If only Hobbes was there to help Calvin. I’m sure he could have gotten the test finished much faster. Accuracy, on the other hand, wouldn’t necessarily be the main priority.
I have to empathize with Calvin here. I never experienced time going by so fast as I did a looooong time ago in college when taking some of my exams in physics and organic chemistry.
ANOTHER, trip to the Principal’s Office for Calvin—wouldn’t surprise me if there is a chair just outside of the door that has Calvin’s name on it ! ! !
To be clear, both would be destroyed, if they hit hard enough to destroy either, and millions of years later we would have a new planet coalesce from the remains. But, you could, potentially, drag them together slow enough that they would just join and eventually gravity would tug them into a new sphere in the upcoming millions of years.
When one of my children was about 7 years old his school called in a neurological phsychiatrist to explain some of his behaviors. The doctor’s first comments were that he was extremely bright (knew that already, gets it from his mom) and that he was likely to end up as the next Albert Einstien or Genghis the Khan. The doctor seemed a bit non-plussed when my instinctive reation was “and?” All turned out well, a great relationship with the doctor and the son a very successful applied scientist.
codycab about 2 months ago
Calvin is better off breaking stuff for a living.
californiamonty about 2 months ago
It looks more like the first problem finished you, Calvin.
STEPUP about 2 months ago
It’s okay, he’ll just repeat the grade until he gets it!!!
snsurone76 about 2 months ago
I thought Calvin was running away from home in light of that parent-teacher conference. What happened??
hariseldon59 about 2 months ago
Nice to see Watterson using ‘lose’ and ‘loose’ correctly. Unlike a lot of people posting online.
Robin Harwood about 2 months ago
I I hope no one lived on those planets.
BigDaveGlass about 2 months ago
Now you have to pay for having a spiffing time……
sandpiper about 2 months ago
Being the first problem is difficult enough. Now there’s math.
PaulLeckner about 2 months ago
If this were not just a cartoon comic, Calvin’s parents would need to enroll him in an afterschool tutoring program to raise his grades.
Jayalexander about 2 months ago
He scratched and pocketed the cue ball.
Gent about 2 months ago
Obveeously spaceman spiff is experiencing time dilation effects from that near light speed space travel.
einarbt about 2 months ago
Calvin just taking math to a different level :)
The Reader Premium Member about 2 months ago
Planetary scale problems take longer to solve.
Rasslebear about 2 months ago
I love how Calvin arrives at his answers, albeit they’re always incorrect.
BJDucer about 2 months ago
If only Hobbes was there to help Calvin. I’m sure he could have gotten the test finished much faster. Accuracy, on the other hand, wouldn’t necessarily be the main priority.
BJDucer about 2 months ago
I have to empathize with Calvin here. I never experienced time going by so fast as I did a looooong time ago in college when taking some of my exams in physics and organic chemistry.
tvm6060 about 2 months ago
Just call me Curly from now on.
Kroykali about 2 months ago
New Math.
Count Olaf Premium Member about 2 months ago
But at least you answered it correctly, Calvin. Dilly! Dilly!
gozirra2 Premium Member about 2 months ago
Miss Wormwood learned long ago to never ask Calvin to show his work.
SquidGamerGal about 2 months ago
Maybe if you didn’t spend all day daydreaming about towing planets…
catmom1360 about 2 months ago
Calvin is doomed to work menial jobs.
baskate_2000 about 2 months ago
Calvin, you’re in deep doodoo!
Niko S about 2 months ago
Groan…
'IndyMan' about 2 months ago
ANOTHER, trip to the Principal’s Office for Calvin—wouldn’t surprise me if there is a chair just outside of the door that has Calvin’s name on it ! ! !
rockyridge1977 about 2 months ago
Another day of "day dreaming’ in school!!!!
Angry Indeed Premium Member about 2 months ago
Calvin Math is out of this world!
ryanschafer77 about 2 months ago
Calvin has either the most gifted imagination ever for a six-year old…or he needs some meds.
Radkins27 about 2 months ago
gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1994/09/21
Daltongang Premium Member about 2 months ago
Ah yes, Calvin is following the time honored tradition of never putting off until tomorrow, what you can put of until the day after tomorrow.
rshive about 2 months ago
Time flies when you’re having fun.
AtariDragon about 2 months ago
Well, his version of addition has some nice properties. It is commutative and associative, for example.
krisjackson01 about 2 months ago
I spent a lot of my grade school time exploring distant planets as well. Still do, in fact.
hornacek about 2 months ago
His logic does make sense.
hoffquotes2 about 2 months ago
Time or not, you wouldn’t get any of the others right either
DarkHorseSki about 2 months ago
To be clear, both would be destroyed, if they hit hard enough to destroy either, and millions of years later we would have a new planet coalesce from the remains. But, you could, potentially, drag them together slow enough that they would just join and eventually gravity would tug them into a new sphere in the upcoming millions of years.
Steverino Premium Member about 2 months ago
Calvin didn’t planet.
ccfharvard4 about 2 months ago
Wait until Calvin finds out about gravitation n’all and the answer is actually, like, 9.435
UpaCoCoCreek Premium Member about 2 months ago
He thought it was a division problem, long division.
wiley207 about 2 months ago
Maybe if Planet 5 crumbled into eleven chunks, Calvin could’ve gotten somewhere…
John Jorgensen about 2 months ago
I remembered this arc going more than three days. Though as I look back over it, there’s really not enough to stretch it out any longer, is there?
mindjob about 2 months ago
Glad that didn’t happen to the earth. There’d be no life nowhere
hooglah about 2 months ago
Calvin will never get out of elementary school.
Riskfinder Premium Member about 2 months ago
Somehow my theory that math should be taught to develop basic problem solving skills is both proved and disproved, as only Calvin can do.
coffeeturtle about 2 months ago
maybe he should have used his imagination and counted out six planets then five more. after that would have been more fun crashing them altogether!
8^)
smsrt about 2 months ago
Calvin, you should have noticed the particulates: Planet 5 broke into 5 pieces, add Planet 6, and then you have 11 new planets. I love new math!
liberalnlovinit about 2 months ago
One would think that Calvin would have an IEP by now…
KEA about 2 months ago
I wonder if that’s what happened to Ceti Alpha VI?
lnrokr55 about 2 months ago
No worries Calvin, at the gas station of the future the cashiers work on computerized registers that do the math for you!
sirjackum about 2 months ago
These days he’d be on ADHD meds.
anomaly about 2 months ago
But you didn’t show your work.
aaronacademy2012 about 2 months ago
Why does he think that saturn is bigger than jupiter
Curiosity Premium Member about 2 months ago
When one of my children was about 7 years old his school called in a neurological phsychiatrist to explain some of his behaviors. The doctor’s first comments were that he was extremely bright (knew that already, gets it from his mom) and that he was likely to end up as the next Albert Einstien or Genghis the Khan. The doctor seemed a bit non-plussed when my instinctive reation was “and?” All turned out well, a great relationship with the doctor and the son a very successful applied scientist.
Bilan about 2 months ago
If 6 smashed into 5, breaking it into N pieces, the answer would be: 6 + 5 = 6 + 5/N + 5/N + 5/N … The answer would still be 11.
Medtech4 about 2 months ago
ADHD
rob about 2 months ago
These days Calvin could become an ‘influencer’ and make all kinds of money.
Strawberry King about 2 months ago
I hear some alarms and bells goin’ off.
David 7 days ago
So 6+5 is 6>5, in CalvinMath.