Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 08, 2024

The final frontier.

A rerun of Star Trek…..

And there may be other solar systems in other galaxies containing living beings far superior to Earthlings!

Very shallow thinker, are we??!!

You get on the Enterprise (where no man has gone before) and I’ll get in the Enterprise.

i understand this.

Days of Our Lives….

These are the voyages.

That could give you whiplash

So much for the cosmos. Back to Earth.

From the sublime to the ridiculous..

TV, phone home!

Someone should have proof read this. Our star is only about half way to the edge.

" If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."

Douglas Adams

“Dancing with the Stars?”

Enough contemplating about life. Now time to gets back to the idiot box eh.

I’m fortunate in that I live where I often see the Milky Way.

By all means! Stop contemplating existence and just exist! And get some snacks!

There’s a special on at 8pm by Carl Sagan! Maybe Mom will let you stay up a little longer!.

I remember years ago lying on a rock along the coast and looking up at the moon over head. I was thinking how far ‘space’ went on beyond it and then realized it went on just as much behind/below me.

And yet us insignificant particles have split the atom, sent craft outside the solar system, travelled to the moon, created brain surgery (and fruit loops). We have recognized and worship the creator of all too and have free will and reason granted by God to continue to grow as individuals and a species.

Don’t discount humanity.

If I remember correctly from the introduction of one of Bill’s collections, this strip was from his ‘talking heads’ days when he was having trouble drawing due to pain.

Maybe a science show?

And cue “Yakko’s Universe Song” by Randy Rogel (Animaniacs) ( /watch?v=OmfAyK6CeIg ). Sang by Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell and Tress MacNeille.

Really?! At this point you should be in bed LONG ago!

Make the best of your insignificance, Calvin.

Nova.

Priorities ….

Well put …..young man…….Close Encounters of the Third Kind !!!!!!

From the philosophical to the practical . . . just like that.

Star Trek

Typical 6-year old.

lets think of it as a teacup ride at an amusement park. The cup is earth. the earth rotates at 1,000 miles an hour to make a day. It revolves at 67,000 miles an hour to make a year, and the whole galaxy moves at 483,000 miles an hour to make a galactic year. This is why time travel on earth is impossible as you would be no where near the earth lets say when Doc Brown sent his dog 1 minute in the future in that very spot. The dog would miss the spot by 16 and a half mile, the earth would would have moved 1100 miles in space and the galaxy would have moved 716 miles which would place the dog in outer space. No wonder why every one seems dizzy..

We just have to address Fermi’s paradox:

Shipping costs of resources outside one’s own solar system are too high to justify the investment! So only certain authoritarian societies would spend their resources that way, but other civilizations are wise enough to stamp even the slightest hint of authoritarianism out as soon as it arises. Those advocating colonizing outside their own solar system are immediately placed on a ship and put into suspended animation “until it becomes economically feasible.” Shortly thereafter, someone “accidentally” trips over the plug and the rotting mass gets removed after a few days. Which all in all saves a lot of money and resources for more important things, like producing the local version of Calvin and Hobbs.

Calvin must have watched a rerun of the original COSMOS series.

Hurtle…but otherwise I love this!

Lucky kid that he can still make out the Milky Way. In most places where people leave, you can barely discern the Big Dipper, even with a clear sky.

And our own galaxy is but one of billions and let’s not forget the multiverse…

That’s about normal for a kid Calvin’s age….a a focused attention span of about 30 seconds.

His dad would rather have a Snickers bar.

the span of thoughts available to humans is truly … weird.

How about watching Monty Python’s Galaxy Song, Calvin? youtube. com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk

Despite Watterson’s sarcasm via his proxy Calvin, it makes perfect sense to think that one should focus on one’s own happiness rather than constantly focusing on one’s place in the Universe. Individual happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. Those who say otherwise advocate and focus on individual misery.

Well, that contemplated moment passed quickly…

Calvin ponders the sound of one hand clapping.

This is a job for …. Spaceman Spiff!

Just a particle!

I wonder if life on other planets has divided themselves into countries that wage war on each other. No wonder we’re always looking for INTELEGENT life in outer space.

We cannot entertain the concept of infinity for more than a few seconds, although it may seem longer. :)

For a much longer time Man thought he was the center of the universe. We still do, really.

We are stardust ! ;-)

“I wonder what’s on TV now”

Cosmos.

Well, Cavin was channeling Carl Sagan for a minute…:-)

Calvin might as well watch tv. This is a rerun.

Classic C&H – one of my favs.

Knowing your place in the universe doesn’t mean that more banal stuff doesn’t enter your mind.

Nothing like a dose of reality to put everything in perspective.

Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning.