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![[1307] The Abyss](/comics/2021-12-07-1307-the abyss.png "[1307] The Abyss")
- Description arrow: Wally, Yuna’s pet black hole.
- Yuna: Ha!
- Yuna: 3 minutes and 47 seconds.
- Ye Thuza: What?
- Yuna: That’s how long you can gaze into an abyss before the abyss also gazes into you.
- Ye Thuza: You know, other children play fetch with their pet or something…
- Yuna: Hmm… should I send my paper to Annals of Physics or to the Journal of Applied Philosophy?
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I’m disturbed to say, maam, that if at that time you don’t know your kid…
And it’s your fault. Only you think unless you read her that books you tell the history of pink princess and their tireless waiting for her loves.
Or better continue with the little kid you had grown. It’s more healthy for everybody 😉
Yuna Williams. Smart enough to have a pet black hole, daft enough to take the abyssal quote literally.
“See, being clever doesn’t disqualify you from being an idiot. It’s possible to be both.”
~Jocelyn the Intern
Playing fetch with black hole doesn’t exactly sound safe.
Alan Richmon wrote:
I don’t think she’s surprised.
I would say that Ye Thuza is all “been there, seen that.’ After the first hundred or so amazing revelations this month alone from Yuna, it’s a little hard to to avoid blaséness.
Uh… she IS playing with her pet…
Isn’t she?
@ DTIBA:
Plus, that’s not the way science works, either.
You do that a thousand times and then announce the average time you can gaze into the Abyss before the Abyss gazes back. Yuna has a lot of Abyss-gazing before she can publish in the Annals of Physics (though once may be enough criteria for the Journal of Applied Philosophy).
Ummm… how DO you apply a philosophy, anyway?
Well, at least she spends quality time with her pet.
Wasn’t she hoping for some eldritch tentacle horror?
Yuna, you really shouldn’t indulge pastimes liable to drive you mad… -is what I would’ve said if your regular scientific endeavors didn’t put Victor’s attempts at creating a son from scavenged body parts to absolute shame… As you were, young lady.
Playing fetch with a black hole is not a safe hobby for the object you are throwing.
@Valkeiper2020 playing yes, but not fetch!
As was remarked though, there might be irreversibility issues associated to that, for the object first, and second for the pet owner trying to retrieve it.
Although, Wally doesn’t seem to have the gravitational pull I’d expect from it with conventional physics… perhaps one could play fetch with Wally and lasagna, and when Wally brings it back, it’s become spaghettified; hopefully that’s the kind of pasta you wanted.
@ Michiel van Geel:
Normally with fetch, the pet brings the thrown object back. That is not so likely unless you throw it on a very specific path and then it will throw it back to you, hopefully on a gentle transfer orbit and not on a direct return path..
– I would have played fetch, Mom, but Wally never brings anything back.
Wanderer wrote:
Well, Mr. Natural applied philosophy with a good solid pair of lug-soled boots! (He helped people achieve enlightenment by kicking them in the ass.)
And black holes don’t need any help to play fetch!
Write two papers; send one to each journal.
@ David Nuttall:
If she throws it on the right trajectory, she might be able to catch it before she throws it.
Problem is that the size of the abyss likely alters how long it takes to look back but she only has 1 test subject to use the experiment must be repeatable before it can be published
while this comic was cool as ever, I just realized we’re only 30 pages away!
Only ONE test and no repetion with control for variables?
And I thought she was a scientist.
Wanderer wrote:
There are several ways to do that. If you take “philosophy” in its wide, medieval sense, all technology is applied philosophy. You apply philosophy by building a mobile phone. (Many of its aspects, e.g. the screen, the antennas and the microprocessor are quite impressive applications of science.)
In a more narrow sense, you apply a philosophy by living in accordance with its precepts. So, you actually think how abstract principles are followed in a particular, mundane case. You apply your philosophy by living it.
Mr. Random wrote:
Scientist? Naw, she’s a wizard. Well, witch. Or sorceress or something along those lines.
Scientists are those people spending all their time applying for research grants.
I remember Gary Penn had a pet black hole in ZZAP!64 magazine back in the 80s. Don’t think he ever tried this though.
Why not Both?
Mr. Random wrote:
We saw one test in the comic, this could have been the 100th cycle and the time reported was the average (although some level of error should also have been reported).
Yuna is far to much of a scientist to not have thought of that.
Send the paper to one and a letter to the other referencing the paper.
Yeah, well, the problem with Wally is that he never brings anything back when playing fetch…
Wanderer wrote:
https://www.job-applications.com/coffee-shop-jobs/
So how long then before you become a monster yourself, Yuna?
I almost never comment but I feel like I should say, although i’ve largely enjoyed Yuna’s antics of being a genius defying our laws of physics while still being a child, I feel like this strip is a bit out of character and dry from her mother’s part.
I think especially when this idea was first introduced, Ye thuza was much more supportive of Yuna’s idiosyncrasies, unless it was negatively impacting those around her, like too much heat from the nuclear reactor or destroying cloud’s Princess Mononoke action figures, or creating a wormhole in the carpet.
This strip feels closer to outright rejection of her daughter, and I feel like it would be more in character to join Yuna in an activity like figuring out Wally’s favourite food.
And I do know the ages of characters are more static to preserve the slice of life, but there is some sense of moving time in this Universe, shown by things like the introduction of Hitomi- so moving forward I feel like i’d like to see Yuna’s parents give another shot at letting Yuna spread her wings a bit more, like getting her into college for theoretical physics classes, while she’d still take things like english at her current school- (Not at all an uncommon scenario for gifted children, but i’m specifically thinking of Terrence Tao when I suggest this kinda progression) – which hasn’t been touched upon at all since an arc @Strip#702 back in 2015
But yeah this one unsettled me a little and I just wanted to reflect on why a bit.
@ Wrimere:
Damn look at this nerd analyzing S&W characters when he could be working on his manuscript
Well, Wally van fetch anything, but after that you never see the throwed object ever again…