Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 28, 2022

Insignificance is in the eye of the beholder.

Seems like Calvin and Hobbes had a productive day and are having a productive evening.

So Calvin does pay attention. Just not in class, of course.

Lie back in an open field and look up at the stars. Hold on tight because if you don’t you’ll fall into infinite

Rules for thee

People – yes; tigers – no! Tigers already know all the relevant stuff.

Rocks, night skies. What’s the difference? They both have scorpions.

They’re looking at stars now. Better late than never.

Just joined this site, are these just reruns, cause they stopped writing this

We are better, of course. Yesterday a meteorite fell on our country!!

Sad thing is: with all the air pollution in this country, it’s usually impossible to see any stars—unless you get konked on the head!!

Now that I’m on a graveyard shift again, I’ve been looking for a star gazing group. It doesn’t help that my days off are Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights. At least drive-ins are open on Sunday nights.

Sounds like a day well spent.

I remember those times in the summer when my dad used to put us in the back of his truck and we drove around looking at the stars…now most of that area is now suburbs and developments…

Check out the sand at the beach. My, there’s a lot of it…

So what do the STARS do all day?!

I remember lying on a rock along the coast and looking up into the heavens knowing it went on above me to unimaginable distances, and then below me, it went down the same distances and i was caught in between

Makes me think of this:When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,The moon and the stars, which You have set in place;What is man that You think of him,And a son of man that You are concerned about him?

Personally i´m with Zaphod.

He must not live in or near a city where the lights would obscure most of the view.

I have gazed up at the night sky and seen the glory of the stars from the inky darkness in the middle of the ocean. …meh.

This is actually kinda poignant. People in large parts of the world now live their whole lives without ever seeing the stars, much less the awesome sweeping grandeur of the night sky. Light pollution is a terrible thing. Besides robbing us of existential humility and poetry, it messes terribly with migrating birds who get disoriented and exhausted flying over the endless brightness, looking for a dark spot to land. Support “Dark Skies” efforts in your cities, and please choose switchable, capped/shaded down-lights if you need to illuminate your yard. And turn them off when you aren’t using them. The tree tops and clouds really don’t need to see at night. “CBS cares.”

At six, I can’t think of anything more worthwhile than looking under rocks in a creek.

Not Zaphod.

Now the kids of today look deep into their cell phones

Many wonders are there to discover if we open our eyes.

Try to find Orion’s Belt and the winter hexagon for starters

“If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.”

Hobbes reminding Clavin that he, Calvin, is NOT normal.

But there may be neat things under those rocks.

Here’s today’s Astronomy 101 lesson. The outside curve of the Crescent Moon always points towards the Sun; and the Crescent Moon is always within 90° of the Sun in the sky; the thinner the crescent, the closer the two are. When the curve of such a thin crescent as today’s is pointing even slightly upwards, as it is in today’s strip, the Sun must be above the horizon. In which case, it’s daytime: the sky would be bright blue, not black, and no stars would be visible. This often happens in comics, and even TV shows (“Smallville” was terrible about this). I hope you all were taking notes: there’ll be a quiz tomorrow.

Sounds like a day well spent.

You are a speck of dust on this planet which is less than a speck of dust in the universe. Try not to take yourself too seriously.

the crescent moon is wrong, but let’s not get into that again

They are lots of rocks “out there” to look under and over.

Astronomers aren’t sure if the universe is infinite or not. Maybe the multiverse is.

“… pray that there is intelligent life somewhere up in space, ‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth.” – Monty Python

Love the sarcasm of Calvin. He is indomitable.

There is much to learn from the underside of creek bed rocks.

Listen to yourself, Calvin. Learn to know when you’re talking out your other end.