And that is why you don’t use a fantasy-world intern as your tech-backup.
As far as Tinkerbelle there is concerned, “radioactive” is a word and some numbers on a screen. She hasn’t learned that “radioactive” means “toxic” in a whole new way.
Sounds about right for something she can see but that the machine doesn’t detect.
Or maybe elves can detect radiation, assuming radioactive means the same thing to her and it’s not just shining magical energy on everything around it.
The residue does react to electromagnetic interactions and the weak force, but not in the way / frequency range the machine uses it to detect and analyze materials. Maybe it phase-shifts things out of existence.
“but not in the way / frequency range the machine uses”
In our universe, there would not be a difference, but we’d die from cancer instead of gaining super powers, too.
Quantum uncertainty: it’s Schrödinger’s residue, you don’t know if it’s there or not until you inject it.
It happens with most illegal drugs in fact, even those that are not radioactive at all. It’s a bug that is a feature because of quantum superposition at fundamental levels of the laws of the Universe that not even a covenant made up of Sean Carroll, Brian Greene, Sabine Hossenfelder, Juan Maldacena, Roger Penrose, Leonard Susskind and the ghost of old good Steven Hawking would be able to unravel.
I know. I also considered that but the sentence does not make sense if I consider “lead” to be a verb. You don’t “lead with” a problem, you “deal” with it.
To ‘lead with’ something means to make it the first thing, so that it leads the rest of the sentence/event. GG is saying “You should probably have made that the FIRST thing you told me, not the LAST!”
And that is why you don’t use a fantasy-world intern as your tech-backup.
As far as Tinkerbelle there is concerned, “radioactive” is a word and some numbers on a screen. She hasn’t learned that “radioactive” means “toxic” in a whole new way.
Little errors like that can pile up.
Exactly what I was thinking. Heck, she may not even know what “radio” means, much less “radioactive”.
How do you know it is radioactive though?
If your machine can tell you that, it is detecting it. And you just said your machine is not detecting it.
Sounds about right for something she can see but that the machine doesn’t detect.
Or maybe elves can detect radiation, assuming radioactive means the same thing to her and it’s not just shining magical energy on everything around it.
The residue does react to electromagnetic interactions and the weak force, but not in the way / frequency range the machine uses it to detect and analyze materials. Maybe it phase-shifts things out of existence.
Well the machine should use spectral analysis to… analyse it. That is pretty much electromagnetic. Which is also how we see things.
“but not in the way / frequency range the machine uses”
In our universe, there would not be a difference, but we’d die from cancer instead of gaining super powers, too.
The machine can detect it’s radiation. As such, it uses some way of registering the substance based on it’s radiation.
Unless it is the elf, who detected the radiation of course.
Maybe she meant the cartridge itself was radioactive. She only said she couldn’t get a reading on the residue inside it.
Quantum uncertainty: it’s Schrödinger’s residue, you don’t know if it’s there or not until you inject it.
It happens with most illegal drugs in fact, even those that are not radioactive at all. It’s a bug that is a feature because of quantum superposition at fundamental levels of the laws of the Universe that not even a covenant made up of Sean Carroll, Brian Greene, Sabine Hossenfelder, Juan Maldacena, Roger Penrose, Leonard Susskind and the ghost of old good Steven Hawking would be able to unravel.
Wee tinkerbell has gotten accustomed to the present day technology pretty fast, but her “exposition-banter” lacks behind a little.
She’s not into exposition. She made that quite clear in the previous strip.
Was the pun “lead” instead of “deal”?
Else you have a typo…
“Lead” is not a typo.
“Lead” is the present participle of the verb “to lead”. “Led” is its past participle.
I know. I also considered that but the sentence does not make sense if I consider “lead” to be a verb. You don’t “lead with” a problem, you “deal” with it.
To ‘lead with’ something means to make it the first thing, so that it leads the rest of the sentence/event. GG is saying “You should probably have made that the FIRST thing you told me, not the LAST!”
No typo, it makes perfect grammatical sense.
Exactly. Tinks was reading off a list of the item’s attributes, not a list of the problems she’s having with the scanner.
And it’s always best to lead with the most pertinent or pressing issues on a list.
so, kinda just an energy pack, like a bullet magazine for a scifi gun?
A gun, a substance that’s there and not there, people not being where they used to be …
no, not a single clue.
That can’t be good!