Strip 333 -- First Seen: 2009-12-23
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QV on a short break

QUANTUM VIVE is taking a break for a few weeks, as we prepare for Part 2 of the Novo Palermo story, and also for a Kickstarter campaign for Part 1, which will start in September.

In the meantime, Not-Safe.Space will continue, as a murder mystery begins and the relationship between Eithne and Diana develops in unexpected directions.

Not-Safe.Space is a NSFW strip but more than half the pages are SFW so I've set those to *not* require a Patreon membership. Readers should be able to follow the story without seeing the NSFW pages. If I've done this right.

Kickstarter successful and closed

The Kickstarter campaign for Not-Safe.Space Chapter 3 concluded successfully on April 21, and Scott extended the time allowed for late pledges until May 19.

Books have been ordered from the printer and Scott will be spending the next week or so setting up and sending the PDF files to those who asked for them.

(There are still six of you who have not responded to the survey asking for e-mail and snail-mail addresses, he'll do the best he can.)

Thanks to all for supporting this Kickstarter!

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Continue television sequence. Two-shot of Newsreader and Harmon, Newsreader is starting to speak but Harmon plows ahead, cutting him off.

Newsreader: Then how ...

Harmon: In this case, however, the creator of the carvings gave us an unambiguous epoch; a point in time.

Panel 2
Harmon in full-screen, holding up a large (about 24-inch square) placard containing a photograph of the carvings. He is pointing to a place that shows a stylized image of Jupiter, being impacted by the first of nine smaller bodies in a line. (Also, there is a spiral line starting at Jupiter and looping the Sun several times. There are some other lines and runes in the area.

Harmon: This clearly represents the first impact of Comet shoemaker-Levy 9 into Jupiter, at 20:15 UTC on July 16, 1994.

Harmon: So now we have our epoch date and time.

Panel 3
Medium shot of the Newsreader, looking a bit slack-jawed and vacant-eyed. This is all too much for him. Too much science hurts his brain.

Harmon (OP): So this diagram is telling us that in approximately 31 Terran hours – Wednesday at 14:22 UTC – something will be at 2.476 astronomical units from the Sun at an angular separation of 17.359 degrees in advance of Jupiter's sidereal location in orbit.

Panel
Two-shot of Newsreader and Harmon. Newsreader is just looking dazed. Harmon is smiling contentedly.

Harmon: Thank you, I will not be taking any further questions at this time.