On travelling near the Kansas/Nebraska one clear night where you could see horizon to horizon. When we stopped, got out of the car and turned the lights off, the sky was so brilliant it was scary! My sister-in-law would NOT get out of the car.
All the stars indeed. It’s reckoned that there are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on the Planet Earth. THAT’S something to consider…
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the intrepid Spaceman Spiff. His continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no other six year old has gone before.
People from before only had the stars and the moon as light and guidance. Now there’s so much light on the ground, it reflects on the sky and you can barely see the stars anymore.
It is a moving experience to think of all the photons being put out by all those stars, radiating out into space “uselessly” leaving just a few photons left striking my retina safe to look at. And I may be one of the only few intelligent beings (if I do say so myself) to appreciate those stars at the moment I’m looking at them. But now it’s summer and I’m rarely out past dark.
You will be lucky to see on a clear night without the moon and no other light sources somewhere in the number of 4,500 to 5,200 stars in any hemisphere.
BE THIS GUY over 6 years ago
People on Twitter should do what Calvin and Hobbes are doing in the first 3 panels.
The Calvinosaurus That Calvin Wanted To Discover over 6 years ago
It’s just unlucky that everytime Calvin is curious, his parents are never there to see it.
in.amongst over 6 years ago
Genesis of Genesis – " And then Calvin said – Let there be Light! "
codycab over 6 years ago
Calvin must have been expecting a shooting star.
Nachikethass over 6 years ago
Intimations of Immortality? Or is mortality in this case?
whahoppened over 6 years ago
On travelling near the Kansas/Nebraska one clear night where you could see horizon to horizon. When we stopped, got out of the car and turned the lights off, the sky was so brilliant it was scary! My sister-in-law would NOT get out of the car.
Robin Harwood over 6 years ago
As Douglas Adams said, to survive in a universe this size, the one thing you do not need is a sense of proportion.
BigDaveGlass over 6 years ago
Wouldn’t it be fantastic to explore those limetless reach’s instead of just fighting amongst ourselves?
mkd_1218 over 6 years ago
I feel like that sometime, too, Calvin.
Alexander the Good Enough over 6 years ago
All the stars indeed. It’s reckoned that there are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on the Planet Earth. THAT’S something to consider…
A Hip loving Canadian... over 6 years ago
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the intrepid Spaceman Spiff. His continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no other six year old has gone before.
bluram over 6 years ago
And spoil the moment? Must be a city dweller.
jpayne4040 over 6 years ago
Calvin can only take his “Infinite Blackness” in small doses!
Who, me? over 6 years ago
Is this the same boy that toboggans into the chasm of death?
Doug Taylor Premium Member over 6 years ago
Calvin, with the new binoculars your dad got you, you can see Uranus.
bigcatbusiness over 6 years ago
People from before only had the stars and the moon as light and guidance. Now there’s so much light on the ground, it reflects on the sky and you can barely see the stars anymore.
rshive over 6 years ago
The house lights don’t make me feel insignificant.
Lee Cox over 6 years ago
It finally dawned on Calvin that the universe doesn’t revolve around him!
Ermine Notyours over 6 years ago
It is a moving experience to think of all the photons being put out by all those stars, radiating out into space “uselessly” leaving just a few photons left striking my retina safe to look at. And I may be one of the only few intelligent beings (if I do say so myself) to appreciate those stars at the moment I’m looking at them. But now it’s summer and I’m rarely out past dark.
Kawaii~awkward over 6 years ago
The stars, beutiful
BiathlonNut over 6 years ago
Calvin gets it.
Salamurai over 6 years ago
“I’M SIGNIFICANT!”, cried the dust speck
Sailor46 USN 65-95 over 6 years ago
Run Calvin Run, The universe is much wider than your view of it.
Mema Jean over 6 years ago
What, no making a wish?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 6 years ago
You will be lucky to see on a clear night without the moon and no other light sources somewhere in the number of 4,500 to 5,200 stars in any hemisphere.
Snowedin over 6 years ago
That should be hurtling through space, not hurling.
hagarthehorrible over 6 years ago
I like the third panel where both the friends are looking at gross sky with stars aptly drawn by Bill Waterson.