Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for November 09, 2021

Ok. Now with your left eye. Then we’ll try another eye piece.

She failed astronomically.

Who’s going to tell the astronomers they’ve just been looking at pictures all these years?

Oh! I’m afraid you must be pretty nearsighted if you can only recognize the nearest planets and not even one of the more distant galaxies….

Pluto has been demoted to dwarf planet

Is it better with one or two

where’s the M.A.D.E.I.N.C.H.I.N.A. planet??

In order by size (beginning with the largest).

Not quite drawn to scale (at least not the same scale): there would be a big change (a lot smaller) after the first four gas giants to the more terrestrial planets.

If moons (natural satellites) are going to be included (like Pluto’s moon Charon), there are many other moons that would come before Pluto and Charon (including 3 of Jupiter’s moons and our own moon).

I needed one “science” credit for my Finance degree. I took the easy class – Astronomy. I was so disappointed looking through the big telescope at Saturn. It was black and white, not all colored like I’d seen in kids’ books.

Thanks Dave! Cute!

Pluto et. al.?

I’m pretty sure with that big of a scope and the nearness of the chart, she’d be lucky to decipher anything other than a bunch of colorful smudges…

Jeez! She only got the first row right!

Why is she reading from right to left?

How can you use it as an eye test when noone is sure what it is(planet, or, moon, or, dwarf planet.( They are discriminating against dwarf planets, now… Don’you be hating)

I remembered another Speed Bump with a doggie eye test, thought I’d check it. Turns out that the strip has a thing about eye tests… https://www.thecomicstrips.com/subject/The-Eye+test-Comic-Strips-by-Speed+Bump.php