Reading Rainbow
Added 2025-01-08 01:28:59 +0000 UTCNobel Prize in boners
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I think they say "Mood". Though the extra O on it would be some funny merch
Tai
2025-01-16 03:19:40 +0000 UTCI'm so concerned that Marten's entire offering seems to be filter coffee or a cup of tea. I mean I'd be fine with that but still
Sam Trenery
2025-01-09 17:42:12 +0000 UTCCoffee cups that say Moo must be Mommy Milkers merch
Kevin v
2025-01-09 06:06:42 +0000 UTCGiven what Liz was doing with her arm two comics ago I think she's more in danger of throwing a connecting rod.
ValdVin
2025-01-09 01:13:19 +0000 UTCLiterally just logged in to patreon to write this! Jeph, hope you had a great break, but i also hope you fix the rss feed soon :-D
Rob
2025-01-09 00:49:21 +0000 UTCSo the public RSS feed stopped updating at the start of the year. Just an FYI.
Erik Ordway
2025-01-08 22:13:58 +0000 UTC[reconsidering what should appear on the Mood mug when it's hot, that might get Marten in trouble]
Maurice Kessler
2025-01-08 20:52:42 +0000 UTCIt *also* might be a soft engage of your brain with some serotonin so you don’t crack a piston. Or moray messed up. Equally possible
AlexKorobeiniki
2025-01-08 20:22:44 +0000 UTCI have two. The DEC hardware support center in Colorado Springs (long gone): "We may doze but we never close" (sun is exposed by heat). BSD mug where Beastie shows up when you put hot tea/coffee in.
Jim Feldman
2025-01-08 20:22:17 +0000 UTCCheck out Circlet Press. All SF/F smut all the time! Couple decades worth, iirc.
Am Queue
2025-01-08 20:11:40 +0000 UTCI was about to issue a retort, but then remembered that "starfucker" means something different. Whew!
Halloween Jack
2025-01-08 20:05:05 +0000 UTCShould Marten's branded coffee mugs change color when you pour hot liquid in 'em?
Maurice Kessler
2025-01-08 19:01:12 +0000 UTCI'm not sure Moray is a computer. IRL(and seemingly in QC) AI uses matrix multiplications in a GPU, which is a very computer friendly way to do neurons, but I think Moray and the Director are doing neurons in a wildly different way. But on the other hand, we've seen them do computerish stuff, like holding monstrous excel sheets and making calls.
Tim
2025-01-08 16:07:34 +0000 UTCThat would make Melon more furry than fuzzy logic.
Miyaa
2025-01-08 16:05:48 +0000 UTCBut the ones that do have sex scenes are out of this world
Nick Mosbrucker
2025-01-08 15:11:21 +0000 UTCI think Moray's logic is more squishy than fuzzy.
BookBeard
2025-01-08 15:07:46 +0000 UTCI was going to say something about Moray being remarkably unreliable for a computer-based system. But I guess when you run fuzzy-logic based AI on a massively parallel pseudo-organic coprocessor, you can’t complain about some glitches.
Philip Masters
2025-01-08 13:59:43 +0000 UTCPerhaps she is - whisper it - getting better?
Philip Masters
2025-01-08 13:55:11 +0000 UTCah yes I see Marten is getting: Coffee
Pejo
2025-01-08 12:34:14 +0000 UTCHaving just heard the original song for the first time the other day, I have even greater respect for these.
Guilherme Monteiro
2025-01-08 11:53:33 +0000 UTCeh. I'll just take your word for it.
Mad Marie
2025-01-08 11:47:59 +0000 UTC"...and then she said 'You don't have to take my word for it.' "
Mad Marie
2025-01-08 11:43:33 +0000 UTC...I have a doctorate and an AO3 account and am willing to discuss consultancy in this area :)
Stephen Wells
2025-01-08 10:25:48 +0000 UTCan astrophysics paper entirely about butts disease ~<3
Mitsuki Ayane
2025-01-08 10:10:18 +0000 UTCThe Great Attractor uses its "Come Hither" look. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1078 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor
David Paul
2025-01-08 08:53:21 +0000 UTCYou telling me nucleogenesis doesn't have banging in? Lots and lots of banging?
