This strip is based on a post by lifeform7 about his 5 year old daughter on Reddit. I liked her line so much that I wanted to make a comic strip out of it. I asked lifeform7 for their permission and offered to buy his daughter a gift at Amazon.com. I received the following reply:
my daughter would love it if you used our dialogue, and would appreciate a donation in her name. she likes helping children, […]
Since I’m now finally having a well-paid job, I think I should give a fair share of my money to those who are living in less fortunate conditions. As you may know I’m particularly concerned about the situation of the Burmese people. Therefore I want to support the German division Helfen ohne Grenzen e.V. of the charity Help without Frontiers on a regular basis from now on. This charity helps Burmese refugees in Thailand, for example by operating hospitals or schools. I will donate them €50 every month starting this month, as long as I’m able to afford this.
- David: I don’t understand this stuff. If the universe is everything, how can it be expanding? Like… what’s past the edge of the Universe?
- Yuna: I know, Dad! I know!
- David: Come again?
- Yuna: Past the edge of the Universe is everything that hasn’t happened yet!
- David: Our daughter is a genius.
- Ye Thuza: I’m afraid of that too. Last week I caught her re-enacting the double-slit experiment with Cloud’s old Matchbox cars.
- Caption: Based on a true story.
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She could have done the double (or rather multi) slit experiment with a cd and a laser, would probably be much easier. Just peel off the foil, shine the laser through it. Try with a DVD and see that the diffraction pattern is stretched due to smaller gaps.
BTW she obviously has the intelligence from her mother, at least she knew about the double-slit experiment to recognize it.
@ Rawlo:
riddle 1: only one (because then it’s not empty anymore)
riddle 2: the match of course (although i don’t know what to lit second)
@ gaboris:
the comic is xkcd (but don’t ask me which strip)
The XKCD comic is http://xkcd.com/246/
@ hb6x8:
hb6x8 wrote:
Because she’s named after a FFX character. XP
@ Mystenigma:
really? never played it, thanks for clearing that up for me, are there any other characters named after final fantasy games or are those two the “final” ones? (puns are the best)
@ MacareuxMoine:
The riddles: Yeah I knew I was thinking too simply aboot those. XD
Thx, had a feeling that would be the comic. I’ll look the strip up later. 🙂
Sorry for the double post, put them together if you’d like.
Two guards, two doors parody. 😀
http://xkcd.com/246/
AmbiValent wrote:
I just gotta wonder though, did the cars come out as waves or as particles? 😀
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@ hb6x8:
If you mean the last panel of strip 92, wasn’t that Cloud’s parents playing FFVII when they were younger? The lighter-haired character there looks a bit too manly for Sandra.
@ Draco Blair:
Have you ever heard of the Radioactive Boy Scout? Famous case of a kid who decided to split the atom as a Science Fair project.
It ended about as well as you’d expect, with people in radiation suits having to decontaminate the suburb.
@ gaboris: It’s a trick question. You’d light the match first. 😉 But I’d go with the lamp second as well, myself …
AmbiValent wrote:
Into the oven they go then!
Actually, the universe isn’t necessarily everything.
There are multiple theories regarding that matter, my personal favorite being that of the Omniverse, which is, put simply, the collection of every single universe forming what is truly everything.
So, technically, what would be past that is the gap in between this universe and the next one.
dadd’y expression in panel three and four says his minds been blown…i feel it fits a certain meme where that person is standing proud but the strip ends with them holding there head…like this http://global3.memecdn.com/mind-blown_o_726473.jpg
dg wrote:
I never really liked that one. I mean, it’s funny, sure – for the two seconds it takes you to realise that the entire point of having the two guards is that you want people to ask tricky questions. If you don’t, you just have one guard who stabs anyone.
…Oh, and the classic “tricky question” is “If I were to ask your friend there which is the door to freedom, what would he say?”. Both of them will indicate the unsafe door.