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![[0461] Parallel Universe](/comics/2013-03-07-0461-parallel-universe.png "[0461] Parallel Universe")
- Sandra: Crocodiles are more closely related to sparrows than to lizards.
- Sign: Nepenthes rajah
- Sandra: This flower eats mammals.
- Sandra: Michelle is checking out a dinosaur skeleton instead of her new text message.
- Sandra: The world is a weird place.
- Cloud: Are you sure we haven’t just stumbled into some kind of freaky parallel universe?
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Haha, I knew that thing about crocs 😀 It’s nothing strange, just affinity beetween species 🙂
It may seem unbelievable, but it’s 100% true– Michelle can ignore a text for potentially as long as one and a half minutes!
I think I may live in this parallel universe too, because I found none of these things weird… except for maybe Michelle not responding to her text message.
What can we say? Michelle likes a guy with good bone structure.
Also featured in this parallel universe, a History Channel that features actual history.
@ Neospector: WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH…..WOAH. Let’s not get crazy here. That’s too weird even for a parallel universe
@ Petah-Petah:
… same here (looks around scared)
At least she didn’t go very long without taking out her phone.
Neospector wrote:
Oh, I remember a movie where they had that, movie is called “Invention of Lie”…
I don’t know if it’s just me, but whenever I see Sandra and Cloud together, regardless of what they’re doing, I get this warm, happy feeling inside.
(Totally unrelated to this strip)is this a reference at the sandy south arc? XD
Is … Is that skeleton … Smiling at her for it’s picture?! O_O
T-Rex trumps all.
Oh gosh this is awesome. XD
Wait a minute… Freaky parallel universe… Cloud and Sandra… both are gamers… Larissa is there, and she’s the adventurous crazy one, and probably wouldn’t mind helping them get out of this universe… OH MY GOSH IT’S A NEW ADVENTURE ARC AT LAST! 😀
ooooh nice allosaurid skeleton at the end
@ Neospector:
but the history channel does have some historical progams on it. they air during their “cable in the classroom” programming really early in the morning.
There’s a flower that eats mammals?? What’s is common name? I won’t remember his scientific name. This is important.
The world is not a weird place. The world is a perfectly normal place which we are too weird to understand easily – our idea of normality is wrong. There has never been an unusual event in the whole history of the universe. The laws of physics have never, ever been violated, not even once.
Things seem strange and mysterious when you don’t understand them, but it’s important to understand that mysteriousness is a property of questions, not answers – quantum mechanics might seem bizarre to you, but it’s been working perfectly for 13.7 billion years. If there’s any mystery left after you’ve heard an answer, it’s not really an answer – a proper answer leaves nothing left to explain.
Addendum: if you find yourself clinging to your feelings of mystery, complaining that “science takes all of the mystery out of things”, remember that mysteriousness is a property of questions. You are not enjoying sensing the innate mysteriousness of things, you are worshipping your ignorance. The world is full of interesting things and finding out how they work does not change them. To quote Yudkowksy, “Alas for those who turn their eyes from zebras and dream of dragons! If we cannot learn to take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.”
I think Michelle is another “Evil sidekick is better than the main villain” trope. She actually show more interest at the MOMA and she’s less cruel than her friend Zoey. I think she actually have a good heart inside her and no one notice.
You can see another examples like Kronk from Emperor’s New Groove, kneesocks from Panty Stocking & Garterbelt and Silver Spoon from MLP:FiM.
Interesting. There’s not TVTrope based on this trope yet…. it will be an interesting trope.
A Nepenthes rajah does in fact occasionally eat small mammals, although its diet consists mainly of insects.
firedome wrote:
Emphasis on “Some”.
yes that is exactly what i am saying
@ DiDi:
Well, the Nepenthes Rajah is an endagered species growing in the highlands of Borneo. It is sometimes grown in private gardens due to the striking looks of the flowers. These pitcher shaped flowers can hold up to 3.5 litres of water. check out the wikipedia page on it.
There is also the smaller Giant Nepenthes Rafflesia that can eat small mammels in its ~1 litre pitcher.
@ Michael Corley:
Not a T-Rex, it has 3 fingers and a more slender fenestre and ridges atop the head
Some people have closets to hold their skeletons. Others need museums.
Well considering when lizards and saurians (I’m sure that’s the wrong term, but I’m using it) split up, yeah, it’d make sence that crocodiles are closer to birds, much like other thoropods (Okay, I KNOW I’m not even spelling that right. I’d check, but my internet’s being slow today, so screw it, you get what I’m talking about).
@ Chrysophylax:
Chrysophylax wrote:
Unusual events do occur occasionally – the Big Bang, the emergence of life, Michelle not checking out a new text message – it is their rarity that makes them unusual, not any breach of the laws of nature.
As for violating the laws of physics, that happens all the time, and will continue to do so until the physicists write laws that actually correspond with what nature does. As you said yourself
but it’s only been a law of physics for the last hundred years or so.
I wan’t a plant like that protecting my front door! XD @ DiDi:
@ CHAOKOCartoons:
Do you know that such plants usually stink as a very rotten carcass just to attract flies to eat?
I know I sound stupid, but if the channels include a Cartoon Network that’s nothing but cartoons or cartoon/live action hybrids (But whoever heard of a 24 hour channel dedictated to animation?), sign me up.
I can’t really see the comic because there’s an ad covering the top half of it. For the Blackberry, of all the useless pieces of junk to have an ad for. 🙁
Forgive me, but the recent comment from Neospector was from me. I typed in his name because I was responding to his earlier post, but put it in the name space by mistake.
Neospector wrote:
There are several, but I only get local channels here, dear clone.
Again, I’m sorry about that. Typed your name in the name section by mistake, but this time my own name is luckily in there already.
Wow, marvelous weblog layout! How long have you been blogging for? you made running a blog look easy. The entire glance of your website is magnificent, as neatly as the content!
Old Brit wrote:
No it hasn’t. We’ve only known about it for the last hundred years or so, but the laws of nature don’t give a damn if we understand them or not, they exist anyway. Don’t mistake our models of the laws with the real thing.
Old Brit wrote:
The human understanding of the laws of physics is inherently flawed, fortunately I am not human but superhuman and I have seen the truth. When you sort out the laws of physics to the extent which they are truly complete, you will realize that there are no laws of physics, and your laws as you view them now are merely a construct of the limitations of your lesser sentience. Essentially there are different levels of sentience and you’re not at the top yet so you view binding laws that do not truly exist. Also I may have come upon evidence to suggest that the Big Bang Theory is inherently flawed as well.
Hfar wrote:
dear god the puns