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ijuin
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The "psionic Superman" idea would explain quite well how he can lift a battleship without just punching a hole through it--even if he is strong enough, the ship is not strong enough to be held up by such a small area.
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As Arthur said, the real danger is not of people learning about magic per se, but rather of it becoming known that any idiot can Awaken if they are determined enough. Both Magic and DGB want to prevent the kind of scenario mentioned in Pandora's former-life memory, where armies (or gangs) of Mages decide to terrorize and/or subjugate Muggles on a large scale.
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Ooh, sounds yummy. My mom's family is descended from Chinese immigrants, so I get a lot of exposure to Chinese-style cooking.
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Orange beef? Is that like orange chicken, but made with beef?
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Well, the Stone Age does come before the Bronze Age, and the 1960s were also part of the "Rock Age" (as in Rock and Roll)... Although a major part of why 1960s-70s American comics were so superficial was due to the Comics Code Authority and the banning of sex, drugs, graphic violence, and such themes as "letting the bad guys ever win" or "portraying heroes as less than moral paragons", and by extension, "portraying villains as sympathetic or anything besides morally depraved". This led to the simplistic and repetitive "the flawless heroes defeat the vile villains before the end of each episode" format, lacking in any moral complexity.
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I believe it was pre-Crisis. Bronze Age, specifically.
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That would not work if his real aim was how other people would react to Elliot being murdered. For example, all of Elliot's friends might go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, and the Rampage itself was the real reason for killing Elliot. I think that I am starting to see the overall positions that Pandora and Voltaire are taking. Pandora wants to shift the balance of power in favor of Mortals by spreading around the Magic, while Voltaire wants to shift the balance in favor of Immortals. However, both of them have a final goal of giving their kind (and their kin) more latitude to act--Pandora by allowing the more-permissive set of rules for interacting with Mages to apply more often (as opposed to the more-restrictive rules for dealing with Muggles, especially the ones who are supposed to be kept ignorant of the very existence of magic), and Voltaire by getting the rules themselves loosened.
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He did refer to his current plan as "a complicated mess", so perhaps he is trying to create such a disaster that it will sway the opinion of the Immortal community towards "We might have prevented this disaster if we had been able to intervene directly". Making Pandora completely lose herself with rage (e.g. by wrecking the lives of her "extended family" such as Tedd, etc.) and go on a hugely destructive rampage might be the key to this. As for the "got lucky with Dex and Tara" part, when one is an Immortal well past the customary reset date, one is able to forecast the hurricane that will be created by the flap of a particular butterfly's wings. He may have been "lucky" in the sense of such optimal people being available for him to manipulate, but that's more a matter of being lucky that gold nuggets are in the river in the first place as opposed to being lucky in finding them given that they already exist.
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It's Boing, not Boeing.
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Either Catalina is so catlike already that nobody notices the difference, or people are just not paying sufficient attention to her to register it. What's odd is that Rhoda hasn't reacted, given that she is paying quite a lot of attention to Catalina . . . Also, who here saw that Pandora was still wearing eyeglasses in the fourth panel before reading this post?
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Yeah, bacteria have already adapted to some plastics. In a few decades we will be able to engineer them to eat any plastics that we wish.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria These bacteria have developed the ability to digest nylon, a substance believed not to have existed anywhere on Earth in bulk quantities before 1935. As an aside, the fact that a strain of bacteria has developed this ability, implies that we could engineer bacteria to biodegrade our waste plastic, although that would bring with it the drawback that we would have to use a coat of some sort of paint to protect plastic against them in the outdoors (as we do for wood).
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How can he show himself to be responsible with priceless and irreplacable repositories of knowledge if he no longer possesses any with which to demonstrate responsibility? Is this a Catch-22?
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Considering that she is being cuddled up to by someone who is known for the ability to shrink stuff, and who has done it accidentally before, that is a distinct possibility.
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An Elf would be an excellent host, once the Immortal parent is permanently removed from interfering, that is. It is highly unlikely that an Immortal parent who is involved in a child's life is going to sit by while a body snatcher takes over their child.
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Sirleck would doubtlessly prefer a host who would give him more power, either magic power or socioeconomic power. The secretary has neither, being a mere minion. A young and strong Mage such as Magus/Elliot, however, is an extremely tempting target.
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For wi-fi range issues within your house, you might want to look into getting a wi-fi extender (it's basically a signal repeater that plugs into your wall electrical socket). Decent ones can be had for $US30-40.
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The question is of whether Math would be "cured" by such a method, given that being "distracted by the sexy" is an integral gag for the character.
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When has that ever worked?
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She might, but I think that the point in this panel is that Catalina is unable to see or feel Pandora "touching" her to mark her.
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I think that it is visual shorthand to remind us that she is now back on an astral plane (and thus invisible and intangible to most humans).
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But they get brownie points!
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Antimatter explosions are mostly gamma rays and neutrinos--there are no loose neutrons generated in the way that fission reactions tend to do, so there is far less radioactive material left over afterwards than with nuclear bombs of comparable yield.
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Hopefully Edward is quick enough to tell the kids that attacking Voltaire would essentially give him carte blanche to use any counter-attack, up to and including lethal force, if Voltaire so wishes.
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So, in short, it was literally cheaper to buy cake than bread at the time, so the statement was not "let them deal with high prices by buying something even higher priced", as many modern people assume at first glance, but rather "let them use the next cheapest substitute".
