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![[1131] Trophy](/comics/2019-11-24-1131-trophy.png "[1131] Trophy")
Here they are, the places 11 to 20 of this year’s artwork contest!
- Caption: Plc. 47
- Caption: Plc. 46
- Yuna: My revenge will be swift and as cold as the Boomerang Nebula!(*)
- Ye Thuza: It’s really getting out of hand with these participation trophies…
- Caption: Plc. 4
- Caption: Plc. 3
- Text box: (*) = 1 Kelvin
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Kelvin is not measured in ° 😉
Place #1 was too gruesome to show…
@ andreas:
Agreed. Only Fahrenheit and Centigrade/Celsius are measured in degrees.
And a nice downer end to an already cynical 2019 strip. Wondering what will happen next.
Maybe Sandra, Cloud or Larissa want a particular item for the holiday and resort to a good old fashion shop lifting, which leads to a store clerk getting fired.
Or maybe the North household burns down, leaving Woo, Sandra and Richard spending Thanksgiving and Christmas on the streets:-).
So, Yuna will now throw the world into a new ice age. Then, when she announces her demands to the world leaders, everyone will laugh at her, call her a small and innocent girl and blame it on sun activity and CO2.
One lab accident away from becoming a supervillain…
If the winners of places #2 and #3 were truly worthy of their placement, they’d have figured out a way to move the trophies without putting in copious amounts of force and/or dying. But hey, bonus for Yuna: as of panel 3, she’s now place #46!
andreas wrote:
Wikipedia disagrees
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang_Nebula
How can any astronomical object be colder than the cosmic microwave background? That puzzled me. Apparently, outflowing gas blocks the CMB radiation.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060901031441/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/20/1045638427695.html
“Participation trophys”, how to send a um… certain generation into a spiraling rage in 2 words.
This is not the end of the story arc.
@ Edda:
Where does it disagree?
Kelvin is really not measured in º…
You know while it’s more likely than not just the judges biases, one has to wonder what some of those other 46 experiments were…
I’m really, really, really hoping (but not praying; right now, around Yuna, those who pray die first) Ye Thuza takes revenge for Yuna. Because whatever she does can’t possibly be as destructive and lasting as what Yuna will do.
Edda wrote:
You’re not paying attention. “The nebula’s temperature is measured at 1 K (−272.15 °C; −457.87 °F)”. You’ll notice there is no ° between 1 and K.
To be completely fair, the contest judges were actually correct. Yuna’s “perpetual motion” machine really isn’t one. It draws energy from quantum foam fluctuations in order to keep moving. Anything that needs to draw upon energy outside itself is, by definition, NOT a perpetual motion machine.
demarion wrote:
She could just kill the judges, plus the boy who won first place.
Then give Yuna the tropy, and their ashes to use in experiments:-).
I hope to see those “teachers” get their comeuppance immediately – they give shame to anyone who attended highschool.
@ Edda:
The unit is the Kelvin, period. No degree symbol, unlike all the other temperature scales – Celsius, Fahrenheit, Rankine, and a couple of really obscure ones – which use the degree symbol, and the first letter of the scale name.
You learn something new every day, didn’t know about the Boomerang Nebula, it’s pretty cool. Thanks, Novil!
Hmm, taking a swipe at participation trophies?
Ok, Boomer.
Dave wrote:
Actually, Rankine doesn’t use the degree symbol, and for the same reason as Kelvin — they are absolute scales. The word “degree” (when referred to a unit) means that the unit is measured on a relative scale.
Its pure pleasure to see proper physical notation of thermodynamic temperature scale mentioned so many times…
Mechwarrior wrote:
He takes a swipe at everything lately:
– All shippers
– All young couples (either that they’re all unhealthy or are fueled by nothing but urges)
– All American born citizens
– All people who immigrate to America
– All fanart and the people who make them.
– Basically numerous strips with that “damn kids todays) mentality despite opposing that line of thought in the past (http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2012/12/27/0441-children-today/).
Heck this arc so far suggests that:
– All kids are burdens that aren’t worth having (mainly through Ye Thuza being nervous about Yuna’s experiment which, okay is is more understandable, but you have those other parents in “Laid-Back Lifestyle” reaffirming the generalization, plus Sandra wanting to spend most of Richards.
– All science fair judges are either impaired or corrupt.
“All kids are burdens that aren’t worth having (mainly through Ye Thuza being nervous about Yuna’s experiment which, okay is is more understandable, but you have those other parents in “Laid-Back Lifestyle” reaffirming the generalization, plus Sandra wanting to spend most of Richards.”
Meant to finish with “Money for a piece of art”.
What even is the point of science fairs if THIS is how they award students?
47th place for a working Perpetuum Mobile ????? What????? This is a First place !!!! :(((
@ Kelvin:
You (and others) are right. I read you as not using “degree” at all. As in “1 kelvin”, with no unit.
Since http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2016/04/11/0776-the-last-answer/ I fear the cosmos is in real danger!
@ wyzwon:
Yeah, a participation trophy gag? Ok, boomer.
Well, I think the arc is funny, but for those who have no idea about how the science fair competition in Germany works, just some facts from a jury member:
– No trophies here. None. Nothing. Just a certificate, money, free subscription to science magazines etc.
