Comments on: Technobabble Theater…from Iron Man #24

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:20:09 +0000

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

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:59:30 +0000

Is that Milton from Office Space?

By: Bad

Bad — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:22:24 +0000

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.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:52:51 +0000

“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.

By: Lothor

Lothor — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:21:11 +0000

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

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:23:09 +0000

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.

By: Devon

Devon — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:24:56 +0000

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!