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Never stop learning

lba

on Aug. 4, 2008

This one makes three comics in a row about discoveries and falling objects. For some strange reason, those two subjects have just fascinated me lately ( In that I'm making quite the number of technique-related discoveries and everyone around me seems to have lost their balance all at the same time giving me ideas. ). And while I haven't thrown anyone off of a cliff recently, I am rather curious about how big of a splatter a human being would make. While I know that someone out there has calculated that an average human being would cover about six square feet, I'm beginning to feel compelled to test this conclusion myself with a real experiment rather than an equation. Because we all know that unless you can prove it and reproduce it, it's not scientific evidence ( That's reason #345 why quantum physics probably isn't actually science along with all their crazy talk of moving through walls and whatnot. I know that's BS. I've tried. ). So I aim to prove it and then reproduce my findings in a real world experiment using various landing surfaces. My plan is to gather together various sorts of the world's most undesirable and obnoxious celebrities to ensure that my project gets healthy media coverage, and then systematically hurl them off of large cliffs and observe whether or not they explode on impact ( With skinny celebrities like say, Carrot Top, I'm not expecting much splatter, but I hope to determine whether or not they might bounce. ). Basically, my plan is to do two good things with one experiment. Not only will we definitively prove that gravity exists and average people cover about 6 feet of earth when properly spread like butter, but we'll dispose of some of our most offensive celebrities like Avril Lavigne. That sounds like a win-win proposition to me. And if I have any leftovers, I'm sure we can solve the age old question of whether or not witches float.

With concrete blocks tied around their ankles of course. We all know anybody can float normally.

And while I forgot this yesterday; if you have yet to vote in the Drunk Duck Awards, go and do so! The nominations are only open for a little bit longer and every vote makes a difference between it being a flop and it being awesome.

And lastly, even though I hat to do it. From Thursday, August 14 to Monday, August 18, ( Hopefully, at most you'll not be missing anything more than two strips because of the weekend in there. ) I will not likely have any new comics up since I'll be preparing to move from my current location to another location ( It's so secret, I don't even know where I'm going.). So while I'm moving for school and whatnot, Last Words will most likely be on small break for that short period. As much as I would prefer to have a buffer to get us all through that time, it's not looking like that will happen. But I will see what I can manage to make the down time as short as possible.