Jeanie Bottle 307
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on March 10, 2015
at 12:00 am
and modified on November 24, 2022. at 2:13 am
Chapter: Story 07: I Dream of Green Eyes
Rodge, you perv…
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Rodge, you perv…
Flux capacitors? REALLY?
Can’t Capacitor’s flux a little… Ya caught half the extra egg in this comic…
The other half is on the whiteboard.
Not really. It’s just two sciencey-sounding words that were put together…
“Capacitor” – if you separate two parallel metal plates with an insulator/vacuum/air and hook them up to a voltage source (like a battery), they’ll hold a charge proportional to the voltage and the area, and inversely proportional to the distance between them. A capacitor is this, or one of a number of other setups that behave similarly.
“Flux” – A few possibilities, but the most likely to hear from a scientist would be that it’s the integral of a vector field over a surface – conceptually, the “flow” through that surface, hence the name.
Since we’re not supposed to know what the heck it actually is Doc Brown invented, they went with purposeful nonsense. Or maybe it’s just that it sounds like “makes flux happen”? Well, regardless, it’s purposeful nonsense.
Flux is a vector. All capacitors demonstrate various fluxes when operating the most obvious being thermal but there is EM if the applied current is alternating.
In the same way all inductors demonstrate some level of capacitance.
But then this again is IDOAJB not TBBT so……knock knock knock Jeanie
Flux is a scalar…
The general case is that flux is a vector, because it indicates the direction of “flow”, but oft times only the magnitude is needed.
Imagine, say, ion flux from a spherical emitter. The flux vector may have constant magnitude from every point, but the direction will depend on the exact locations the ions escape from.
One of the crucial aspects of flux is the quantity being measured. Doc’s flux capacitor likely did not store, then release, an electrostatic field, but rather [“then a miracle occurs”] some sort of time flux, which in some way could be thought of in the same way as the electric field in an ordinary packet of farads.
An interesting feature of the FC is its tripolar architecture. This, frankly, reminds me more of a tapped autotransformer, a kind of inductor, rather than a capacitor.
Or maybe a three phase “wye” transformer or motor. Hm. Thing about transformers is that they trade voltage for current in the same way a lever trades swing for force around a fulcrum. Trying to see how to make that work with time…Am now envisioning a time-like catapult, where a small time movement operating with great force inside the FC is traded for less force over a much greater time displacement…Hm….
But, in any case, that would be an inductor, or at least an inductive load, not a capacitor. Doc was smart, but careless with his terminology.
No, wait–this is for a space drive! Holy warp speed, Batsman! The FC trades time displacement for space displacement! Masses are thrown into the past which propels the vessel across a reciprocal distance! I have no idea what I’m talking about, but cool!
Doc, of course, traded spatial displacement for time displacement–that’s why his time machines had to be mobile platforms.
No, the general case is that flux is a scalar, the integral of a dot product. It doesn’t have a direction because it’s already relative to the geometry of a given surface. Rotate the surface, and you’ll get a different scalar value.
@Raen:
OK, it’s been a long time since I played with this, and not very much at that, so you may well be right.
Cheating a bit, I see Prof Wiki says, “In [the transport flux] definition, flux is generally a vector due to the widespread and useful definition of vector area, although there are some cases where only the magnitude is important (like in number fluxes, see below)….These fluxes are vectors at each point in space, and have a definite magnitude and direction…. one can take the divergence of any of these fluxes.”
Because you seem to be more immediately familiar with this than I, I’m willing to believe that I’ve misinterpreted, but I admit this description matches my rather intuitive understanding.
The scalar view kicks in when, as in my hasty example, you look at the flux normal to a defined surface, so the direction is irrelevant there.
But put a weather vane in the atmospheric flux, aka “wind”, and the local vector will become clear.
Ah, I see – that article seems to use “flux” and “flux density” interchangeably. I can’t say how widespread that is, only that it’s not the way I was taught.
Substitute ‘sweet’ for ‘sweat’.
You never know… It might be really hot wherever Ba-Jebuz lives…
… I’ll fix it.
“How?” asks Neil, who’s beginning to catch on that Jeanie really needs to be checked.
There really are so many ways that could go wrong aren’t there.
I find this kind of scary. Jean has never use her magic with the intend of punishing before. Usually she gender bends people to get back at them for perving on her, so I’m kinda scared what will happen to this lady… Wish she wind up as Neil’s new talking puppy or something. >.<
What’s even scarier is that Jeanie lacks the foresight to plan her way out of a difficult situation. She only works on RIGHT THIS INSTANT, and she’s remarkably clueless about using her magic in any substantial way.
Neil really, truly, deeply, needs to take command of his genie. To set her tasks and limits.
Of course, then the strip might not be quite so funny….
@50srefuge: Considering that would mean treating Jean like a slave, it indeed wouldn’t be funny.
@Josh
In this storyverse, I’m not sure that’s possible, after the three wishes are up. Jeanie chooses to stay with Neil, although only as a matter of convenience, and because so far, Neil hasn’t exercised his mastership too much.
When I say “set tasks and limits”, I mean in terms of setting goals they both want, and planning the approach.
Jeanie’s towards something larger than he. He has a self-discipline Jeanie utterly lacks.
Again, I doubt that this is the sort of thing CD is working towards. IDoaJB is pretty lighthearted.
I’m not thinking slave so much as Kyon and Suzumiya Haruhi. Haruhi needs Kyon to rein her in, to give her focus.
Neil is Jeanie’s Kyon, except he hasn’t realized just how important he is.
Good grief, I hate this comment system.
“Jeanie’s towards something larger than he. He has a self-discipline Jeanie utterly lacks. ”
I’m certain I didn’t write that. I wrote: “Neil is working towards something larger than he is. He has a self-disclipline Jeanie utterly lacks.”
Ah, ok. You mean be more strict with Jean.
Yeah, i agree with you there. Neil isn’t exactly all that mature himself though. Though he more focused.
Rodge should be really careful with what he says.
No, no he shouldn’t if he was then we wouldn’t get to see him in a catsuit looking like someone else. Shame he missed the montage earlier when Jean found out she could do that.
So we get to see Rodge as Mrs Peel 🙂
But yeah, i do wonder what Jean can do. I mean she already knocked out Kendra, but now they need to prove she’s the leak.
I don’t think that Jean plans to get proof or to turn Kendra over to the authorities–I think that she just intends to make sure that Kendra leaves and never comes back, probably by giving her a good scare.
I guess that would work just as well, assuming Kendra hasn’t leaked anything important already.
Oh trust me… Jean’s plan is WAY stupider than that.
For a moment I was thinking that maybe if Jeannie was sleep deprived long enough things would come full circle and she would start to get actually good ideas, but if Roberts comment is anything to go off of, were not there yet!
Jean could impersonate Kendra and either admit to being the spy or do something incriminating, lead the authorities back to the janitors closet and disappear. Leaving Kendra to take the rap.
Or turn Kendra into something “Arf, Arf” or “Meow, Meow” . . . “Sir all we’re getting is animal sounds.”
After all, Jeanie is a Genie, but, I am not too sure that I would want her to handle the matter from past experiences when she does handle something herself. But, Rodger is still being Rodger, but, I kind of expected something a little different though. Still good anyway. But, the cannon is definitely loaded though for other things to happen unexpectedly.
Black leather catsuit?
I have a t-shirt for Roger. It says “Always be yourself … unless you can be Batman, then always be Batman”
Hahaha, that’s an awesome shirt.
With Jeanie around its more likely to be Batgirl.
I wonder if Rodge is a fan of Catwoman?
I guess it’s my age showing, but the catsuit idea brought Emma Peel to my mind. She was, after all someone who dealt with spies . . .
Oh, and I’m talking the original Mrs. Peel, Diana Rigg, no Emma-come-latelys.
Considering the main influences for this comic are 60s TV shows, you’re probably right, ranck.
i vote for the leather catsuit for a new uniform….
On Rodge?
Maybe in duplicating Kendra, maybe she duplicated the USB stick, too. Check that out, see what’s on it, maybe they can get something they can prove.
Unless it got bigger breasts, too…
Sadly the duplicate usb seems to have vanished when Jean changed back.
Probably a good thing if that USB drive disappeared. It would be a bit hard for Neil to explain why he had it and if it’s a bit-for-bit copy of the real one, even harder to explain.
It did, er, fall out…
I hope Neil puts a kibosh on Jeanie’s plan. Neil or Roger turning in the spy would be better for the boys. They could play the hero. What ever Jeanie comes up with will be far too convoluted with a side of fail. It will lead to more drama as well. I would rather see the green eyes store explored.
Jeanie went all defensive when Roger showed up. Clearly she feels safe with Neil. Very interesting………….
What do you mean defensive? Jean is just weirded out by Rodge perving on her.
And they won’t kibosh Jean’s plan. They will probably encourage it, because they aren’t exactly any brighter than Jean, especially not Rodge.
It would also be less entertaining for us, and yes I agree Jeanie is reacting fairly normally for a girl there isn’t she. Neither shrugging off Rogers interest not blowing up about being a guy just a controlled “What are you looking at”.
