Questionable Content: Proportional Response
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4640

Do not upset the unstable young lady with a highly weaponized space
station at her beck and call. And more than one person needs to know
her safe word.

Lynn

In article <skutko$oos$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>Questionable Content: Proportional Response
> https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4640
>
>Do not upset the unstable young lady with a highly weaponized space
>station at her beck and call. And more than one person needs to know
>her safe word.

Oh, I bet her father (who lives on the station) will intervene.
And if not, Station itself will stop the attack; it's not stupid
and it's known Hannelore all her life.

(And she is a lot saner now than when we first met her.)

--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

On 10/22/2021 3:13 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <skutko$oos$1@dont-email.me>,
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Questionable Content: Proportional Response
>> https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4640
>>
>> Do not upset the unstable young lady with a highly weaponized space
>> station at her beck and call. And more than one person needs to know
>> her safe word.
>
> Oh, I bet her father (who lives on the station) will intervene.
> And if not, Station itself will stop the attack; it's not stupid
> and it's known Hannelore all her life.
>
> (And she is a lot saner now than when we first met her.)

That was Station saying "Very good, ma'am." ! Station is an AI and is
programmed to follow Hannelore's orders.

Lynn

On 10/22/2021 12:50 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> Questionable Content: Proportional Response
>    https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4640
>
> Do not upset the unstable young lady with a highly weaponized space
> station at her beck and call.  And more than one person needs to know
> her safe word.
>
> Lynn

So what is the future going to be like when Elon Musk's children own a
space station or five and about a thousand space ships ? Will they
weaponize those space stations ?

Lynn

On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 5:42:17 PM UTC-5, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 10/22/2021 12:50 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> > Questionable Content: Proportional Response
> > https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4640
> >
> > Do not upset the unstable young lady with a highly weaponized space
> > station at her beck and call. And more than one person needs to know
> > her safe word.
> >
> > Lynn
> So what is the future going to be like when Elon Musk's children own a
> space station or five and about a thousand space ships ? Will they
> weaponize those space stations ?

Note that at some point in technological development you don't have to
weaponize a space ship; it already IS a weapon. In Larry Niven's short story
_The Warriors_ humans encounter the Kzinti for the first time, several light years
from Earth. The human ship, the unarmed Lazy 8, is one of the first interstellar ships and
has a low-acceleration photon drive. The far more advanced Kzinte warship uses
something they call a "gravity planer" to maneuver at hundreds of Gs. The Kzinti have
in their crew a telepath who correctly informs that the humans are peaceful and unarmed.
The Kzinti commander wants to kill the humans while leaving their ship intact for study.
Since the humans can't fight or escape, he decides to use an inductor to gradually heat
the human ship to the point where the crew will die. The people are half cooked when
someone gets desperate enough to use the photon drive to cut the Kzinti ship in half.

Peter Wezeman
anti-social Darwinist

In article <skvdgv$ap9$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 10/22/2021 3:13 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>> In article <skutko$oos$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Questionable Content: Proportional Response
>>> https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4640
>>>
>>> Do not upset the unstable young lady with a highly weaponized space
>>> station at her beck and call. And more than one person needs to know
>>> her safe word.
>>
>> Oh, I bet her father (who lives on the station) will intervene.
>> And if not, Station itself will stop the attack; it's not stupid
>> and it's known Hannelore all her life.
>>
>> (And she is a lot saner now than when we first met her.)
>
>That was Station saying "Very good, ma'am." ! Station is an AI and is
>programmed to follow Hannelore's orders.
>
But you know it's not going to. Not unless Jeph has decided to
throw in the sponge and take up oil painting or ceramics or
something.

--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 9:00:03 PM UTC-4, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <skvdgv$ap9$1...@dont-email.me>,
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 10/22/2021 3:13 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> >> In article <skutko$oos$1...@dont-email.me>,
> >> Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Questionable Content: Proportional Response
> >>> https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4640
> >>>
> >>> Do not upset the unstable young lady with a highly weaponized space
> >>> station at her beck and call. And more than one person needs to know
> >>> her safe word.
> >>
> >> Oh, I bet her father (who lives on the station) will intervene.
> >> And if not, Station itself will stop the attack; it's not stupid
> >> and it's known Hannelore all her life.
> >>
> >> (And she is a lot saner now than when we first met her.)
> >
> >That was Station saying "Very good, ma'am." ! Station is an AI and is
> >programmed to follow Hannelore's orders.
> >
> But you know it's not going to. Not unless Jeph has decided to
> throw in the sponge and take up oil painting or ceramics or
> something.

Jeph leaves comments in tiny type at the bottom right of each page.
In this case, it reads "it would be really funny if this were the last QC strip,."

Pt

On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 8:43:59 PM UTC-4, peterwezeman@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 5:42:17 PM UTC-5, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> > On 10/22/2021 12:50 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> > > Questionable Content: Proportional Response
> > > https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4640
> > >
> > > Do not upset the unstable young lady with a highly weaponized space
> > > station at her beck and call. And more than one person needs to know
> > > her safe word.
> > >
> > > Lynn
> > So what is the future going to be like when Elon Musk's children own a
> > space station or five and about a thousand space ships ? Will they
> > weaponize those space stations ?
> Note that at some point in technological development you don't have to
> weaponize a space ship; it already IS a weapon. In Larry Niven's short story
> _The Warriors_ humans encounter the Kzinti for the first time, several light years
> from Earth. The human ship, the unarmed Lazy 8, is one of the first interstellar ships and
> has a low-acceleration photon drive. The far more advanced Kzinte warship uses
> something they call a "gravity planer" to maneuver at hundreds of Gs. The Kzinti have
> in their crew a telepath who correctly informs that the humans are peaceful and unarmed.
> The Kzinti commander wants to kill the humans while leaving their ship intact for study.
> Since the humans can't fight or escape, he decides to use an inductor to gradually heat
> the human ship to the point where the crew will die. The people are half cooked when
> someone gets desperate enough to use the photon drive to cut the Kzinti ship in half.

One of the cliches on the HFY subreddit is "Humans can turn *anything* into a weapon."

Pt

If I don't reply to this Dorothy J Heydt post, the terroists
win.

> In article <skvdgv$ap9$1@dont-email.me>,
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 10/22/2021 3:13 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>> In article <skutko$oos$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Questionable Content: Proportional Response
>>>> https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4640
>>>>
>>>> Do not upset the unstable young lady with a highly
>>>> weaponized space station at her beck and call. And more
>>>> than one person needs to know her safe word.
>>>
>>> Oh, I bet her father (who lives on the station) will
>>> intervene. And if not, Station itself will stop the attack;
>>> it's not stupid and it's known Hannelore all her life.
>>>
>>> (And she is a lot saner now than when we first met her.)
>>
>>That was Station saying "Very good, ma'am." ! Station is an
>>AI and is programmed to follow Hannelore's orders.
>>
> But you know it's not going to. Not unless Jeph has decided
> to throw in the sponge and take up oil painting or ceramics or
> something.
>

That "Very Good, ma'am" had a very "I'll get right on that" vibe to
it, to my "ear."

On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 19:51:52 -0700 (PDT), "pete...@gmail.com"
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

> One of the cliches on the HFY subreddit is "Humans can turn *anything* into a weapon."

That's true of any tool user.

--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/