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The squeaky door gets the hinch. I have a local admirer who seems to think I so love doodling in sketchbooks that I'll do it without payment. Maybe he's right... I did it. But next time I'm going to have to be blunt and send him my rate sheet.
This is actually a copy of the sketchbook piece, and is more finished looking.
This is actually a copy of the sketchbook piece, and is more finished looking.
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I was actually going to do something like this in a future issue -- show her falling from abouit 20,000 feet, the city looming up below her, and then *poof* she comes to a dead stop without so much as hurting an ant crawling on the sidewalk. No inertia, see...
Of course, without inertia she shouldn't have mass and shouldn't fall either, but I can't help it. I didn't invent this "superpower" so I don't hold myself responsible for it's irrationalities.
Of course, without inertia she shouldn't have mass and shouldn't fall either, but I can't help it. I didn't invent this "superpower" so I don't hold myself responsible for it's irrationalities.
Read up on your E. E. 'Doc' Smith. His Lensmen series has the Bergenholm drive, which makes objects inertialess, though not weightless. The multi-hundred-ton ships can barrel in towards a planet on full thrust (around 1 Newton, with no inertia to overcome, you don't need a lot of power to move things), gut the thrusters, and smash into the landing pad with a force of zero Newtons, not even disturbing the speck of dust right under it. After that, gravity pulls on it at 9.8 m/s (on a 1G world) and the gravitational mass crushes the concrete to powder if it's not strong enough.
Graduating cadets procced through the Academy wearing miniature Bergenholms during their graduation ceremony, walling into an ope shaft, dropping fifty feet, and continuing to barch once they reach the bottom without missing a step.
Inertial mass and Gravitational mass are separable quantities, if inertia can be suspended. Acceleration becomes almost infinite, and top speed is based on the resistance of the medium you are passing through. (On earth, she'd start dropping with almost toonish abruptness, and her terminal velocity wouldn't be different enough from normal to care about.
If you can find an old copy of GURPS Lensmen at your local game store, there's a nice explanation of inertialess objects in there, written like a High School lab experiment.
Or, since the maroon Maid is not going to be wondering too much about it, just reacting, you can just say she falls as normal, but doesn't impact when she hits the ground.
[Although if the suit doesn't let her hit the ground with inertia, can she hit someone with a punch? And if so, why is the suit being so selective about the 'protection'? It won't even let her taste food, so why would it let het strike some things (bad guys) and not others (the ground)?]
Graduating cadets procced through the Academy wearing miniature Bergenholms during their graduation ceremony, walling into an ope shaft, dropping fifty feet, and continuing to barch once they reach the bottom without missing a step.
Inertial mass and Gravitational mass are separable quantities, if inertia can be suspended. Acceleration becomes almost infinite, and top speed is based on the resistance of the medium you are passing through. (On earth, she'd start dropping with almost toonish abruptness, and her terminal velocity wouldn't be different enough from normal to care about.
If you can find an old copy of GURPS Lensmen at your local game store, there's a nice explanation of inertialess objects in there, written like a High School lab experiment.
Or, since the maroon Maid is not going to be wondering too much about it, just reacting, you can just say she falls as normal, but doesn't impact when she hits the ground.
[Although if the suit doesn't let her hit the ground with inertia, can she hit someone with a punch? And if so, why is the suit being so selective about the 'protection'? It won't even let her taste food, so why would it let het strike some things (bad guys) and not others (the ground)?]
I read the orignial books by Smith decades ago... well, three decades ago. You can't expect me to remember what he called the make-believe drive in the series after all this time...
But in physics as understood at the moment, inertia and mass may not be the same thing, but one has the other and vice versa, and are inseparable. Without inertia (resistence to acceleration) it would be just about meaningless to talk of mass (that which takes energy to accelerate). But, boy, if we could separate them it would be a blast! Possibly literally.
But in physics as understood at the moment, inertia and mass may not be the same thing, but one has the other and vice versa, and are inseparable. Without inertia (resistence to acceleration) it would be just about meaningless to talk of mass (that which takes energy to accelerate). But, boy, if we could separate them it would be a blast! Possibly literally.
Yeah, one of the many mind-blasts in the series is the separation of inertial and gravitational mass. Soon enough they're using inertialess planets as weapons. Slap a big Bergenholm on a planet, make it Free (inertialess) drag it into position and restore the suspended inertia. When you stop and think about how fast planets move in their orbits, lining them up like this is like firing a cosmic bazooka at the target.
Of course, if the target is Free, it won't suffer any damage from the impact, which is why you bring in a SECOND planet, with a suspended inertial vector opposite the first, and perform (if I may steal a line from another show) a Malachi Crunch on the target.
(As an Engineer, so much of those stories burned themselves permanently into my mind, as each new, more powerful weapon system had by tossing the book down and screaming ,"The madmen! they're playing with more power than they can control!" Well, until they were bringing in the planet from Nth space (with an inertial vector of 15C, fifteen times the speed of light), then I screamed "The fools, they'll rip a hole in reality and destroy EVERYTHING!")
