Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 04, 2024

That’s why it’s better to work with apples.

Gravity is a lie. The earth sucks.

No. He just didn’t study law.

Early physicists did get any credit because there were no early historians to write it down for later review. That’s why they call it PRE-historic. ;-)

Due to observation, his first two laws need an addendum *unless acted upon by an outside force.

Saw that kind of rock setting somewhere in AZ or UT. Amazing that with all the traffic and people tramping around, it didn’t just fall. On the other hand, the famous Rainbow Bridge, UT fell some years back. Guess it just got tired of being jogged by camera shutters.

Inertia: something that holds sway in the hog trough on the Potomac and kinda jiggles a bit every 4 years.

History does not record the name of the person who first invented gunpowder, but it’s a pretty safe bet he blew himself to smithereens in the process.

In school, ‘Inertia’ was the snide nickname of ‘the girl who couldn’t help it’.

It’s important to pay attention to where one sits down.

He was great at theory, terrible at situational awareness.

Hmm. Concluding with a comic commentary within the comic seems like a kind of artistic short circuiting.

Another law – in comics, falling rocks (and anything else) will always fall faster than characters can get out of the way.

Sometimes you have to get out of the way of the law.

Eur-eeek-ugh!

Gravity… not just a good idea, it’s the law.

Oh, that’s heavy.

I had no idea that the study of physics was both deadly and hilarious.

More likely, he was thinking “It’s a good thing cows can’t fly”

He discovered the Coma…

If he wanted credit he should have written it down. Chisled it into a rock somewhere

Every action, such as his blissful experience of discovery, has an equal and opposite reaction, such as the blasé response of all the people who could care less.

Geez, even Wiley is doing Henny Youngman jokes these days.

If inertia was understood in this scenario, it would be plain that trivial forces involved in moving a six ounce bird are insufficient to overcome the boulder’s several tons of inertia.

comics about physics violating the physics they’re about. Of course, Non Sequitur isn’t about physics, it’s about us.

My gf has a problem with the second law. She says that she should decide when a body in motion stops not me

lmao!

We think we live in a modern world, but we’re surrounded by things invented so long ago we don’t know who created them. Sure, you’ve got a computer and a TV but almost everything else is ancient. Who invented stairs? We don’t know. Pants? No clue. Carpets? Chairs? Dishes? It’s all a mystery.

“Nothing could be more obvious than that the earth is stable and unmoving, and that we are in the center of the Universe. Modern Western science takes its beginning from the denial of this common-sense axiom.” —Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004) historian, librarian of Congress, 1975-1987

LOL!!!

The first person to do a lame pun deserves no credit.

In Wiley World, the most impressive scientists are the BEARS!

Some like that happened to another scientist, (forgot the name) He was convinced that a pound of feathers would equal a pound of a lead brick, He then had someone drop the feather on his head, and after that the lead brick, He is now interred at the Smithsonian hall of fame for his courage in the face of discovery

Stoned again….. between a rock and hard place…?

He fought the law and the law won.

I’ve become rather upset with Mr. Newton as I have got older. A body at rest tends to stay at rest unless acted on by an outside force. This body has found it hard to find an outside force.

GROAN!

And its opposite, levity.

Somehow, this cartoon seemed to me to be curiously familiar. Then I looked at the copyright date and understood why. This is a repeat from 05Apr2020.

Being brilliant doesn’t necessarily mean you have loads of common sense. Much better to sit under an apple tree than a teetering rock …

This joke was pretty forced. It didn’t quite have the momentum one would expect, in spite of how it seemed to come about as an impulse.

Rocked out to hard.

Just like republicans.

Isaac Newton was smart enough to use apples