Alasdair Mackintosh
2025-01-08 08:41:10 +0000 UTCI assume it involves Uranus
Mike Rodgers
2025-01-08 08:25:17 +0000 UTCOf course it is smutty. Just look at Uranus.
Robert Malmgren
2025-01-08 08:08:54 +0000 UTCI hear there is a big bang
Bagge
2025-01-08 07:48:21 +0000 UTCHardly ever is not the same as never
Bagge
2025-01-08 07:48:11 +0000 UTCI think Moray just meant to share some reading recs with Claire.
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-08 07:43:13 +0000 UTCYes! Except for the casual discussion of smutty novels...
Anders Rapp
2025-01-08 07:30:35 +0000 UTCI wouldn't be surprised to find the latter on AO3, but I couldn't find it quickly. Maybe it is there, but not super easy to find
Jan Szejko
2025-01-08 07:17:10 +0000 UTCMaybe Moray's literary mix up is her way of dropping hints that she's hoping Liz has room for jello.
kupo
2025-01-08 06:18:24 +0000 UTCIf anyone finds a link to an astrophysics (or any really) paper that has a sex scene, please let me know. (Or even smut formatted like a research paper.)
Davus Otho
2025-01-08 05:45:29 +0000 UTCHardly ever... now I'm curious what astrophysics papers that do have sex scenes.
Andrew Herrera
2025-01-08 05:10:45 +0000 UTC@jonesnori: "Born of the Sun" by Jack Williamson in 1934 covered this. Spoiler: Planets are just eggs of the starbird stage of the stellar lifecycle.
Captain Button
2025-01-08 05:07:28 +0000 UTCThe Cubetown library is sadly deficient in antique Victorian Pornography.
Captain Button
2025-01-08 05:01:44 +0000 UTCLiz still needs a dirtbag boyfriend* for him to disapprove of. * Or girlfriend, nbfriend, whatever.
Captain Button
2025-01-08 05:00:01 +0000 UTCor Nobell-end
Minzoku Bokumetsu
2025-01-08 04:58:43 +0000 UTCWell… hardly ever.
David Garrett
2025-01-08 04:51:26 +0000 UTCOh man. I had to read back to see what happened and I bet the holographic sock didn’t go on the door because station was too busy glitching! Great find!
Hawkeye
2025-01-08 04:39:56 +0000 UTCWhen Liz accepts the Nobel Prize for her Theory of Kinky Attraction between stellar bodies, she will have some crow to eat.
Dean Reilly
2025-01-08 04:14:10 +0000 UTC😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Carrie
2025-01-08 04:12:06 +0000 UTCFatherhood seems to agree with Marten.
William Cole
2025-01-08 03:23:13 +0000 UTCWhat's a galaxy but a stellar polycule?
William Cole
2025-01-08 03:18:08 +0000 UTCHey, when I write mine, I _try_ to get some good physics accuracy in the smut scenes. But every time I call up some physicist to ask them for confirmation, they keep nattering on about the restraining order they have on me. No concern whatsoever about scientific accuracy.
Michael Steamweed
2025-01-08 03:17:09 +0000 UTCWhen you are the head dude For the coffee shop Mood There's no glor-ay When the Goblin you wrangle Won't give you an angle You get sore-ay!
Doc Gumby
2025-01-08 03:15:53 +0000 UTCWhen Mama Gaia and Mother Theia loved each other for the first time, they made the babies Earth and Luna! :)
Michael Steamweed
2025-01-08 03:15:16 +0000 UTC...The dad vibes are SO GOOD.
Katrina Urmson
2025-01-08 03:12:04 +0000 UTCIf Dr Ava Maddox were doing the writing.... I'd read it. For the science, but also just imagining her reading it? 🤤
Shinymelon Fearnow
2025-01-08 03:01:15 +0000 UTCAfter teh bangin': "What brought that on?" "That one article about the event horizons of cosmic web supervoids. Oh baby!"
