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🕑 Added 2025-01-08 01:28:59 +0000 UTCNobel Prize in boners
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Tai
I think they say "Mood". Though the extra O on it would be some funny merch
Sam Trenery
I'm so concerned that Marten's entire offering seems to be filter coffee or a cup of tea. I mean I'd be fine with that but still
Kevin v
Coffee cups that say Moo must be Mommy Milkers merch
ValdVin
Given what Liz was doing with her arm two comics ago I think she's more in danger of throwing a connecting rod.
Rob
Literally just logged in to patreon to write this! Jeph, hope you had a great break, but i also hope you fix the rss feed soon :-D
Erik Ordway
So the public RSS feed stopped updating at the start of the year. Just an FYI.
Maurice Kessler
[reconsidering what should appear on the Mood mug when it's hot, that might get Marten in trouble]
AlexKorobeiniki
It *also* might be a soft engage of your brain with some serotonin so you don’t crack a piston. Or moray messed up. Equally possible
Jim Feldman
I have two. The DEC hardware support center in Colorado Springs (long gone): "We may doze but we never close" (sun is exposed by heat). BSD mug where Beastie shows up when you put hot tea/coffee in.
Am Queue
Check out Circlet Press. All SF/F smut all the time! Couple decades worth, iirc.
Halloween Jack
I was about to issue a retort, but then remembered that "starfucker" means something different. Whew!
Maurice Kessler
Should Marten's branded coffee mugs change color when you pour hot liquid in 'em?
Tim
I'm not sure Moray is a computer. IRL(and seemingly in QC) AI uses matrix multiplications in a GPU, which is a very computer friendly way to do neurons, but I think Moray and the Director are doing neurons in a wildly different way. But on the other hand, we've seen them do computerish stuff, like holding monstrous excel sheets and making calls.
Miyaa
That would make Melon more furry than fuzzy logic.
Nick Mosbrucker
But the ones that do have sex scenes are out of this world
BookBeard
I think Moray's logic is more squishy than fuzzy.
Philip Masters
I was going to say something about Moray being remarkably unreliable for a computer-based system. But I guess when you run fuzzy-logic based AI on a massively parallel pseudo-organic coprocessor, you can’t complain about some glitches.
Philip Masters
Perhaps she is - whisper it - getting better?
Pejo
ah yes I see Marten is getting: Coffee
Guilherme Monteiro
Having just heard the original song for the first time the other day, I have even greater respect for these.
Mad Marie
eh. I'll just take your word for it.
Mad Marie
"...and then she said 'You don't have to take my word for it.' "
Stephen Wells
...I have a doctorate and an AO3 account and am willing to discuss consultancy in this area :)
Mitsuki Ayane
an astrophysics paper entirely about butts disease ~<3
David Paul
The Great Attractor uses its "Come Hither" look. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1078 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor
Alasdair Mackintosh
You telling me nucleogenesis doesn't have banging in? Lots and lots of banging?
Mike Rodgers
I assume it involves Uranus
Robert Malmgren
Of course it is smutty. Just look at Uranus.
Bagge
I hear there is a big bang
Bagge
Hardly ever is not the same as never
enchantedsleeper
I think Moray just meant to share some reading recs with Claire.
Anders Rapp
Yes! Except for the casual discussion of smutty novels...
Jan Szejko
I wouldn't be surprised to find the latter on AO3, but I couldn't find it quickly. Maybe it is there, but not super easy to find
kupo
Maybe Moray's literary mix up is her way of dropping hints that she's hoping Liz has room for jello.
Davus Otho
If anyone finds a link to an astrophysics (or any really) paper that has a sex scene, please let me know. (Or even smut formatted like a research paper.)
Andrew Herrera
Hardly ever... now I'm curious what astrophysics papers that do have sex scenes.
Captain Button
@jonesnori: "Born of the Sun" by Jack Williamson in 1934 covered this. Spoiler: Planets are just eggs of the starbird stage of the stellar lifecycle.
Captain Button
The Cubetown library is sadly deficient in antique Victorian Pornography.
Captain Button
Liz still needs a dirtbag boyfriend* for him to disapprove of. * Or girlfriend, nbfriend, whatever.
Minzoku Bokumetsu
or Nobell-end
David Garrett
Well… hardly ever.
Hawkeye
Oh man. I had to read back to see what happened and I bet the holographic sock didn’t go on the door because station was too busy glitching! Great find!
Dean Reilly
When Liz accepts the Nobel Prize for her Theory of Kinky Attraction between stellar bodies, she will have some crow to eat.
Carrie
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
William Cole
Fatherhood seems to agree with Marten.
William Cole
What's a galaxy but a stellar polycule?
Michael Steamweed
Hey, when I write mine, I _try_ to get some good physics accuracy in the smut scenes. But every time I call up some physicist to ask them for confirmation, they keep nattering on about the restraining order they have on me. No concern whatsoever about scientific accuracy.
Doc Gumby
When you are the head dude For the coffee shop Mood There's no glor-ay When the Goblin you wrangle Won't give you an angle You get sore-ay!
Michael Steamweed
When Mama Gaia and Mother Theia loved each other for the first time, they made the babies Earth and Luna! :)
Katrina Urmson
...The dad vibes are SO GOOD.
