2013-01-15
Original: 2013-01-15 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic (a physics exam problem with a handwritten student answer):
Printed problem text:
Problem 2 (30 points)
A 5 kilogram ball is shot directly right at 20 meters per second from a height of 10 meters. The ball loses 1 joule whenever it touches Earth. Assume no air resistance. When does the ball stop bouncing?
Handwritten student answer:
If there is no air, the surface of the Earth will be littered with the bodies of the dead. So, the ball will come to a halt in the first still-warm husk of a snuffed-out life it encounters.
Thus, the equation is simply
y = y_0 + v_0 t + 1/2 a t^2
0 = 10 + 0 + 1/2 (9.8) t^2
t = 1.4 s
You monster.
Votey:
Two people are shown close together. One person (with spiky/short hair, hugging the other) says: "THAT WAS EASIER TO DRAW THAN A GRAPH JOKE!"
The other person replies: "FUCK YOU"
Printed problem text:
Problem 2 (30 points)
A 5 kilogram ball is shot directly right at 20 meters per second from a height of 10 meters. The ball loses 1 joule whenever it touches Earth. Assume no air resistance. When does the ball stop bouncing?
Handwritten student answer:
If there is no air, the surface of the Earth will be littered with the bodies of the dead. So, the ball will come to a halt in the first still-warm husk of a snuffed-out life it encounters.
Thus, the equation is simply
y = y_0 + v_0 t + 1/2 a t^2
0 = 10 + 0 + 1/2 (9.8) t^2
t = 1.4 s
You monster.
Votey:
Two people are shown close together. One person (with spiky/short hair, hugging the other) says: "THAT WAS EASIER TO DRAW THAN A GRAPH JOKE!"
The other person replies: "FUCK YOU"
Alt text
A physics exam question reads: 'Problem 2 (30 points). A 5 kilogram ball is shot directly right at 20 meters per second from a height of 10 meters. The ball loses 1 joule whenever it touches Earth. Assume no air resistance. When does the ball stop bouncing?' Below, a student has written in by hand: 'If there is no air, the surface of the Earth will be littered with the bodies of the dead. So, the ball will come to a halt in the first still-warm husk of a snuffed-out life it encounters.' The student then writes 'Thus, the equation is simply' followed by the kinematics formula y = y0 + v0*t + (1/2)a*t^2, plugs in '0 = 10 + 0 + (1/2)(9.8)t^2' and solves 't = 1.4 s'. At the very bottom is written 'You monster.' The joke: the no-air-resistance assumption is taken to a morbid extreme. In the votey aftercomic, a cartoon person hugging another beams and says 'THAT WAS EASIER TO DRAW THAN A GRAPH JOKE!', and the other person flatly replies 'FUCK YOU.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.