Polite Dissent

7 Responses to “ Technobabble Theater…from Iron Man #24 ”

1. Devon
   January 25th, 2008 at 4:24 am
   

   Um, how do you put binary code into a protein, binding or no? DNA is not made out of 1 and 0, after all??? How does one make binary nucleotides? That, and where can you slip something into DNA without, um, y’know, ruining what’s supposed to be transcribed? Maybe into the telomeres, but I wouldn’t want people messing with those either, not even with magical binary nucleotides. :p
   And I read the Dandelion thing 4 times and I still don’t get what he’s trying to say at all. Oy.

   Definite weirdness!

2. Chris
   January 25th, 2008 at 6:23 am
   

   I’d go with biotechnobabble…just kinda flows better, in my opinion.

   As for the dandelion thing…I’m pretty sure it was less a metaphor for, um…whatever the heck he was trying to say in the previous panel, and more a metaphor for making sense of said biotechnobabble.

3. Lothor
   January 25th, 2008 at 9:21 am
   

   FWIW that’s an outlandish analogy, not an outlandish metaphor.

4. Matt
   January 25th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
   

   “Um, how do you put binary code into a protein, binding or no? DNA is not made out of 1 and 0, after all??? How does one make binary nucleotides?”

   I’d presume a certain combination of amino acids would be a 1 and another would be a 0, but your other point is valid.

5. Bad
   January 26th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
   

   I wish I had a copy of Nucleotide Marker Tetris. :(

   I think the book would have been much much better if the guy said “Imagine a field of millions of dandelions. A tornado passes through” and then he just falls silent for a few panels, while we all take the time to imagine it.

6. Tyler
   January 28th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
   

   Is that Milton from Office Space?

7. Matt
   February 22nd, 2010 at 4:20 pm
   

   “It’s like a balloon, and then something happens!” Fry

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