And so, as our plot sinks slowly in the West… (Cue Ooky Theremin music) We bid you ado – until next time, when Bunz an’ Katz will be involved in something, not quite, but mostly completely different…
It Came From the Bottom of the Dumpster! Ever go out to your dumpster, or pass close to one, very late on a very dark night? Ever thought about what might be in there? What eldritch horrors could be lurking deep beneath the pizza boxes, coffee grounds and other unspeakable goo? And then…. you heard something russle….
So go ahead. Take a bag of garbage out to your dumpster late tonight. Lean way over it to make sure your rejectamenta lands securely deep within it’s confines. Nothing to worry about. After all, it’s just a dumpster.
You mean to tell me that Rikky Racune’s got a shiv tucked away in that outfit somewheres? Good Lord… where? I mean, unless she has an extradimentional orb like Bunz there’s just no place to tuck…. place…. stuff? a switchblade! (Or a toothpick for that matter.)
Ahh… Sweet Rikki, with a body that could melt a Glacier and an Ice Cube for a Heart… From the long ago and I’d thought mostly forgotten, Hard Boiled Dyke-Tective Stories…
Though Um… Seems she would have room for a Shiv in her boot top perhaps…
Y’know that got me to thinking – about the opposite poles of our pair, Katz having basically a positive outlook on life, with an avid interest towards exploring new things… While Bunz is the negative pole – she doesn’t really care about our grubby little planet, or it’s denizens and anything, like the Alien Guy, who doesn’t fit within her narrow expectations of reality, can simply be denied his existance (in her mind anyway)… As for what actually is “Real” here, Don’t ask me! I’m just the cartoonist, I don’t understand it either!
Sometimes it’s best expressed by the lines from an episode of “MASH”: “He’s just a figment of your diseased imagination.” “And what makes you think you’re not?”
Bad move. The “grays” might have more experience with dealing with “Area 51” the common location where her space craft might eventually wind up. Her bosses sent her after information. This guy, if he exists, has some.
My Apologies to those of you checking in… I had thought to have a new page ready this Monday, but then got sidetracked on finishing up the calendar (which remains unfinished so far) I just haven’t been making much headway on anything recently…
But here’s an early scribble of our desperate duo, for something new to look at… You can tell that B&K are enthused at the prospect…
The grays of the Star Gate series, though nondescript by our standards were some of the most noble beings of this or any other universe. At least in the opinion of our hero Jack (MacGiver recast). Especially, in his view, the one called Thor. He was a hero willing even to die for the Star Gate people.
I thought that was a pretty imaginative use of the Grays. Stargate overall was a pretty good show. Evidently it must have been because it spun off from a movie and lasted for years as a TV show with it’s own spin offs in turn.
Just my own 2¢ worth – but once they got past the initial surprise revelation, it didn’t seem to me that the names of Norse gods schtick really worked that well for the Grays – though it did make a certain sort of story sense, as the Goa’uld also used mythological names…
Incidentally, there was a rather dodgier group of Grays on SG1 who did do abductions and genetic experimentation… they also showed up on Stargate Atlantis…
Considering Star-Gates I’ve wondered as to what the AI’s might be experimenting with. Einstein and friends developed a host of possible solutions to GR field equations that would allow for worm hole structures — most requiring at least some “exotic matter”. We are not yet at the stage to construct one, but just perhaps the people that Bunz and Katz work for are able to do this. One of the simpler solutions, that the Star Gate people used, was to construct a fixed portal “A” and a nearby portal “B”. Then to transport or stretch “B” in normal space away from “A” using a space craft. Outside of punishing us for some believed offence, or of merely invading the earth for new resources, might Bunz’s people be into building networks of Star Gates? Even if not a fully transverseable Star Gate, it might still allow for faster than light communication. And that would then (seemingly) throw an important building block of Special Relativity, the Lorentz transformation under the bus.
Well um… for whatever it’s worth – I really have no intensions of introducing anything like the stargate tech into this story. The aliens arrived in this solar system a seriously long while ago, in craft traveling at sub-light speeds… Some time later, around 14,000 years ago Earth time – Massive damage to the old Battle Station transpired – While here on the third planet, the Last great ice age came to a conclusion – Records from this time are scarce, considering the mass die-off and sinking of inhabitable lands, this is not overly surprising… But the time in the story to reveal the Nega-Fleet’s part in this, is yet to come, so I probably should not say much more…
Josh, considering your story outline thus far, I consider it fortunate that recent archaeology discoveries may have given your imagination something rich to work with. Please go on Google and search with the term: “Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?” found on Smithsonian.com. Well it might not have been the “first” temple, but it is very old and very large in scale. It is an obvious mystery as to how people supposedly coming out of the ice age would have the numbers, the culture and required technology to make the place. Or as to what, even with all of these things present, to generate the motivation for doing all this work.
As to the seeming illogic of ET’s ever visting us, then why have we made NASA and long baseline radio telescopes to visit or listen to them? Just a cautionary thought.
