Random drunk observation: “Urinate” is a glorious word. Wouldn't you just love to climb the Swiss Alps and shout that at the top of your lungs, listen to the mountains sing it back to you? UUUUR-INAAAAAA-TIONNNNN!!! Put that on your bucket list. UUUUR-INAAA… Oh wait, my handler is telling me to stop now. I'm losing the audience. Um… um…
'kay bye now.
Oh wait, I should probably explain where this image came from. It's from Call Me Tom's latest and greatest community project, the Drunk Duck 54 Cards. Go check it out and see all your favorite Drunk Duck characters as playing cards. I won't tell you which one, but one of the cards, if you look really close, there's a hidden penis on it. Now you have to go look at all of them. To find the penis.
I only posted two of my entries here, but I actually did four cards for the DD54 project. Click on the thumbnails below to go straight to them.
The Blago character actually doesn't show up in this arc of 'Transneptunian,' which only runs for four chapters. I'm not 100 percent sure when (or even if) I'll get around to the part where he becomes a major plot point, but at any rate it's far enough off in the future that I don't need to think about it much right now.
Aaaaand that's all I got for today. 'kay bye now.
Oh right, and I should also tell you that the first page of the new chapter should be going up on Monday the 29th. Because I said I was going to start posting in February, so I'm waiting until almost literally the last minute. I think the page buffer is healthy enough that I can keep my updates regular-ish for a good while; a few months at the very least.
'kay bye now.
Oh, and also there's a blurb.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. I'm fairly convinced that this is at least half a joke, but apparently there is a movement of people who believe the Earth is actually flat, and science has been lying to us all these centuries… I'm still a bit foggy as to *why* they would engage in a massive cover-up even if the Earth actually did turn out to be flat, but… shit, what am I doing! I'm not supposed to think; that disqualifies me from being a Flat Earther! Here's a graphic of how the REAL planet Earth looks; not the big blue marble you “sheeple” were shown in the classroom.
This whole thing had to have started out as a gag, sort of like that whole Flying Spaghetti Monster thing. But now I think it's kinda like if the guy who created Spaghetti Monster showed up for a Spaghetti Monster meeting one day and the place has been taken over by crazed cultists who believe the Great Pasta is for real. And when he tries to tell them he made it all up, they just kill him and wear his skin like a cape and start dancing naked around a bonfire. It gets pretty dark after that, so I'll end the metaphor there. The point is, it's completely out of control. Here's a disturbing video I saw recently on Youtube. It seems to be sincere, and has respectable production values. Maybe watch it later when you have some spare time and an empty stomach. (Running length 32:02)
Scary stuff, huh? Youtube is littered with videos by these people. We're well into the 21st century, and there are folks out there who honestly believe something that's been known to be bunk since at least the 3rd century BC… something anyone in the ancient world could have figured out just by noticing that ships sailing away disappear over the horizon from the bottom up and ships approaching appear from their sails down… over a horizon which wouldn't be there in the first place if the earth weren't round. This is an important reminder about the importance of education. We're all born with the same brains as cave people. Without institutions to pass on the knowledge we've accumulated over our shared human history, it won't take us long to revert to beating each other with mammoth bone clubs.
I guess I should say something science-y now. Well, if you have any doubts, yes the Earth is definitely round. Even if somehow we were able to create a flat Earth, gravity would cause it to collapse into a molten ball, and you'd end up with something round… just like all the other planet-sized objects we see in the sky. That's just how the internal dynamics of a planetary mass object behave; large enough accretions of material will always naturally organize into a spherical shape because that is the most stable gravitational arrangement. It's a state called hydrostatic equilibrium. There's no agreed-upon limit at which an object can no longer maintain its irregular shape and has to become a spheroid; the smallest spherical object in the solar system – Saturn's moon Mimas – is only 397 kilometers across… though it's not truly in full hydrostatic equilibrium. To be clear though, a planet in hydrostatic equilibrium won't necessarily be perfectly round; they usually take on the shape of an oblate spheroid – a bit fatter around the “belly” area because their spinning motion causes them to bulge a bit. Some of the ones with extremely fast rotations may even end up with egg shaped or scalene shapes… but even those aren't flat.
Some of your more sophisticated flat earthers are aware of this inconvenient truth, so they've come up with an interesting explanation… gravity doesn't exist. You see, we sheeple only think we're being held down by the force of gravity… but in reality, we're on a giant flat planet that's constantly accelerating upward at 9.8 meters per second squared, which simulates gravity… but there is no gravity. Duh!
As an ad hoc argument, this actually does explain some things very nicely… but it also un-explains why the moon orbits the Earth as it does, and the motion of the planets and everything else in the sky, and why all the other big stuff up there seems to be molded into ball shapes by gravity but for some reason our planet isn't… You actually end up with a lot more unexplained than before if you accept that explanation. It is the worst explanation ever given. Ultimately, if you believe we're all living on a flat pancake hurtling upwards through space, then you need to also believe that everything else in the cosmos has been orchestrated to appear as though the laws of gravity actually do exist and work just fine everywhere outside of Earth. In other words, you would need to be insane.
That blurb went on kinda long, so I think that's a safe place to end it. Did anyone actually read that? Hmm, do I have anything else to say here? No? No.
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