How's it going over there, Talita?
Transcript
Chapter 3: History
Saturday 24:00
Talita investigates on her tablet in bed.
Sunday 8:00
Talita sits at her large drafting tablet, still investigating on the internet.
Sunday 20:00
Talita rubs her eyes in frustration in her dark room, still at her drafting tablet.
Monday 1:00
Talita lies in bed and glares at the boxes of phones.
Parallel to the panels of Talita is a text list, titled "Network Search History."
download> search results> A. I lookup database
A.I. lookup database
Bip
download> search results> ATJTW- 62398562
ATJTW- 62398562
ATJTW- 62398562 vessel history
ATJTW- 62398562 piracy
ATJTW- 62398562 smuggling
ATJTW- 62398562 arrest
ATJTW- 62398562 Bip
ATJTW- 62398562 A.I.
download> BFNET> search results
BFNET> A.I. database
BFNET> A.I. criminals
BFNET> ATJTW- 62398562
BFNET> ai arrests
BFNET> smuggling arrests
BFNET> Bip
local> employee handbook
local> employee legal agreement
download> search results> smuggling arrests Jovia
smuggling arrests Jovia
piracy arrests Jovia
A.I. arrests Jovia
ex-criminal vessels
download> search results> A.I. criminality laws
A.I. criminality laws
What happens to arrested A.I?
Jovia A.I. criminality laws
local> vessel ownership laws
local> company property rules
download> search results> derelict vessel laws
derelict vessel laws
abandoned vs derelict
abandoned vessel repair legality
abandoned vessel refurbishment
local> company property theft
45 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 79”
Liza
This only just occurred to me but I love that the chapter title is History and the first page is dedicated to search history
leg
I love the transisition of the questions – interest moving from the AI identity over to consideration of the consequences of its proposition…
Taren
I love how she looked up the employee handbook and legal agreement, probably to make sure she wasn’t doing anything that would get her fired XD
Gar G
So much to make sure of…
The Foolish Maker of Worlds
Hey if anything happens she can at least claim it’s for a novel. Hopefully.
But yeah, I get that. Real pain in the butt when you can’t find anything good when looking for something really specific online. …Even if that thing is an AI’s criminal history.
Ruby
Oh yeah, I know the feeling of doing what feels like a lot of useless research
Dicemonger
I don’t know that it is useless. Definitely looks like she is learning something while circling from “derelict vessel laws” to “company property theft”
Origamigryphon
I love her frustrated petulance in the last panel
EveryZig314
What DOES happen to arrested AI?
Tyrone the Miner
they are forced to work in a cubicle at DMV. No breaks.
JoB
… you sure they’d *all* consider that a punishment?
https://parttimedragons.com/comics/comics/demons-ultimate-pleasure-in-the-mortal-realm/
Bruce Mickelson
Give an Engineer a problem, and she will try to solve it! That is a very interesting series of internet questions Talia investigated.
Apollo235
If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
– Scott Adams
Martin
Love her little eeping face
Rad Internet Stranger
Angy
fen
HER LITTLE FACE IN THE LAST PANEL <3
Solanuma
girl you’ll be late to work!
evileeyore
She’ll be okay, it’s not BING BONG yet.
Greenjoe
Interesting questions indeed she is searching, I’d be curious to the answers of some of them.
Tyrone the Miner
I presume all those search results was dead ends.
Also Bip will know the instant he has access to her pad again.
Gotta a hunch Bip has a funny one-liner…Like…”Search much ? WINK!” or “Time off spent well?….NOT!!”
The little electronic rascal! =)
JoB
… considering that Bip said that The Runaway was disabled by a PROJECTILE, I would expect Talitas searches to dredge up *some* results, even if it’s just some tabloid speculating about the event’s “possibly” criminal background …
Phlosioneer
Meteorites and micro-meteorites are a common danger in space. It probably happens decently often, like bird strikes in aviation, and occasionally turns deadly.
JoB
… to the point of turning the entire spacecraft into a write-off that gets sent to the scrapyard?? =8-C If that’s the case, I’d have second, third, *and* umpteenth thoughts about boarding the Runaway for a new cAARRRRRRReer!
Felgraf
In the wrong place? Yeah. Absolutely.
Even at the relative speeds of *orbit*, space junk is INSANELY dangerous. The ISS has had to dodge around debris in the past, because otherwise it would have been torn to pieces.
feesh
i do think part of the intrigue of the Runaway’s accident is meant to be how, exactly, a projectile was allowed to hit the craft while Bip was supposedly meant to be watching for such things. an AI pilot should be a surefire way to avoid hitting stray junk, right? with the commonality of space travel in RTTS, i imagine the standards of safety for space travel are generally really high for this kind of thing
Bruce Mickelson
The progression of Talita’s expressions is delightful to watch, and Bip’s rap sheet is apparently public knowledge!
Liza
Bless her, she’s trying.
Sabella
I feel like Talita is about to find out that search queries are typically logged logged, and that these kinds of search queries tend to raise flags.
Phlosioneer
I think that’s why each log starts with “download”. I think she’s downloading the databases and then running the searches offline.
Jay Eaton
Partially that, partially because there’s a 6 minute ping between Nexus Jovia and Dirtball. Websearching is more tolerable if you download information in large packets and rifle through that set of data while the next one downloads.
evilleeyore
Not when you have a self-described scofflaw ghosting the machine on your behalf.
waterfan2
Just realized, that mouse she’s using must be the size of a wharf rat or even rabbit.
Still smaller than the rat on page 40, though.
whirly
chapter 3: (incriminating search) history
Pathfinder
Putting those graduate research skills to work, you got this Talita!
Tumorhead
Yeah how does accusing AI of a crime work??? LOL poor Talita
boxesofboxes
Oh She Thinkin HARD. Good luck Talita, on to your next adventure! Safe travels!
Verc
Chapter 3!! This search history is so real. Also obsessed with Talita’s pose in the last panel.
How does 24:00 work in a 23h day?
Jay Eaton
Oh, that’s just an error. I will fix it when I get a chance
Teod
Also on an N-hour day it goes [N-1]:59 -> 00:00. There is no N:00.
ComicReaderABCDEF
Not necessarily! As an example, 30-hour time notation is sometimes used in Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30-hour_clock
JoB
I suppose that sitting on a random rock and using time unit defined on your homeworld could easily make it necessary to (often) use leap *minutes* …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#/media/File:Leapsecond2016.png
JoB
… please scratch my previous reply; I should get into that newfangled fad of “think before you post”, rather.
Where I live, it’s perfectly permissible to state the time as “24:00”, to make clear that you’re referring to the midnight that *ends* the day in question, rather than the one it *begins* with, even though no clock face will ever *display* that “time”.
The timekeeping system at my workplace insists on a *strict* syntax, i.e., when I (often) work over midnight, I have to book one “day X, until 23:59” and one “day X+1, starting 00:00” – twice the effort, *and* I wind up one minute short. Precision-fanatic me *hates* it. :-3
Truther
Ah, someones a good evidence hider
1d4Nadg
Let’s hope no one sees THAT search history, huh?
evilleeyore
Only Bip will see it and Bip sees all.