:Was that ever canon from Paul? I know some people have said that Daylla is another plant-form of some sort but I cannot recall a statement by Paul to that effect... but I don't follow his Facebook page and so may have missed it.jwhouk wrote:The canon has been blown away, it seems...lake_wrangler wrote:Are they still plantiform, or is that no longer canon?
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Re: Instead Of 2017-10-02
My guess is Jul 1 2018 would be 2017-19-01, Aug 1 = 19-32, Sep 1 = 18-63, therefore 19-92 would be Sep 29.lake_wrangler wrote:Now hang on: how many days are you assuming per month, in your calculations?Warrl wrote:(Let's see... wow, that turns out to be two days short of a year off. Sept 30 2018.)
Re: Instead Of 2017-10-02
So... tin? Copper? Lead? Good Lord, she'd weigh a ton!AmriloJim wrote:http://wapsisquare.com/comic/instead-of/
Bio note: Daylla and mom are made of living metal.
EDIT: Paul says she's non-ferrous.
Silver? GOLD???
And how do you get living metal creatures, anyway?
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You fight a forest fire and the metal on the cap of your staff fuses with your hand...eee wrote:So... tin? Copper? Lead? Good Lord, she'd weigh a ton!AmriloJim wrote:http://wapsisquare.com/comic/instead-of/
Bio note: Daylla and mom are made of living metal.
EDIT: Paul says she's non-ferrous.
Silver? GOLD???
And how do you get living metal creatures, anyway?
{See "Living Metal" under "Skills and Abilities", here, for a brief and probably confusing explanation.}
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Re: Instead Of 2017-10-02
Could be she's not composed a single type of metal. She could have calcium bones, mercury blood, aluminum skin...
A brain composed of interlaced platinum, silver and copper, forming a matrix inside her head that rivals most supercomputers?
And that's not even getting into the possibilities of alloys.
A brain composed of interlaced platinum, silver and copper, forming a matrix inside her head that rivals most supercomputers?
And that's not even getting into the possibilities of alloys.
Whoever coined the phrase "more fun than a barrel of monkeys" obviously never spent an afternoon cramming the little buggers into one.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_O%27LoyAleister Crow wrote:Could be she's not composed a single type of metal. She could have calcium bones, mercury blood, aluminum skin...
A brain composed of interlaced platinum, silver and copper, forming a matrix inside her head that rivals most supercomputers?
And that's not even getting into the possibilities of alloys.
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Asimov's "positronic brain" - a "platinum and iridium sponge", if i recall correctly.Dave wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_O%27LoyAleister Crow wrote:Could be she's not composed a single type of metal. She could have calcium bones, mercury blood, aluminum skin...
A brain composed of interlaced platinum, silver and copper, forming a matrix inside her head that rivals most supercomputers?
And that's not even getting into the possibilities of alloys.
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I was thinking something along more traditional lines.eee wrote:So... tin? Copper? Lead? Good Lord, she'd weigh a ton!AmriloJim wrote:http://wapsisquare.com/comic/instead-of/
Bio note: Daylla and mom are made of living metal.
EDIT: Paul says she's non-ferrous.
Silver? GOLD???
And how do you get living metal creatures, anyway?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talos
Considering the Wapsi Square context it makes the most sense.
Re: Instead Of 2017-19-92
31 days for July and August, 30 for September. Total: 92.lake_wrangler wrote:Now hang on: how many days are you assuming per month, in your calculations?Warrl wrote:(Let's see... wow, that turns out to be two days short of a year off. Sept 30 2018.)
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Re: Instead Of 2017-19-92
Ah. So you're assuming that all the months have remained the same. I posit that if a year can end up with 19 (or more) months, and that this 19th month can have 92 days (or more), who's to say how many days are in the other months, in that particular universe? We are lacking sufficient information to make any kind of educated guess as to the proper conversion matrix...Warrl wrote:31 days for July and August, 30 for September. Total: 92.lake_wrangler wrote:Now hang on: how many days are you assuming per month, in your calculations?Warrl wrote:(Let's see... wow, that turns out to be two days short of a year off. Sept 30 2018.)
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Sounds like the Golem of Prague!sheik wrote:I was thinking something along more traditional lines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talos
Considering the Wapsi Square context it makes the most sense.
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