Sat, 18 May 2013 09:49:28 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212702#Comment_212702 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212702#Comment_212702 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:03:01 -0800 Ariana FREAKANGELS! (That link will take you straight to the new episode, but if you're feeling a bit woozy brained from the holidays and want to refresh yourself on the story, you may wanna start back at Episode 73.)

We've been spinning back up to speed here at Whitechapel all week, but with a new episode that should be mostly everyone back. Did everyone make it through the holidays all right? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212703#Comment_212703 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212703#Comment_212703 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:14:01 -0800 Purple Wyrm
Made it through the holidays OK, despite almost shattering my kneecap tripping over an exercise bike. And then the exercise bike falling on me. And then an actual bike falling on me. The fun thing is there was no alcamahol involved. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212704#Comment_212704 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212704#Comment_212704 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:20:16 -0800 Twist
Uhm, holidays were holidays. 10 days at my job to go and then I'm officially a loser student without a job. Can't fucking wait.

How was you're Ariana? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212708#Comment_212708 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212708#Comment_212708 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:27:10 -0800 keyofsilence http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212714#Comment_212714 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212714#Comment_212714 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:11:31 -0800 thud 0081 ! ! ! Yay ! ! !

It looks like something much more drastic than they were planning on.
The hole might be in time, or some other dimension where their powers originate(?)
They would have to be the ones moving slower in relation to the Earth.
If the Earth were speeding faster on its axis, all hell would be breaking loose, with terrific storms, earthquakes and tidal waves. Also if it was spinning fast enough to show streaking stars it might take a million years to slow back down to 24hrs/day.

I suppose it was just too much to expect that 0081 wouldn't be another cliffhanger. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212715#Comment_212715 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212715#Comment_212715 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:13:28 -0800 curb
Made it through the holidays intact, and even managed the first week back, with all the hassle and stress that coming back to work usually brings exacerbated by British SnowFail, without needing any meds. So, can't complain, and I am happy as a man with tits in his hat to know that I have a lazy weekend in front of me. Gaming, painting, and boozing is planned. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212717#Comment_212717 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212717#Comment_212717 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:36:25 -0800 Berserker
No, but you sure as fuck bent the Hell out of it, whatever it was.

Perhaps it's just me, but on the first page the 'Angels all look like they're all falling very, very slowly to the ground, with limbs and hair still not quite finished settling to the ground? And then Miki mentions how time seems to be going really slowly, and then you know - boom - noon.

The artwork with the stars smeared across the sky was splendid. That'd make a nifty poster, I'd think.

Made it through the holidays by avoiding them, mostly. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212723#Comment_212723 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212723#Comment_212723 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:39:56 -0800 mister hex
On New Years Eve, a guy in my building committed suicide.

So that's how my holidays were. Better than his, obviously. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212734#Comment_212734 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212734#Comment_212734 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:11:00 -0800 Zoz i used to complain that time seems to speed up as i get older, that the years start to rush by etc... but waiting for FreakangelsFriday stretches
it right back out again like a time deceleration pill! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212735#Comment_212735 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212735#Comment_212735 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:12:58 -0800 Fauxhammer
As far as the holidays, they were amazing. We had our first tree (after nine years of marriage, mind), got some quality with family, and even got the missus to buy her first comic!

Goblessis, every one. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212736#Comment_212736 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212736#Comment_212736 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:20:51 -0800 halcyonday
My holidays were pretty damn good, although I would really like my festive chest infection to bugger off. I'm rattling with antibiotics and everything. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212742#Comment_212742 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212742#Comment_212742 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:57:14 -0800 Pooka
i haven't been this anxiety ridden and depressed in months. something went wrong with my husband's school situation and now I don't know if he'll be able to go back to school this semester, so there goes all our income. I have about twenty bucks to get through the rest of the month on....I hope I'll be laughing about all this, this summer. we'll see..
also...I got a wisdom tooth pulled last month. Pretty bad...the dentist had to cut into the bone...so my gums have been slowly reforming and reshaping themselves. yesterday I noticed what felt like a popcorn kernel embedded in my semi raw and sorta swollen gums, which was weird because my dad threw all my popcorn away when he found out the plastic coating on the inside of the bags was toxic.... so I worked at it and worked at it until it popped loose. It was a piece of my jawbone. I was rather disturbed...but my gums feel a little better now... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212746#Comment_212746 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212746#Comment_212746 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:05:17 -0800 Happy_Abomination http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212747#Comment_212747 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212747#Comment_212747 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:10:50 -0800 Paul Duffield http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212748#Comment_212748 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212748#Comment_212748 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:26:00 -0800 twitch_ramirez Awesome in a James Bond sorta way. 'Shaken; not stirred.'

Looks like more of the same so far in twenty ten. Who cares!!!!!!!!!!!!
I seriously think Warren should be made Emperor of the whole damn planet and let the chips fall where they may. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212749#Comment_212749 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212749#Comment_212749 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:26:13 -0800 BOODOFFSTAGE My god, page 3 is beautiful! Any chance we can get a wall paper out of it.

Also, that looks almost exactly like the Strange spiral light event that happened over Norway.
Did Mr. Duffield start drawing this before that happened, or was he inspired by it? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212750#Comment_212750 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212750#Comment_212750 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:34:11 -0800 JP Carpenter
That's one hell of an 'oh shit' moment.

Not made it through holidays well at all... monster head cold, then got stranded in my car for the whole night in the snow on Tuesday, been stuck in the house since trying to work, sleep, and recover from the ill, all at the same time, missed my partner's grandad's funeral yesterday because we couldn't get out of the road so she's gutted, and work's gone mental and highly stressful. Just Want To Curl Up And Sob.

Snow's pretty though... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212751#Comment_212751 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212751#Comment_212751 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:42:23 -0800 warrenellis Did Mr. Duffield start drawing this before that happened, or was he inspired by it?

No. That's what superlong-exposure photography of the night sky looks like.

]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212752#Comment_212752 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212752#Comment_212752 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:42:50 -0800 rickiep00h linky. It certainly makes for a neat "time's all fucked" effect, for sure. As a side note, the thing in Norway was--most people are pretty sure--a botched Russian missile test.

@Warren, Paul, Ariana, et al. - Glad you're back. Thanks for kicking off twenty-ten with such a great episode.

EDIT: And Warren beat me to it. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212753#Comment_212753 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212753#Comment_212753 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:43:27 -0800 dr_barnowl
Hence the flooded London (progression global warming), general collapse of society (everything flooded, progression of global idiocracy), etc.

It could also explain why they don't really seem to have a massive guilt complex about causing the downfall of humanity ; they didn't cause it, they just missed the best bits.

EDIT : I take it back, on re-reading some parts of early episodes. They just got over their guilt, at least externally. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212756#Comment_212756 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212756#Comment_212756 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:47:06 -0800 Paul Duffield It's what happens when you take a long exposure image of the stars. The circular pattern is caused by the rotation of the planet about its axis, which is currently lined up with the pole star (the single point in the centre of the circular star tracks)
That spiral light was rocket ejecta of some sort and I did see it before I drew the image, but they're totally non-related.

EDIT: wow, three other people answered this before I'd finished writing XD Oh well. Now you REALLY know. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212757#Comment_212757 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212757#Comment_212757 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:49:06 -0800 sneak046 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212769#Comment_212769 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212769#Comment_212769 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:55:28 -0800 BOODOFFSTAGE

Hmm. Interesting. Either I've gone my whole life without seeing a long exposure image of the stars, or I forgot that I've seen one before.

Does this mean that they punched a hole through the fabric of time and space? Or have I seen/read way too much sci-fi? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212778#Comment_212778 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212778#Comment_212778 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:48:35 -0800 CorkOnTheFork http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212779#Comment_212779 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212779#Comment_212779 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:49:01 -0800 McLean
God, I love being surprised. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212786#Comment_212786 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212786#Comment_212786 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:04:14 -0800 longtimelurker
They CAN exhaust their powers. Which means they can be made defenseless. Now the question is did Mark really "die" like Karl thought or are they immortal? Did he "download" his consciousness into someone else?

Doesn't look like they knew what they were doing ending the world, not even Mark. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212788#Comment_212788 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212788#Comment_212788 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:13:49 -0800 dyrdevil at night they get the star-time exposure effect from the naked eye, then it changes to day and then evening very quickly as the earth spins around. Their sudden increase in speed could explain the slower time they are experiencing as well.
anyone agree? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212795#Comment_212795 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212795#Comment_212795 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:44:21 -0800 Mickierat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212796#Comment_212796 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212796#Comment_212796 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:45:00 -0800 Prof Structure
If they've boosted the spin of the earth so much as to reveal the motions of the stars round the Pole, we'd see some pretty immediate effects - at that speed, the Earth's gravitational force would not be enough to keep the angels on the surface and they'd be flying off into space! So, I'm plumping for the 'Fucked with Space-time' proposal. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212802#Comment_212802 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212802#Comment_212802 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:03:11 -0800 tpete
So . . . the Earth speeds up? No, time speeds up. But they stay the same. What about the rest of humanity? And the sun in the sky followed by the (beautiful) panel showing a sunset moments later on p.6 -- does that mean time is winding back down and approaching normal again? Presumably, if the stars were time on high-speed, they wouldn't have noticed day/night until time slowed down a bit.

Do we jump back out of this flashback next week? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212812#Comment_212812 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212812#Comment_212812 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:51:34 -0800 Anscealai
good a theory as any i Reckon!

Page 3 is absaloutly Gorgous by the way!!! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212815#Comment_212815 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212815#Comment_212815 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:19:27 -0800 theatre_gypsy http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212823#Comment_212823 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212823#Comment_212823 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:34:57 -0800 Prof Structure http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212839#Comment_212839 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212839#Comment_212839 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:03:53 -0800 chris g
PS: I am so tired of shaving every morning this week. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212872#Comment_212872 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212872#Comment_212872 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:12:41 -0800 WaxPoetic
For the holidays, I painted my living room. I will have to repaint one wall, but my deja vu told me to use the leftover paint for another room, so that is good. All family arrived everywhere safely, even if a bit later or sooner than anticipated. The weather is mean and spiteful. Thanks for asking, Ariana - I hope your holidays were good ones.

This episode made my eyes go all wide and shiny and I enjoyed it very much.

Thanks Paul and Warren and Ariana and everyone! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212883#Comment_212883 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212883#Comment_212883 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:40:36 -0800 meaninglessnoise I like that we're finding out the "how" - we've had 72 episodes learning what happened, the world around them is evidence of what happened - but now we get how it all went to shit.
Nicely done. I'm a happy little monkey. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212917#Comment_212917 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212917#Comment_212917 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:31:19 -0800 somnonaut http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212934#Comment_212934 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212934#Comment_212934 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:52:45 -0800 Berserker
[ To say nothing of people near the poles, for whom rotational spin's effects are even more negligible... ]

On the other hand, the change in the Coriolis effect created by a sudden, drastic change in rotational speed would absolutely create tidal waves, insane weather, especially winds, and any number of other effects ( seismic activity, etc... ) that would be easily catastrophic. I would also imagine that those effects would be immediate, which we haven't seen. Yet.
Of course, for all we know, only a few moments have passed since they sped up the world, and I'm speculating entirely here, but I'd imagine that the denser air closer to the ground would move with the Earth ( at least initially), while the upper atmosphere was more immediately 'left behind'. So the real show weather could be building up even as they stand gaping. That, and a lot of water.

And I would speculate that not too much time has passed, since the flaming wreckage of the choppers is still smoking nearby. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212937#Comment_212937 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212937#Comment_212937 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:07:15 -0800 Dextra
I've been busy as hell this week. Just started a new job as a supervillian. Also known as collections agent for a bank. Chances are, if you're behind on your credit card payments, you'll be hearing from me. I'll try not to be too much of a bitch about it.

