2935: Ocean Loop - Revision history

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2026-03-17T21:49:51Z

‎Trivia: This info is already given in the Explanation section.

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Kynde: /* Explanation */ more on Rotational Gravity

2026-03-17T08:40:09Z

‎Explanation: more on Rotational Gravity

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172.70.162.58: Undo revision 370214 by 172.68.211.60 (talk) Not by that category's criteria (the mistake doesn't count).

2025-03-25T11:30:49Z

Undo revision 370214 by 172.68.211.60 (talk) Not by that category's criteria (the mistake doesn't count).

172.68.211.60 at 04:53, 25 March 2025

2025-03-25T04:53:50Z

172.68.205.179: Undo revision 368474 by 172.71.218.215 (talk) WTF is a "Long Version" for this? There's always a Transcript, which you can add to if you think there's something needs adding to it.

2025-03-10T00:10:32Z

Undo revision 368474 by 172.71.218.215 (talk) WTF is a "Long Version" for this? There's always a Transcript, which you can add to if you think there's something needs adding to it.

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 * This may have been an error.
 * At the time of posting, the image was ''massive'', 4760 x 4295 pixels.
 {{comic discussion}}

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 When those in charge of the ship objected to sailing into this loop, the builder attempted to get around this by having the passengers vote on it. Presumably worried that opening the decision-making process to the passengers might favor the exciting risk over the well-founded reason of the staff, those in charge put a stop to that too. Cruise ships generally don't function as democracies, even outside of absurd situations such as the one depicted.
-In the later comic [[3220: Rotational Gravity]] the same Cueball is fired by another cruise line for a similar bad idea where he turns the ship around to create artificial gravity. The title text, which complains about the decision of the cruise line, just as here, references directly back to this comic.
+In the later comic [[3220: Rotational Gravity]], the same Cueball is fired by another cruise line for a similarly bad idea where he rotates the ship around to create artificial gravity. The title text, just as here, complains about the decision of the cruise line, and with explicit reference to the scenario in this comic.
 ==Transcript==

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 * This may have been an error.
 * At the time of posting, the image was ''massive'', 4760 x 4295 pixels.
-* This comic is referenced in [[3220: Rotational Gravity]]
+* This comic is referenced in [[3220: Rotational Gravity]].
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 * This may have been an error.
 * At the time of posting, the image was ''massive'', 4760 x 4295 pixels.
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 ==Explanation==
 Upon hearing the term "ocean loop", many people think of horizontal {{w|ocean gyre}}s or {{w|ocean currents}}. This comic illustrates a vertical, rather than horizontal, ocean loop.
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 When those in charge of the ship objected to sailing into this loop, the builder attempted to get around this by having the passengers vote on it. Presumably worried that opening the decision-making process to the passengers might favor the exciting risk over the well-founded reason of the staff, those in charge put a stop to that too. Cruise ships generally don't function as democracies, even outside of absurd situations such as the one depicted.
-Another strip in which the narrator is fired by a cruise line for a similar bad idea is [[3220: Rotational Gravity]].
+In the later comic [[3220: Rotational Gravity]] the same Cueball is fired by another cruise line for a similar bad idea where he turns the ship around to create artificial gravity. The title text, which complains about the decision of the cruise line, just as here, references directly back to this comic.
 ==Transcript==

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	When those in charge of the ship objected to sailing into this loop, the builder attempted to get around this by having the passengers vote on it. Presumably worried that opening the decision-making process to the passengers might favor the exciting risk over the well-founded reason of the staff, those in charge put a stop to that too. Cruise ships generally don't function as democracies, even outside of absurd situations such as the one depicted.		When those in charge of the ship objected to sailing into this loop, the builder attempted to get around this by having the passengers vote on it. Presumably worried that opening the decision-making process to the passengers might favor the exciting risk over the well-founded reason of the staff, those in charge put a stop to that too. Cruise ships generally don't function as democracies, even outside of absurd situations such as the one depicted.
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		+	Another strip in which the narrator is fired by a cruise line for a similar bad idea is [[3220: Rotational Gravity]].

	==Transcript==		==Transcript==

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−	~~[[Category:Large drawings]]~~

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	==Transcript==		==Transcript==

−	:[A cruise ship approaches an enormous loop-de-loop flume from the left. A large jet of water is being propelled into the loop-de-loop by an enormous submerged hot tub style jet. The loop-de-loop, that looks like a waterslide, and the structure housing the jet are connected to a slightly inclined seabed, higher on the right.]
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−	~~:[Caption below the panel:]~~
−	~~:I don't know why the cruise line fired me.~~
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−	~~===Long version===~~
−	~~{{Incomplete transcript\|Do not delete the tag.}}~~
	:[A cruise ship approaches an enormous loop-de-loop flume from the left. A large jet of water is being propelled into the loop-de-loop by an enormous submerged hot tub style jet. The loop-de-loop, that looks like a waterslide, and the structure housing the jet are connected to a slightly inclined seabed, higher on the right.]		:[A cruise ship approaches an enormous loop-de-loop flume from the left. A large jet of water is being propelled into the loop-de-loop by an enormous submerged hot tub style jet. The loop-de-loop, that looks like a waterslide, and the structure housing the jet are connected to a slightly inclined seabed, higher on the right.]

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:16, 9 March 2025
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		+	:[A cruise ship approaches an enormous loop-de-loop flume from the left. A large jet of water is being propelled into the loop-de-loop by an enormous submerged hot tub style jet. The loop-de-loop, that looks like a waterslide, and the structure housing the jet are connected to a slightly inclined seabed, higher on the right.]
		+
		+	:[Caption below the panel:]
		+	:I don't know why the cruise line fired me.
		+
		+	===Long version===
		+	{{Incomplete transcript\|Do not delete the tag.}}
	:[A cruise ship approaches an enormous loop-de-loop flume from the left. A large jet of water is being propelled into the loop-de-loop by an enormous submerged hot tub style jet. The loop-de-loop, that looks like a waterslide, and the structure housing the jet are connected to a slightly inclined seabed, higher on the right.]		:[A cruise ship approaches an enormous loop-de-loop flume from the left. A large jet of water is being propelled into the loop-de-loop by an enormous submerged hot tub style jet. The loop-de-loop, that looks like a waterslide, and the structure housing the jet are connected to a slightly inclined seabed, higher on the right.]