It sounds like it could happen. Humans seem to gravitate towards stories that deal with the big three: sex, money, death. Does the story have hot transhumans?

Decent Idea for a comic... Terrrible cover. Not even well designed.

As a technoprogressive, I love satires of transhumanism. I've never read it but didn't similar themes get covered in the Marshal Law comic series?

Transhumanism is pretty cool, but it can get really mind bogglingly weird really quick. And yeah, that cover sucks,

I don't think to many people are trying to invade America from Alaska. Even if lets say Russia did invade from the Northern Passage, Canada is still our Poland.

@Jeff-Minor: Human-enhancement product? Or Male-enhancement product?
I wouldn't mind being able to boast about my transhuman cock.

The "electronic test range" they were talking about in the air force article is pretty amazing. I heard they want to run a simulation of the entire internet, blogs, bittorrent, youtube, everything. There will be simulated users and simulated hackers.

@Garrison Dean, King Awesome: @Log1c: Surprisingly though, it does stand out amongst all the bombastic, busy, composition-less superhero covers at my comic book store. It's different, if anything.

@Final: Ha Ha very funny. I'm Polish

@Tiwa Face Kontrol: Yeah I don't mind the concept, I lke that it looks different, just from a design standpoint I don't like it. Bad composition. But then again I'm probably being unceccessarily negative because I am a designer, who's working on a Saturday right now and pissed off. Hahah.

sigh.

Has anyone noticed some more posturing of governments in the northern areas? I think we are seeing the beginning of a big land-grab. Everyone knows there is land under the arctic, and possibly oil reserves.

I wonder how long until the ice finally melts?

@Garrison Dean, King Awesome: True, but it reads more like an brochure than a comic book.

@phoghat: "Ha Ha very funny. I'm Polish"

That's OK, we'll type really, really slow.

@RAHfanboy: "That's OK, we'll type really, really slow."

I guess we can forgive those among us who aren't very quick.

@Mathmos: Ohhh, face!

@ Ghede & the general data bank. How long it would take to melt the Arctic ice sheet depends on how efficiently calories can be transferred from the atmosphere and seawater into the ice. Convection will be much more efficient than radiation, so a predictive model would be most effective if it accurately modeled air and ocean currents, rather than focusing on temperatures.

Melting ice is an efficient refrigerant because so many calories are required to convert solid ice to liquid water at a constant 0 degrees C. It takes 80 times as much heat to melt ice as to raise the temperature of water one celsius degree, and slightly more than 160 times as much as is needed to raise the temperature of ice one degree.

Take a unit (say an ice sheet full) of ice at -1 degree c. Add calories to the ice sheet sufficient to melt the ice and raise the temperature of the water one degree celsius. .5 "ice sheet calories" are needed to raise the temperature of the ice to 0 degrees c. Eighty (80) "continent calories" are neded to convert the 0 degree c. ice to water at the same temperature. Only one "ice sheet calorie" is needed to raise the temperature of the resulting water one degree c.

During the application of the 80 "ice sheet calories" needed to melt the ice sheet, the melting of the ice is an immense heat sink, drawing calories from the atmosphere and sea water. While the ice is melting, the discrete temperatures of the atmospere and ocean waters may decrease. It will decrease, barring application of heat from outside the system.

Forgive my lapse.. the reference to "contintent calories" is an error, and should be to "ice shelf calories" (Continent calories would be applicable if we were considering the melting of the Antarctic continental ice sheet.

Also, my use of "ice sheet" instead of ice shelf" to refer to the Arctic ice shelf is poor useage. Floating ice is a shelf, ice on a land mass is a glacier or an ice sheet, as I understand proper useage.

The reference to "continent calories" or "ice shelf calories" is a shorthand notation for the calories needed to raise temperature one degree (or to melt ice at 0 degrees) for the entire volume of a geographical ice mass. Calorie is a unit of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1° Celsius. From this, the "ice shelf calorie" is a constructed "unit" of energy, equivalent to the energy required to raise the temperature of a volume of water equal to the water in the entire ice shelf by 1° Celsius.

@Signal: In the future men will give up expensive SUVs and even more expensive sprot cars and simply put the money where it's needed: dick augmentation. Holsters will be the new fashion trend for men who sport a flesh-gun that can shoot twice as far and shoot as often as is required. "Are you going to love me our kill me with that thing?" will be the most common questions asked before sexual relations begin. "Tonight I will love you, but you will think you have died and gone to heaven," will be the answer. Oh save me!

The sparse cover of Transhuman #2 on the new releases rack is what caught my interest this past week. I'm a sucker for a good evolution/modification story, so I picked it up, along with #1. Highly, highly WORTH IT!

Hey, good to see this comic getting some recognition!

I reviewed issue number 1 when it came out, if you want to read more about it: [www.comicnerd.com]

The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to -- and "full control" of -- any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their "adversaries' information infrastructure completely undetected."

Man, this has to be one of the best orders ever placed by the military. My only question is - why did they wait so long?