Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for May 27, 2010

J. Robert Oppenheimer would have been surprised to hear that.

Oy….

Does that surprise you, Gracie?

I had an aunt named Ignacia and that’s my sister’s middle name too (poor Sis).

“…discovered nuclear fission.”

It’s a natural phenomenon, not man made.

now gracie will start looking into her family history more closely

In Jay Kantor’s novel “Krazy Kat”, Ignatz (Ignacio) Mouse impersonates Robert Oppenheimer, as Krazy became obsessed with “Oppie” after she witnessed the atomic tests at Alamogordo. “Alamogordo” is Spanish for “fat cottonwood”. Cheese is high in fat. Ignatz/Ignacio, being a cartoon mouse/ratón, is very fond of cheese/queso.

In the comic series “Watchmen”, the real name of the superhuman Dr. Manhattan is Jon Osterman. The “Manhattan” in his supername is a reference to the Manhattan Project, conducted at Alamogordo and resulting in the atom bomb, Osterman himself is loosely based on Oppenheimer.

The name “Osterman” is similar to “Osterberg”, and James Osterberg is better known as rock star Iggy (Ignatz/Ignacio) Pop. In 1990, Iggy Pop released the album Brick by Brick. Cheese is often sold in “bricks”. IgnatzIgnacioIggy Mouse was best known for throwing bricks/ladrillos at Krazy Kat/Gato Loko. Krazy Kat became obsessed with Oppenheimer because she saw the “atom bum” as the Brick to End All Bricks, a brick aimed at the head of the entire world. (To Krazy’s confused sensibilities, this was a marvelous thing.)

It’s the Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things! (F.I.A.T.)

fritzoid:

I predict that it will be YOU yes YOU who will be the first to successfully articulate the universal theory of EVERYTHING (else)

Thanks! I never would have suspected that a mere comic could have such complexity.

I already HAVE articulated my universal theory of everything (F.I.A.T.), it just hasn’t been accepted in mainstream circles yet.

You’d think having a cool acronym would help it catch on, but so far no such luck.

fritzoid,

Holy Toledo!

I believe that the answer to the Universe and Everything is 42. (I hope I remembered that correctly.)

Unfortunately, FIAT doesn’t answer anything. It’s more an observation or description than an explanation. It might carry within its workings the suggestion that no answer exists, or perhaps that one answer is as good as any other…

Once you remove too many of your cousins you may cause a disastrous vacuum, which MUST be replaced by a sufficient number of bricks of cheese or a large enough matrix of non-existent answers.

Cheese is good.

Split Hydrogen Nuclei with Cheese, served on the Electron Half-Shell. Yum. Cuisine con queso for kissin’ cousins, whether removed once, twice, or not at all…

Of course, when you’re splitting the atoms you’ve got to be careful not to cut the cheese, or you’ll remove your cousins and everybody else in the kitchen.

A great many of you make me laugh on a regular basis. Thank you for that great gift!

So instead of nacho chips, he invented fission chips?