I disagree. I think this has to do with relativity. Since the two animals in the front are moving in tandem, when they look at each other they seem to be staying in place. (This is sort of what it feels like when you drive down the highway at 55 MPH alongside a bus. Since you and the bus are moving at the same speed, it feels like you are standing still.) And since the cheetah is running at about the same speed, it feels like the cheetah is also not moving. However since the cheetah is moving slightly fatser than the two of them in front he is gaining on them slowly but surely.
If it were a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon, the cheetah would say “We’re moving but we’re not getting anywhere. We keep passing those same two clouds over and over.”
“Zeno, Zeno, cruel philosopher Zeno,
Have you then pierced me with your feathered arrow
That hums and flies, yet does not fly! The sounding
Shaft gives me life, the arrow kills. Oh, sun! —
Oh, what a tortoise-shadow to outrun
My soul, Achilles’ giant stride left standing!”
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Yup, that’s pretty much it…
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Yup, because they’re static drawings. Actually I thought it was pretty funny.
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No motion lines, therefore not moving.
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Apparently the one on the right is Zeno reincarnated as a gazelle (or whatever those are supposed to be).
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@Rusty: Or briffits!
https://comicbookglossary.wordpress.com/briffits/
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Hmm, I generally like breaking-the-4th-wall and meta stuff. But this one leaves me cold. Sorry.
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I disagree. I think this has to do with relativity. Since the two animals in the front are moving in tandem, when they look at each other they seem to be staying in place. (This is sort of what it feels like when you drive down the highway at 55 MPH alongside a bus. Since you and the bus are moving at the same speed, it feels like you are standing still.) And since the cheetah is running at about the same speed, it feels like the cheetah is also not moving. However since the cheetah is moving slightly fatser than the two of them in front he is gaining on them slowly but surely.
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Yep, if this was an animated cartoon, they better be worried. But it’s static, so they’re good.
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Cheetahs can’t do “slowly but surely” – they have to be quick to kill, or they tire and the antelope (or whatever) get away.
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I like that “briffits” term. With any luck, maybe I can actually remember it.
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If it were a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon, the cheetah would say “We’re moving but we’re not getting anywhere. We keep passing those same two clouds over and over.”
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Of course they’re not getting anywhere. Their feet don’t touch the ground.
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I like Paul Valéry’s take better: http://www.babelmatrix.org/works/fr/Val%C3%A9ry%2C_Paul-1871/Le_cimeti%C3%A8re_marin/en/62005-The_Graveyard_By_The_Sea
“Zeno, Zeno, cruel philosopher Zeno,
Have you then pierced me with your feathered arrow
That hums and flies, yet does not fly! The sounding
Shaft gives me life, the arrow kills. Oh, sun! —
Oh, what a tortoise-shadow to outrun
My soul, Achilles’ giant stride left standing!”
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