Frank and Ernest by Thaves for October 22, 2024

Rory made the same observation six years ago⠄⠄⠄

gocomics.Com/thebarn/2018/10/09

Yet I have to run uphill in the local park to find running water on the surface. It’s all underground where I live this time of year after a long dry summer.

they didn’t need to anyway, water runs down hill.

Nursery Rhyme Physics is similar to Comic Physics.

Is that Neil deGrasse Tyson, as a kid?

He said the H word.

the well was on top of the hill

“Water seeks its own level”

They say a plumber only needs to know 3 things: hot is on the left, cold is on the right and stuff flows downhill.

F&E did this very same one back on 6/7/03. I have it on my fridge. I’ll put this one next to it…somehow

Those early physics classes are working.

IF the hill is only the foothill of a larger mountain, then the water comes from higher up, and would be cleaner than anything fetched from down below. . . . It’s a possibility.

The illustration in my picture book made it clear: The well was on the top of a hill.

And surprisingly, wells are in fact often at the top of a hill. Geohydrodynamics can seem weird sometimes.

Assuming there is a well at the top of the hill, and assuming the well is no more than 40 feet deep, then yes, the hydrodynamics works. Of course, there could be other scenarios, i.e. a lake, a river or stream. How big is this hill and how far does it extend? Could we get some clarification from the author? Okay then, according to Google, the author was Charles Burney in 1777 or James William Elliott in 1870 or Alfred James Caldicott in 1878. So much for clarification.

Perhaps that is where the town water tower was located, with an access spigot.

It is if the water supply is a pond that is above the level of the house. And as to the tumbling, it’s just something kids do for fun.

OMG, never realized! duhhhh

It’s not a hydrodynamics story, it’s a gravity exploration.

“Jack and JillWent up the hill,Jack came down with a smileAnd Jill came down with a buck.” A poem by my 8th grade French teacher.

Little ditty ’bout Jack and Diane… oops wrong reference.

These days, fetching water is beyond the pail.

Ugh. I just thought about that horrible Adam Sandler movie. The only good thing about it was Al Pacino being in it.

If it were a lower hill, with neighboring higher hills, the geological formations could produce an artesian well on the lower hill.

It wouldn’t work gravity wise, for them to go down into a valley and fall upward.