And as such, I'm way behind on my art duties, which I suppose is what I have weekends for now. As for now, I have dinner and a Dead Guy Rogue ale to reward myself for not stabbing anyone in my first week. Next week could land me in prison. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212950#Comment_212950 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212950#Comment_212950 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:56:06 -0800 tpete http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212969#Comment_212969 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212969#Comment_212969 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:49:48 -0800 regeneration
Nicely done with the details, Paul. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212975#Comment_212975 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=212975#Comment_212975 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:51:40 -0800 Berserker
It's obviously being observed from far off, as the city skyline in that first panel shows. This is a BIG thing they did.

But MORE importantly: it shoots off away at an angle to the Earth. Even more importantly, if you hold a good straight edge up to that beam, it is slightly CURVED.

This implies even more strongly the distortion of the Coriolis Effect - the force of the 'push' is being distorted by the suddenly increased velocity of the world's new (if so very temporary) rate of rotation. Between that and the already oblique angle from which it is projected, it would seem to indicate a big boost to the angular momentum of Earth's spin.

In billiard terms, ironically, they put a little 'english' on the world. Which is really all it would take to utterly fuck up everything right quick.

[ Mind you, I'm just postulating here - not trying to second guess Warren at all. At this point, I'd read Freakangels rabidly, even if it was nothing but raw script posted to LiveJournal. Missing out on Paul and company's artwork would be a damned crime, but for this story, I'd commit that crime. Then bitch viciously about not being able to have cake and eat it too...] ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213020#Comment_213020 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213020#Comment_213020 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:06:26 -0800 Jeff Owens http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213048#Comment_213048 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213048#Comment_213048 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:34:30 -0800 Zatoichi
I can't wait for Friday each week to see the next episode. Thanks very much! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213053#Comment_213053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213053#Comment_213053 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:25:45 -0800 Prof Structure
My comment about the tides was meant to refer to the fact that if the earth's rotation is increased (while the Moon's gravitational effect remains the same) you will see a dramatic change.

But I kinda hope that really isn't the explanation, because one of the many things I like about Warren Ellis's work is his respect for science and even if we head into 'its a tear in the space-time continuum' territory, thats vastly preferable to fucking with Newton's laws! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213125#Comment_213125 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213125#Comment_213125 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:21:06 -0800 Berserker
Of course, sneak046 brought up Luke's mention of the three minute time shift between Whitechapel and the Suffolk Coast in episode four( and in fact, his entire speech on the nature of time there-in ). While I'd love to know exactly how Luke sorted that out, it hints at something a little weirder than just speeding up the world. And it seems like second nature to the 'Angels to muck about with Newton's Laws...

At this point, we still haven't really been told or shown enough to say exactly what they did - all we can do is have fun trying to second-guess Warren until it is explained. If it's ever explained. Doesn't need to be really, for the purposes of the story. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213237#Comment_213237 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213237#Comment_213237 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:09:18 -0800 fod_xp fucking cool! It's like the cosmos just flipped it's lid!

I don't know about anyone else, but Mark kind of grew on me. Still not okay with his current purpose in life, but damn it, that's why FreakAngels is so great!

Everyone is morally ambiguous, but you can't help but root for them anyway. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213240#Comment_213240 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213240#Comment_213240 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:13:58 -0800 Fan I'm still not too convinced that increasing the spin of the Earth, even so much as shown there, would make anything 'fly off' the planet

An object (like the space station) in Low Earth Orbit makes one complete revolution around the Earth in about 90 minutes.

Low Earth Orbit is only 300km above the surface of the earth, whereas the earth's radius is 6,000km: so, it's so low that its orbital characteristics are virtually the same as at earth's surface (except only for the presence of atmosphere).

