I was expecting something more ‘Mecha Gnomish’ to be impacting his nuts when they want him to fire. Especially since any kind of ‘spider’ trigger is just as likely to end their civilization.
I was expecting a bit more compensation for the fact that he’s exposed to vacuum, and I think they would have been a bit better off with a bit more aiming built into their solution.
Besides that, it’s about right. I suppose you have to insert a bit of inanity like the lack of aiming, since it’s a humor comic. If you have a very technically executed, precise plan, it breaks the style of the comic.
You would start to have serious issues after a few minutes. Plus, if extreme care wasn’t taken to reduce the air pressure inside of his lungs very gradually, you would have an issue with his lungs blowing a hole out through his side. The survival of the handful of technicians who were exposed to vacuum was only possible because they exhaled very rapidly.
The very low air pressure in his lungs would be an issue for him getting enough oxygen, but switching off to pure oxygen might take care of the issue. I dunno.
The skin’s exposure to vacuum isn’t the issue, in other words. It’s the pressure differential on the stuff inside of the skin, which is used to working at much higher air pressure. It isn’t instantly fatal, with your eyes shooting from your eye sockets and your head exploding, as you sometimes see in movies. You would experience severe, fatal tissue trauma over time, though.
It’s sort of like a bullet wound. The hole going through your body isn’t what actually kills you, most of the time. It’s the massive trauma from the hydrostatic shock to the surrounding tissues.
You would start to have serious issues after a few minutes. Plus, if extreme care wasn’t taken to reduce the air pressure inside of his lungs very gradually, you would have an issue with his lungs blowing a hole out through his side. The survival of the handful of technicians who were exposed to vacuum was only possible because they exhaled very rapidly.
The very low air pressure in his lungs would be an issue for him getting enough oxygen, but switching off to pure oxygen might take care of the issue. I dunno.
The skin’s exposure to vacuum isn’t the issue, in other words. It’s the pressure differential on the stuff inside of the skin, which is used to working at much higher air pressure. It isn’t instantly fatal, with your eyes shooting from your eye sockets and your head exploding, as you sometimes see in movies. You would experience severe, fatal tissue trauma over time, though.
It’s sort of like a bullet wound. The hole going through your body isn’t what actually kills you, most of the time. It’s the massive trauma from the hydrostatic shock to the surrounding tissues.
(damn, I tripped the moderation by posting two links in one comment; second one to follow) http://www.geoffreylandis.com/vacuum.html
… if you’re interested in a few good reads (if you’re as boring as I am). The conclusion seems to be that you can be resuscitated after up to about 90 seconds to two minutes of exposure.
There’s nothing in his origin story about a mirror. It just said he was permanently blinded by his first laser blast.
Because, you know, firing laser blasts from behind your eyeballs has very bad for your eyeballs. There was the one page in which Mr. Doctor healed his eyes, and then he fired at a spider that he passed, immediately blinding himself again.
Better than testing it on humans. This is valuable information for the space program, and no mock-up testing equipment will suffice, particularly what they had back in the 60’s.
And the main fatalities comes from lung damage and asphyxiation with is kinda covered by the breathing apparatus. Yeah, the blood does boil, but not as much since the skin is tougher than the inside of the lungs. Just the tiny capillaries, survivable in the short term.
I think he’s good for at least three minutes without a life support force field.
I wonder, where they did put the saddle. Will he get him back, since I doubt they did carve a hole in their ship for it?
Or will he get a refund, once back on earth? Time for a costume-change! New saddle! Whohoo!
@Vorpal Bunny: I think they are always at full power since he can’t block them using his eyelids. Also he did give full rein after learning what the name “Arachnid Dude” meant.
It may be his own fault for offering help, but he might have a chance of actually saving them.
Well, it’s good that they fixed his body – he can at least not destroy their own ship (which could happen if he’d only drift around). Their planet, however…I hope they got their maths and angles right
Raise your hand if you thought this was going to end like this.
Well at least he’s not freezing…
I was expecting something more ‘Mecha Gnomish’ to be impacting his nuts when they want him to fire. Especially since any kind of ‘spider’ trigger is just as likely to end their civilization.
I totally expected this, there was no other option in my head.
I could not think of a less galmorous way for him to help in this war, so this is what I thought off.
I was fairly certain it was going to end up like this. Let’s see how it backfires.
Yep. I could see this coming from a light-year away…
(pun intended)
I was expecting a bit more compensation for the fact that he’s exposed to vacuum, and I think they would have been a bit better off with a bit more aiming built into their solution.
Besides that, it’s about right. I suppose you have to insert a bit of inanity like the lack of aiming, since it’s a humor comic. If you have a very technically executed, precise plan, it breaks the style of the comic.
To be fair an improvised living anti-starship pintle mount rocks.
Pony on the grille – must be a Ford Mustang.
+1 groaner
Not a Ford Prefect?
So I guess laser pony just has the power to survive in space….
Kinda, he’s wearing an oxygen tank, but not a pressurized suit
Not sure how the alien guy knew he wouldn’t need a suit though
Skin is tough… relatively. Vacuum isn’t as deadly as it seems.
You would start to have serious issues after a few minutes. Plus, if extreme care wasn’t taken to reduce the air pressure inside of his lungs very gradually, you would have an issue with his lungs blowing a hole out through his side. The survival of the handful of technicians who were exposed to vacuum was only possible because they exhaled very rapidly.
