Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 21, 2014

“Let’s go hit Susie with a snowball, instead.”

Oh yes, math is a hard task, the fun going down the hill is enough!!

Hobbes should be glad this isn’t two-man luge.

Math has that effect…. I’m over 70, and still haven’t figured out theproblem of cars starting at different times & speeds – when one willcatch the other up. Or tanks filling at the top and emptying at thebottom [at different rates] – when will the tank be full/empty…. Inever really gave a flying you-know-what. Algebra is a completelyalien ‘language’ which lost me on pag one: basic rules…minus tiimesminus or minus divided by minus = positive. A totally artificialintellectual exercise which is a complete turnoff. An especialstumbling block — no one can explain how you multiply, divide, ordo ANYTHING, a negative number of times.

watmiwori said, about 1 hour ago…Another American who think the Sun revolves around Earth…

Sometimes I’m glad I’m a math geek and find weird problems fun. Recently I estimated how many mini marshmallows you could make out of the giant ‘Stay-puft man’ in Ghostbusters. :)

I would like to know how to stop that stupid randal reed ford from covering my comic page. You cannot even x out of it.

Whoa! Math Rant!

If at a Thanksgiving dinner, you watch the platter of turkey travel around a dinner table, you can understand how a flat earth can revolve around the sun. In this case the sun is a bowl of mashed potatoes.

LOLOl……..

The model of Sun and planets revolving around the earth has a long history from at least Aristotle in Western culture. However, “flat earth” was never a model in Western science. There were pockets of land locked civilizations (like early Babylonian) that had a flat earth model – but it was quickly discarded as soon as they encountered boats on large bodies of water. The size of earth was straightforward to measure from ancient times – the Greeks had a fairly accurate figure.

Note that mechanical (and mathematical) models of Sun and planets revolving around earth were often made, and were just as capable of predicting eclipses and rise and set times and such as Copernican models. To use a Medieval phrase, both models “saved the appearances” of the Sun, stars, and planets. Copernicus was never persecuted, quite the opposite. Galileo was frowned on (by Aristotelians) for claiming that the Copernican model was “true”, and Ptolmeic model “false” – when clearly both “saved the appearances”.

@Sharuniboy…..Thanks….now I’ll go back to bed.

Suddenly for Calvin it’s the destination not the journey.

Math professor laughing here!

My proverbial trains leave Denver not Baltimore.

Maths… Yuck!

xxx

Going 88 feet per second equals 60 MPH(5280 ft per mile divided by 60 seconds per minute = 88 ft/sec)

Thinking gives people a headache. Go with the flow.

Personally, all I know about math is that 2 + 2 = 22.

You’re welcome!