The League boarded Moriarty's airship in which the Cavorite was subsequently lost when Mina Murray released it, and allowing to propel into space along with Moriarty who desperately clung to it from letting it escape from his grasp. Moriarty used the Cavorite in powering his own airship to threaten Britain and bombing London's East End, destroying what is left of The Doctor's criminal empire. The League brought the Cavorite back to their employers at British Intelligence, not realizing at the time, that they were actually delivering it into the hands of the "Napoleon of Crime", Professor James Moriarty. The Cavorite propelled them through the top of the tunnel into the Thames River. The Doctor's men burst into the chamber to stop them, but the group linked hands, and unlocked the mineral's containment device. At the behest of the British Intelligence agency MI5, members of The League broke into The Doctor's secret base in Limehouse and recovered the Cavorite sample. In July of 1898 however, Chinese criminal mastermind The Doctor stole Professor Cavor's precious Cavorite with plans of using it in the construction of a series of airships. Naming it after himself, Cavor offered the use of Cavorite to the British Empire for a planned lunar expedition scheduled to take place at the turn of the century. The material was invented in the latter half of the 19th century by Doctor Selwyn Cavor. Functionally, Cavorite was designed to shield a craft from Earth's pull, allowing easy flight. It can also shield other materials from its effects. You have a framed reproduction at home?! Whoa.Listen, forget these questions.Cavorite is an artificial mineral that possesses anti-gravity properties (also referred to as a "gravity-blocking substance"). Really? You know the Waterman? Have you seen the 1909 Cahill map it's based. You want me to stop asking about maps so you can enjoy dinner. The other projections overcomplicate things. You change your car's oil, but secretly wonder if you really You think airlines should just buy food from the restaurants near the gates and serve People to congress instead of politicians. You think we wouldn't have so many problems if we'd just elect They say mapping the earth on a 2D surface is like flattening an orange peel, which seems easy enough to you. You own 3D goggles, which you use to view rotating models of better 3D goggles. You like Isaac Asimov, XML, and shoes with toes. You love the Mercator projection you just wish it weren't so square. ((The second column of projections starts here.)) ![]() It freaks you out to realise that everyone around you has a skeleton inside them. ![]() , you sat silent in the theater for six hours. You think that when we look at a map, what we really see is ourselves. You're conflict-averse and buy organic.l You use a recently-invented set of gender-neutral pronouns and think that what the world needs is a revolution in consciousness. You want to avoid cultural imperialism but you've heard bad things about Gall-Peters. You once left a party in disgust when a guest showed up wearing shoes with toes. ![]() You're worried it's getting played out, and are thinking of switching to the Kavrayskiy. National Geographic adopted the Winkel-Tripel in 1998, but you've been a W-T fan sinceīefore "Nat Geo" showed up. You think the Robinson is the best-looking projection, hands down. You have a comfortable pair of running shoes that you wear everywhere. What your favourite Map Projection says about you. Each listing has an illustration of that projection plus a short paragraph describing the individual who prefers that projection.)) ((The comic is one large panel, with different types of map projections listed in two columns.
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