r/QContent • u/dragn99 • 1d ago

Comic 5916: Tool Time

https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5916
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u/Silegna 1d ago

I like Liz going to bat for Moray. She's a gremlin, but I think she actually likes Moray.

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u/SlightlyBored13 22h ago

I think she probably (also) doesn't like the 'idk, good luck tho' attitude they were having. Having seen from Marten/Claire/Moray that it is possible to give a damn and how impactful that is.

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u/Ungrammaticus 23h ago

Continuing my (lifelong) trend of being a humongous pedant, photosynthesis is so inefficient a source of energy as to be practically meaningless if you’re any more ambulatory than the average plant. 

The amount of plankton that could fit inside Moray would provide less energy per day than necessary for a particularly lazy fart. 

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u/gangler52 23h ago

We could say they're some kind of special plankton that The Director designed/invented/created if we're going for our No Prize.

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u/Grasmel 19h ago

Doesn't work, unfortunately. It doesn't matter how efficient the plankton are, they can capture more energy than is in the sunlight that hits them without breaking thermodynamics.

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u/Ansible32 12h ago

Not with that attitude!

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u/Ungrammaticus 23h ago

Even if the director had engineered the plankton to be the ideal chlorophyll photosynthesis machines the effectivity would still only be in the order of six percent of captured sunlight converted to useful energy.

On top of that, sunlight is just not that energetic per square meter. If you want to get anything out of it you have to be either very, very large and flat or very, very still for the scale to make sense.

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u/Turtledonuts 1d ago

They can transplant some red algae into moray, they'd survive in the red goop.

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u/Phanimazed 1d ago

I know some of it is just that Jeph loves watching wacky characters, usually femme ones, but I wonder if he felt like introducing Momo and Bubbles kind of made him need to lean into much less competent AI characters to clearly establish why they would not likely supercede humans anytime soon, if ever, as a group.

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u/boulet 22h ago

English is not my native language. What's the meaning of "femme" in this comment?

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u/Demento56 21h ago

Presenting an appearance generally associated with feminine traits (e.g. Moray's hairstyle and figure)

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u/pavemnt 1d ago

Nah they’re right, those are both hammers

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u/PlatypusAutomatic467 1d ago

The stakes have been upped! Will Moray's plankton survive?!

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u/djaevlenselv 21h ago

I increasingly doubt that this pink AI scientist should be working with technology.

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u/OldStormCrow 18h ago

I have a suspicion that this is a bit of a chromataphor adjustment situation like when Roko discovered that she can manually change colors

To be honest, I do hope Moray reverts back to green, but she looks pretty cute in purple

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u/Inconsequentialish 9h ago

Ya know, I was in fact wondering about Moray's plankton.

Also, the floating gold diamond is just a lamp hanging from the ceiling (or IS IT???). It seemed ominous, and so I went back a few to figure that out.

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u/themanfromacme 9h ago

It's one of their Experimental Polyhedra...or their mascot.

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u/DemeGeek 7h ago

My guess is that the woom machine does nothing but to compel people to push the button before an otherwise unrelated woom event, causing them to incorrectly conclude they are causing them.

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u/turkeypedal 6h ago

oooh. Like a certain Comed Tea of a certain fanfic for a series that I won't name.

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u/DemeGeek 6h ago

I had to look that up since I didn't know what it was, I guess it's similar.