Michael Steamweed
2025-01-08 03:00:43 +0000 UTCAs everyone knows, the prestigious (and stuffy) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society is THE go-to for the best steamy smut in astrophysics.
Michael Steamweed
2025-01-08 02:58:47 +0000 UTCPossibly reviewing material to be added to the library collection.
Diptych
2025-01-08 02:55:51 +0000 UTCExcept for the ones by THAT astrophysicist, you know the one I mean. Creepy dude.
Doc Gumby
2025-01-08 02:53:42 +0000 UTCHow about a color change "Mood Mug"? Heh? Green when cold, pink when filled with a hot beverage? I’d buy a half dozen of those!
Claudia D.
2025-01-08 02:52:37 +0000 UTCWe. Are. In. Awe!!!
Claudia D.
2025-01-08 02:50:39 +0000 UTCWhat, never?
Magic Beans
2025-01-08 02:48:48 +0000 UTC*Bones has entered the chat*
Magic Chopstick Games
2025-01-08 02:47:49 +0000 UTCThey share a special kind of OH GOD NO, RUN, RUN
Magic Chopstick Games
2025-01-08 02:46:42 +0000 UTCSee, there's a giant galactic stork, and ....
jonesnori
2025-01-08 02:42:25 +0000 UTCPICARD: "Ready thrusters, full power." WORF: "Ready, sir." PICARD: "...Engorge!"
Sean Kinlin
2025-01-08 02:41:08 +0000 UTCGDI, Matthew!
jonesnori
2025-01-08 02:40:26 +0000 UTCOMG I need a pink MOOD. cup pretty please Jeph and Topatoco?!
Simone Bernhard
2025-01-08 02:37:10 +0000 UTC🎵I would kiss the girl from Venus Flowers die, and so will I Yes I would date the girl from Venus For Science! 🎵
Sean Kinlin
2025-01-08 02:36:20 +0000 UTCRSS still down... :(
Jody Raiford
2025-01-08 02:31:30 +0000 UTCSomething something Uranus
BookBeard
2025-01-08 02:31:08 +0000 UTCNow now. Don't forget the non-binary systems.
Drazi
2025-01-08 02:30:47 +0000 UTCIt happens often enough that he developed the "holographic sock" system. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2164
BookBeard
2025-01-08 02:28:02 +0000 UTCInstead of panning away to blowing curtains, everything gets obscured by clouds of dust and gas.
Captain Button
2025-01-08 02:11:45 +0000 UTCCut to Claire getting hot while reading a physics paper.
Andrew Mitchell
2025-01-08 02:10:45 +0000 UTCSmutty novels may not give the most useful models of human behavior...
Captain Button
2025-01-08 02:10:36 +0000 UTCIf the novels are all slime/goo themed, would we prefer it was a mix up, or not?
Andrew
2025-01-08 02:04:41 +0000 UTCI'm sorry, but you need to know. That was outstanding.
Doug DeJulio
2025-01-08 02:02:22 +0000 UTCWait, so Claire has her doing porn reviews for 'reason'?
MikeT
2025-01-08 02:02:11 +0000 UTCI feel like this would be a scientific field that Station would be quite interested in, and could shed a bit of light. Because, you know, there's no way people aren't gettin' down while up there.
Anthony Gaglianese
2025-01-08 02:01:18 +0000 UTC'The Effects of High-Energy Ejecta on Wormholes in Proximity to Celestial Bodies' and such.
Diptych
2025-01-08 02:00:22 +0000 UTCWhen your brains in a rut So she makes you read smut That's A Moray! (Oh thank god, I hadn't done one of those in so long I was starting to get the shakes)
BookBeard
2025-01-08 02:00:21 +0000 UTCWait, hardly?
Egos
2025-01-08 01:57:16 +0000 UTCOr Liz is going to make some sort of scientific advance for which the whole world will thank her
Adarsh Nednur
2025-01-08 01:55:21 +0000 UTCLiz is unexpectedly chill. Where's the regremlinator?