– No 47th place, since in each category there are typically only 4-8 participants and there are only prizes 1-3 plus special awards.
– Juries consist mostly of science teachers (of the appropriate subject), engineers and university professors. Don’t worry, they’d knew the names of atoms. There’s also a written report to be submitted 1-2 months before, so that the jury can take time to understand the stuff and doesn’t need to get in “on the spot”.
– No idea how successful Yuna would be in real life with such a crazy looking project. But Yuna unfortunately doesn’t exist in real life, so therefore the fact checking breaks down here. 😀
Funz wrote:
Nah, first place just gets a nice, light certificate and a bit of prize money. Maybe a small, shiny medal or something.
nobody wrote:
I mean I do think there has been some entertaining moments this years and the last two months of last year. I tend to ramble about the lack of optimistic, uplifting moments mainly because of confusion:
1. Like is the current approach a test to see if the strip would work purely as a cynical one? Is it using them to vent frustrations with life and not seeing much that’s worthwhile/pleasant? Is it just that Novil had some particular stories to tell and the consistently downer approach isn’t by design?
2. That and while the arcs dealing with Zoey’s stalker and say the German immigrants, as well as “Zoey’s Got The Solution” were heavier on the cynical scale, this year’s offering still feels like it’s holding back, hence my mock suggestion on how one could further turn down the lights so to speak.
So basically, I’m just feeling some lack of conviction is all.
Loved the Peanuts face in the second panel.
Frederick Newsom wrote:
Yet, the motion is perpetual, is it not?
Unless you can show that quantum foam fluctuations are a limited resource (difficult, as we’ve never harvested positive energy from them before), I would think the judges were not Right for the Wrong Reason.
@ Jack:
Well as Radek Zelenka once said to Rodney McKay: The laws of physics will seek to apply – creating endless amount of unpredictable particles – with utterly lethal radiation one you try to extract any significant amount of power.
That is an interesting fact about the Boomerang Nebula. I did not know there was anywhere that was meaningfully colder than empty space.
@ BorgLord:
Well, empty space isn’t really “cold”. Temperature is just the speed at which atoms/molecules move. So empty space doesn’t have a temperature. But then again, there’s molecules everywhere even if in a very very very low density, so space is never really empty.
If anyone thinks this couldn’t happen in real life – search Wikipedia for ‘Charnia’ or ‘Tina Negus’
Adge wrote:
Oh I’m sure many negative stereotypes and generalizations as of late have a basis of truth, possibly happening more often than the likes of me care to admit. I just prefer not to believe that there’s no decency or anything worth living for in live, especially when there’s no proof that every negative thing is live is 100% true, 100% of the time.
@ Jack:
You are splitting hairs here; apparently we have differing definitions of “perpetual motion”.
>”Perpetual motion is motion of bodies that continues indefinitely. A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical machine that can do work indefinitely without an energy source. “<
You are arguing that Yuna's machine would be a true perpetual motion mechanism since the energy she is tapping would be (theoretically) inexhaustible. I am saying that, according to the definition above, using any source of outside energy, inexhaustible or not, prohibits that mechanism from being defined as a true perpetual motion machine.
Additionally, you yourself admit that we d not know if such a thing is even possible. Lastly, even if a system such as described is possible, it is unclear if it would persist after the heat death of the universe … assuming such a thing will actually occur.
RUN AWAY!!!!!
If Ye Thuza is helping Yuna, they won’t even be safe with the Jem’hadar.
Novil wrote:
Glad to read it.
@ Asrial:
Well Replicators or Asgard might be necessary…
@ Mechwarrior:
Growing up, I always felt participation trophies/medals were worthless. It was just something to stroke the egos of the parents, rather than something to make the kids feel better.
Then again, I’ve always thought most of my peers (and elders, for that matter) were borderline brainless, so, grain of salt.
@ Antiyonder:
Not sure where you’re getting all that. You’re generalizing specific characters in a comedy strip. There is no “all X are this way.” It’s just specific individuals being idiotic.
@ Shadow Threat:
the first place would be the baking soda volcano, which wins every year
Red5 wrote:
Maybe, but it’s not like the strip was a pitch black piece from day one. It’s kind of like say Famiily Guy which despite the edge and controversial material had it’s optimistic view points from time to time.
Last time we get anything in the ballpark is Good Pets from October 1, 2018, last year. Closest we get to such still tends to be touched with cynicism like:
– Dating Tips for Boys 4: The only kind of girl the strip presents in a desirable light is the quite studious ones. As if to say there’s no middle ground between the quiet girl or criminally insane wild ones who should be locked up.
– Larissa Saves the Day: Yeah it would be pretty cute, but given the majority of this year’s material, I see the strip saying less that “Cloud doesn’t need material gifts because he loves his girlfriend more” and more “Sandra shouldn’t fret over her gift ideas, because a teenage boy only needs sex (or at least kissing)* 100% of the time”
*Yeah in the spirit of fairness I’m not sure what to make of the strip going all negative, but I tend to shake my head more at people who can’t even handle preteens/teens doing what’s at least G Rated making out.
Participation trophies aren’t fun. They’re like… physical reminders, encouraging you to dwell on your failures. If they were this big, they’d at least be awesome paperweights, though.