Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for May 16, 2010

You did have to mention Uranus and rings, didn’t you?

Saturn’s density is 0.687 times that of water. Instead of floating like a beach-ball as illustrated, it would float with more than 2/3 of its volume submerged.

Tim Rickard seems to have thought the gag, “Saturn would float in a big enough tub, but it would leave a ring!” as not worthy of the intellectual level of this strip.

Just in case anyone’s listening to Doctor Mel, Saturday was not named after the planet!

Saturn doesn’t have merely 60 moons. There are billions of them, collectively known as Saturn’s Rings.

… lousy breakfast cereal… yeah, too much hydrogen. Not enough sugar.

Poor Tim, he’s got the know-it-all patrol all over his little strip…including me! In addition to what everyone else pointed out, Jupiter’s ring is vertical.

… but good for diabetics to eat for breakfast!

they used to make pretty good cars for a while there, though

“Saturn makes great breakfast cereal.”

Newenglandah–I believe what Robina meant was that both the planet and the day were named after the god

And, Poolside, Jupiter’s ring isn’t vertical, but Uranus has a vertical ring because its axis is tilted horizontally. (OK, now everybody start with the jokes.)

Newenglandah: Maybe that last day is really “Satyr’s Day”; when the work week ends, everybody says “Thank god this friggin’ day’s over” and they start carrying on like satyrs.

I don’t get it - if the days of the week were named after planets, we would have nine days in a week - right?

Well, except now, Pluday would be gone - there went the weekend!

There used to be a tub big enough for Saturn, on Mount Olympus. But another god kept using it.

“Hey, get Uranus out of that tub!”

But does Uranus stay crunchy in milk?

In antiquity there were seven visible “planets” including the Sun and the Moon, plus Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus and Neptune, let alone Pluto, were unknown, because they can’t be seen by the naked eye.

These planets weren’t “named after” gods, they were worshipped AS gods. On a level which I don’t pretend to understand (yet), their anthropomorphic forms and their astral forms were essentially two aspects of the same deities.

So in shorthand, yes, “Saturn is where we get the name ‘Saturday’.” Saturn was a god, whose astral form was the seventh visible “planet”.

Sunday, Monday, Happy Days…