Talk:3167: Car Size - Revision history

92.23.2.208: Undoing an apparently unauthorised edit, and putting an 'unsigned' signature in place of a strange copy of the top-comment.

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Undoing an apparently unauthorised edit, and putting an 'unsigned' signature in place of a strange copy of the top-comment.

Pssst78: Some day, we too will pass

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Some day, we too will pass

92.23.2.208 at 21:48, 2 January 2026

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User 8496351 at 19:50, 2 January 2026

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Lamda05 at 02:56, 25 December 2025

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User 8496351 at 19:32, 19 December 2025

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82.132.236.141 at 16:47, 14 December 2025

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108.49.66.187 at 13:13, 14 December 2025

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82.132.236.246 at 17:19, 12 December 2025

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Brain Weevil: /* Abuse of a simple word. */ new section

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‎Abuse of a simple word.: new section

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 Perhaps general-purpose self-replicating self-repairing nanorobots can solve this problem, via regeneration and absurd durability. If both driver and car are made entirely out of interchangeable nanorobots, then they'll only die if they're completely disintegrated or melted into nothing; if they get ripped apart, crushed or pulverized, they just form back into single mass, and any lost nanorobots are replaced by disassembling whatever junk is handy. --[[User:User 8496351|User 8496351]] ([[User talk:User 8496351|talk]]) 19:50, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
-:Then the escalation will be that any remaining nanobots start to replace their own missing nanobots by trashing and recycling the nanobots of other nanobotvehik
+:Then the escalation will be that any remaining nanobots start to replace their own missing nanobots by trashing and recycling the nanobots of other nanobotvehiclesanddrivers they encounter.
 :...yup, that ''definitely'' solves the problem. ;) [[Special:Contributions/92.23.2.208|92.23.2.208]] 21:48, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
 The next panel in this sequence would be a people on a sidewalk saying they need to stay inside, and the subsequent one has a robot car that misses having people ride in it.
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+The next panel in this sequence would be a people on a sidewalk saying they need to stay inside, and the subsequent one has a robot car that misses having people ride in it. {{unsigned|Pssst78|13:46, 3 January 2026}}

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 Perhaps general-purpose self-replicating self-repairing nanorobots can solve this problem, via regeneration and absurd durability. If both driver and car are made entirely out of interchangeable nanorobots, then they'll only die if they're completely disintegrated or melted into nothing; if they get ripped apart, crushed or pulverized, they just form back into single mass, and any lost nanorobots are replaced by disassembling whatever junk is handy. --[[User:User 8496351|User 8496351]] ([[User talk:User 8496351|talk]]) 19:50, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
-:Then the escalation will be that any remaining nanobots start to replace their own missing nanobots by trashing and recycling the nanobots of other nanobotvehiclesanddrivers they encounter.
+:Then the escalation will be that any remaining nanobots start to replace their own missing nanobots by trashing and recycling the nanobots of other nanobotvehik
 :...yup, that ''definitely'' solves the problem. ;) [[Special:Contributions/92.23.2.208|92.23.2.208]] 21:48, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

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	Perhaps general-purpose self-replicating self-repairing nanorobots can solve this problem, via regeneration and absurd durability. If both driver and car are made entirely out of interchangeable nanorobots, then they'll only die if they're completely disintegrated or melted into nothing; if they get ripped apart, crushed or pulverized, they just form back into single mass, and any lost nanorobots are replaced by disassembling whatever junk is handy. --[[User:User 8496351\|User 8496351]] ([[User talk:User 8496351\|talk]]) 19:50, 2 January 2026 (UTC)		Perhaps general-purpose self-replicating self-repairing nanorobots can solve this problem, via regeneration and absurd durability. If both driver and car are made entirely out of interchangeable nanorobots, then they'll only die if they're completely disintegrated or melted into nothing; if they get ripped apart, crushed or pulverized, they just form back into single mass, and any lost nanorobots are replaced by disassembling whatever junk is handy. --[[User:User 8496351\|User 8496351]] ([[User talk:User 8496351\|talk]]) 19:50, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
		+	:Then the escalation will be that any remaining nanobots start to replace their own missing nanobots by trashing and recycling the nanobots of other nanobotvehiclesanddrivers they encounter.
		+	:...yup, that ''definitely'' solves the problem. ;) [[Special:Contributions/92.23.2.208\|92.23.2.208]] 21:48, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

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	Perhaps hydrogen vehicles can solve this problem by achieving Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).--[[User:Lamda05\|Lamda05]] ([[User talk:Lamda05\|talk]]) 02:56, 25 December 2025 (UTC)		Perhaps hydrogen vehicles can solve this problem by achieving Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).--[[User:Lamda05\|Lamda05]] ([[User talk:Lamda05\|talk]]) 02:56, 25 December 2025 (UTC)
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		+	Perhaps general-purpose self-replicating self-repairing nanorobots can solve this problem, via regeneration and absurd durability. If both driver and car are made entirely out of interchangeable nanorobots, then they'll only die if they're completely disintegrated or melted into nothing; if they get ripped apart, crushed or pulverized, they just form back into single mass, and any lost nanorobots are replaced by disassembling whatever junk is handy. --[[User:User 8496351\|User 8496351]] ([[User talk:User 8496351\|talk]]) 19:50, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

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	* This cataclysmic trans-sapient war causes a crisis of untold proportions. But supergeniuses set aside the road problems, team up and prevent the catastrophe.		* This cataclysmic trans-sapient war causes a crisis of untold proportions. But supergeniuses set aside the road problems, team up and prevent the catastrophe.
	* Supergeniuses then invent The Group Overmind, the Super-Super-Supergenius. A single mind with many bodies, incomprehensible even to supergeniuses themselves, it becomes smarter proportionately to how many people he assimilated. Transcending normals to greater degree, than to which normals transcend microbes; transcending normal human brains to greater degree, than to which modern supercomputer transcends a loose pile of sticks. The Second Technological Singularity happens, everyone become united, technology advanced even further. Since everyone are now members of single group-mind (hive-mind), everyone move with cohesion of single organism, and no one has to ram or shoot each-other. And everything was lovely once again. --[[User:User 8496351\|User 8496351]] ([[User talk:User 8496351\|talk]]) 19:32, 19 December 2025 (UTC)		* Supergeniuses then invent The Group Overmind, the Super-Super-Supergenius. A single mind with many bodies, incomprehensible even to supergeniuses themselves, it becomes smarter proportionately to how many people he assimilated. Transcending normals to greater degree, than to which normals transcend microbes; transcending normal human brains to greater degree, than to which modern supercomputer transcends a loose pile of sticks. The Second Technological Singularity happens, everyone become united, technology advanced even further. Since everyone are now members of single group-mind (hive-mind), everyone move with cohesion of single organism, and no one has to ram or shoot each-other. And everything was lovely once again. --[[User:User 8496351\|User 8496351]] ([[User talk:User 8496351\|talk]]) 19:32, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
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		+	Perhaps hydrogen vehicles can solve this problem by achieving Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).--[[User:Lamda05\|Lamda05]] ([[User talk:Lamda05\|talk]]) 02:56, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

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	::If you remember that both "person" and "others" fall into the category of "persons" the linearity becomes evident. To spell it out: "People get bigger and bigger cars." {{unsigned ip\|108.49.66.187\|13:13, 14 December 2025}}		::If you remember that both "person" and "others" fall into the category of "persons" the linearity becomes evident. To spell it out: "People get bigger and bigger cars." {{unsigned ip\|108.49.66.187\|13:13, 14 December 2025}}
	:::In a {{w\|File:Stampede loop.png\|Feedback cycle}}, however much you simplify it. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.141\|82.132.236.141]] 16:47, 14 December 2025 (UTC)		:::In a {{w\|File:Stampede loop.png\|Feedback cycle}}, however much you simplify it. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.141\|82.132.236.141]] 16:47, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
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		+	If this continues on even further, it would go like this:
		+	* Cars get further armored and armed. People realize "shooting the obstacle into smithereens from afar" is a better way of preventing crash than ramming. Armored Fighting Vehicles (AFV), former "cars", have more armor, cannons, and often have rugged tracked chassis.
		+	* Many AFV crews shoot first and ask questions later, and nobody knows each-other's intentions. Roads and cities turn into warzones. Even other tanks aren't safe, as even massive land battleships are vulnerable to high-power modern weaponry. Being outside is hazardous, so people relocate to deep bunkers, and all AFVs become either autonomous or remote-controlled.
		+	* Later, super-intelligent super-geniuses are invented, and The First Technological Singularity starts. They transcend normal humans at least to same degree, by which normal humans transcend ''Australopithecus''; complexity of their brains transcends those of normal human brains, like complexity of modern computer transcends that of early 1990's computer; they have many times more neurons, bigger brains, and can out-compute supercomputers. Surgically grafting neurons onto brain, genetics, cybernetic implants - everything is used. Among other things, they invent new war machines, which normal humans can't even comprehend.
		+	* Supergeniuses try to retake the surface with their new remote-controlled war machines. They again ran into each-other, and second cycle of violence starts, more devastating than ever.
		+	* This cataclysmic trans-sapient war causes a crisis of untold proportions. But supergeniuses set aside the road problems, team up and prevent the catastrophe.
		+	* Supergeniuses then invent The Group Overmind, the Super-Super-Supergenius. A single mind with many bodies, incomprehensible even to supergeniuses themselves, it becomes smarter proportionately to how many people he assimilated. Transcending normals to greater degree, than to which normals transcend microbes; transcending normal human brains to greater degree, than to which modern supercomputer transcends a loose pile of sticks. The Second Technological Singularity happens, everyone become united, technology advanced even further. Since everyone are now members of single group-mind (hive-mind), everyone move with cohesion of single organism, and no one has to ram or shoot each-other. And everything was lovely once again. --[[User:User 8496351\|User 8496351]] ([[User talk:User 8496351\|talk]]) 19:32, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

