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Re: Girl Genius 2008-11-19

goldf...@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:03:27 UT

In article <b29c1565-ba87-43ee-884e-c3ba6 a685...@k36g2000pri.googlegrou ps.com>,
Or, when Kaja was doing the lettering, she forgot what font they were
using for Von Pinn's balloons. It's been quite a while since she's
had a speaking part, after all. I've sent them an email about it,
we'll see whether it gets revised.

Re: Moon Kaboom (was Re: YASID: Short life for humans on Earth)

d...@gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:29:34 UT

If he's the pixy, wouldn't that be Kissinger?
Dave

Re: Girl Genius 2008-11-17 Hitching a ride

aberg...@physics.utexas.edu (Aaron Bergman) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:37:33 UT

In article
<fb59c0b8-6636-45c1-844a-0ca92 97c1...@i24g2000prf.googlegrou ps.com>,
It's up now if you want the answer.
Aaron

Re: Soon (?) to be a Major Motion Picture?

testo...@aol.com (Nicholas Waller) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:59:00 UT

[..]
I saw that The End of Eternity has cropped up recently, but presumably
this is a hardy perennial.
[link]
Nick

Re: Soon (?) to be a Major Motion Picture?

testo...@aol.com (Nicholas Waller) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:55:46 UT

[...]
I would like to see A Fall of Moondust, possibly in some kind of retro
style (by the time there are tourist cruiser buses on the Moon, losing
track of one would be hard to do in the first place).
Nick

Re: International Space Station--What's in a name?

testo...@aol.com (Nicholas Waller) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:35:49 UT

On 19 Nov, 11:11, "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nos...@comcast.net>
wrote:
[...]
Isis - preserves the ISS letters and stands clunkily for International
Station In Space.
Not sure how suitable Isis is, though - acc to Wpedia, she was a
goddess "worshipped as the ideal mother and wife, patron of nature and

Re: Soon (?) to be a Major Motion Picture?

jackb...@bright.net (Jack Bohn) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:23:05 UT

How do these things escape from my computer?!?
*Ahem*
Having seen some excitement about various books being announced
for filming, (for me it's _A Princess of Mars_ from Pixar,) I
just wanted to note that hope does spring eternal. Hope, not
just that we will get to see a good movie, but that we will get

International Space Station--What's in a name?

kwicker1b_nos...@comcast.net (Ken from Chicago) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:11:27 UT

It's the 10th anniversary of the International Space Station:
[link]
So, um maybe it should get a real name?
-- Ken from Chicago (who prefers "Pinnacle" or Astronomical Place for
Extraterrestrial eXperimentation or simply "A.P.E.X." for short)

Re: Not One of Us

testo...@aol.com (Nicholas Waller) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:44:54 UT

Though not directly referencing Dawkins' comments (which weren't about
Potter), this seems to have some passing relevance to the general
discussion: the people running the blogs Biology In Science Fiction
and Almost Diamonds are doing a panel on science fiction at Science09
and soliciting comments from science bloggers in advance -

Re: Girl Genius (GG) 2008-11-19

jai...@sometimes.sessile.org (Jaimie Vandenbergh) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:53:09 UT

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:39:31 +0000 (UTC), phoe...@ofb.net (Damien
This one wonders if von Pinn even knows that *Agatha* is the
Heterodyne in question, at this point. How could she know? Only the
Kessle and Agatha's immediate group are certain, after the testing.
Oh, and Punch & Judy who are up in Castle Wulfenbach, although I

Re: Moon Kaboom (was Re: YASID: Short life for humans on Earth)

jai...@sometimes.sessile.org (Jaimie Vandenbergh) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:49:30 UT

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:29:01 GMT, djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
I was assuming Kissinger, but the artist's portraits are... not
terribly accurate, so I'm not at all confident.
Cheers - Jaimie

Re: Does "Farmer in the Sky" break your suspension of disbelief?

jsav...@ecn.ab.ca (Quadibloc) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:39:44 UT

Indeed. This happened, though it is hard to believe.
But today, with global warming a threat, and with oil dependency
aiding terrorism...
it will _really_ be unbelievable if these obstacles are not swept
aside within a few years.
Of course, for there to be motive to overcome them, energy limits
would have to pinch - and as long as fossil fuels remain available,

Re: Girl Genius 2008-11-17 Hitching a ride

jsav...@ecn.ab.ca (Quadibloc) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:30:09 UT

Yes. And so it could have been a slaver wasp - not being made a head
in a jar - that Beetle feared when he threw that bomb.
John Savard

Re: Girl Genius (GG) 2008-11-19

jsav...@ecn.ab.ca (Quadibloc) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:23:29 UT

While that's possible, her actions certainly made it prudent for
Agatha to regard her as a menace.
Will Agatha have the opportunity to observe to von Pinn that killing
her, after her older brother has already died, would only compound her
failure?
Or is von Pinn returning to perform a final duty?
Perhaps Agatha's third test, to prove that she has the capacity to

Re: Girl Genius 2008-11-17 Hitching a ride

pl...@newsreaders.com (J Moreno) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:49:33 UT

The point about the Castle is well made, controlling it gives her an
extremely solid base and gets her recognized as a legitimate Hetrodyne,
but doesn't really gain her a lot when she's out and about.
The bit about Klaus is alright (*sorta) up until the "as her deputy".
He's not her deputy, and she doesn't rule Eurpoe -- if anyone does it's