Shinymelon Fearnow
If Dr Ava Maddox were doing the writing.... I'd read it. For the science, but also just imagining her reading it? 🤤
Michael Steamweed
After teh bangin': "What brought that on?" "That one article about the event horizons of cosmic web supervoids. Oh baby!"
Michael Steamweed
As everyone knows, the prestigious (and stuffy) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society is THE go-to for the best steamy smut in astrophysics.
Diptych
Possibly reviewing material to be added to the library collection.
Doc Gumby
Except for the ones by THAT astrophysicist, you know the one I mean. Creepy dude.
Claudia D.
How about a color change "Mood Mug"? Heh? Green when cold, pink when filled with a hot beverage? I’d buy a half dozen of those!
Claudia D.
We. Are. In. Awe!!!
Magic Beans
What, never?
Magic Chopstick Games
*Bones has entered the chat*
Magic Chopstick Games
They share a special kind of OH GOD NO, RUN, RUN
jonesnori
See, there's a giant galactic stork, and ....
Sean Kinlin
PICARD: "Ready thrusters, full power." WORF: "Ready, sir." PICARD: "...Engorge!"
jonesnori
GDI, Matthew!
Simone Bernhard
OMG I need a pink MOOD. cup pretty please Jeph and Topatoco?!
Sean Kinlin
🎵I would kiss the girl from Venus Flowers die, and so will I Yes I would date the girl from Venus For Science! 🎵
Jody Raiford
RSS still down... :(
BookBeard
Something something Uranus
Drazi
Now now. Don't forget the non-binary systems.
BookBeard
It happens often enough that he developed the "holographic sock" system. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2164
Captain Button
Instead of panning away to blowing curtains, everything gets obscured by clouds of dust and gas.
Andrew Mitchell
Cut to Claire getting hot while reading a physics paper.
Captain Button
Smutty novels may not give the most useful models of human behavior...
Andrew
If the novels are all slime/goo themed, would we prefer it was a mix up, or not?
Doug DeJulio
I'm sorry, but you need to know. That was outstanding.
MikeT
Wait, so Claire has her doing porn reviews for 'reason'?
Anthony Gaglianese
I feel like this would be a scientific field that Station would be quite interested in, and could shed a bit of light. Because, you know, there's no way people aren't gettin' down while up there.
Diptych
'The Effects of High-Energy Ejecta on Wormholes in Proximity to Celestial Bodies' and such.
BookBeard
When your brains in a rut So she makes you read smut That's A Moray! (Oh thank god, I hadn't done one of those in so long I was starting to get the shakes)
Egos
Wait, hardly?
Adarsh Nednur
Or Liz is going to make some sort of scientific advance for which the whole world will thank her
BobC
Liz is unexpectedly chill. Where's the regremlinator?
Matthew Delahaye
Would the Nobel prize in boners be the Knobel prize?
Pavel Curtis
Immaculate conception, obvs! 😉
Kristina
When a mommy planet and a daddy planet love each other--
BookBeard
Or, in a rare few, promoted.
rhekke
Martin's "MOOD" mug gets more and more apt...
Anthony Sammons
But then what is all this "birth of stars" all about? Where do they come from ?!
Yelling Bird
Hmm... astrophysics porn...
SpookyPenguin
... Oh god Claire's going to make some sort of scientific advance for which Liz will never forgive her.
SpookyPenguin
Well I can't fault Moray's logic, Claire would probably make an excellent astrophysicist and Liz has a lot to learn about humans.
Chris
As an astronomer, can confirm the lack of sex scenes in papers.
Donna Flint
I've read some physics that should have been smut.
AE Gonzalez
Liz can finally write that scientifically accurate sci-fi porno.
Steve DeGroof
To be fair, the physics scenes in the smutty novels probably aren't very good either.
ValdVin
Wait, did Liz finally read Sex Guy? It's been getting rave reviews!
Yonatan Zunger
Wow, good point - something about the complexity of that pose and expression feels like Jeph leveled up his art skills again.
BookBeard
Anyone who thinks astrophysics can't be sexy should go talk to Pintsize. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5189
Donna Flint
Ice Planet Barbarians is better...
Andrew Denton
I recommend Monster Girls in Space.
Kristina
Sci-fi romance needs a bigger slice of the smut pie -Sincerely Me, Liz, and probably now Claire
Fart Captor
I mean, what IS a binary system if not two stars making out sloppy style??
Celine Chamberlin
Now I want to get into astrophysics. For science. Obviously.
Maghinat
That kind of mixup would get you fired in most workplaces
Cas Wanden
I dunno, I've read some smut that pushes the known bounds of physics.
John Burton
I really like the angle on her face in that first panel!
JMK
Jupiter slowly dipped into Saturn’s ring, both of them spiraling into the dizzy black of the infinite void. - When Planets and Hearts Collide
Jason Wotzko
No bellend prize in boners? I disagree, sir.
Lucas Werkmeister
Moray is helping :)
Peter McDevitt
Come on, man. "Reading Rainboner." it was RIGHT FUCKING THERE....
Brendan Luster
butts butts butts... in space!
