Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for June 26, 2016

way to re-use the same drawing over and over, Tim

Hey, Tim, the science guys have expelled poor Pluto from the league of planets. So you’ll have to find a different example…

If you go anywhere near a neutron star, you’ll be nice and thin. Thinner than a strand of hair.

If you’re going to a planet, you oughtn’t to go to Pluto. As for a neutron star, you’d be torn into shreds by the gravitational difference between your head and your feet.

Interesting comments! I have learned something new. However I need to point out I think he used planet just as a catch all term for the comic as other than Pluto he also included the moon and a star.

The difference between weight and mass. The International Space Station may be weightless due to the lack of gravity, but if you kick it, you’ll still break your foot due to the mass, which is constant.

His mistake was saying “planet”. Our moon is not a planet, nor is Pluto, nor is a neutron star.

On a neutron star, you would at least have a flat stomach. Very flat.

Agreeing with you except that allowing Pluto to be called a planet wouldn’t also add up to half a dozen more planets, it could easily add dozens more planets since they keep discovering Pluto’s siblings.

I was mentally preparing my own reply to Nabby’s typical half-baked comment when I read yours..Yours is better than mine would have been.

Ultimately, a “planet” is whatever we choose to call by that name. We make up definitions later, and pretty much any definition we come up with other than the tautological one (“Planet” is member of the set {Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and formerly Pluto}) is going to exclude some things that “obviously” deserve the name and/or include some things that just as obviously don’t.

Whatever you choose to call it, Pluto has turned out to be a very interesting object.

By the way (weigh?), the “hit your desired BMI by moving to the correct planet” strategy only works if you’re measuring your weight with a spring or strain-gauge type scale. Use the traditional balance-type scale found in a doctor’s office, and you’ll weigh the same on whatever planet, dwarf planet, moon or star you visit.

Doesn’t look to me like he’d weigh about 240 on Earth.

Who says that planets don’t have feelings? Your belongings are sad when you throw them away.

So Cliff is 240 and 5-foot-2?

Always1957….. Duuuuh!