In other words, if the earth were rotating once every 90 minutes, then objects at its equator would be in orbit. Even more so if it were rotating once per minute: objects would be flying off. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213257#Comment_213257 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213257#Comment_213257 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:53:36 -0800 Prof Structure
@Berserker - gravity just ain't that powerful! Tie a brick to a piece of string, whirl it round your head and consider what happens when the string breaks. In that case the centripetal 'force' is balanced by the tension in the string, which is basically just the electromagnetic force (a lot stronger that gravity). The c-force is proportional to vel squared, so if the angels are sat there watching the stars whirl and the sun rise and set in, what, 5-10 mins, that means a c-force/acc over 20,000x what it is now, so around 700 m per sec sq , which means they'd be well and truly buggered (unless I;ve done the math wrong, which is quite likely on a sun morning... and of course, I've not taken the vectorial nature into account. Of course ...!)

Or, much better, as Fan says - consider the space stations of the world ...

And I really hope that the it isn't all fucking with Isaac, 'cos as Mr Ellis well knows, this isn't a Newtonian world, so to do something that would even give the appearance of f w i they would have to mess with general relativity/quantum gravity and such (!), which is much more fun.

Like you say, the time shift thing is interesting and although the story will still be brilliant if what they did is only hinted at, it'll be less so if its something akin to Superman flying round the earth counter clockwise and very very fast in order to turn back time ...! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213294#Comment_213294 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213294#Comment_213294 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:55:53 -0800 Berserker
For what it's worth though, I think we can trust Warren to have something far more intelligent in store for us than anything to ever fall out of a Superman movie. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213396#Comment_213396 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213396#Comment_213396 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:09:38 -0800 David Matthew http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213668#Comment_213668 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213668#Comment_213668 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:44:18 -0800 Prof Structure
And I love that phrase 'its like time is moving differently in front of my face' - I feel like that sometimes, albeit in non-apocalyptic situations. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213787#Comment_213787 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=213787#Comment_213787 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:18:36 -0800 fod_xp
Either way, episode 0081 is SO FUCKING COOL! also, I have to say it: "There is a god!" = D ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=214200#Comment_214200 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=214200#Comment_214200 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:30:12 -0800 ShannonC
I don't know what they have left for time pieces, if it is something as complicated as a wind up clock, or measuring how far down a candle burns. Maybe some analog/digital wrist watches still function? I think electromagnetics mess with the later. It would also mess with radio reception, which would explain why it is so damn hard to communicate with the rest of the world, assuming there is anyone out there left to communicate with. I don't think I recall KK ever having a compass on the dash of her helibike thing, or on Jack's boat, but that would be something else it would muddle with.

Who knows, maybe Big Ben still works. I read somewhere it ran on time through the Blitz. Breaking physics and the Blitz are, however, slightly different matters. If there is some way around the physics of everything flying off the face of the earth when Mark spun it on his finger like a basket ball, I'd hope there is a possibility it still ran. The 'bat cave' bell foundry made bells for clocks like Big Ben...but who knows what is going on. I guess the main point this week was to jab us into realizing a lot more than society has collapsed. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=214224#Comment_214224 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=214224#Comment_214224 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:41:47 -0800 Fan I guess the main point this week was to jab us into realizing a lot more than society has collapsed.

What it does for me is give the impression that whatever they did can't be undone.

I mean, if they have power enough to melt the planet's icecaps or something, then they have power enough to freeze them again. But they can't undo this because they don't even know what they've done.

Also, the spinning implies that a lot of time has passed (irreversibly), during which a lot is happening / has happened, which they are/were powerless to affect (if they're currently frozen in time while the rest of the world is moving on with the disaster). ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=214354#Comment_214354 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=214354#Comment_214354 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:31:00 -0800 bairdduvessa http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=214584#Comment_214584 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=214584#Comment_214584 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:59:36 -0800 dddrum
The world is a mad dervish; the sea rises up in pure wrath; the FAs are tossed into the maelstrom.

THEN (!!!)

We're back in the now... and we're gonna find out what happens... aren't we? AREN'T WE??

ARRGH (!!!)

It's a knock-out.
(If looks could kill, they probably will...)

Mon compliment chef!
--DDD ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=214977#Comment_214977 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=214977#Comment_214977 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:35:24 -0800 phorgan1
Patrick ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=215824#Comment_215824 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7533&Focus=215824#Comment_215824 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:46:17 -0800 NakedCelt