Yes, I’ve read a bit about Gobekli Tepe… It somewhat boggles the mind, how many disparate ancient cultures in all parts of the globe, seemed to think it a grand idea to build monolithic structures! Personally, I can think of better things to do on a Saturday afternoon than to spend it dragging about huge slabs of rock… But then without TV or the internet, perhaps it was just something to do…
As per our ancestors and the Ice Ages – remember that with sea levels some 300 ft lower than today, huge areas of land were inhabitable then that are now deep under the oceans… The Earliest known civilizations of Summer & Egypt show growth and development stages, but in the Indus Valley, at the earliest levels, they were building planned cities on a grid, with sewers and other civic amenities — apparently they developed their city planning skills elsewhere – my bet would be somewhere along the now submerged coasts of an earlier age…
As for Life elsewhere in the Universe… it would seem a tragically empty place if there weren’t other living worlds! Though recently with the discovery of ExoPlanets, a new wrinkle has come to our awareness – the problem of the “Hot Jupiters” which by their very existence would sweep any smaller planets out of the “Goldilocks Zone” – Meaning that inhabitable planets may be far rarer than we had ever imagined! Still, in a place as unimaginably huge as the Universe, even with rather worse odds, Life still must have arisen – though it could be terribly far far away from us…
Newgrange neolithic monument in Ireland is 1000 years older than the first Egyptian pyramid. So 5000 years ago the Irish (whomever was living in Ireland) were organized enough to engineer the building of this astronomically aligned passage tomb. Gobekli Tepe seems to take us back a further 7,000 years or more. That means man was organized enough to build large co-operative projects that long ago. Think about this – how long was man smart enough to think about stuff like that before he actually started doing it? I mean, these guys didn’t just wake up one morning and build these big projects. They had to have reasoned out the whys for who knows how long before they actually began to build. Wow. I have boggled myself.
I think, while for most of their time on this planet, our ancestors’ technology consisted of: bangin’ the rocks together… I suspect that they were just as clever as we are today (perhaps even more-so)… Just when you make your living as a hunter gatherer, there is no point in possessing more than what you can comfortably carry with you… And though there were areas where nature’s bounty was enough to support small settlements for most of the year, still most of our ancestors needed to hoof it from place to place to follow the game – it wasn’t until the “agricultural revolution” that enough people could live close enough together to provide the muscle power for large building projects… This still begs the question of “Why bother?”
Gobekli Tepe seems to predate the “agricultural revolution” which adds another quirk to the question of how they managed this… Kind’a makes one wish we had a Time Machine to go back and take a look, doesn’t it?
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And so, as our plot sinks slowly in the West… (Cue Ooky Theremin music) We bid you ado – until next time, when Bunz an’ Katz will be involved in something, not quite, but mostly completely different…
It Came From the Bottom of the Dumpster! Ever go out to your dumpster, or pass close to one, very late on a very dark night? Ever thought about what might be in there? What eldritch horrors could be lurking deep beneath the pizza boxes, coffee grounds and other unspeakable goo? And then…. you heard something russle….
So go ahead. Take a bag of garbage out to your dumpster late tonight. Lean way over it to make sure your rejectamenta lands securely deep within it’s confines. Nothing to worry about. After all, it’s just a dumpster.
Eh… Around here, the Raccoons have the night franchise on the dumpsters… I’m not goin’ out there to mess with ’em!!
Yeah… any furry critter that wears a mask is probably carrying a switchblade as well…
You mean to tell me that Rikky Racune’s got a shiv tucked away in that outfit somewheres? Good Lord… where? I mean, unless she has an extradimentional orb like Bunz there’s just no place to tuck…. place…. stuff? a switchblade! (Or a toothpick for that matter.)
Ahh… Sweet Rikki, with a body that could melt a Glacier and an Ice Cube for a Heart… From the long ago and I’d thought mostly forgotten, Hard Boiled Dyke-Tective Stories…
Though Um… Seems she would have room for a Shiv in her boot top perhaps…
What a hard rejection—denial of existence.
Y’know that got me to thinking – about the opposite poles of our pair, Katz having basically a positive outlook on life, with an avid interest towards exploring new things… While Bunz is the negative pole – she doesn’t really care about our grubby little planet, or it’s denizens and anything, like the Alien Guy, who doesn’t fit within her narrow expectations of reality, can simply be denied his existance (in her mind anyway)… As for what actually is “Real” here, Don’t ask me! I’m just the cartoonist, I don’t understand it either!
Sometimes it’s best expressed by the lines from an episode of “MASH”: “He’s just a figment of your diseased imagination.” “And what makes you think you’re not?”
Bad move. The “grays” might have more experience with dealing with “Area 51” the common location where her space craft might eventually wind up. Her bosses sent her after information. This guy, if he exists, has some.
My Apologies to those of you checking in… I had thought to have a new page ready this Monday, but then got sidetracked on finishing up the calendar (which remains unfinished so far) I just haven’t been making much headway on anything recently…
But here’s an early scribble of our desperate duo, for something new to look at… You can tell that B&K are enthused at the prospect…
The grays of the Star Gate series, though nondescript by our standards were some of the most noble beings of this or any other universe. At least in the opinion of our hero Jack (MacGiver recast). Especially, in his view, the one called Thor. He was a hero willing even to die for the Star Gate people.
