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Christopher Baldwin writes:

My friend Stewart Baker, who helped do all the coding for this site, wrote another very short comedy story for Nature, Journal of Science “How to configure your quantum disambiguator“. Give it a looksie. 🙂

02/05/15 Artifacts 20

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17 Comments

  1. Tim McCormack
    February 5, 2015 at 7:04 am

    Interesting that soil is the only one not emitting something. Uh… at least not from its mouth…

  2. MattStriker
    February 5, 2015 at 7:31 am

    So…the humans have Water, the Anaardens have Fire, and Soil is the one being fought over.

  3. Herandar
    February 5, 2015 at 9:19 am

    Need to update the links. Can’t navigate directly to the new comic from Yontengu.

  4. Karlos F.
    February 5, 2015 at 9:35 am

    And to complement what Tim McCormack pointed, I noticed the yontengus are kind of conected: wind emits to water, water to fire and fire to soil…

  5. Christopher Baldwin
    February 5, 2015 at 10:37 am

    @Herander, could you clarify? What link where linking to what?

  6. Muzhik
    February 5, 2015 at 2:37 pm

    @Christopher, Thanks to the link on quantum disambiguation! I forwarded the link to my youngest daughter, who just turned 18 and is a senior in college majoring in math and physics. Hopefully, it will prove useful some day. Or not.

  7. Stewart
    February 5, 2015 at 2:55 pm

    @Muzhik Hope you (and your daughter) enjoy it!

    And wow. Your daughter sounds smart.

  8. Night-Gaunt
    February 5, 2015 at 4:49 pm

    So will anyone come up with the 5th element and sweep the board?

  9. andreas
    February 5, 2015 at 5:56 pm

    Yontengu plays with so many “elementary” ideas and works (en vogue since at least the pre-socratics 😉 but the four elements in the last panel are so close to Mike DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko (Bryke)’s Avatar Cycle

    water, soil (earth), fire, wind (air):
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJUgCzEdx9k
    intro to:

    Avatar the Last Airbender (2005-2008)
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417299/

    also the just concluded: The Legend of Korra (2012-2014)
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1695360/

    which both come exceptionally highly recommended (in case Chris has inexplicably still not watched any of this 😉

  10. Christopher Baldwin
    February 5, 2015 at 6:11 pm

    @Andreas, nice! Um, but, what is it similar to? Are there beasts like that in the show that resemble these? Or just that there are four being representing the four elements?

    I have not watched a lot of television since the 80s. These are some on my list to eventually check out. 🙂

  11. Donahe
    February 5, 2015 at 6:28 pm

    @ Andreas, i have watched the last Airbender and Korra, and when Christopher sent me the script, these shows didn’t even come into my mind. True they both use the elements, but the way it is used here is nothing like Avatar. Yomtengus monsters seem to me to have more of a Frankenstein’s monster, mixed with tribal folklore feel

  12. andreas
    February 5, 2015 at 10:58 pm

    not to worry – I was not intending to detract from the originality of the story or artwork at all – maybe should have made this clearer ;-).

    It was simply interesting to see which ideas are currently hot topics, tackled by artists in their different ways. probably also a plug of bryke’s shows which sadly just concluded…

  13. Christopher Baldwin
    February 5, 2015 at 11:40 pm

    @Andreas, Yeah, i have heard such good things. Want to check them out.

    @Herander, did I fix the links you felt weren’t there?

  14. Herandar
    February 6, 2015 at 9:47 am

    Yes, Chris. I can now access Anna Galactic directly from this page.

  15. Muzhik
    February 6, 2015 at 2:05 pm

    @Stewart, thanks, yes, she is VERY smart! She should graduate sometime next year with a double major (it was supposed to be robotics and physics, but her math teacher was so bad she decided she NEEDED to get a math degree so she could show students they didn’t need to be afraid of math) and then off to MIT.

    I used to joke about her building an unlicensed nuclear reactor in the basement; then I was told (for reasons) not to joke about it. It falls into the category of “Stupid Mensa Tricks”; stories that usually end, “…and the dog was never the same afterwards.”

  16. Sean K.
    February 8, 2015 at 12:30 am

    Aha! That looks like a brain in a tank in panel 4. Maybe Gorro is still alive, after a fashion.

  17. Donahe
    February 8, 2015 at 8:00 am

    @Sean k. Good eye. That just may be Gorro’s brain.

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