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![[1194] Neuronal Lava Booster](/comics/2020-07-13-1194-neuronal-lava-booster.png "[1194] Neuronal Lava Booster")
- Richard: How’s progress?
- Construction worker: Not so good. Without our project manager, we don’t know how to connect the energy gyroscope with the neuronal lava booster!
- Caption: Meanwhile.
- Teacher: If Bob was driving with twenty miles per hour…
- Richard: Then let’s assemble the heating elements first!
- Construction worker: All right.
- Caption: Meanwhile.
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Uh-oh… Missing calls from Japanese cat girl is no good…
How has Yuna not yet graduated college, with at least 3 PhDs?
LazerWulf wrote:
It was explained… she is really bad at some subjects…
Like not insulting senior professors. REALLY bad.
Why is she still at school?
Oh, come on, guys. The blueprint clearly shows the gyroscope is connected to the lava booster via three hyperbaric bakelite tubes, arranged in parallel and monitored by platinum-iridium thermocouples..
Get with the program!
Yuna: “Here’s all the answers for today’s questions, can I go home now?”
Teacher: “…I didn’t even ask this question yet…”
Dracke wrote:
Here a secret they don’t tell you as a kid. School grades are more important as an education off effort as chavime t matters less. Schools are reluctant to skip grades as one of more,imported thing is peer development and you social development. They only look at skipping you is when your advanced understAnd leads you boredom related misbehavior when problems of leaving you with your pears out ways the problems of cussed by having to ditting into an older peer group
Why is she still in school? Because one thing she not, is mature for her age
Wait, is the disaster going to be on Tuesday or Thursday?
@ Trimutius:
“I’m so sorry, I got distracted with building the lava moat, and-”
“Richard is building lava moat… WITHOUT HITOMI?!”
If Bob was driving at 20 miles per hour, he’d be run off the road with a massive amount of road rage, get good Bob, 25 is minimum, and you should be going 5 over anyways.
Also, a typo(?) in that it says driving WITH twenty miles per hour, it just doesn’t sound right to me, it’s normally driving AT twenty miles per hour where I live. But I dunno if that’s how it’s said in other parts of the country/other English speaking countries.
@ Diane:
Probably a literal translation from German, not taking into account the difference in idioms between German and English.
@ roguebfl:
Wished she was president instead of Trump
roguebfl wrote:
Fun literary example:
In the Thursday Next series (by Jasper Fforde – yes, that’s the right number of “f”s) the main character’s eventual daughter, Tuesday Next, is in her early teens and a university lecturer who thinks her students are the sooooo slow (to be fair, she found at least 14 more odd numbers then there are even numbers and an all integer solution to a^n=b^n+c^n where n is greater than 2 – both of which are impossible to do) and yet we later see her going to school with other kids her age so that she can get something approaching a normal childhood experience – when her mum asks about her school day, she’s only interested in the schoolyard shenanigans, because that’s literally the only thing of use that Tuesday could get from going to school based on her age.
roguebfl wrote:
… What is “chavime t”?
You’d think a genius like her would be in a higher grade level by now.
@ roguebfl:
Interesting. In grammar school, I was rather ahead of the curve. In 3rd grade I was sent upstairs to give the 8th graders an example of reading proficiency. I was skipped ahead not once, but twice.
This meant that I entered high school at an age 2 years younger than the other students in my class. And indeed, as a result I was not at the same level of social development as the rest. This led to a certain amount of awkwardness in non-academic situations.
Frederick Newsom wrote:
My parents left the choice to skip up to me. Since I was already the youngest in class I refused. I still stand by that decision.
@ MarqFJA87:
The result of my dysgraphia fighting noble input, to try and fail to type ‘achievement’
The weirdest thing happened the other day. I popped onto YouTube to check out my usual subscriptions and in my recommendations there was a video featuring XKCD on how to make a lava moat.
https://youtu.be/r8xfzeD0ZK4
Very meta.
Novril most have watchted that.
@ roguebfl:
Schools may be reluctant to skip grades, but Yuna could always homeschool instead. She is unusual enough that her needs are unlikely to be met by the school system.
That Neuronal Lava Booster look a lot like an office building. Did Yuna pull some Rick Sanchez universe-in-a-box shenanigan to power the lava moat?
@ Hawk:
I will blame the fact that XKCD was actually tagged in a previous comic a few days ago.
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2020/06/29/1190-lava-moat-2/
… soooo, assembling the heating elements was not good idea I suppose …
Was Homeschooled wrote:
Yuna biggest need is connection wither her Peers to prevent her going bond villain. How would homeschooling and taking her away from her Peers be serving her needs?
“Social development with her peers” – When a child is that advanced, her “peers” are unlikely to be other children her age. For play, yes. For learning – why? Procrustes was meant as a warning, not a recommendation.
Speaking as one with decades in the business, I’ll explain.
There are normal kids, smart kids and GATE Kids. Everyone who has been through a reasonably sophisticated elementary school knows this. However, there are also another category that when i was teaching I called Profoundly Gifted. This is the one child in a thousand who is as much smarter that a GATE child as a GATE is to a normal. The average teacher will be lucky to encounter one in an entire career. Because that was my specialty, I think I knew 3 or 4. Raising one also broadened my exposure. They aren’t easy and they are NOT like other children. Frequently they can’t even get along with other children because other kids don’t have anything to talk to them about. When you see a news article about someone who graduated from Haw-vud at the ripe old age of 14, guess what? And that is the lucky child who was identified and had parental support. Too often this does not occur. I don’t, personally, have any universal answers but my feeling is that a child like Yuna doesn’t need ‘schooling’, she needs mentoring. Unfortunately, Ye Thuza wasn’t able to find a professor smart enough to do that! She isn’t alone . . .
roguebfl wrote:
More like what the world would need, not Yuna. She’d be just fine as a bond villain, so advancing beyond everyone very quickly is certainly among her needs.
The teacher’s sentence is incorrect. It should be, “If Bob was driving AT twenty miles per hour.”
So much for our educational system.
Lava moat?
Frederick Newsom wrote:
The bakelite tubes will not be able to handle the stress. I suggest using seamless columbium tubes.Frederick Newsom wrote:
The bakelite tubes will not be able to handle the stress. I suggest using seamless columbium tubes. Do not leave well enough alone.