I thought that was a pretty imaginative use of the Grays. Stargate overall was a pretty good show. Evidently it must have been because it spun off from a movie and lasted for years as a TV show with it’s own spin offs in turn.
Just my own 2¢ worth – but once they got past the initial surprise revelation, it didn’t seem to me that the names of Norse gods schtick really worked that well for the Grays – though it did make a certain sort of story sense, as the Goa’uld also used mythological names…
Incidentally, there was a rather dodgier group of Grays on SG1 who did do abductions and genetic experimentation… they also showed up on Stargate Atlantis…
In adition to being losers, they’re also non existent! TOTAL losers!
Considering Star-Gates I’ve wondered as to what the AI’s might be experimenting with. Einstein and friends developed a host of possible solutions to GR field equations that would allow for worm hole structures — most requiring at least some “exotic matter”. We are not yet at the stage to construct one, but just perhaps the people that Bunz and Katz work for are able to do this. One of the simpler solutions, that the Star Gate people used, was to construct a fixed portal “A” and a nearby portal “B”. Then to transport or stretch “B” in normal space away from “A” using a space craft. Outside of punishing us for some believed offence, or of merely invading the earth for new resources, might Bunz’s people be into building networks of Star Gates? Even if not a fully transverseable Star Gate, it might still allow for faster than light communication. And that would then (seemingly) throw an important building block of Special Relativity, the Lorentz transformation under the bus.
I’m not touching that with a 10 foot slide-rule.
Well um… for whatever it’s worth – I really have no intensions of introducing anything like the stargate tech into this story. The aliens arrived in this solar system a seriously long while ago, in craft traveling at sub-light speeds… Some time later, around 14,000 years ago Earth time – Massive damage to the old Battle Station transpired – While here on the third planet, the Last great ice age came to a conclusion – Records from this time are scarce, considering the mass die-off and sinking of inhabitable lands, this is not overly surprising… But the time in the story to reveal the Nega-Fleet’s part in this, is yet to come, so I probably should not say much more…
Josh, considering your story outline thus far, I consider it fortunate that recent archaeology discoveries may have given your imagination something rich to work with. Please go on Google and search with the term: “Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?” found on Smithsonian.com. Well it might not have been the “first” temple, but it is very old and very large in scale. It is an obvious mystery as to how people supposedly coming out of the ice age would have the numbers, the culture and required technology to make the place. Or as to what, even with all of these things present, to generate the motivation for doing all this work.
As to the seeming illogic of ET’s ever visting us, then why have we made NASA and long baseline radio telescopes to visit or listen to them? Just a cautionary thought.
Yes, I’ve read a bit about Gobekli Tepe… It somewhat boggles the mind, how many disparate ancient cultures in all parts of the globe, seemed to think it a grand idea to build monolithic structures! Personally, I can think of better things to do on a Saturday afternoon than to spend it dragging about huge slabs of rock… But then without TV or the internet, perhaps it was just something to do…
As per our ancestors and the Ice Ages – remember that with sea levels some 300 ft lower than today, huge areas of land were inhabitable then that are now deep under the oceans… The Earliest known civilizations of Summer & Egypt show growth and development stages, but in the Indus Valley, at the earliest levels, they were building planned cities on a grid, with sewers and other civic amenities — apparently they developed their city planning skills elsewhere – my bet would be somewhere along the now submerged coasts of an earlier age…
As for Life elsewhere in the Universe… it would seem a tragically empty place if there weren’t other living worlds! Though recently with the discovery of ExoPlanets, a new wrinkle has come to our awareness – the problem of the “Hot Jupiters” which by their very existence would sweep any smaller planets out of the “Goldilocks Zone” – Meaning that inhabitable planets may be far rarer than we had ever imagined! Still, in a place as unimaginably huge as the Universe, even with rather worse odds, Life still must have arisen – though it could be terribly far far away from us…
Newgrange neolithic monument in Ireland is 1000 years older than the first Egyptian pyramid. So 5000 years ago the Irish (whomever was living in Ireland) were organized enough to engineer the building of this astronomically aligned passage tomb. Gobekli Tepe seems to take us back a further 7,000 years or more. That means man was organized enough to build large co-operative projects that long ago. Think about this – how long was man smart enough to think about stuff like that before he actually started doing it? I mean, these guys didn’t just wake up one morning and build these big projects. They had to have reasoned out the whys for who knows how long before they actually began to build. Wow. I have boggled myself.
I think, while for most of their time on this planet, our ancestors’ technology consisted of: bangin’ the rocks together… I suspect that they were just as clever as we are today (perhaps even more-so)… Just when you make your living as a hunter gatherer, there is no point in possessing more than what you can comfortably carry with you… And though there were areas where nature’s bounty was enough to support small settlements for most of the year, still most of our ancestors needed to hoof it from place to place to follow the game – it wasn’t until the “agricultural revolution” that enough people could live close enough together to provide the muscle power for large building projects… This still begs the question of “Why bother?”
Gobekli Tepe seems to predate the “agricultural revolution” which adds another quirk to the question of how they managed this… Kind’a makes one wish we had a Time Machine to go back and take a look, doesn’t it?