Polite Dissent

5 Responses to “ Technobabble Theater starring Nick Fury (with help from Dr. Bruce Banner) ”

1. raymond larsson
   June 22nd, 2007 at 7:06 pm
   

   “Everything has a unique frequency?”
   ahh, no. Everything probably can be characterized by a unique *set* of frequencies, but those sets would tend to be infinite and thus not very calcuable.(and truncated sets would probably not be unique)

   “Everything is filled with infinite space?”
   Arguably what with all the sub-atomic universes.

   “Solar energy (a vague term) becomes atomic energy — sub atomically?”
   You’ve got me … .

   “And doesn’t Nick Fury look like a muppet here?”
   Waldorf or Statler?

2. Jon Hendry
   June 22nd, 2007 at 9:21 pm
   

   That’s what you might call negative-space technobabble.

   The writer just kind of dabs at a suggested outline, and you’re supposed to fill in the rest.

   It’s like the writer knows he can’t write this stuff, so he falls back on ’see where I’m going with this?’/

3. SanctumSanctorumComix
   June 25th, 2007 at 10:22 am
   

   As for the “infinite space” line…

   I think he’s being a bit liberal with the FRACTAL theory of space.

   Part of the whole “Chaos Theory” dealt with infinites and they used FRACTALS to show that, no matter how much you zoomed in on ANY section of a fractal, it would produce MORE surface area.

   Then they took that 2D theory/fact into a 3D model, to show that no matter how far “in” to something you could go, there was infinite space to continue (just smaller).
   Then, I guess it goes sub-atomic and can continue like that nearly ad infinitum (until sub-dimensional?).

   ~P~
   P-TOR

4. Juho Salo
   June 30th, 2007 at 6:41 am
   

   This leads to Planet Hulk, right? So actually, that Fury really IS a muppet, as the real one bailed months earlier.

5. Blue Spider
   July 24th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
   

   Nick Fury looks like a goober.
   a potatohead.

   a fiend.

   this art is bad,.

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