Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 03, 2012

Can’t argue with that one, can we?

@somebodyshort, that never worked for me. I always went sailing off into the cosmos. Not sure when I’m due back.

Wonderful concept! Only thing better is to hold onto somebody else and let the grass fend for itself.

so Romantic are both… ha aaa

Only problem is, the majority of people in the world today can NOT see the stars very well – if at all – due to the light pollution from all the cities that they live in.

Seems like looking at the stars at night would be a good compliment to looking under rocks in the creek all day.

You mean other people would also be looking under rocks all day too if they looked at the stars all night?

you are channeling Norman Maclean Grainbelt…..

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge.There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.[a]Their voice[b] goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.

Psalm 19:1-4

I still like to look at the night sky- no light pollution where I live. I also look at rocks on land and in the creek. And the flying and crawling things. I may be old but I’ll never grow up.

The night has a thousand eyes and the day but one. Just the same the day is a better time to look under rocks in the creek. I guess that’s on Calvin’s bucket list.

Oh Calvin. LOL

I can’t look at the universe without feeling insignificant and wondering at the God who made it and still cares about us. Dandelion, anyone?

This is pretty much how I spent the majority of my childhood . . tromping through the woods, wading in lakes, looking at the stars . . . Calvin and Hobbes takes me back to a more simple time in my life. I’m going to the Blue Ridge mountains tomorrow . . . I think I’ll make a note to do some star gazing while I’m there.

If greater creatures of the universe, wading in the Milky Way, looked under the stars, would they find us?

I was a kid who spent summer afternoons looking under rocks in the creek. As an adult, I’ve had a pretty successful career as a fisheries biologist. There’s good stuff under those rocks!

A 60+ year old woman from Brooklyn was in a car with several of us; while driving to a remote location. She noted the lack of street lights out in the country, and said “it must get dark out here at night.”

Calvin that sounds like a day and night spent well.

To really appreciate the night sky, one has to be at least 50 miles from a large city, and it be a moonless night.Incidentally, the shape of the moon in panel 3 indicates that the sun is to the upper right, not below the horizon!

Was Calvin looking for communists under every rock?There aren’t as many of them anymore, but there always are other evils.

Could life be any better than this . . . whether you’re a 6-year-old child or a full-grown adult?!?!? ;-)

This strip looks very pretty today.

Wise words indeed, Calvin.

xxx

The sky above, the mud below – all part of a creation impossibly complex from the standpoint of randomness…..

Yes look at the sky, they do not see whats down here so they can look at the sky and invent anything they want.As long as the bugs are not too bad down here on good old earth,then its not so much fun.

Other people? I predict that Calvin will someday be a politician.

With the power outages on the east coast, the night sky is as wonderful as some of you have described it when in the mountains or country. An ice storm several years ago gave us that fabulous view for three nights…worth going out in the cold to see it since all the clouds had moved on. (I’m in Oklahoma.)

This really was a terrific comic strip.

To infinity and beyond!

…or “starstuff” per Carl Sagan quoted in “Cosmos”…

I wish I had spent my day looking under rocks at some creek. Sigh

I remember seeing Hale-Bopp with about 45° of comet tail visible. Amazing!

To think that this world is frivolessly small makes us feel unimportant, and alot of people can’t (or won’t) relize this…..

Insightfull? Very yes…

Ahh. Seems like a fine way to spend the day.