No one lives forever! part 13
Added 2019-03-25 15:22:18 +0000 UTCIn a certain light, magic must appear to the engineer/physicist as most egregious cheating. But yes, witch-smuggler DOES sound like an awesomely cool job.
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She breaks down some of the lead for the energy needed to transmute the rest.
Kjartan Arnorsson
2019-03-26 03:49:18 +0000 UTCRead <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A2t%C3%A9_de_Foie_Gras_(short_story)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A2t%C3%A9_de_Foie_Gras_(short_story)</a> - all she needs to do is transmute another element up as she transmutes the lead down, and everything balances.
Skunkupine
2019-03-25 22:03:01 +0000 UTCI guess Laura hasn't tried teleportation since Mink Jam. Too bad, since that would make things so much easier for her.
Travis Sebastian
2019-03-25 20:21:27 +0000 UTCAs much as I realize this is magic in a cartoon world. You have been good about not getting energy from nothing and have had her body supply it. What does she do with the atomic bomb worth of energy for the difference in atomic weights between Pb and Au? About 4 percent of the weight times c2
John in Seattle
2019-03-25 20:13:57 +0000 UTCWheel weights also make respectable bullets with little or no additional materials.
Perfesser Bear
2019-03-25 19:23:35 +0000 UTCIndustrial diamonds can also be synthesized in the lab. Quality is... well, they don't call them industrial for nothing. Quality <i>can</i> be improved to the point that they can compete with jewel diamonds -- but the payback is the same. It's incredibly less expensive to have someone in a third-world country risk their lives underground.
Perfesser Bear
2019-03-25 17:35:23 +0000 UTCI suspect Max would be more interested less in gold and more in some of the rarer elements that he could use in his work.
McClaw
2019-03-25 16:31:01 +0000 UTCMax probably has his own particle accelerator, and could easily make his own gold. It's actually has been done, but the cost of doing so in a nuclear lab is much greater than the market value of gold.
Travis Sebastian
2019-03-25 16:09:35 +0000 UTCFor scientists, transmuting metals into gold is a waste of a miraculous talent. There is soooooooooo many better uses for it, I can understand Max's reaction in panel 4.
Paul Lenoue
2019-03-25 15:52:35 +0000 UTCWheel weights are a good choice! Small enough not to attract too much attention & simple to cash in by being made into something that can be easily sold as "unwanted old jewelry".
Wm. Van Ness
2019-03-25 15:42:38 +0000 UTCCareful solomon, even good men fall to greed every so often
Tyro Thunderdrone
2019-03-25 15:42:17 +0000 UTCMink’s eyes in the second panel are great.
VGR
2019-03-25 15:36:36 +0000 UTCMax is likely thinking of something quite groundbreaking that metal transmutation could be used for outside of gold making. And heck yeah witch smuggling.
Straw
2019-03-25 15:29:59 +0000 UTCTransmuting the elements. One of the Holy Grails.
A Patreon of the Ahts
2019-03-25 15:27:44 +0000 UTC
