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Some people work best when they are locked in their offices and strapped to their chairs. Then again, this is Vanderbeam we’re talking about. He would still have found a way to do some damage.
What about the Bloater Drive, from “Bill the Galactic Hero” by Harry Harrison? It makes the ship get bigger and bigger (and more diffuse, of course) until one end of it is where you started and the other is where you want to go, then shrinks it back to normal size.
Phun Phact: The strip was orginally called Starshift Crisis. The author wanted to change it, so for a while, he ran two strips simultaneously, Starshift Crisis and Starslip Crisis. They were identical except for the drive names. Then in this strip, Vanderbeam pushed the button. The Starshift one blew up. The Starslip one continued. :)
Join interstellar art critic Vanderbeam, his drunken ex-pirate navigator Cutter and their spineless alien friend Mr. Jinx on a seven-year mission across space and time.
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ship wright said, 9 months ago
Didn’t any of these guys watch Dr. Who?
pcolli said, 9 months ago
He forgot to reverse the direction of the neutron flow.
LizardPriest said, 9 months ago
This has got to be the weirdest method of space travel I’ve ever heard of.
Tue Elung-Jensen said, 9 months ago
Volatile =trading places with versions of themself that are dead.
Dragoncat
said, 9 months ago
An Age of Apocalypse has begun.
Redkaycei Repoc said, 9 months ago
@LizardPriest
Ever read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? This is very unwierd compared to Bistro travel.
pcolli said, 9 months ago
@Redkaycei Repoc
The “Heart of Gold” travelled through all points in the universe simultaneously thanks to the science of Bistromathics.
Dragoncat
said, 9 months ago
Some people work best when they are locked in their offices and strapped to their chairs.
Then again, this is Vanderbeam we’re talking about. He would still have found a way to do some damage.
tcreole said, 9 months ago
@LizardPriest
What about the Bloater Drive, from “Bill the Galactic Hero” by Harry Harrison? It makes the ship get bigger and bigger (and more diffuse, of course) until one end of it is where you started and the other is where you want to go, then shrinks it back to normal size.
Brian Rogers
said, 9 months ago
Phun Phact: The strip was orginally called Starshift Crisis. The author wanted to change it, so for a while, he ran two strips simultaneously, Starshift Crisis and Starslip Crisis. They were identical except for the drive names. Then in this strip, Vanderbeam pushed the button. The Starshift one blew up. The Starslip one continued. :)
pcolli said, 9 months ago
If we can manage to get distance on both sides of the equation, the distance will cancel out and we will be where we want to be.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 9 months ago
Remember our capt. Vanderbeam doesn’t care what happens in any other universe. He might now.
abcd_z said, 8 months ago
Night-Gaunt: Not yet, and not any time soon, but eventually it will become a VERY large part of his motivation.
darkwingdave said, 7 months ago
What’s the matter Colonel Sanderz? Chicken?