We haven’t actually seen a star fall in since we invented telescopes, but I have a list of ones I’m really hoping are next.
The opposite of gravity is levity, so of course it’s okay to laugh at black holes.
Is it possible cartoonist Randal Monroe has been watching Philomena Cunk’s mockumentaries?
Comics I Don't Understand 
Everything in the XKCD was technically correct (the best kind of correct). Well, the part about the stars falling into the core being hilarious was an opinion, but still.
When the Dustin strip showed up in The Comics Curmudgeon, I commented as follows:
I like that Ed all but said, “You’re a fat greedy ba$tard who took the donut I wanted, and I hate you.” But Tom, he does not care. He’s smiling because He Got That Donut.,
Caulfield’s not completely right. Temperature drops with altitude in the troposphere, but then rises again through the stratosphere, drops through the mesosphere, and rises in the thermosphere. You’d run out of oxygen before wax started to melt, though.
And in Monty: “Bowling pins pins in a thunderstorm”? Is that like Paris in the the spring?
“We haven’t actually seen a star fall in since we invented telescopes, but I have a list of ones I’m really hoping are next.”
Sure we have. Garrison Keillor comes to mind.
“We haven’t actually seen a star fall in since we invented telescopes, but I have a list of ones I’m really hoping are next.”
Sure we have. Garrison Keillor comes to mind.
Re: “Levity is the opposite of Gravity.”
Can you have a levitational field?
Also, does the sun’s heat change with altitude? Shouldn’t you get warmer as you get closer to the sun? :-)
In regards to the Monty strip, family lore from my late mother’s side holds there was an incident involving ball lightning manifesting in a kitchen. I wish I had recorded/written this stuff down to remember details.
Grawlix (5): The nearness to the son is minimal. The diminishing atmosphere, however, makes it colder by about 5º F per 1000 feet.
Make that “to the sun”.
The solar corona, the outermost part of the solar atmosphere, is extremely hot — reaching more than a million kelvins — much hotter than the solar surface. It is very thin, so it is normally only visible during a total solar eclipse.
Grawlix –
I remember a summer day thunderstorm when I was in maybe my early teens or just before. We were in my mom’s kitchen. The front and back doors were open and more or less lined up with each other. Back door was in the kitchen. A bolt of lightening came in the front door which was open except for the screen door – went straight (inside house doorway into from front hall/living room in line with the doors also) the went through the house and out the back door – also open except the screen door – without burning anything.
What did it sound like?