Today on Quantum Vibe: Minus five attometers Strip 1448 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2016-10-14
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
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Quantum Vibe
A thousand years in the future, humanity has colonized worlds in nearly
100 galaxies, thanks to Quantum Vibremonic technologies developed five
centuries earlier. Other new technologies have created various
off-shoots of humanity and extended life expectancies five-fold. The
story begins with how a mad scientist and his plucky assistant, along
with their robot friend, brought humanity to the stars, and continues
with the adventures of some unique people in fantastic places.
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Panel 1
Eithne is standing beside the table now, working with both hands on an enlarged version of the holoscreen, manipulating images with her fingers.
Eithne (thought): Hmmm … spin-2 boson diffractor locked at minus five attometers ...
Eithne: … wave spectrum filter set to range 10-7 to 105 Hertz ...
Eithne: …. quantum vibremonic constant set to 1.618033988749894848204582791003.
Eithne: Aaand, run script.
Panel 2
Eithne seated at the table again, looking at a smaller holographic screen, grimacing in frustration.
Caption: Four thousand 18 seconds later:
Eithne (thought): 729 single black holes, 1488 single neutrons, 24 double black-holes, 287 double-neutrons and … 1703 INDETERMINATE???
Eithne (out loud): Gaaa! What's wrong with this thing?
Panel 3
In a different part of the ship, Eithne is laying on her back, half submerged into a hole revealed by a removed access panel. A small tool-kit is at her side.
Eithne (thought): Gotta be a fault in the interferometers.
Eithne: No? Hmm, maybe in the antimuon-beam splitters?
Eithne: Dammit!
Panel 4
Back at the galley table, Eithne face-palms as she looks at her holographic display.
Eithne (thought): No matter how I fine-tune this thing, I still get more than a thousand 'indeterminates.'
Eithne: Less than 20 kiloseconds to the next jump. I can't go to Murphy with this!
Panel 5
She lays her head down on the table and falls asleep.
Eithne (thought): Maybe if I take a short nap the answer will … come … to ...
Eithne: ZZZZZZZ
Panel 6
A somewhat abashed Eithne is in the control room, confronted by Murphy, as Hugo looks on.
Murphy: More than a thousand indeterminate readings? How much time did you spend on this?
Eithne: All of it!!
Eithne: Well, most of it. I took a nap. It didn't help.