Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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cleokaya said, 2 months ago

A safe, drat.
Margueritem said, 2 months ago

Uhhhhhh…….. (insert that whistling sound that bombs make when they’re dropped)
pouncingtiger said, 2 months ago

That metal-ing kid, stole my pun!
Yukoner said, 2 months ago

It’s a safe bet that he did not plan this. Let’s hope that this ends as a no vault accident.
haryotomo said, 2 months ago

Oooppss…
LX013 said, 2 months ago

How will that end?
wndrwrthg said, 2 months ago

wcorvi called it yesterday, Tuesday and Saturday. No fair reading the books ahead.
Johanan Rakkav said, 2 months ago

Don’t worry, LX013, Calvin will land lightly.
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

…but will people on the ground be SAFE?
If it’s “no vault” (groan), Yukoner, nobody can blame Calvin.
I’ll put my money on/in Calvin. It’s ‘safe’ to say he gets away with this.
However, Calvin still needs ‘a slush fund’ for Susie so he can hit her “upside the head”.
Rakkav, is it ‘safe’ to say Calvin will land lightly? He needs ‘the right combination’ of circumstances, which will not happen if the safe bursts open at impact. Can you offer a guarantee?
fredbuhl said, 2 months ago

He’ll have quite an “impact” on the towns people below. They say first impressions are the deepest. The depths someone will go to to make an impression. I hope he lands in a “safe house”.
wcorvi said, 2 months ago

I can’t help it I’m psychic.
hagarthehorrible said, 2 months ago

don’t worry he has transformed into a SAFE and will be safe when lands except for the hapless town people down there.
iKomix said, 2 months ago

He is gonna crash into Hobbes! Or maybe Susie!
grazer said, 2 months ago

Hope he has another round or two of transmmunition in that thing.
baslim_the_begger said, 2 months ago

That’ll leave a mark!

Calvin was thinkingI want to land safely! But, it is ironic that transmogrifiers have limited language ability. But the good news is that Calvin has steeled himself for the landing.
Mr.Mirage said, 2 months ago

Calvin has been falling for how many days now? :-P
TrapperJohn said, 2 months ago

Now THAT’S funny.
Leonardeuler said, 2 months ago

The first thing Calvin should do after “landing” is to upgrade his transmogrifier once again for improving its language ability.
watcha said, 2 months ago

Yes Puddleglum2(yesterday), it was a guess. So I had a re-look…

Taking that the average house is roughly 21m in length, it give you that the altitude of the viewer is +/- 1 km(-1m for Calvin is slighter
lower than the viewer)
Gravity = 9.8 m/s2 - which mean with every second that Calvin falls it doubles.2s=19.6m, etc, etc.
So the next problem is how long has Calvin been falling?(Yes I know 3 days!) Looking at the first panel where our dear Calvin started falling
he was about 3.6km away from earth. Take it from there he has fallen 2.6 km - meaning that he has been fallen for 23 seconds.
Calvin in yesterdays panel was thus falling at 225 meters/second and picking up speed, thus hitting the ground in around 4 seconds.

Now, it is a slow day at the office and I do know nothing about gravity so I thought I played around with it - I am sure someone of the Calvin & Hobbs fan
club will be able to give the correct result. But what I found is even if you bring in terminal velocity and wind resistance and body weight the difference
is very little - maybe 1 second, which means very little if you have 3 seconds left before hitting the ground.
LX013 said, 2 months ago

To Rakkav:

Since days I’m nervous now!
Johanan Rakkav said, 2 months ago

Spoiler Alert: What happens to Calvin in this arc, start to finish, has been available all along in the series of strips tagged “transmogrifier”.

(That’s why I can offer a guarantee, LX013 and Puddleglum2…and why I can sneak in a subtle bad pun in the process.)
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

Rakkav,
Would you call your “subtle bad pun” ‘light’ humor?
I can almost see the light now.

