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It attempted to tear the Earth asunder, but had too little power?

The undesirable attraction and tidal stress from space-bending can be counteracted by incorporating negative-mass. Within the relevant theories, negative matter is analogous to antimatter, except that its inertia and gravitation are negative. If a normal particle and its negative partner touch, they are completely negated--their energies sum to zero, so there is no release of mass-energy unlike the giant release of a matter/antimatter reaction. Hypothetically, this would mean that no net energy would have to be expended to create a particle/negaparticle pair, but so far no one has come up with a workable way to induce such pairs to form in the real world. However, the existence of negative mass is essential to current theories for wormholes and for Alcubierre-White (Warp) drive. In other words, making warp drive work would be equivalent to creating temporary negative masses. As for the comic, all of this physics stuff assumes that the shrinking is a quasi-stable state (i.e. will hold together without extra energy). However, it has been said (by Adrian in particular) that transformations (and presumably other spells) that must hold normal physics in continued abeyance (such as major size changes) require energy to sustain--usually either the initial energy charge added at the time of casting, or the energy stores of the altered lifeform (if alive), or else environmental energy (if dense enough, such as Moperville with the energy clog in effect). Energy is thus being constantly used, not only to hold the target in its transformed state, but also to enable its interaction with the outside world (in the case of sizechange, altering the size of photons and of air/food/water molecules that cross the barrier). To use an analogy, the spell is acting as Catalina's "space suit" to allow her to walk around in an otherwise-unlivable environment where the air molecules, etc. are too big for her needs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_mass

Well, if the phone is incorporated into her, then her entire body can act as the antenna, since the human body is electrically conductive.

Aside from the antenna issue, the strength of the signal sent out by the phone would shrink by the same proportion, so the cell tower may not be able to hear the signal even if the wavelength mismatch wasn't there.

Well, we DID ask him to tell us the gag . . .

Yes, the amount of active ingredient is not the determiner of the costs--the vast majority of the costs incurred by the drug company are for marketing, distribution, and researching the drug in the first place. This gives an incentive for customers/patients to buy a pill that is twice as large and slice it in half (if it's a tablet and not a capsule).

So, like, Helena and Demetrius back during spring might have been noticed...

But short is cuter!

That reminds me of Cheerleadra/Elliot carrying the Nanase doll in the waistband of the Cheerleadra skirt while flying in http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2184

There can be only one solution to this argument--shrink Ellen to match Rhoda and then compare them!

And that would be why the majority of women carry purses if they aren't already carrying a larger bag/backpack of some sort. I think that the reason for women's clothes having fewer/smaller pockets is because the whole design of modern women's clothes (at least the ones that are meant to show off a woman's figure) is for them to be close-fitting and hug their curves relatively tightly. Having bulging pockets detracts from this. So yes, you can blame men's sexual attraction (and/or women's desire to attract sexual attention) for it.

I dunno--Rhoda's looking pretty busty in http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=530

Yes--at present, the set of ultracapacitors that would be needed to power a laser powerful enough to kill a human wearing reasonable body armor would take up an entire heavy backpack and still only be good for a couple of shots. It's the same disadvantage as backpack-mounted flamethrowers or jetpacks--you run out of fuel within moments, after which the device becomes dead weight. Lasers might be practical to replace stationary machine gun emplacements, however--you can hide the generator and its fuel tank behind your wall-o-sandbags.

Also, it's confirmed that they know nothing that doesn't already exist inside Sarah's mind, which means that asking them any questions will not give Sarah any data from the mind of the person being simulated--she has zero access to the thoughts and knowledge of the person, which throws the "interrogate someone without the original knowing about it" gambit out the window.

Yeah, they haven't come up with sufficiently energy-efficient lasers for human-portable use yet. The best they can do at present is something the size of a van that can burn a hole in armored vehicles. But hey, that means that we can build laser tanks next tech iteration!

Indeed, the logistics of keeping hosts directories synchronized was the driving factor for having centralized DNS name resolution, more so than the sheer size of the IPv4 namespace (tens of gigabytes needed to hold it all in an era where single hard drives were smaller than one gigabyte).

Inception!

Half the time I just skip the coffee part and take no-doz instead. It's quicker and more convenient when I'm running late.

Heh. It's more like the fifty-inch Rhoda.

Yup, anything that anybody within Sarah's mindspace might say would come from Sarah's own mind, so it couldn't give her any brand-new information, merely give voice to something already in her mind/subconscious. She might get an "Oh, I hadn't thought about it that way" insight, but not any actual new data.

The limit is probably smaller than 50%. There already exist adults who are less than 50% of the dimensions of median adults in most measurements (yes, that means weighing less than 10 kg as well). Quite probably the limit is at least a bit smaller than the smallest healthy adults who have ever existed.

Well, I was trying to describe a sort of sliding scale with objects with few parts which Sarah all understands being on one end and objects with millions of parts which Sarah mostly doesn't understand being on the other end. Most adults and teenagers understand the principles that make a mechanical clock work, even if they don't understand the job of every single cog or the numbers involved. Computers, on the other hand, are pretty opaque to anybody who hasn't taken college-level electrical engineering (at least in the "how do circuits perform the work" sense--programming a computer is simpler than designing that same computer).

I figure that anything that Sarah knows the inner workings of (e.g. doors, mechanical clocks) will be simulated in full detail, but something as complicated as a computer chip would be more of a "black box" without the literal one billion components all present and functional. Something like an automobile would be a middle ground--she'd understand the mechanical parts and the principles of internal combustion well enough, but not the details of the computerized Engine Control Unit present in just about every automobile since 1990-ish.

That plus Sarah-Tedd's blushy reaction is prime OT3 fuel. Since Grace isn't acting quite the way that Sarah had planned, I am willing to bet that Grace is running off of Sarah's subconscious expectations or desires, like how Fox or Susan's Faeries are directed.

Well, the long hair and boobs/curves being Nanase-class is probably something that Sarah would want, given her earlier expressions of envy.