FoxTrot by Bill Amend for April 18, 2021

Umm. Probably not the right voltage. Which I’m SURE both those kids understand.

Hi

Can’t charge a battery (or any other device) with static electricity.

If Peter’s phone gets fried (either by short circuit from either too much rain soaking it or it gets struck by lightning), a new one is coming out of Jason’s allowance.

Maybe it would work if you tied all the kites to a small metal piece and stuck it into the charging port

Possibly left out a key ingredient.

Maybe waterproof, but not foolproof.

Do you have it hooked up directly to the phone’s flux capacitor?

I would think Jason would know (or at least suspect) that this is more of an experiment to see what kind of damage/destruction lightning would do to a cellphone.

You are probably using a non-conductive kite line. Plus the Cell-Phone’s exterior is usually made of non-conductive stuff, so the phone is not grounded too.

Today’s classic Sunday strip we’re missing:

https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/1999/08/15

I’m getting my doggo today! :)

The phone’s probably dead by now…

I can only imagine what Peter will do to Jason when he finds out…

Well, it’s either too soaked to function, or already fried from the lightning.

I’m more interested in how they’re able to keep so many kites together and still in stable flight whilst in a full-on thunderstorm, without having to work to guide the kites manually.

Stupidest genius ever.

Are we grateful there were no smartphones in Ben Franklin’s day?

They forgot to put keys on the kites!

Sometimes common sense out smarts high intelligence, Jason.

Sorry, that phone requires a proprietary charger.

none of those strings are connected to the charge port, this is like trying to recharge it by setting a battery down on the screen.

Not long ago someone actually looked up Dr Franklin’s account of the kite in the electrical storm, and noted that it’s all in subjunctives: (paraphrasing) “if one were to fly a kite in a lightning storm with a wire attached to, say, an iron key, and if one could handle it through an open window, it should be possible to ascertain whether lightning is electricity”, etc. etc. He doesn’t actually say he did any such thing. (And a good thing, too; everyone who’s actually tried it has come to grief, as in, being killed.)

You’ll probably need a surge protector.

Frankenphone.

I don’t think so……

Guys, you forgot to attach a key to the kites.

Next time try copper wire.

So he doesn’t understand technology?

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I don’t think it is jason

Maybe if they used Copper wire to fly the kites instead of string, it might work?

That phone has to be heavier than a brick to hold all those kites.

Nicola Tesla invented wireless transmission, wireless, guys.

@bonky fact: you are reading my username matching pfps lol

Do you have a water proof phone anyone? Is there a water proof phone?

I hope so

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