- Sandra: You know you have too much homework when its gravitational pull exceeds that of earth!
- Richard: Okay, fine, I’ll have a talk with your physics teacher about it.
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[0621] Gravity
└ posted on Thursday, 2 October 2014, by Novil
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Rock wrote:
The mass of the homework has locally become ‘the center of everything’. Everything else is orbiting around it, with heavier objects, better capable of resisting the pull (like the house’s structure and the earth it stands on) at a greater distance than the lighter things (like Sandra and her dad). :p
Your explanation is what I call “roadrunner physics”
People on the far side of the Earth (and most of the Earth itself) would be flung into space.
Yes, I know I’m over-analyzing this.
Heh that bag’s mass would be 2 *10^10 quite sure that would be a black hole.
When you backpack becomes the localized center of gravity you know you have too much homework…
Question is though, how did it become the center of gravity for that area so quickly, seriously, didn’t she have to carry that home, place it down, grab the book, walk to the chair, and then sit down and read… So why only when she sat down and began to read did it decide to do this?… also was Larisa passing the local area, because that would totally explain it.
@ DLKMusic:
I believe that estimate is for children under the age of 16, since their skeletal structure and muscle mass are growing rapidly, and lack the resilience of set structures–you can bend and warp green wood, but not seasoned dry wood–
@ Edda:
It could be kinda like a magnet, where the bag’s gravity pushes against Earth’s thus makes it float, but yeah, I agree with you, shoulda had them being pulled to the ground.
MawileCeyvis wrote:
The backpack is still best solution. It’s when they want to be fashionable and carry all that weight without wearing a backpack when troubles really start.
But… she is’t even being pulled towards her homework, she’s just floating in the air…
@ Aracnoss:
My question is if the backpac’s gravitational pull is bigger than the earth’s then why is the backpack floating and how is the house still standing???
@ secretqwerty10:
It’s called puberty. Look at pictures of you at 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15
I love those short joke strips. I missed them a little, between all those story arcs. They were the ones that got me to reading this webcomic, so many years ago. Can we get a few more of those, before we get to the next story?
Heh, I see this strip as a big nose-thumbing at the ones who complained about the unreality of the last arc. “You thought that some of that didn’t stand up to scrutiny? Fine! I’ll just flip the bird at the underpinnings of physics. What do you think of that!”
BTW, this method doesn’t necessarily work. Obvious violations of the rules are assumed to be intentional. Smaller, more subtle, violations of the rules are assumed to be mistakes.
ITT: Literalists.
@ Paeris Kiran:
Larisa= pinkie pie
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a crazed, pyromaniac pinkie pie, but pinkie pie nonetheless.
I think there is a little translationmistake in here. physics would be Sportuntericht in german, where you dont get to much homework. The german Physikuntericht would be science in english
@ Roachester:
Great. Attach a dynamo to Newson and – bam – free energy from a perpetuum mobile. (Just make sure to give him reason enough to keep spinning.)
@ das-g:
“Newton”. I meant to write “Newton”.
@ ekimmak:
Decimate means to reduce by one tenth, not to completely destroy. Think about where the “deci” part comes from.
It was originally a punishment in Ancient Rome, where large groups of soldiers would be lined up and every tenth member in line would be executed as punishment for the group’s incompetence.
@ DLKMusic:
Those statistics only apply to children…and also, if you’re in the military, I don’t think the biggest health risk would be your backpacks.
as a physics nazi I have to point out that the homework would not nullify earth’s gravity or as it appears illustrated here in fact reverse it…
no instead it would pull both object closer to each other quicker until something like the ground stooped them,…
please be more accurate in the future…
(unless of coarse there is some explanation for the home works height…)
Funny, I used to refer to my backpack as a blackhole. What entered was never guaranteed to be seen again.
But knowing that was your physics Homework.
I just totally binge read S&W from #1 over the last week. Amazing how one could consume over 5 years of work. But the comic has progressed very nicely, even from the color days.
And because Novil has a raccoon avatar I think he deserves a good belly rub for all this.
her laptop must have been in there, and her teacher emailed her 1 quintillion homework questions
The news section says words, words, words. Is that some sort of bo burnham reference?
…Been there. My back still aches sometimes from walking two miles home for five days out of the week with what felt like all the homework in the nation somehow crammed into my backpack. And then they wonder why I got next to no sleep in High School.
Tsunami wrote:
Amen to that. I’ve been there. My shoulders and lower neck used to always hurt.
BlakkurSverrir wrote:
Aren’t you mixing up physics with physical education here?
Cat wrote:
As a correctness comrade, I should point out that your use of coarse instead of course is a problem.
Also, re-examine the last panel, they are pinned to the wall; I assume the homework is in the next room pinned to the floor with smashed desk around it
It did not nullify the earth’s gravity necessarily, it simply exceeds it a bit.
Your Hitler cannot withstand the cold winters of my Stalin, facist of physics.
My communism of correctness shall redeem China and North Kore-
Ah
Well let us not discuss that
Alakaslam wrote:
As a corrected capitalist I see the backpack
Can I sell you a laugh?
@ Vrika:
Most of the weight in the backpack is all the textbooks and the 2 – 3 hours of homework per subject. I know the ignorant school administrators claim the amount of homework is total per night is 2 – 3 hours, but that low amount has not been true since the early 80’s.
@ Edda:
Um, gravitational pull of homework makes the bag its “crust,” so to speak.
@ Switch Master:
Probably both. I know that when I was in college my neck hurt whenever I would walk to class, but it would also be sore when I got up in the morning.
Somehow, this makes me think of a Calvin and Hobbes comic…