I hope you noticed, the current A&J strips a couple of weeks back were about space travel and the planets, including our own. I tried to convey, in what I hoped was an amusing way, the simple point that it would be easier, cheaper and a far better gamble to take care of our own comfortable planet instead of counting on space travel to save our bacon should Earth “become uninhabitable” in the future. Of course, I was excoriated by some for “getting political.” It’s inevitable this day and time. Here’s another “political” cartoon from way back in 1993. I mean, weren’t you taught to save money and not borrow recklessly? Arlo and Janis, where we court controversy fearlessly.
66 responses to “It’s the stupid economy!”
On Monday we had a good thunderstorm with much needed rain. Last night, for the first time since the 7th, we had clear skies in the evening, so I got out the telescope so I could look at the crescent moon and quickly discovered the downside to summer evening viewing: Mosquitos 🙁
So, the next clear evening without other duties, I’m driving out into the desert or checking out the higher elevations.
Thank you, Jean dear. You can be vice president of my fan club, now that I know I have one. 🙂
I bet we can get a secretary and treasurer too and maybe a parlimentarian?
Our educational system continues to fail us, or something…(Part 3)
Yes, math is hard. And requires students to think. Which apparently some feel they should no longer be taught to do.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/algebra-is-not-racist-dont-get-rid-of-it/article/2629339
Why would students believe they need to think when your elected leadership in DC is proof that the uneducated can run an entire nation?
The best education in the world can’t compensate for lack of common sense.
And economics is theory, not fact. At least that’s what I was taught when I took some. So it is always in flux and you can’t pin the creators of the theories down when they are proven wrong.
Rick, yes it is a rerun. A funny rerun, however.
Run? Run into the ground. emb
If Edda got pregnant last night, she won’t know who the father is.
http://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane
A miss is as good as a smile?
How about a near-hit from a rock about the same size as the one that created the hole in Meteor Crater AZ?
http://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2017-oo1-close-pass-undetected
It came from the sunward side of our planet so we only saw it leaving.
Yes she would because nothing happened between Edda & Seth
Read July 25
Lord, don’t breath any life into Edda and her lo e life. Just let that lay there dead.
Just saw headline on my news feed that the comics industry is dead. That strip is.
Ghost and I agree that Seth, the openly gay guy,
has more trouble deciding whether or not he is gay than any gay guy we have ever known. He just keeps sleeping with ballerinas and having sex with women.
Make up your mind already!
On way back from physical therapy in Tulsa. Going to wellness center so Ghost ca.n exercise. I can ride bike some more and get in pool after galloping senior water aerobics class vacates water.
De gustibus …
I have seen serious mentions in the press that some earth scientists are worried that we need to develop space travel because the usual geological processes will make the Earth uninhabitable in a billion years or so.
My boss’s sister is seriously concerned that a black hole will destroy us. I wonder what name that phobia would go by?
If one were heading our way astronomers would be aware of its effects on other star systems many, many light years away.
Two words: “Lucifer’s Hammer”.
Dictionary.com Word of the day:
Autarky (or autarchy), noun
1. the condition of self-sufficiency, especially economic, as applied to a nation.
2. a national policy of economic independence.
Interesting concept.
Steve:
This afternoon, I was able to see “2005” on the comic in my local paper. I just checked the online strip, and it’s there, too.
I’m glad Jimmy ran it.
It’s a classic.
Dale, True that Earth will be uninhabitable / in a billion years [we probably will make it uninhabitable sooner] from natural causes. Ordinary dwarf stars like Sol have H-fusing lives of 8-14 billion years or so but, for physical reasons that astrophysicists understand [and probably explain online], they fuse H atoms faster as they use them up, so become hotter with age. This means that their ‘Goldilocks zone’, where rocky planets can have liquid water on the surface, expands outward over billions of years. We are fairly near the inner edge of that zone now. In a billion years, Sol will boil off any liquid water from Earth. In another 4 BY, Sol will become a red giant and make Earth a cinder.
Perspective. A billion years ago [BYA], life was mostly confined to the seas, was all unicellular, some of them nucleated, some not. 700-600 million years ago [MYA], the first multicellular invertebrate animals showed up. Around 520 MYA, weird and not-so-weird invertebrates, some belonging to phyla that still abound, showed up. First vertebrate jawless fishes maybe 450 MYA. First tetrapods [4-limbed] land vertebrates maybe 400 MYA. [These ## are from memory; don’t have a geologic time table in front of me.] First critters I’d classify as true mammals maybe 290 MYA. [There is general agreement among paleomammalogists about the overall sequence, but dispute about the criteria for distinguishing highly derived therapsids from true mammals.] By the time of the late Cretaceous [63 MYA], when all or most dinosaurs went extinct, the common small land vertebrates were mammals. First primates shortly thereafter, maybe 55 MYA. First hominids [= other apes + us] maybe 7 MYA. Genus Homo, perhaps 2 MYA, modern humans, H. sapiens, maybe 500,000. Writing: less than 10,000. Science as presently understood, 500 or so. Moon landing: during our lifetimes.
We have plenty of time, unless we descend again to an age of superstition [many have not left it, and I’m not singling out religion. Church is one of my major activities.] Whether we have the wisdom to achieve a substantially sustainable habitat here and then to support the necessary effort to achieve interplanetary and interstellar travel is possible, but maybe unlikely.
Peace,
http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2017/07/feeling_poorly_20_southern_phr.html#incart_m-rpt-2
I immediately remembered the “alarm clock” cartoon, due to the impact it had on me when it was originally published. And yes, the others this week are reruns. From what I’ve been able to gather over the years, this week’s cartoons would have been drawn during the week of July 2nd, which it seems Jimmy may have taken off for the Independence Day holiday.
I thought “hitch in her git-along” described the intriguing motion of a taut and tightly-clad female derriere when the female is walking away from one. As the Trace Adkins song goes, “We hate to see her go but love to watch her leave.”
Or as Bob Seger said, “They all love to watch her strut.”