10/12/15 The City 44

9 Comments

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   Coyoty

   October 12, 2015 at 3:26 am

   I may have been right when I suggested the jelly was a cow. Instead of milk, it produced fuel. The jelly “statue” may be a fuel store sign. If the jellies make clean fuel, that would be of interest to human energy corporations.
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   MattStriker

   October 12, 2015 at 8:03 am

   It’s possible that they’re not using an engine at all…those thick, stubby wings could be gasbags. If they use a liquid fuel with a catalyst that produces hydrogen gas from it (a type of reaction that’s been used by some sci-fi writers to produce floating jellyfish-like creatures), that’d explain what we’ve seen out of those gliders quite handily.
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   GnarlyDoug

   October 12, 2015 at 10:17 am

   If we want to get technical, it makes no sense that the ‘glider’ could carry 3 humans and 1 robot with that design. Modern gliders with much larger wingspans would be far too overloaded. Perhaps it was already providing some lift on it’s own.
4. 

   Stewart

   October 12, 2015 at 12:18 pm

   Kitteh!
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   night-gaunt

   October 12, 2015 at 1:37 pm

   First of all to carry one human the wings would need to be 25 feet across. So something else is going on. maybe the Nebs are more advanced than they seem. They seem like they have little instrumentality and yet they live in that magnificent city. So unless it was constructed by others, even more advanced ancestors, they just don’t appear to be so smart. But looks can be deceiving. A mystery I find very spicy for this story.
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   Arnuz

   October 12, 2015 at 3:25 pm

   Not to mention… You know… ENGINES?
7. 

   Nathanyel

   October 13, 2015 at 4:16 am

   Maybe the “fuel”, while volatile, also has anti-gravity attributes? The jelly did float…
8. 

   KNO3

   October 13, 2015 at 3:54 pm

   What’s the planet’s gravity and air density?
9. 

   mouse

   October 13, 2015 at 9:16 pm

   Oh, I know that cat face! “Keep petting me while I decide whether or not to destroy you”.