Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for February 16, 2022

The Universe is Curved said Fred, an Astronomer noted and read. This Scope has such Power, I’ve just spent an Hour observing the Back of my Head.

Don’t waste your time fella. Hubble & James Web will do the work for you.

Just figure out where you don’t think it is and look there first.

Yeah, because you don’t look anymore after you find it. DUH!

Actually, one of the best ways to spot stuff is by “blink comparison” in which you look at photos of the same spot in the sky taken at different times. Things that move relative to Earth show up in different spots on the two photos. As you flip back and forth, those things appear to blink, hence the name.

Of course it’s always in the last place you look. Why ever would people keep looking for something they’ve found?

I always leave the place where it is, for last. Where’s the fun in finding it straight off.

Eh, maybe Mr. James Webb can helps ya.

Of course it is, cause it’d be stupid to find something and keep looking…

Just like when you find your car keys…

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe.”

Great discovery! In your honor, we’re going to name it after your SS#; M-321-76-4421

Go ahead. Keep looking. Maybe you’ll find your car keys.

I’ve always took that expression to mean in the last place you’d THINK to look. Because whatever has been lost is never in the normal places it might be. Recently lost a puzzle piece. You’d think it would be under the table, on the floor, on the chair. Nope, under a chest 4 feet away.

I think most things are in the last place you look – if you keep looking after you find it, well, that would be stupid – come to think of it, a lot of people probably keep looking

The further distant a galaxy is, the older it is… not newer.

Of course professional telescopes are reflectors not refractors, they never reach out thru the slot and they are used to take photos. No one looks thru them anymore. Yes I know its a comic, but…

OK, I need to run a course for cartoonists: “How to draw a telescope at an observatory with a dome.” Rule one: the telescope does NOT extend past the open shutter of the dome.

Keys, cell phones, and universes all have that in common

It’s not really new. It’s been there for billions of years….

Glad to find this tidbit out! I am being educated and amused at the same time. To think my wife says I am wasting my time with this comic strip.

It’s always in the last place you look because once you find it, you stop looking

In the case of the Hubble Deep Field image, you first point the telescope at nothing, and discover 3,000 galaxies. Then you do it again, in another direction, and find more galaxies. A third time, with improved technology and imaging, you find 10,000 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image. Each time we look at nothing the universe keeps getting larger.

https://www.bryanbraun.com/2011/01/23/the-most-important-image-ever-taken/

I always look in the last place first. It saves time.

Had a high school teacher we called Blinky because he did constantly.

Yup… because when you found it, you quit looking.

The reason that it’s always in the last place you look is because after you find it, you quit looking for it.