Afterlife Blues update.

[ksleet]

It is a page. You can probably tell from how sloppy the inside of the car is rendered that I really am tired of drawing that thing. That being said, I'm very pleased with Panel 3 for some reason (the station wagon pulling into the garage next to an armored embassy limo.) It's a more "high concept" panel than I usually try to draw, but I feel that

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[atheorist]

If you have any hints on SpaceChem's Exploding Head Syndrome, I've been stuck there for a while.

[ksleet]

I'll keep an eye out when I get there -- I'm only on the fourth planet so far. Just solved the In-Place Swap challenge.

[ksleet]

Um, yeah, wow. That one's kind of tricky. My theory was that in the first reactor, you have to crack the water into hydrogen and oxygen, then using the manual control send it to either a fuel production line (which would create H2 and O2) or to a plutonium production line. But the problem is that you need two fusion reactors to build the Pu, yet also need a sensor reactor to separate the H and O, and there just won't be enough reactors available.

Hmm... Maybe if I'm careful enough to just send alternating H and O atoms to the Pu production line, and throw the excess hydrogen into the fuel line, the need for a sensor reactor is avoided. I should try that.

[atheorist]

My best calculation so far is: 64 H20 molecules should be split. Then 50 O become 25*O2, and the remaining 14 O should become 2 Ba (7*8=56). Then the 128 H should become 26*H2, and the remaining 76 H should become 2 Sr (38*2=76), and Ba+Sr=Pu.

But getting the equations to nearly balance isn't sufficient; execution is still hard.