clearly the arctic portal has to be orange because then you can tell where it ends and the iceberg begins. and the sun in Ohio is orange and thus has to have a blue portal there.
conversely it could to an indicator concerning the relative temperature on the pother side of the portal.
I actually also thought about adding an intermediate stop on <!--fonto:Courier New--><span style="font-family:Courier New"><!--/fonto-->the moon<!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc--> but that ran into some serious "oh there goes the atmosphere" issues. Alternately, a stiff breeze.
What if all the scientists at Aperture Science escaped through a portal to the arctic where they remain in the Borealis, far from the Combine. There they work on a weapon of immense power in hopes to save humanity (related to a portal to the Combine world?). You arrive at the Borealis in Episode 3 where the portal gun makes an appearance and a dumbed down GLaDOS greets you (obviously she's lost her sense of irony in the downgrade).
<!--quoteo(post=1656126:date=Oct 15 2007, 02:48 PM:name=RuBy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(RuBy @ Oct 15 2007, 02:48 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1656126"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->(obviously she's lost her sense of irony in the downgrade).<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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conversely it could to an indicator concerning the relative temperature on the pother side of the portal.
I actually also thought about adding an intermediate stop on <!--fonto:Courier New--><span style="font-family:Courier New"><!--/fonto-->the moon<!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc--> but that ran into some serious "oh there goes the atmosphere" issues. Alternately, a stiff breeze.
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<img src="http://www.scrapheap-challenge.com/images/smiles/companion-cube.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Companion Cube Smiley?
<3 !!! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
I don't think she really had one before.