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''[http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/ A Miracle of Science]'' is a [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness/World of Phlebotinum|science fiction]] [[Web Comic]] written by Jon Kilgannon and drawn by Mark Sachs. It ran from 2002 to 2007 and was set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|in the year 2148]], when humanity has spread across the solar system from Venus to Ganymede, and robotics and artificial intelligence are well developed, advanced sciences. Also of note is the science of memetics, which can be used to treat (or cause) psychological issues. Of key importance in the story is one specific meme, [[Science
Key characters include Benjamin Prester, a field agent of the Vorstellen Police, a law-enforcement agency specializing in SRMD; Caprice Quevillion, a Martian forensic psychiatrist assigned as his partner; and Virgil Haas, the [[Mad Scientist]] they attempt to capture. The story opens not long after Mars, a [[Crystal Spires and Togas|utopian]] [[Hive Mind|group intelligence]], has ended a century of self-imposed isolation.
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== This webcomic provided the name of: ==
* [[Science
== And examples of: ==
* [[Absent Aliens]]: Mars' version of SETI turns up with lots of aliens... {{spoiler|but they're all dead. By at least a thousand years. "You've got to love existential angst on a planetary level..."}}
* [[Anti
* [[America Takes Over the World]]: Well, not exactly the world, but they seem to have taken over Canada. And there's a space colony that's nominally in the US, contravening present-day treaties.
** Annexing nearby countries isn't just a US thing in the AMoS-verse, either; Peru has been absorbed into Brazil.
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* [[Evil Laugh]]: Mad scientists do this ''a lot''
** If you get a group of them together in one place, {{spoiler|though Benjamin is so far the only known example of an SRMD sufferer who sought out allies}}, they will apparently hold ''contests''.
* [[For Science!]]!
* [[Genki Girl]]: Wei Quevillion, as the protagonists comment on [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos166.html this page].
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: The Pindars, which [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos393.html gets on Chaucer's nerves at one point]:
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* [[Good Cop Bad Cop]]: Caprice being the good cop to Benjamin's bad cop. [http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos266.html Lampshaded.]
** A more dramatic example comes after [http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos278.html they drop in on Dr. Beatriz Juruna.]
* [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]]: In addition to [[Scary Shiny Glasses|his glasses]] as noted below, one sign that Haas has developed [[Science
** {{spoiler|Benjamin}} also has a different hairstyle when he's in mad science mode. Notably, he messes his hair back into this style when he relapses.
*** Maybe everyone has "normal" hair and "Mad Science" hair
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* [[Insistent Terminology]]: It is a thing mad scientists do. Special mention, though, goes to Beatriz "That's ''Doctor''" Juruna.
** Also of note: {{spoiler|Benjamin Prester insists on not being called Ben.}}
* [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]]: "Any device complex enough to detect Martians is going to eventually become self-aware."
** Though this may be an intentional ploy on the Martians' part, since they built the machine in the first place. And [http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos395.html Caprice does admit] that they had to do a bit of bribery to make sure all the parts got installed.
* [[Lens Flare]]: Used in the epilogue [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos426.html here] and [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos432.html here].
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* [[Mental Fusion]]: See [[Hive Mind]], above.
* [[Nanomachines]]: The main source of the Martians' advanced technology.
* [[
* [[Plot Technology]]: subverted. When mad scientists are captured, their inventions and research are used for the benefit of society as a whole.
* [[The Rant]]: Reading Jon and Mark's columns is strictly optional, but they offer a bit more insight into the comic's world and also occasional scientific lectures.
* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Benjamin.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Fabula and Syuzhet, color-coded little ball-shaped robots from the Martian Constabulary.
* [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun]]: See [[Badass Boast]] above.
* [[Ridiculously Human Robots]]: Robots with sentience will talk to themselves out loud; in fact, Benjamin points out that ''only'' sentient AI's are known to do this: suggesting it's actually rather common amongst them.
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* [[Tropers Do It Without Notability]]: "[http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos360.html Astronomers do it in the dark]"
* [[Voice of the Legion]]: Whenever the Martian group mind speaks through one of its members. Said member simultaneously acquires [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: minus the "evil" part.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Caprice immediately calls Benjamin out on his plan to escape Haas' attack on their ship by blasting up five civilian ships and killing a few hundred people. {{spoiler|This may or may not have been foreshadowing.}}
* [[Wig, Dress, Accent]], subverted in [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos304.html this page] by having a poorly-disguised version of the protagonists going through customs... and then having the ''actual'' protagonists enter the scene in the next page.
* [[Wrecked Weapon]]: Benjamin has a gun {{spoiler|that he just built with his mad science abilities}} [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands|shot out of his hand]]. Twice.
{{quote| ['''Ben:''': somewhat hysterically [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"He shot my gun!]] He ''shot'' my ''gun!'' ''Why are you negotiating with the man who '''shot my gun'''?!"''}}
* [[You Can Barely Stand]]: Word for word, in the final Chase Scene.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Blue hair runs in Caprice's family, presumably on her mother's side; her dad has brown hair, but every other Quevillion we see has some shade of blue hair. There's a smattering of extras with oddly colored hair, either flat-out unnatural or just [[Dark
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