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That would be something worth seeing, as they all meld into one huge Native American and go reclaim Manhattan island....
Beware the shaman...they're just biding their time...when the stars are right...
I blame MechE for saying it...
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If I wore glasses, at this point I would slide them
down my nose and look at you over the tops of
them. |
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Makes you wonder where the 24 dollars in beads the Dutch paid for the island went to. |
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Would this include half breeds and the dead ? Which tribe the head ? Which the Heart ? |
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Big damn Indian. How many metric tons ? |
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THE tag line from HALF upper left corner seems fitting: |
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"The word "How?" springs to mind at this point." |
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Don't you go blaming this on me. If the next
hollywood kaiju movie is a giant Lenape ransacking
New York, I want no part of it. |
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(Although, given that it's hollywood, it's as likely to
be an Iroqouis or even a Plains tribe). |
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//counts 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives. |
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Say each native American weighs 70 kilos thats....breaks out an envelope..18.2 tonnes...uses the calculator...that's 133,000 metric tonnes of slightly pissed off Indian. |
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Now, exactly how that mass is to organised is the question, is it one roughly human shaped one, or squat one with a gazillion elephant legs crushing a yellow cab at each step? |
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Time for you to get some glasses, Max. You correctly apprehend their use. |
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Of course if they were monotheistic entity, that put a different slant on it...good heavens and all that. |
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You beat me to it [2 fries] |
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People can and do form monolithic entities, some allude
to such monstrosoties as leviathan. A single body politic
can be an immense burden that while not an immense
lurching fiend like Godzilla can be very disruptive. The
form they take is masses. When people form masses,
such as a crowd 1.9million people strong, that can be
quite a destructive force. What your idea lacks is an
invention to form vertical leviathan. Something like a
stackable bicycle that transmits the energy of each
participant into a power for the entire monolithic
structure. If everyone wore a ladder suit, then each
could climb on the other's rungs to a great height. I'm
not sure if its sociology to envisage such a thing, but I
imagine each of the million wearing a ladder suit, and
the some volunteers enticing others to climb and then
those enticing others and so on until a large vertical
mass is formed maybe 20 body lengths high, 5 foot
averge rise per level about 100 feet tall having a wide
base of masses swarming around it cheering and forming
smaller leviathans in disorganized clusters around it. |
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This would move slowly, and the volunteers at the
bottom would be crushed, but the frames of the ladder
suits are rigid, and take a lot of the burden. Fat people
would only be allowed at the bottom, and children
would be allowed to climb all over leviathan and crawl
through its many human archways, bums in faces and so
on. This would confront riot police and simply collapse
onto them as the masses pile onto the fallen. New
leviathan would be formed after breaking through police
lines, and the vertical mob would continue, as the
volunteers at the bottom are aided by the other
thousands on the ground who squeeze into the base and
help propell it along with quick little steps in unison. |
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I picture them all operating some facet of a huge
battle robot a la the Power Rangers. |
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Am picturing rcarty's ladder suit leviathan as looking like a cross between Last Of The Mohicans, Society and Tetsuo II. Excellent. |
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It is possible to stack humans, but they need a source of lift to ameliorate the getting squashed flat bit, ie everyone gets a long thin hydrogen balloon with lift equal to their body weight, except the people at the bottom as they need the traction to be able to walk. |
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As for rcarty's idea it could be done with less loss of life if the ladder ends up in a segway and has a platform at the top for the segway about it to rest on. The segways towards the bottom being more and more titanic to withstand the downward thrust. |
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// I picture them all operating some facet of a huge battle robot a la the Power Rangers |
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That was more my idea, but I couldn't remember the name of any series where they did this, maybe Starfleet (?), but the best would be some melding, possibly with assistance of one of the elder gods...I'm thinking Nyarlathotep... |
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