I don’t see how turning one of them into the spy would be less convulated than just saying you found her in the cloest started to check if she was alright then saw the computer.
@Bad Taiming: I hope Neil puts a kibosh on Jeanie’s plan. Neil or Roger turning in the spy would be better for the boys. They could play the hero.”
Uh, no. That would be like having the cops finding you at the scene with the knife in your hand, even though you were trying to save victim.
The boys can’t have anything to do with it. Nothing. Too many questions, and Neil is a terrible liar.
So… no sleep bags on eyes anymore?
I don’t think Jeanie needs sleep she just thinks she does. She still thinks she is human but she’s not.
Didn’t Kazom spend a lot of time sleeping to conserve his remaining power?
No one thinks the reference to flux capacitors is worth mentioning? I mean, think of what hijinks Jeanie could have with time travel.
I’m glad to see a couple people seen 1/2 the extra joke I’ve put into this comic… Now what about the other half?
Just saw it. A picture of the flux capacitors is sitting on the drawing table behind Neil that he was working on.
Oh, yes. The flux capacitors as in back to the future with Dr. Emit Brown and Marty Macfly.
That would have some interesting possibilities too, because, Jeanie of the TV series did time travel occasionally too. That would open up a whole new can of worms to feed everyone. But, I suspect that it will still be a future event though. We are still playing with Jeanie chasing Neil thing yet and it still has a way’s to go too, before changing themes.
So their office walls are pasted with diagrams for flux capacitors and Galaxy-class starships.
What do they do there again?
Supposedly they are working on a new rover for NASA as there primary mission. At least that what the public is suppose to see and know what they are supposedly doing. But, it look like they may side mission or sometimes refereed to as a black ops program or mission that nobody suppose to know about, except for a few with top secret security claerances.
No, the flux capacitors is on the drawing board that Neil was just working on before Jeanie interrupted him by masquerading as Kendra to seduce him. Then Rodger complaining to Neil that the flux capacitor isn’t fluxing properly, give us an ominous idea of what there working on.
The Galaxy-class starship is the one on the wall. Neil is probably just a Star Trek fan and just pined it on the wall, the way some guy’s. But, it probably nothing more than that.
Isn’t it obvious, they are designing a TARDIS.
Also, I keep missing pages because I seem to get notified of one new page where there are two. Are you deleting pages out of your archive or something?
Nope, pages never get deleted. Maybe the RSS feed is malfunctioning when I do updates, though? I had to update this one to fix a typo I missed.
Well I’m not checking RSS feeds; I’m reading it on Comic Rocket, which crawls the site to find new pages. and if a page gets skipped, it usually means a page was deleted somewhere. (CR records what page number I am on, so if a page gets deleted, that changes what the index points to.)
Are you deleting news posts perhaps? Some comics have their news posts picked up by Comic Rocket, and this comic is one of them.
Panel 3: Neil says, “Rodger, this is Jean, not Kenda.” Does that mean that he thinks it’s okay for Jean to be sitting on his lap like that?
My first thoughts exactly when I read that. Then again, I guess having your best friend on your lap is somewhat less scandalous then having your co-worker / security leak there. Maybe?
It being a co-worker could cause him to loose his job, so yeah.
Having an unauthorized person on your lap will get you fired too.
Jean almost certainly isn’t cleared to be in that facility…
Rodge seems to be the Karma Houdini of this series he’s the only person that can be a pervert and avoid a gender change.
So far…
That’s only because he hasn’t spent that much time doing it to Jean. If he keeps perving on Jean, it might change.
I’d love to see a filler of rodge’s imagination
Gee, could it be even worse than Neil’s imagination back in Part 22?
Ahem. Part 22?
Board seem to let me post links today.
Just FYI,
Any comment with more then 1 link gets flagged and is waiting approval by myself or Robert. We only see the comment awaiting approval when we login to the site management page.
So if you post comments with mutiple links, it will be held for approval and not seen until it’s approved. This helps to avoid junk-mail-comments.
CD/Robert: Can you whitelist jeaniebottle itself?
Subtle Rodge, veeeery subtle
Hay Jeanie why don’t you poof Roger in to something exciting and let him solve the spy problem himself.
I was just thinking she should make him the femme fatale in the catsuit :p
She’s going to send Kendra to go work/live with those Greek fisherfolk. After a bit of an age regression.
Say yes?
Seriously though, kinda hope Jean turns rodge into a Black Widow lookalike.
I’m down with that!!
Hey, Rogers not the only Henti around here you know. 🙂
Jean sure came up with a good plan, but the memory card is falling in a coffee cup that will damage it.