“Do you know like we were saying, about the earth revolving? It’s like when you’re a kid, the first time they tell you that the world is turning and you just can’t quite believe it ‘cause everything looks like it’s standing still. I can feel it… the turn of the earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour. The entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour. And I can feel it. We’re falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world. And, if we let go … " – The Doctor (#9)
Here are phrases that require a prompt setting straight of the record: “just the flu”, “only the flu”, “flu, nothing serious”. The great influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more people in 6 months (est. 25 million) than all of World War 1 did in 4 years. Nobody should ever take the flu lightly.
I remember watching newsreels from the Apollo space program PR department where NASA would put the astronaut candidates in these devices that would spin them every which way to prepare them to handle the vertigo. And I remember reading the exquisite Mary Roach’s book “Packing for Mars” and learning that, nope, there’s really no preparing for it, the vertigo is going to make your life miserable up there. And I remember The Galaxy Song from Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life” about “just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour,” and I wonder why they get dizzy in space and not down here.
But I don’t wonder what the best song ever written about astronomy was.
Frazz by Jef Mallett for Nov 28, 2017 | GoComics.com
jaxxm almost 7 years ago
I sense another hit song for Frazz
whiteheron almost 7 years ago
♫♪ flute intro……
I live on a big round ball,
I never do dream I may fall.And even on day if I do,
Well, I’ll jump off and smile back at you.
don’t even know where we are,They tell you we’re circling a star
Well, I’ll take their word, I don’t know
But I’m dizzy so it may be so.Jesse Winchester.
Uncle Bob almost 7 years ago
Time to dust off the ole double integrals and figure out where you’re going!
DutchUncle almost 7 years ago
“Do you know like we were saying, about the earth revolving? It’s like when you’re a kid, the first time they tell you that the world is turning and you just can’t quite believe it ‘cause everything looks like it’s standing still. I can feel it… the turn of the earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour. The entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour. And I can feel it. We’re falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world. And, if we let go … " – The Doctor (#9)
sandpiper almost 7 years ago
Anybody would rather be just dizzy rather than have flu. Hugging the porcelain fountain is never a fun choice.
Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Here are phrases that require a prompt setting straight of the record: “just the flu”, “only the flu”, “flu, nothing serious”. The great influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more people in 6 months (est. 25 million) than all of World War 1 did in 4 years. Nobody should ever take the flu lightly.
AndrewSihler almost 7 years ago
I don’t mean to be pedantickall, but dammit, the earth does not “revolve” around the sun, it ORBITS it.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 7 years ago
Frazz
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I remember watching newsreels from the Apollo space program PR department where NASA would put the astronaut candidates in these devices that would spin them every which way to prepare them to handle the vertigo. And I remember reading the exquisite Mary Roach’s book “Packing for Mars” and learning that, nope, there’s really no preparing for it, the vertigo is going to make your life miserable up there. And I remember The Galaxy Song from Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life” about “just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour,” and I wonder why they get dizzy in space and not down here.
But I don’t wonder what the best song ever written about astronomy was.
Frazz by Jef Mallett for Nov 28, 2017 | GoComics.com
Stephen Gilberg almost 7 years ago
For a living? I thought Frazz made enough from songs that he could retire if he wanted.
Masterskrain almost 7 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DufMJosYmJs
Corey Cohen almost 7 years ago
I just came off a three day bout of the flu and I had no nausea.