Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 21, 2021

Tides don’t jerk, they flow.

How can you tell? the differences are miniscule.

So, is he suggesting that Mrs Olsen is a blob?

True-ish. But don’t forget solar tides!

Most eight-year-olds think Tide is what their mother uses after they played in the mud.

and you don’t want to know what he’s talking about___

Michael Joseph Jackson

More difficult to explain is the fact that there is a tidal bulge on the opposite side to the moon….

Information is one thing. Application is another

There are some who have suggested that the moon may cause tides in the water in the cells of our bodies.

It’s large scale distribution of stuff like this that make teaching so hard.

The “pulled the ocean sideways” theory is exactly what textbooks contained in the ’50s. Science marches on.

Frazz should know that the Great Lakes have tides.

It’s more complicated than that.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBwNadry-TU

I once watched a video conjecturing what might have happened to the Earth if it had never had the moon. It figured that days would be eight hours long (the moon has been gradually slowing the Earth’s rotation speed), the planet’s tilt would vary wildly (the moon helps keep it constant), resulting in extreme seasonal changes, and life might never have even formed (it’s theorized that tides are what brought land-formed chemicals into the ocean to eventually form amino acids).

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And of course, we’d never have a song about when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie.

Well, it turns out it’s not that simple. In the first place, in most places there are two tides a day. And in some places there is only one. The Mediterranean Sea doesn’t have tides, but some lakes have weak imitations thereof, and even in the Med. the Adriatic has weak tidal behavior (which is actually what makes Venice inhabitable). The 11th ed. of the Encyclopedia Britannica, noted for its long articles on Humanities subjects, has pages and pages of partial differential equations accounting, fairly exhautively, for tidal action.

I’m gratified to know that I’m not the only adult who reads the funnies(!), as my husband thinks! And many of you are so much more educated than am I! (definitely not sarcasm!) Thanks

Shout out to Providence!

As he said, they don’t live on a coast so the tide table is not useful there.

Hoo boy. Another fat joke.