I think that these comics are closer to EWWWs, but DollarBill submitted them as synchronous OYs, commenting “same day, same theme, juxtaposition next to each other in my GoComics daily feed“. The latter is not surprising, given that the titles are alphabetically adjacent to each other:
Blazek’s comic was a brief CIDU for me, but it wasn’t that hard to figure out. If there ever was a feature that GoComics should have renamed for just one day, this was it:
Dan Collins wasn’t taking any chances with misunderstandings: the label on the bubble seems gratuitous and unnecessarily crude, but without it, the color might not have been enough to identify the contents, since he did not indicate the precise location of the source.
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P.S. No matter how it was generated, a bubble that large would have a good chance of capsizing that boat. Aerated water has a much lower density, and cannot support the same weight as normal water, so the vessel sinks. This is a factor with depth charges used against submarines. Even if the explosion itself does not cause a leak, the reduced buoyancy may cause the submarine to fall to a depth where the water pressure is too high, fatally damaging the hull (as happened in the Ocean Gate disaster last year).
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I’m not sure the realism of buoyancy is a major issue with one guy in a tiny rowboat out to harpoon a giant whale.
Todd the Dino
@ Downpuppy (1) – Of course not, but the size of that bubble isn’t realistic, either.
P.S. As long as we are exchanging flatulent items:
Donkey: What’s that smell?
Shrek: That’s brimstone.
Donkey: That wasn’t no brimstone.
Shrek: If that were me, you’d be dead!
The Ocean Gate sub obviously went to a depth it could not withstand, but it wasn’t because of buoyancy. It was intended to go to those depths. It was just badly designed and built. It has nothing to do with being at a depth that was never intended nor aerated water.
@ TedD (4) – My apologies; I should have known that someone would call me out about that last sentence. The parenthetical comment at the end was only meant to apply to “water pressure too high == fatal damage“, and not how they got there, but I admit I should have made that clear above.
There were some questions in the Comments for today’s B.C. as to whether John the turtle actually has a propeller.
https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2024/10/17?
I appreciate the subject matter today.
I remember hearing/reading about aeration of water some time ago in relation to mysteriously disappearing ships.
Would whales be to blame? I guess we’ll never know…
:-P
@ Grawlix (8) – I wasn’t able to find anything recent; there was an intriguing headline about “Burps of Death in the Bermuda Triangle“, but the associated article contained no relevant information. However, I remember some concern about a plan to bunker vast amount of carbon dioxide emissions at high pressure under water. The worry was that if the system was ever breached, it would release all that CO₂ back into the environment, aerating and/or acidifying the water (and negating any of the carbon reduction advantages that the system had managed to achieve).
Here’s a Shoe strip that RandomCanyon submitted “… in view of the … news regarding the Titanic and the loss of the tourist sub“: