Strip 230 -- First Seen: 2009-07-31
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In the meantime, Not-Safe.Space will continue, as a murder mystery begins and the relationship between Eithne and Diana develops in unexpected directions.

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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Illustrative panel. Younger Tobi wearing 'office casual' clothes, giving a presentation on a stage, pointing at various charts and graphs being displayed on a very large screen behind him. His posture indicates he's not having a good time.

Caption (Tobi): Look, when I started working on the Tanglenet, every physicist in the world laughed at me.

Caption (2): They said that while entangled particles seemed to communicate instantaneously without regard to distance, there was no way one could use them for human communications.

Panel 2
Medium close-up of Tobi at the table, in full bore professor mode, gesticulating with the pointed index finger.

Tobi: However, Kantor's 1977 book, Information Mechanics, implied an end-run.

Tobi (2): I found that end-run and the rest is history.

Panel 3
Looking back at Bert and Ernie, not the best of students. Ernie is looking overwhelmed, resting the side of his face in his palm. Bert just looks exasperated.

Bert: So now –?

Panel 4
Tobi leans forward, rests his chin on his fists, which he clasps together before him, elbows on the table.
Tobi: I am trying to apply that end-run to space travel.
Tobi (2): I think there is a way to travel from any point in the universe to any other point in the universe, instantaneously.


Panel 5
Bert and Ernie looking at one another in jaws-a-slack amazement.

Tobi: (OP): And maybe even from one point in Time to any other point in time, but I'm not making book on that part.

Panel 6
Illustrative panel. It's a small-scale political rally full of fail, in some sort of auditorium. The stage is festooned with banners, balloons, and politicians, but there are only three bored-looking rallyers standing out in an area large enough to hold hundreds.

Caption (Tobi): 'So you see, if such a possibility existed and it was cheap enough, no government would be able to hang onto its citizens.

Caption (2): 'They could basically pick up and leave.'

Panel 7
Medium 3-shot of the men at the table, the brothers on the left and Tobi on the right. Tobi is about to sip the last of his drink.

Tobi: So I think that has something to do with this guy who's gunning for me.


Panel 8
Same shot. Bert and Ernie are blurting out their line as Tobi sips his drink.

Bert and Ernie (in unison): What's he doing now?