BobC
2025-01-08 01:53:46 +0000 UTCWould the Nobel prize in boners be the Knobel prize?
Matthew Delahaye
2025-01-08 01:53:41 +0000 UTCImmaculate conception, obvs! 😉
Pavel Curtis
2025-01-08 01:49:54 +0000 UTCWhen a mommy planet and a daddy planet love each other--
Kristina
2025-01-08 01:48:50 +0000 UTCOr, in a rare few, promoted.
BookBeard
2025-01-08 01:48:37 +0000 UTCMartin's "MOOD" mug gets more and more apt...
rhekke
2025-01-08 01:48:11 +0000 UTCBut then what is all this "birth of stars" all about? Where do they come from ?!
Anthony Sammons
2025-01-08 01:46:40 +0000 UTCHmm... astrophysics porn...
Yelling Bird
2025-01-08 01:46:04 +0000 UTC... Oh god Claire's going to make some sort of scientific advance for which Liz will never forgive her.
SpookyPenguin
2025-01-08 01:45:14 +0000 UTCWell I can't fault Moray's logic, Claire would probably make an excellent astrophysicist and Liz has a lot to learn about humans.
SpookyPenguin
2025-01-08 01:43:13 +0000 UTCAs an astronomer, can confirm the lack of sex scenes in papers.
Chris
2025-01-08 01:41:46 +0000 UTCI've read some physics that should have been smut.
Donna Flint
2025-01-08 01:41:20 +0000 UTCLiz can finally write that scientifically accurate sci-fi porno.
AE Gonzalez
2025-01-08 01:40:59 +0000 UTCTo be fair, the physics scenes in the smutty novels probably aren't very good either.
Steve DeGroof
2025-01-08 01:40:39 +0000 UTCWait, did Liz finally read Sex Guy? It's been getting rave reviews!
ValdVin
2025-01-08 01:40:33 +0000 UTCWow, good point - something about the complexity of that pose and expression feels like Jeph leveled up his art skills again.
Yonatan Zunger
2025-01-08 01:40:24 +0000 UTCAnyone who thinks astrophysics can't be sexy should go talk to Pintsize. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5189
BookBeard
2025-01-08 01:40:24 +0000 UTCIce Planet Barbarians is better...
Donna Flint
2025-01-08 01:40:14 +0000 UTCI recommend Monster Girls in Space.
Andrew Denton
2025-01-08 01:38:19 +0000 UTCSci-fi romance needs a bigger slice of the smut pie -Sincerely Me, Liz, and probably now Claire
Kristina
2025-01-08 01:33:23 +0000 UTCI mean, what IS a binary system if not two stars making out sloppy style??
Fart Captor
2025-01-08 01:33:08 +0000 UTCNow I want to get into astrophysics. For science. Obviously.
Celine Chamberlin
2025-01-08 01:32:38 +0000 UTCThat kind of mixup would get you fired in most workplaces
Maghinat
2025-01-08 01:32:25 +0000 UTCI dunno, I've read some smut that pushes the known bounds of physics.
Cas Wanden
2025-01-08 01:32:12 +0000 UTCI really like the angle on her face in that first panel!
John Burton
2025-01-08 01:32:11 +0000 UTCJupiter slowly dipped into Saturn’s ring, both of them spiraling into the dizzy black of the infinite void. - When Planets and Hearts Collide
JMK
2025-01-08 01:32:07 +0000 UTCNo bellend prize in boners? I disagree, sir.
Jason Wotzko
2025-01-08 01:31:56 +0000 UTCMoray is helping :)
Lucas Werkmeister
2025-01-08 01:31:44 +0000 UTCCome on, man. "Reading Rainboner." it was RIGHT FUCKING THERE....
Peter McDevitt
2025-01-08 01:31:33 +0000 UTCbutts butts butts... in space!
Brendan Luster
2025-01-08 01:31:08 +0000 UTC