The very low air pressure in his lungs would be an issue for him getting enough oxygen, but switching off to pure oxygen might take care of the issue. I dunno.
The skin’s exposure to vacuum isn’t the issue, in other words. It’s the pressure differential on the stuff inside of the skin, which is used to working at much higher air pressure. It isn’t instantly fatal, with your eyes shooting from your eye sockets and your head exploding, as you sometimes see in movies. You would experience severe, fatal tissue trauma over time, though.
It’s sort of like a bullet wound. The hole going through your body isn’t what actually kills you, most of the time. It’s the massive trauma from the hydrostatic shock to the surrounding tissues.
http://www.geoffreylandis.com/vacuum.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/survival-in-space-unprotected-possible/
… if you’re interested in a few good reads (if you’re as boring as I am). The conclusion seems to be that you can be resuscitated after up to about 90 seconds to two minutes of exposure.
You would start to have serious issues after a few minutes. Plus, if extreme care wasn’t taken to reduce the air pressure inside of his lungs very gradually, you would have an issue with his lungs blowing a hole out through his side. The survival of the handful of technicians who were exposed to vacuum was only possible because they exhaled very rapidly.
The very low air pressure in his lungs would be an issue for him getting enough oxygen, but switching off to pure oxygen might take care of the issue. I dunno.
The skin’s exposure to vacuum isn’t the issue, in other words. It’s the pressure differential on the stuff inside of the skin, which is used to working at much higher air pressure. It isn’t instantly fatal, with your eyes shooting from your eye sockets and your head exploding, as you sometimes see in movies. You would experience severe, fatal tissue trauma over time, though.
It’s sort of like a bullet wound. The hole going through your body isn’t what actually kills you, most of the time. It’s the massive trauma from the hydrostatic shock to the surrounding tissues.
(damn, I tripped the moderation by posting two links in one comment; second one to follow)
http://www.geoffreylandis.com/vacuum.html
… if you’re interested in a few good reads (if you’re as boring as I am). The conclusion seems to be that you can be resuscitated after up to about 90 seconds to two minutes of exposure.
although you have to consider that the only part of
his body unable to withstand his eye beams is his eyeballs
Have we ever tested this? I don’t recall him ever hitting himself with his eye beams.
It’s in his origin story. Straight after the op, he looks into a mirror and blinds himself.
There’s nothing in his origin story about a mirror. It just said he was permanently blinded by his first laser blast.
Because, you know, firing laser blasts from behind your eyeballs has very bad for your eyeballs. There was the one page in which Mr. Doctor healed his eyes, and then he fired at a spider that he passed, immediately blinding himself again.
And the second link (stupid of me), which tripped the moderation:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/survival-in-space-unprotected-possible/
read the article interesting information though i really don’t like the way it was obtained
Better than testing it on humans. This is valuable information for the space program, and no mock-up testing equipment will suffice, particularly what they had back in the 60’s.
And the main fatalities comes from lung damage and asphyxiation with is kinda covered by the breathing apparatus. Yeah, the blood does boil, but not as much since the skin is tougher than the inside of the lungs. Just the tiny capillaries, survivable in the short term.
I think he’s good for at least three minutes without a life support force field.
Well … yeah. Being good for about 3 minutes is still very dead, fairly quickly. :-D I don’t think he’s going to last very long into the battle.
If your strongest qualification after the phrase “your blood does boil,” is “but not as much” … you’re still having a very bad day.
it’s star trek ripoff shields for atmo although obviously the lazer should be rippin to shreds so maybe not.
Nice to see LP finally applying himself!
Just don’t let him look over his shoulder…
So that’s how these aliens ‘ride the pony.’
I wonder, where they did put the saddle. Will he get him back, since I doubt they did carve a hole in their ship for it?
Or will he get a refund, once back on earth? Time for a costume-change! New saddle! Whohoo!
I wonder if this is the first time that he got the chance to give full rein to use his power.
What did the old saying go?
“You can tie the pony to the front of your spaceship, but you can’t make it shoot his lasers”?
That is, unless you know the unsafe word.
@Vorpal Bunny: I think they are always at full power since he can’t block them using his eyelids. Also he did give full rein after learning what the name “Arachnid Dude” meant.
http://superredundant.com/?comic=268-revelations
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t teach him to make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke.
I always thought that his powers were an all or nothing sort of thing. I don’t think there is any reining in the all mighty Laser Pony.
There should be some way to limit it, since the city is still there, despite all his practice with Buccaress in the saddle.
I wouldn’t worry to much about it. It’s powered by narration.
Sort of like Stewie on Family Guy. Can people understand what he says, or does his complex speech come out as baby-talk to everyone else?
It varies from episode to episode. Whichever possibility fits the purposes of the current story is how it works at that time.
Brian seems to be able to understand him all of the time, though.
Ah, interesting. I wonder if you can communicate with LP’s laser?
Yes, but they only have one thing to say, and they aren’t very subtle about it.
It may be his own fault for offering help, but he might have a chance of actually saving them.
Well, it’s good that they fixed his body – he can at least not destroy their own ship (which could happen if he’d only drift around). Their planet, however…I hope they got their maths and angles right
I’m definitely starting to believe these are the bad guys he’s working for.
Ah, good, bad, I’m the one with the ah… shackles?