Jesus said, “I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
John 8:12
It’s your own fault, You give me a straight line, and I run with it. It’s the shortest distance between two points. watcha,
Don’t give me any intricate considerations about straight lines that are calculated to confuse and discombobulate the issue. You need a pointy-haired boss to keep you walking the straight and narrow in the office.
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

Just point the transmogrifier at yourself, pull the trigger, and say the word, Calvin, but make sure it’s the right word!
You’ll not only be safe; you’ll be saved.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 1:1,14
“A word to the wise is sufficient.”
carpetinwater9 said, 2 months ago

Quit thinking negative. Be on the safe side.
hdstern said, 2 months ago

…Bear in mind that Galileo proved centuries ago that all things fall at the same rate (see: leaning tower of Pisa). What is different is the kinetic energy of a safe vs little boy (KE = 1/2 Mass x Velocity squared).
♠Lonewolf♠ said, 2 months ago

Way to go Calvin!! Hobbes would not have made the same mistake.
watcha said, 2 months ago

hdstern - not true. I person with a parachute falls slower than a person without one. :-)
runslow said, 2 months ago

Safe at last !!!
babbie said, 2 months ago

You’re just getting in deeper and deeper, Wiley. Maybe you can borrow a superhero from another strip.
humormehere said, 2 months ago

But remember terminal velocity. For a safe if might be approximately 200 mph. Calvin, a little less. But 200 is a pretty fair sum to come to a sudden stop…
rshive said, 2 months ago

Transmogrifiers are notoriously unreliable these days.
Carmy said, 2 months ago

Is the transmogrifier gun in the safe (er, Calvin)?
Superfrog said, 2 months ago

I wish I had a dollar for every time my transmogrifier misfired.

Hey, Puddleglum2, I’m not catching that sucker!
NoBrandName said, 2 months ago

@watcha “Gravity = 9.8 m/s2 - which mean with every second that Calvin falls it doubles.2s=19.6m, etc, etc”

Doubles every second? No. 9.8 m/s2 means it increases by 9.8 m/s every second. Not that it doubles. So after 1s speed is 9.8 m/s. After 2s it is 19.6 m/s. But after 3s it is only 29.4 m/s. Whereas the way you expressed the calculation it would have been 39.2 m/s.

@hdstern: Things fall at the same rate in a vacuum. In different media, friction and resistance cause things to fall at different rates, based on surface area and distribution of mass, and density of the medium.
watcha said, 2 months ago

NoBrandName - maybe I should have made it 29.4m/s instead of a etc, I did calculate it as an nth degree and not doubled it up? English is not my 1st language so that was the best way I could describe what I am trying to do. Thanks for pointing it out!
Richard said, 2 months ago

What he needs is a very, very, very large drag chute.
Macushlalondra said, 2 months ago

Unless something happens real fast he’s in for a real crash landing. But maybe he’ll get lucky and land on something soft.
okeedoekee said, 2 months ago

Be careful for what you wish.
Bdaysuit said, 2 months ago

Maybe a couple of them. lol
BC13 said, 2 months ago

I wasn’t expecting that.
Ray C said, 2 months ago

An erratic transmogrifier gun and a safe with no hands to operate said gun.
A bad “combination.”
Calvin had better steel himself for this landing. But if he remains a safe, he will probably survive but with a bad headache.
He does need to hope he doesn’t fall into a lake, though.
ninmas said, 2 months ago

tomorrow: the final chapter…….stay tuned to find out what happens to calvin!
Fer Lefer said, 2 months ago

C’mon fellas! No band desirée is made in real time. Calvin has been falling for seconds… and it’s about to hit the ground… “safely”
TheRedHatt said, 2 months ago

Hope he lands in a small lake and tranforms into a fish !
Nick V said, 2 months ago

OF COURSE Calvin would forget to think of something else before transmogrifying himself.
comicgirl1000 said, 2 months ago

aaaahhhh
JanCinVV said, 2 months ago

Terminal velocity (the speed at which gravity is offset by wind resistance) for an adult human is approximately 128 mph.
darien koh said, 2 months ago

may he crash
nighthawks said, 2 months ago

watcha, I’ve ben watcha’n you!— this is your boss….I’ve been trolling the calvin & hobbes comment section of go comics and I ve finally nabbed you!—
clean out your desk….youre fired!

and…..have a nice day
Stede_Bonnet said, 2 months ago

Safety is imaginary.

We imagine; then turn thought into plans; then turn plans into reality. Failure results when thought, plan or execution is flawed. Success begins by imagining a different result.