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 :...looks like a cycle to me! As does the first vehicle. ;) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.246|82.132.236.246]] 17:19, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
-If you remember that both "person" and "others" fall into the category of "persons" the linearity becomes evident. To spell it out: "People get bigger and bigger cars."
+::If you remember that both "person" and "others" fall into the category of "persons" the linearity becomes evident. To spell it out: "People get bigger and bigger cars." {{unsigned ip|108.49.66.187|13:13, 14 December 2025}}

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	:...looks like a cycle to me! As does the first vehicle. ;) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.246\|82.132.236.246]] 17:19, 12 December 2025 (UTC)		:...looks like a cycle to me! As does the first vehicle. ;) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.246\|82.132.236.246]] 17:19, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
		+	If you remember that both "person" and "others" fall into the category of "persons" the linearity becomes evident. To spell it out: "People get bigger and bigger cars."

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 :For 'Today', you're going for basic "SUV", in both cases, just one with less SuperMini-like wheels (probably alloys) and plenty of add-on details. Features that clearly get an upgrade in the more visible 'Soon' car (the other one might be even bigger, the way its 'club-rotor' seems to be sat higher up, as well as having larger spiked-clubs). [[Special:Contributions/2.98.65.8|2.98.65.8]] 23:55, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
-== Abuse of a simple word. ==
+;Abuse of a simple word.
-I wish to register my astonishment and horror at Randall’s abuse of the simple, if broad, term “cycle”. The phenomenon being accurately described in this comic is a linear progression.
+I wish to register my astonishment and horror at Randall’s abuse of the simple, if broad, term “cycle”. The phenomenon being accurately described in this comic is a linear progression. {{unsigned|Brain Weevil|15:32, 12 December 2025}}

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	:The '50 years ago' image looks to feature a mid-1980s small-car, rather than a 1975 one. (There's so many more actual models to check, though I'm thinking maybe something like a Datsun, or similar exported Japanee brand?) The larger car... well, apart from perhaps being a Rolls Royce (or otherwise featuring a prominent hood-ornament like that) it's the kind of luxury-sedan style shape that is ''almost'' contemporary up to the present day.		:The '50 years ago' image looks to feature a mid-1980s small-car, rather than a 1975 one. (There's so many more actual models to check, though I'm thinking maybe something like a Datsun, or similar exported Japanee brand?) The larger car... well, apart from perhaps being a Rolls Royce (or otherwise featuring a prominent hood-ornament like that) it's the kind of luxury-sedan style shape that is ''almost'' contemporary up to the present day.
	:For 'Today', you're going for basic "SUV", in both cases, just one with less SuperMini-like wheels (probably alloys) and plenty of add-on details. Features that clearly get an upgrade in the more visible 'Soon' car (the other one might be even bigger, the way its 'club-rotor' seems to be sat higher up, as well as having larger spiked-clubs). [[Special:Contributions/2.98.65.8\|2.98.65.8]] 23:55, 20 November 2025 (UTC)		:For 'Today', you're going for basic "SUV", in both cases, just one with less SuperMini-like wheels (probably alloys) and plenty of add-on details. Features that clearly get an upgrade in the more visible 'Soon' car (the other one might be even bigger, the way its 'club-rotor' seems to be sat higher up, as well as having larger spiked-clubs). [[Special:Contributions/2.98.65.8\|2.98.65.8]] 23:55, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
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		+	== Abuse of a simple word. ==
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		+	I wish to register my astonishment and horror at Randall’s abuse of the simple, if broad, term “cycle”. The phenomenon being accurately described in this comic is a linear progression.