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![[0380] Sol](/comics/2012-05-28-0380-sol.png "[0380] Sol")
- Woo: Sandra, what’s the sun?
- Sandra: The sun is a plasma ball, inside of which energy is generated by nuclear fusion of helium nuclei into hydrogen.
- Woo: Really??
- Sandra: Haha, no, that was just pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo. The Sun is a giant burning paper ball.
- Woo: Yeah, I figured you made that up when you mixed up helium and hydrogen.
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Guess Sandra and Woo polished up their German for this comic. :3
I just saw the comic and thought “something is different…”.
It was kind of hard for me as I’m a German and usually read them in english… I don’t quite feel the German is fitting their character, so I mostly stick to english with most webcomics I read^^
Lol, the book she is reading is called GAIA, the things you notice..
@ Petah-Petah:
@ dediggefedde:
I’m guessing they just got the files mixed up, and uploaded the german version of the comic in both pages. They’ll surely fix it soon.
Isn’t it the fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium. Helium into Hydrogen would be fission.
@ Gingernorton:
James Lovelock fan maybe?
@ Marked One:
Yes, the last panel makes note of that, if the transcript is to be believed.
@ Marked One:
That’s the joke. Read the last panel.
Being corrected by a raccoon on the subject of nuclear fusion can’t be good for one’s self esteem.
got the versions mixed up there, and it’s funny woo knows more about science than sandra
The sun isn’t a plasma ball. It’s more like a lava lamp. >:=)> One big and hot enough to appear on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram.
Uh, why German?
@ Landbark:
Like “Fouriertransformations-Ionenzyklotronresonanz-Massenspektrometrie”?^^
Let see what kind of BS I can make to explain wth the sun is:
1) Sun is actually a giant eye attached to a massive Lovecraftian horror watching the earth waiting for it to be full of humans before start om nom noming us.
2) The sun is actually square, and it’s an energy cube created by alien to warm up the earth.
3) It’s a giant burning cake.
4) It’s actually the moon who set herself on fire during day time.
5) All the stars on the sky gather together during daytime to rest.
6) The sun is actually a giant artificial sun/lamp. The earth is no longer exist. We actually living in an earth replica inside a super massive generational spaceship. We never know this because the computer want to keep our sanity intact.
Is Cloud going to run up now and claim that he’s being chased by aliens?
Petah-Petah wrote:
Well given that each comic is written originally in German… (Or at least there’s a version of each comic in German (which was actually how I came across S&W))
Woo is brilliant! (And so is the comic.)
If Sanda wants to remain the dominant party, she’d better remind Woo quickly that she knows Calculus and he doesn’t
@ Eagle0600:
Christ I can’t read! 😀 Sleeppp.
I’m starting to think that Raccoon has some family realtionship with a white mouse called “Brain”
Excuse, but I have to say, the RSS feed is in german for some reason…
Is that a bug or the RSS feed is only in german now?
As we all know,
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas,
A gigantic nuclear furnace!
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees!
(TMBG: Making science music awesome for longer than some readers have been around. 🙂 )
@ Deko:
Nah, he eat a pair of mice. One is skinny while the other had a big head.
“Now that’s funny; I don’t care who ya are!” 🙂
@ Gingernorton:
Quick, have someone get her to tell us what occurs next before it’s released!
@ Jamie:
The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma
The sun’s not simply made out of gas, no, no, no
The sun is a quagmire, it’s not made of fire
Forget what you’ve been told in the past
(Plasma!) Electrons are free
(Plasma!) A fourth state of matter
Not gas, not liquid, not solid, ooh!
@ Raen:
Kudos, well played .:)
Her expresion is priceless, outsmarted by a racoon that must hurt her geek ego 😛
Oh, her face at the end. :3 Now I get it… That and all the comments so far.
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Sanda is reading Gaia =)
I would rather buy a Sandra and Woo collection
@ AckAckAck:
I can believe all those, except no.5 … because sometimes you see the moon at the same time as the sun is up.
Jamie wrote:
Not milions… the “hottest” part of the star is it´s coronosphere…
btw, “hehehe… subtle”
@ Marked One:
Warning, nuclear physics geek material below.
As someone who has studied the field a bit:
The idea of Hellium fissioning into Hydrogen is a little impractical. Normally, when something fissions or fuses, there is a net loss of mass in the final atomic products. Some of the mass is turned into energy. This is usually discussed in reverse as ‘Binding Energy’ (The energy released when a specific atom is formed.) Since Hydrogen has less Binding Energy than Helium, fission of the two would not be something considered practical (It would require a massive energy input, with little output.)
There is a nice explanation at http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/nuclear_materials/nuclear_processes.php
(University of Cambridge) if you want to know more, specifically about ‘Binding Energy’ and some basic nuclear principles.
Wow, woo really is a professor! He gave a lecture to wolves and now he corrected Sandra.
Well, even Woo knows that 2+2≠1
@ Marked One:
Exactly. Woo is, however, jumping from the knowledge that she got it wrong to the conclusion that she was making it up on the spot.
The big bright thing up there you can land on at night.
Being corrected on your science by a raccoon is a low point in anyone’s life.
@ Paeris Kiran:
Well, the surface temperature is about 5778 K, and scientists can guess that the core temperature is about 15.7 million K (Kelvin, “K”, is basically Celsius +273 degrees for all you non-science people.)
@ Neospector:
Well that probably depends on what you call “temperature” which is a bit dubious term when it comes to plasma.
Generaly temperature is “collective” quantity of many particles. (their average square of speed in this instance). And while it is perfectly possible to assing it to star it isn´t really kinetic energy whic makes particles come together. (besides sun is still young star… a lot of energy is still produced by p+p+neutrino-> D+ positron fusion. Which is an weak interaction proces for which temperature is irrelevant. however it requires extremly large densities.
@ Paeris Kiran:
Any place where a system is in thermodynamic equilibrium the temperature is well defined. Since we don’t know exactly how enough energy is transferred to the corona to make it as hot as it is, I can’t say that it’s in thermodynamic equilibrium, but the rest of the Sun definitely is. So every part of the Sun from the photosphere to the core has a well defined temperature.
Also, while the weak interaction process is not affected by temperature, you have to get the two protons together first, so the overall reaction is still somewhat temperature dependent (at least until you get to extremely high densities).
@ tahrey:
That’s her sister, Moona.
Yay! The comic is funny again.
Paeris Kiran wrote:
Temperature is the average kinetic energy of particles.
In the same way that nuclear fission in bombs and power plants have heat on Earth (why do you think they call it a “melt down?”), it’s happening in the sun. The enormous quantities of energy are transferred into the particles; conservation of energy.
I’m not sure if that’s exactly right, but it sounds close enough to right in my head. The idea is the same:
The energy is in the particles, thus they have an average kinetic energy; heat.
I want a towel like that. Its texture changes based on the angle you’re looking at it :p
Sandra is like Icarus. She got too close to the Sun and she got BURNED… by one of the comic’s stars who has proven himself the brightest.
Please make a Gaia strip with one of the characters reading Sandra and Woo book! Crossing dimensions!
DragoFlare101 wrote:
It would make a lot more sense the other way around.
@ Neospector:
Scratch that, never saw the book cover.