The Old Hack

Don't worry, they can escape through a CRACK IN THE EVENT HORIZON! (Honest to God. They actually used that as an excuse to escape a black hole once. Ow.)

OH NO! THE SINGULARITY IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE!

I am very sorry to hear of all your troubles. I hope there will be some improvement in your situation soon. You're in our thoughts, old friend.

Unless you are entirely at sea, it is all relative.

The question is, is the ship a Greek galley or a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier?

And possibly without even noticing them. Okay, that would probably take some willful ignoring. But even sailing past them would be enough to give them a lot of trouble.

Some of the latest EGS:NP posts mentioned old Greek galleys and compared them to ships o' the line. It brought back happy memories of playing Civilization 2. In one game I was kinda sorta WAY ahead of an opponent technologically. He tried to invade me using triremes. I didn't happen to have any naval units nearby at the time so I responded with cruise missiles. It struck me that this wasn't really a fair match but at least it was over quick. One moment the unsuspecting trireme would be merrily rowing along, the next, BOOM and it was a rather scattered mess of toothpicks. But the merciless march of technology did spare a kindly thought for the poor triremes, I later learned. When you invented nuclear power, one effect of this would be to give all your naval units an additional movement point. In one game I had a trireme lying in port that I had completely forgotten about. When I finally noticed it, I discovered that it had one more movement point than it should have had. It took a few moments before I realised that this was due to my Nuclear Power advance. Of course, that raised the questions of how in the world you could possibly fit a trireme with a nuclear reactor and, having done so, make the reactor somehow power the oars. I'd be really interested in seeing the blueprints for that one.

Hrm. The USS Nimitz has a displacement of over 100.000 tonnes. It would outmass the Greek fleet all on its own. Granted, "The face that launched a really big boat" doesn't sound quite as good as the bit with a thousand ships.

As long as you don't have to repeal it first.

Let us all pray sincerely to whatever powers we believe in that Jack Snyder will never be pegged to direct a Pokémon movie.

I hear the iPhone XI will have a compartment you can use to keep superhero uniforms in. An unfortunate side effect of spies and observers delivering inflated reports of enemy losses because OKW didn't want to hear of the actual ones, which were too low. I understand Stalin tried to send the bill to Mexico. They didn't pay for that one, either. A missed opportunity, that. "Only you can keep yourself from getting stupidly mauled by bears" is actually a message with some point to it.

I thought all the fighting in this game was done through Grace-a-Monsters? *scratches head*

And no-one ever as much as even mentioned Lister's faithful companion Rimmer.

http://egscomics.com/egsnp/gam-24 Double, double toil and trouble...

I am no huge Pokémon buff so I am not sure. Are they going to be some sort of Team Rocket parody?

Nah, but it's not strange. There's a lot of old hacks out there.

Sheesh, these drugs have all sorts of weird side effects. I heard that someone blamed Ambien for them making racist remarks.

This was actually true, but fortunately kindly natives helped the struggling colonists out with supplies of food and instructions in how to hunt and survive. Surely this kindness would be repaid later on.

If he had, I am sure he would have shot it down. Possibly not expect. But they had their hopes. It was their belief that if the Belgians merely rolled over and let the Germans have their way, they might pass through so fast that it could have become a political fait accompli and that other countries, principally England, would merely have issued formal diplomatic protests. But because of the 'unwarranted' Belgian resistance the advance got so bogged down that England was eventually forced to declare war in spite of considerable reluctance to do so at even this late date. The Germans resented this stiff Belgian resistance and as a result treated the Belgians very harshly to 'teach them a lesson.' Rather to the surprise of the somewhat befuddled General Staff of the Germans, the Belgians resented this and provided them with considerable trouble throughout the occupation.

Thank you for keeping us posted, Prof. I hope everything will turn out okay.

No, it is a large melon-like fruit of a plant of the gourd family, with smooth green skin, red pulp, and watery juice.

That seems kind of sad. Especially since we know that what Elliot is really good at is adding two and two together and get the cube root of watermelon.

I include sitting on the flatbed of a Ford pickup truck in that as long as I have my bedroll to sit on and my backpack to lean against.

There is a "This is CANON" image in the commentary beneath the first comic in the story.

That depends. If that power happens to be Monaco or the Vatican, it might be a bit more even match.