> Hello, restaurant keeper! Can I have the thing that tastes delicious?
> Sorry, we’re out of delicious. Would you like a bleak thing or a yacky thing instead?
Don’t ask me why this occurred to me just now, with this strip and not others, but…looks like tables and chairs, but how does anybody “sit” when they just “float?”
It seems to me that if they float, like we float, then they would need weights to go down, like we need weights to go down.
But they don’t. So I’m thinking that if they just settle, gravity will make them sink. Floating would require some effort on their part. Like standing up requires some effort on our part.
Most aquatic creatures in our universe have ways to control their buoyancy. (Bony fish generally have swim bladders that work like ballast tanks in submarines; aquatic mammals tend to have oversized lungs that can be compressed to adjust buoyancy; sperm whales have specialized structures, filled with oil, with variable density controlled by blood flow; and so on.)
It stands to reason that Sarnothi would have a similar setup. (Given the anatomy diagrams posted ages ago, I’d guess the lung arrangement is the most likely.)
I’m more concerned with food prep, because cooking
would be impossible. So food is raw. But when making an eelrito, all the ingredients would float while you desperately try to fold them into the skin. What’s the spatula for?
I think you forget about the Echo tech. They can cook without fire. Also I’m sure you can use geothermal vents for cooking if you know what you are doing. I think someone should expose Selkie to Unagi.
The main issue is that water is more thermally conductive than air, so it’s harder to do anything involving high temperatures in water without cooking yourself along with your food.
Anything like an oven, where you could close the door, and contain the heat inside should resolve that problem neatly.
Mind you, technically everything you cook has been “boiled”. 😅
It looks like the green thing is Echo tech, like Anime-Mun said. Bet it’s a grill.
Echo crafting on a mass scale was probably the Sarnothi equivalent to the Industrial Revolution (as opposed to smaller scale “Find the town’s Echo to light the green communal meal fire” stuff that probably happened beforehand). We know it can do lasers and heatless flames, so it can probably do flameless heat as well.
Yes, Anime_Mun is right that Echo tech allows them to cook food underwater.
And looking at this image (where the food on the echo-tech griddle isn’t floating away) I’m imagining the griddle has some kind of localized gravity field, pulling the food down against the surface. That would make a spatula really important, both for flipping the food and for keeping hands well away from the hot, suction-y surface.
Something interesting just occurred to me. The people from Selkie’s mother’s clan call her Little Sister… But so does Benny. Who is from the same clan as Scar. Is Selkie’s bio father as big of a secret as even Scar seems to think it is?
> Hello, restaurant keeper! Can I have the thing that tastes delicious?
> Sorry, we’re out of delicious. Would you like a bleak thing or a yacky thing instead?
i do kinda want to see more Sarnothi cuisine.
imagine the possibilities.
Don’t ask me why this occurred to me just now, with this strip and not others, but…looks like tables and chairs, but how does anybody “sit” when they just “float?”
It seems to me that if they float, like we float, then they would need weights to go down, like we need weights to go down.
But they don’t. So I’m thinking that if they just settle, gravity will make them sink. Floating would require some effort on their part. Like standing up requires some effort on our part.
Most aquatic creatures in our universe have ways to control their buoyancy. (Bony fish generally have swim bladders that work like ballast tanks in submarines; aquatic mammals tend to have oversized lungs that can be compressed to adjust buoyancy; sperm whales have specialized structures, filled with oil, with variable density controlled by blood flow; and so on.)
It stands to reason that Sarnothi would have a similar setup. (Given the anatomy diagrams posted ages ago, I’d guess the lung arrangement is the most likely.)
I want to say lungs are *probably* modified swim bladders anyway?
“All right, kids. Pick a placement and suspend yourselves.”
‘Hi! Do you have this name I just made up?’
That is literally the plot of one of the Pippi Longstocking books.
From what I recall, they ended up having a whole assortment of whatever each shop owner was willing to pass as obscure enough item.
I am not surprised that is a Pippi Longstocking plot.
I’m more concerned with food prep, because cooking
would be impossible. So food is raw. But when making an eelrito, all the ingredients would float while you desperately try to fold them into the skin. What’s the spatula for?
I think you forget about the Echo tech. They can cook without fire. Also I’m sure you can use geothermal vents for cooking if you know what you are doing. I think someone should expose Selkie to Unagi.
The main issue is that water is more thermally conductive than air, so it’s harder to do anything involving high temperatures in water without cooking yourself along with your food.
Anything like an oven, where you could close the door, and contain the heat inside should resolve that problem neatly.
Mind you, technically everything you cook has been “boiled”. 😅
They could also be using acidic foods to ‘cook’ like one does with citrus juices in ceveche.
It looks like the green thing is Echo tech, like Anime-Mun said. Bet it’s a grill.
Echo crafting on a mass scale was probably the Sarnothi equivalent to the Industrial Revolution (as opposed to smaller scale “Find the town’s Echo to light the green communal meal fire” stuff that probably happened beforehand). We know it can do lasers and heatless flames, so it can probably do flameless heat as well.
so much of this comic is actually Selkie going out and finding new meats to eat and I don’t know how I only noticed it now.
More of my life should be about finding new meats to eat.
“It’s a treat to eat your meet in the Mississippi mud.” Old song—when I see some things, that bring that to mind, I just have to post.
Yes, Anime_Mun is right that Echo tech allows them to cook food underwater.
And looking at this image (where the food on the echo-tech griddle isn’t floating away) I’m imagining the griddle has some kind of localized gravity field, pulling the food down against the surface. That would make a spatula really important, both for flipping the food and for keeping hands well away from the hot, suction-y surface.
Something interesting just occurred to me. The people from Selkie’s mother’s clan call her Little Sister… But so does Benny. Who is from the same clan as Scar. Is Selkie’s bio father as big of a secret as even Scar seems to think it is?