Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 15, 2009

Planet Calvin may be in for a thermonuclear explosion…

That would get you A+ when you get to school Calvin, if you can remember it till then !

Calvin the solar eclipse!

Jump on mom, Calvin!!!

Thats a friendly looking planet to do something mean like that.

Tht’s the meanest planet, patching up with the destructive part of nature all time..keep it on some has to do it and we love seeing u do it.

Don’t touch the lamp to long Calvin or your planet may incinerate into nothing but ashes.

Calvin, move or you might find yourself in a different orbit.

With Calvin the Planet that close to Earth, I’d be more worried about the tidal effects. :)

how come when calvin morphs himself into something…hobbes is not in sight ne whr.

So there is a black hole between earth and the sun.

Now I understand what “mother earth” means :o)

Hmmm, Calvin stays between the Sun and Mom….Looks the the Sun will cause a very hot backside on the planet soon. See…simple physics.

Simple physics is that a planet can’t keep another planet in eclipse. It must move faster than a planet further away from the sun in order to maintain its orbit. Calvin either needs to get out of mom’s light or he’s going to plummet into the lamp.

mroberts88 - it’s probably the sudden exposure to the Sun’s heat which altered that once ‘friendly looking’ planet.

The physics aspect of the analogy can be carried too far, even by the author. It’s not a ‘total solar eclipse’; it’s Planet Calvin’s shadow. I suppose we can call it some form of poetic license. Anyway, sit up straight, Mom! Calvin might give you a hug around the back of the neck. NOT! More likely, it would be a choke hold!

The Fiend!

planet earth is in for a hug filled with love

Calvin, enjoy being a planet while you’re young, for when you grow older you’ll probably develope a bad case of asteroids….

Margueritem: Your sad picture makes me think of best friend of mine, who died last year and who must look now in this way. In my thought he is alive, I speak with him, as he would be alive and this picture makes me so very sorry! In my thoughts he is not dead, and this picture puts death before my eyes and makes it real, so very final!!

The addition of another planet into that small a solar system will cause tidal changes on the “Mom” planet and she will explode from the stress.

As Calvin is about to discover.

After the supermarket t-rex, I bet mom is on a REALLY short fuse.

Anything to irritate the parents. lol

He’s not touching the lamp ladywolf17.

RussellNash, “simple physics” does not apply in cartoons.

He needs his mom. Everything but the twinkies.

The longer the eclipse lasts, the faster bedtime will come.

I said: He needs his mom. Everything but the twinkies.

I’d suggest that Calvin get a book of his own to read but he doesn’t need one. He makes up his own stories so well.

Well, at some early point Calvin was a god - one of the old kind (as he put it) that threw humans into fiendish torments for the sheer whimsy of it. His parents were watching him play and noted that he was creating his own worlds. Indeed.

Calvin the Pagan God? Kinda hard to top that, unless it’s by the amusing spectacle of Calvin creating his Good Twin using a variation of his Transmogrifier.

I think Planet Calvin needs a couple photon torpedos accross the stern

Looks like things are about to ‘flare up’, hehe

Shouldn’t Cal be reclassified as a ‘dwarf planet’, like Pluto?

@rave haha good one. asteroids!

Planet Calvin is about to find out that Mom is a solar flair that is going to reach waaaay out and incinerate Planet Calvin (and of course there will be the obligatory magnetic storm accompanying that).

This makes me so sad, how can Calvin breathe out there? He should be careful. It reminds me of when I was “shrouded in darkness” a few years ago, and my friend Laura showed me the light.

Calvin’s mum is so lazy, shouldn’t she be washing or cleaning?

Calvin you phosphorous brain! Don’t you know you could zorb into intergalactica with that kind of planet talk? ALMlovesCalvin I think you’re a misogynist

Lazz4Hobbes4EVA, i think Calvin’s planet is in conjunction with mars so he will be safe, don’t worry. Unless an asteroid heads for the earth’s atmosphere, in which case he is screwed.

Planet Calvin better move soon, or he’ll encounter the Black Hole of Mom.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson

To get different icons you download somewhere on the internet. I thought about one for mine without giving me away. I think Marguer is in halloween icon. I try to have imnigination but mine is not like Calvin’s thankfully. Mom you need to keep your son busy.

Calvin must be putting himself into an elliptical solar orbit to stay stable between the sun and the earth. But I agree with an earlier note that I would be more concerned about tidal effects than a blackout.

hahahahahahaha kid with a huge ego and imagination

Someone’s about to get his little asteroid paddled.

Calvin had better watch out planet mom doesn’t launch something at him to see if it kicks up signs of water.

All parents want their kids to be creative and have a great imagination… until that imagination is used on them.

this is more believable that the story line in the movie MOON starring sam rockwell

Moms can’t clean and cook all the time. It’s hard to find any time for yourself, especially with a kid like Calvin. However, I think maybe bookworms don’t make good parents. Ask my kids.

Bookworms are certainly not good perents!

green engineer, that may be it. I think that planet is going to get hot soon, considering the sun is right there.

“Move please” first then , move please or , then it’s a hot time on the young eclipsing full moon , let there be light .

Thats got to be fun

Russell’s “simple physics” fails to take into account that the intervening planet may be less dense than the eclipsed planet. If less dense, the inertia required to keep it in orbit would also be correspondingly less, so the speed of its orbit could be such that it matched the eclipsed planet’s orbit. This explanation has been sponspored by Joe Allen Doty, and the letters N A S and A.

LX013, it’s an icon for Halloween. I’m sorry to hear about your friend, and how much you miss him. Keep your good thoughts of him in your heart.

MisngNOLA said, about 4 umbras ago

‘Russell’s “simple physics” fails to take into account that the intervening planet may be less dense than the eclipsed planet. If less dense, the inertia required to keep it in orbit would also be correspondingly less, so the speed of its orbit could be such that it matched the eclipsed planet’s orbit. This explanation has been sponspored by Joe Allen Doty, and the letters N A S and A.’

Unfortunately, the orbital speed depends on the total mass of the system, that is, the main body plus the satelite. In most cases, that is basically the central body, since the moon or satellite is so much smaller in mass–so the orbital speed is basically independent of the satellite mass or density.

On the other hand, I love Calvin’s evil laugh in panel 4…

hmmmmm i suppose if he continues, the army will start firing attacks at him… . .

Now Calvin…..go to sleep !!:-)

Planet Calvin is very cute!

bmonk, your assessment is correct if the assumption is that the intervening body is a satellite of the eclipsed body. I went on the assumption that both were orbiting the sun. Isn’t physics fun?