Well, if you’re reading this on the day of my posting, I am still in Mexico! Hopefully I am having a nice time, and should have another page waiting in the wings, ready to post as soon as I get back home in time for Thursday!
If you are still reading this on the 14th or later, well, then I’ve probably been kidnapped by drug-crazed murder gangs. Which means a longer delay on the comics pages, to say the least!
Since even Demonchat can make a portal, if he teaches the technique to Ange, they might be able to get away. And Demonchat has a point – Mondo, although he’s extremely cryptic, seems to look favorably upon these kittens-in-love. But *HURRY*, kittens! It’s probably Lolo, holding a grudge against you both for having gotten the better of her!
Audrey, if *you* could just learn the portal trick, you could vacation in Mexico (or anywhere else you wanted to go) whenever you had a bit of free time…
Oh, I’d love to do the portal trick. As most of humanity too.
Live where you want, and work where you want. No matter how far apart.
And eat where you want too. Disappear through a portal when the bill is more than the money in your wallet.
Why would you ever use a hotel?
No more need for a car. Or for a road.
I get the impression that there’s a limit on portal usage. After all, Lolo chased them rather than portal to them. Demonchat had to ride clouds to find Ange rather than simply opening a portal to her.
It may well be that you can only open portals to certain places, but not towards certain persons. So you need to know where they are to portal/teleport near them.
Except that when Demon *saw* Ange, he had to propel the cloud over to her (or wait until he could find another cloud) rather than portal over.
Demonchat is just a pupil and learning….
I live in the US, near New York City. I have internet friends and “real life” friends literally all over the world, including Australia and Europe. I can’t even afford train fare to New York, let alone international travel – if only I could create a portal! (Or if my astrophysicist friend would only finish inventing a Star Trek-type transporter!)
How near is “near” New York? As far as I’m concerned, Philadelphia is “near” New York.
Also, I’d be careful about using a Star Trek transporter. Popular theory holds that it actually kills you and creates a clone/copy at your supposed destination.
A better option would be an Aperture Science portal gun.
In the “armpit” of Sandy Hook, NJ – when the weather is clear, I can see the buildings of lower Manhattan from my upstairs window. But it’s over an hour’s drive, because you have to go around the shore of New York Harbor and then cross into the city (or take an expensive but pleasant ferry ride across the harbor). If you think of Philadelphia as “near” New York, you’re not from the East Coast.
Transporter technology is actually a variation of replicator technology, and technically the original of *any* object being transported is broken down into its constituent atoms, and its pattern is then used to construct an exact duplicate at the other end (out of the same material the replicator uses to produce a cup of “tea, Earl Grey, hot” – or a pocket phaser).
I’m afraid I’m not familiar with Aperture Science…
The cake is a lie!
“Aperture Science” is the company in the computer game “portal”.
You need to run through a game and find your way out of a rat’s labyrinth.
You get a gun, which can shoot portals. You then enter one portal and come out the next one.
The rgeat end song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI
A pretty good flash version I played years go:
http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/
Try it to get an idea of Aperture Science portals
Heh, providing links causes the posts to require moderation…
“Aperture Science” is the company in the computer game “Portal”.
You need to run through a game and find your way out of a rat’s labyrinth.
You get a gun, which can shoot portals. You then enter one portal and come out the next one.
The same game is the cause of the meme “The cake is a lie” becoming favourite again.
Try to find the “portal flash game”, it’s a pretty good remake in 2D, to get an idea of “Aperture Science” portals.
Except that in the games, Aperture Science is run by a crazy guy with a lot of inventive genius but no business sense.
From what can be seen, it’s clear that the Portal Gun is not the most efficient implementation of that technology— portals can open and close on their own and be seamlessly linked to those generated by the Portal Gun (and swapped and relinked as need be), so if the technology were given to anybody other than Cave Johnson, it would likely result in a network of “public portals” all around the world that could be easily accessed from a Handheld Portal Device.
His business sense are weapons.
Nothing else.
Anyway, I never played “Portal” (not a fan of ego-shooters, and while Portal is not about killing others, the game plays like one, causing nausea to me – but I love the credit song)
Heh. Sandy Hook. Coney Island is a lot closer to you than Manhattan.
And yes, I’m from the Northeast— I’m actually from New York. But if I can get to Philadelphia faster than I can get to The Rockaways, then it counts as “near.” And I’ve had to make the former trip much more often— I went to college in the greater Philadelphia area but I came home to New York every weekend for the first year.
And yes, the transporter breaks you down into atoms, thus killing you. It then transmits the pattern so that the destination transporter can create a new you (ie, a clone or duplicate) out of replicator-material. I suppose you could argue that since “you” ARE the pattern to begin with, then “you” are being recreated, but I wouldn’t trust that machine to offer a true continuation of consciousness from origin to destination body.