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    Babbage and Lovelace Fight Crime with the Power of Math

    The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It
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    07/20/09

    In reply to Babbage and Lovelace Fight Crime with the Power of Math
    I sometimes wonder about people like Babbage, who feature heavily in alternate-history novels.
    Does living all those possible lives wear them out? A sort of fatigue of the soul?
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    07/20/09

    @eviladrian: Oh wow, what a cool concept! Imagine what would happen to Hitler's shriveled black little soul. Or any number of American Civil War figures.
    "All the Myriad Ways" by Niven sort of touches on this but not in a metaphysical manner. You should write something up with this.
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    07/20/09

    @Grey_Area: I don't know that I have the vocabulary to properly express what I see in my head-movies, but when you're dead, how do you know who you are except as people remember you?
    And if everyone remembers you differently, might you not get stretched out like a sunbeam through a prism, all the colours going separate?
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    07/20/09

    @eviladrian: Homes, you are not convincing me on the lack of vocab with that last comment.
    Work it out. You got the words, you got the ideas. Grab a style manual to get the grammar and shit down and go to town...
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    07/21/09

    @eviladrian: "When you're dead, how do you know who you are except as people remember you?"

    There you go - you've started to write the pitch for the novel already!
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    07/20/09

    In reply to Babbage and Lovelace Fight Crime with the Power of Math
    This is great stuff. Thanks, Lauren.
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    07/20/09

    In reply to Babbage and Lovelace Fight Crime with the Power of Math
    This looks really good.
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    07/20/09

    In reply to Babbage and Lovelace Fight Crime with the Power of Math
    Great art! I like the expressions and loose brushstrokes that convey all the action and emotion so economically. The glimpse of Ms. Padua's creative process with accompanying chart on the Salamander page is priceless.
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    07/20/09

    @Grey_Area: I'd have to agree. This is one of the better webcomics that I've seen recently, and the writing is pretty good as well.
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    07/20/09

    In reply to Babbage and Lovelace Fight Crime with the Power of Math
    io9...With all this black and white artwork. You are really spoiling us!!
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