Einstein in a Box

[arbre_rieur]

Here's 7 1/3 pages from THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS 1...



Groves gives Oppenheimer the grand tour of the Manhattan Projects.















After the attack is vanquished...

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[biod]

The robots took one look at Einstein, saw that he was busy, and kindly took themselves apart to save him the trouble.

[cainofdreaming]

Or he might have 'kirked' them - explained "love" mathematically. Blew their tiny robot minds straight out of their metallic skulls.

[biod]

Or simply: "Could you help me with this problem? It's quite tricky"

sorry my brain just choked on something

[lissa_quon]

"ZEN POWERED BY DEATH BUDDHISTS"

ZEN POWERED BY DEATH BUDDHISTS

....DEATH BUDDHISTS

well okay then

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[turtlefu]

I know, it's like, there are clever, esoteric, and crazy ideas.

And then there is just plain old stupid.

[michael_ellis_day]

I'm looking at these pages with all the latest up-to-date tropes being ticked off one by one -- the real-world historical figures, the Morrison-Ellis hyperscience jargon, the secret history of the world, the copious gore with no emotional weight -- and I'm wondering why my instant reaction is "Eh, seen it all before."

And then it hits me: I really just don't like Jonathan Hickman's stuff. I wish I did. I have nothing against him personally. But he leaves me cold.

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[glprime]

Yuuuup.

I remember an exchange from some earlier version of S_D, where another member was incensed by religious humor and asked, "Well if I said a joke about Buddha, how would a Buddhist react?"

He would laugh. And the Buddha would laugh with him.

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[venatosapiens]

I won't deny that the absurdity of it is weirdly appealing. Even if Hickman is just throwing words together.

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[donnblake]

There have certainly been violent extremist groups that identified themselves with Bhuddism. And specifically during World War Two, a large number of Zen Bhuddist groups supported Japanese military expansionism. Death Bhuddists is certainly an oversimplification of it, but the guy's a military administrator who's also responsible for understanding huge varieties of different mad sciences. Expecting him to be an expert on Bhuddist philosophy beyond "those are the ones who power the Japanese Death Machines," is asking quite a bit.

[biod]

I really like Hickman's work, but I can't seem to get behind this.
I guess if I wanted ultra-science in my WWII with Einstein I'd play some more Red Alert.

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[sadoeuphemist]

I love that Lone Wolf and Cub arc where he's hired to kill a Buddhist monk, but he just can't kill him. So what he does is, he goes out into the woods and finds an abandoned temple and meditates until he achieves enlightenment.

Then he goes back and cuts the monk in half.

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[espanolbot]

Hm, they could probably have used Amatsu-Mikaboshi, the Japanese God of Evil and the Stars. After the War people actually said that the scientists that conducted the human experimentation for the Japanese army (if you'd call dipping people's hands in liquid nitrogen and then smashing them with hammers actual "science") worshipped him somehow.

Hey, if they could say that the Holocaust was part of a blood magic ritual in the comicbook series the Life Eaters, then the above could also have been the case too.

[espanolbot]

In comparision this is right up my street, I loves me some retroscience fiction I does.

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[lascoden]

I love spiritual journeys of self-enlightenment that end with chopping dudes up.

[eyz]

Really intrigued in this series :)

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[korvar]

The monk, it must be said, a) told him what to do and b) was very pleased he succeeded. Happiest cut-in-half dude I've ever seen.

[arilou_skiff]

Eh...?

Not really impressed.

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[wizardru]

"If you meet the Buddha on the road, Kill the Buddha."

[lonewolf23k]

Well of course Einstein could defeat all those Kamikazi Deathbots.

He's trained as a Ninja: http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1365964.html

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[filthysize]

This is the former, right?

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[icon_uk]

Hey, if they could say that the Holocaust was part of a blood magic ritual

That's... not a road a creator should EVER go down IMHO.

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[salinea]

no shit.

[leoboiko]

Somehow I don’t feel battle screams of “shi! shi! shi” very threatening. Should have gone with 抹殺 massatsu or something.

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[icon_uk]

Some things are worth stating, no matter how blindingly obvious they might appear.

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[salinea]

I was agreeing, not criticising.