If I remember right, a few years ago NASA was going to do an experiment with a satellite to see if Inertial and Gravitational mass were separable, but I never heard the results. I'm assuming that either the experiment provided no useful data, was canceled, or it proved that Mass is Mass, Inertial is the same as Gravitational. The theory was that the math in Einsteins equations did not show a strong link between Inertial and Gravitational Mass, in fact it treated them as independent quantities.
Sorry for rambling, it's late and I feel like my brain is shutting down in stages for the night.
Of course, if the target is Free, it won't suffer any damage from the impact, which is why you bring in a SECOND planet, with a suspended inertial vector opposite the first, and perform (if I may steal a line from another show) a Malachi Crunch on the target.
(As an Engineer, so much of those stories burned themselves permanently into my mind, as each new, more powerful weapon system had by tossing the book down and screaming ,"The madmen! they're playing with more power than they can control!" Well, until they were bringing in the planet from Nth space (with an inertial vector of 15C, fifteen times the speed of light), then I screamed "The fools, they'll rip a hole in reality and destroy EVERYTHING!")
If I remember right, a few years ago NASA was going to do an experiment with a satellite to see if Inertial and Gravitational mass were separable, but I never heard the results. I'm assuming that either the experiment provided no useful data, was canceled, or it proved that Mass is Mass, Inertial is the same as Gravitational. The theory was that the math in Einsteins equations did not show a strong link between Inertial and Gravitational Mass, in fact it treated them as independent quantities.
Sorry for rambling, it's late and I feel like my brain is shutting down in stages for the night.
Bummer, -_- Seems a good lawyer could've raked you in a little of that cash, though, by getting you a nice, easy category of crime to fight. How fit do you have to be to fight, for instance, blue-collar crime? Catch some dockworker adding overtime hours he didn't work to his timecard, or locate where that stenographer really was last week instead of home sick with a cold like she said she was - bingo! You've fought crime and did it without having to jog one mile or lift one barbell.
Yep... John Wayne was the Marlborough man...
John Wayne airport is near Anaheim, a stone's throw from Steve Martin's shack in Santa Ana. There's a twice life-size bronze statue of him too. And he's no poster boy for smoking either, considering he died of lung cancer.
John Wayne airport is near Anaheim, a stone's throw from Steve Martin's shack in Santa Ana. There's a twice life-size bronze statue of him too. And he's no poster boy for smoking either, considering he died of lung cancer.
Maybe not for smoking, but he certainly made it to a lot of other posters. And yes, I once arrived at his airport (for the very first ConFurence, as I recall, held at a Holiday Inn not far away).
I could sure do with some rich uncles. The McSavages are some awfully poor rascals...
I could sure do with some rich uncles. The McSavages are some awfully poor rascals...
Interesting, since given the frictionless nature of the suit's force field she would't reach terminal velocity like most objects and would continue to build speed until she impacted (although without any injury for her other than her pride perhaps). Although since inertia is the resistance of an object to being moved if she had no inertia she'd be moved by the slightest of breezes and just a push would send her flying, so she must have inertia.
What I was playing with was the removal of a certain amount of positive outcome from Bea's alternate universe doubles, and layering them on this Bea. It would have the outcome of making her almost immune from harm, but also of making all her doubles just a little less lucky than they had been. Where as one might have only stubbed a toe in a trip, she'd break it instead. But add that up by millions, and it means a battleship dropped on Bea's head would only squirt her out to one side like a watermelon pip, totally unharmed.
some people dont get that gifts arent gifts if they are asked for (assuming I understand the situation correctly) I guess its easy for some of those who dont draw to assume it comes without effort .
I know appreciate the commissions I paid for from you back around the turn of the decade/century when you were hitting some of the california cons.
I know appreciate the commissions I paid for from you back around the turn of the decade/century when you were hitting some of the california cons.
Those were the days...
But I'm a little old for slieeping on floors and eating pretzels and greasy burgers for three or four days in a row. Besides, Fortress America isn't as easy-going about entering as it was. The Canadian dollar is higher, at least, so it isn't as expensive to travel as it was then, but then the US dollars I bring back are worth about a third less. So cons aren't as profitable as they once were. Add too much bureaucracy at the concom level, and I just don't feel up to the scene anymore. I do occasionally miss it though.
But I'm a little old for slieeping on floors and eating pretzels and greasy burgers for three or four days in a row. Besides, Fortress America isn't as easy-going about entering as it was. The Canadian dollar is higher, at least, so it isn't as expensive to travel as it was then, but then the US dollars I bring back are worth about a third less. So cons aren't as profitable as they once were. Add too much bureaucracy at the concom level, and I just don't feel up to the scene anymore. I do occasionally miss it though.
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