Talk:1693: Oxidation

The white balance is off in this comic. Mikemk (talk) 04:39, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Where? I checked it in gimp and the white balance is fine. In fact, the .png file for this comic uses the greyscale colour mode.141.101.98.130 09:57, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Reference to 1014: Car Problems 141.101.98.132 18:47, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Maybe Randall drew this one on paper, which had already started oxidizing before it was scanned. ;D 108.162.216.91 08:36, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

I thought the arthropods mentioned were meant to be a reference to pubic lice (crabs). 141.101.104.42 06:11, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Okay, who else had immediately thought of Skitter? 172.68.11.43 09:52, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

I can't say that I did, but I like this reference. 108.162.219.80 12:55, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

There's no reason to think the Title Text is from Megan to Pony tail. It could just as easily be the other way around. 173.245.54.47 12:30, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Yes there is reason to think so. Ponytail tries to downplay the fact that she has crashed Megans car and made it burn, and then Megan downplay her revenge of covering Ponytail in spiders etc. --Kynde (talk) 09:19, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Or Ponytail, who has just demonstrated her tendency to downplay quantitative differences, is just continuing on in the same vein. It could easily go either way, though I like the revenge scenario.Geek Prophet (talk) 19:30, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Could this be a prequel to 1014: Car Problems? Luc (talk) 15:33, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Possibly inspired by What If #97? Randall talks about oxidation and mentions car rusting vs. car combustion. Meareaperson (talk) 18:05, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

For sure, thanks, I will put a link to it in the explanation --Kynde (talk) 09:19, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Possibly the title text is a reference to the theory, that higher concentration of oxygen (this comic being about oxidation, which obviously requires oxygen) in the air would result in larger insects? [1] [2] [3] 172.68.11.49 11:14, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Oxidation does not require oxygen. It is simply a term used to describe a reaction with a loss of electrons. There's a mnemonic to remember this, "OIL RIG; Oxidation Is Loss, Reduction Is Gain" and a few others as well. It is called oxidation because diatomic oxygen was the first recognized oxidizing agent.Lackadaisical (talk) 13:26, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

I believe it might have been a missed opportunity that the author didn't go for a variation of "We're all dying slowly anyway" in the title text. 108.162.218.209 16:02, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

I believe the oxidation Ponytail is referring to is the controlled combustion of the internal combustion engine, this is merely a difference in scale in her opinion.173.245.54.35 11:41, 15 June 2016 (UTC)