I think I recognize the “circle with cross” background – I believe it is a sheet of those old rub-off registration marks that I used about 100 years ago when creating two color illustrations for magazines. … am I correct? Anyone?
Any impish Slayer of Bugs should probably be squashed, because he is no better than the bugs he slays, but is more dangerous because he’s got a big mouth….
Sure, but you cannot sustain that level indefinitely. Eventually, all that heat and humidity is going to result in a buildup of ice at the poles, and then the whole world is going to be locked into an ice age while the thermal energy stored in the seas discharges as more ice and snow. The world will be severely cooled by the enhanced reflectivity and available fresh water resources for heat sink and evaporative cooling effects inland.
Aye, but there is the rub.The heat is absorbed by the seas.Water regulates temperatures on Earth.That heat is then converted to kinetic motion by the state change of water. In the present day, the atmosphere is only able to sustain roughly 5% water vapor, with the majority of tropical summer vapor plumes falling back to their source seas because there is not enough vapor being produced to expand the atmosphere and the heat envelope to allow further transport. When the seas are much warmer, they will produce much more vapor with the same amount of solar energy, and the expanded heat envelope of the deeper and denser atmosphere will hold more than twice the water vapor. The Sun will be darkened, as seen through a cloth, and the Moon appear as blood, to put it mildly. But that is only the beginning. As the raging snows build ice in the polar regions, they will force extrusion of glacial mass, which will extend the cold toward the equator. The world will be very green, but that greening will increase the ice buildup as well. With an increased energy differential, the seas will really crank up vapor production, and the end result will be massive ice sheets. Their gradual cooling effect, along with the cooling of the seas, will lead to an atmospheric collapse and cooling. The cooling will cause aridity, and the ice will recede, slowly at first, and then quickly and violently, and then it will reach a stable plateau for thousands of years, with deserts growing and ice receding gradually. And that brings us to the present moment.
Randy B Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Bugs are natural.Impish homunculi are not.
Mad-ge Dish Soap almost 9 years ago
A bug man logo…
Bill Thompson almost 9 years ago
You little devil you!
Mad-ge Dish Soap almost 9 years ago
You stab um,
We slab um.
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 9 years ago
So now, RAID has been expanded from just Striping and Mirroring, to include Poking and Slashing.
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Can we make him smaller and produce armies that can destroy viral and bacterial bugs? That would be fun.
coltish1 almost 9 years ago
This would be a good decoration in a programmer’s office.
William Neal McPheeters almost 9 years ago
I think I recognize the “circle with cross” background – I believe it is a sheet of those old rub-off registration marks that I used about 100 years ago when creating two color illustrations for magazines. … am I correct? Anyone?
Sisyphos almost 9 years ago
Any impish Slayer of Bugs should probably be squashed, because he is no better than the bugs he slays, but is more dangerous because he’s got a big mouth….
Larry Williams Premium Member almost 9 years ago
what’s that little thing between his legs
wilburgarrod almost 9 years ago
@emmitfunneed a pants suit to cover that thing.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 9 years ago
I got nothing, sooo…
Jkiss almost 9 years ago
Said the tiny elf who was later mistaken for a bug and whacked by a rouge flyswatter.
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Sure, but you cannot sustain that level indefinitely. Eventually, all that heat and humidity is going to result in a buildup of ice at the poles, and then the whole world is going to be locked into an ice age while the thermal energy stored in the seas discharges as more ice and snow. The world will be severely cooled by the enhanced reflectivity and available fresh water resources for heat sink and evaporative cooling effects inland.
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 9 years ago
What’s a tiny demon or two between friends?
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Aye, but there is the rub.The heat is absorbed by the seas.Water regulates temperatures on Earth.That heat is then converted to kinetic motion by the state change of water. In the present day, the atmosphere is only able to sustain roughly 5% water vapor, with the majority of tropical summer vapor plumes falling back to their source seas because there is not enough vapor being produced to expand the atmosphere and the heat envelope to allow further transport. When the seas are much warmer, they will produce much more vapor with the same amount of solar energy, and the expanded heat envelope of the deeper and denser atmosphere will hold more than twice the water vapor. The Sun will be darkened, as seen through a cloth, and the Moon appear as blood, to put it mildly. But that is only the beginning. As the raging snows build ice in the polar regions, they will force extrusion of glacial mass, which will extend the cold toward the equator. The world will be very green, but that greening will increase the ice buildup as well. With an increased energy differential, the seas will really crank up vapor production, and the end result will be massive ice sheets. Their gradual cooling effect, along with the cooling of the seas, will lead to an atmospheric collapse and cooling. The cooling will cause aridity, and the ice will recede, slowly at first, and then quickly and violently, and then it will reach a stable plateau for thousands of years, with deserts growing and ice receding gradually. And that brings us to the present moment.