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2020-04-11

by Jeffrey C. Wells on April 11, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Dreadful Future
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  1. Stroth
    April 11, 2020, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Physics, technically.

    I think. Combustion is chemistry of course but I’m pretty sure fire itself is physics.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 11, 2020, 12:36 am | # | Reply

      The heat from the fire is physics. The fire itself is part of the combustion – i.e. chemistry.

      But if Unity’s prone to spontaneous combustion, there may be some biology involved there too. Or maybe just chemistry.

      • awgiedawgie
        April 11, 2020, 12:38 am | # | Reply

        Nevermind.

        Unity stuck her finger into an electrical device. There’s no chemistry or biology going on there. It’s all physics.

        • Max
          April 11, 2020, 8:08 am | # | Reply

          Math, kids. It’s just math… https://xkcd.com/435/

          • Thenardyr
            April 11, 2020, 8:02 pm | #

            I wanted to stay out of this one, because sounding/being pedantic is bad. However…while the person who draws XKCD is brilliant, they aren’t correct in this case. Physics is the root science, while math is the language used to describe the rules of reality that we observe. You can use mathematics to identify the focus of a parabola used for satellite dishes and such, but it is the observed phenomena of radio and other EM radiation that makes that bit of math relevant to this situation.

          • dornbeast
            April 13, 2020, 12:20 am | #

            Saying that science is applied math seems like saying that reality is applied language.

          • awgiedawgie
            April 13, 2020, 12:49 am | #

            To be fair, a linguistic expert may very well agree that reality is applied language, just like a mathematician might say that all the sciences (and even a few things that aren’t sciences) are applied math.

            It’s a flawed viewpoint, but it’s not without logic. The one is indeed integral to the other.

            After all, without language, how can you express what reality is? So, without math, how can you explain the sciences?

          • Gyrre
            April 13, 2020, 11:52 am | #

            But thereçs also the matter of how environment shapes culture and culture shapes language. It’s all a big interconnected mess, really.

          • awgiedawgie
            April 13, 2020, 12:26 pm | #

            But one could argue that that idea is equally flawed. If environment shapes culture and culture shapes language, then all similar environments would have similar cultures, which would then have similar languages. You could easily argue that language shapes culture, which then shapes the environment. Is one of those concepts right and the other one wrong? Are they both right? Or both wrong?

            That’s the problem with any such theory. They all have a certain merit, and yet they’re all critically flawed, because you simply can’t just reduce everything down and have it still make sense.

    • Richard Weir
      April 11, 2020, 11:18 am | # | Reply

      Chemistry is that subset of physics relating to the interactions of atoms through chemical bonds. So the answer to “is it chemistry or physics” is “YES”.

    • Jim Baerg
      April 11, 2020, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

      Chemistry is Physics that is too hard for Physicists, & Biology is Chemistry that is too hard for Chemists.
      Jim Baerg BSc. Physics

    • Robert Nowall
      April 11, 2020, 1:49 pm | # | Reply

      “The only physics I took is Ex-Lax.” —somebody or other’s government scientific advisor, I forget the names.

    • jdreyfuss
      April 13, 2020, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

      Chemistry. It’s a runaway oxidation reaction.

  2. awgiedawgie
    April 11, 2020, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    In panel 2, it appears that Unity’s left hand has suddenly, and temporarily, become a right hand.

    • Thenardyr
      April 11, 2020, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      Artistic license. Placing the index finger where it belonged would’ve meant that we could not have seen Unity’s expression.

    • Efogoto
      April 11, 2020, 2:08 am | # | Reply

      So she sewed a right hand onto her left arm. It’s because she’s all thumbs.

      • awgiedawgie
        April 11, 2020, 3:44 am | # | Reply

        But in the first panel, it’s definitely a left hand she’s poking into the electrodes.

    • Regret
      April 11, 2020, 4:31 am | # | Reply

      Only if you assume her fingers only bend the normal way.

      • Sheik
        April 11, 2020, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

        True
        Considering her rather flexible construction I would not put it past her to be able, nay to insist, that she curl her digits either way as needed.

  3. Robert Nowall
    April 11, 2020, 7:31 am | # | Reply

    She didn’t blow up this hut, she just set fire to it. Kind of a disappointment, really.

  4. Jon
    April 11, 2020, 7:34 am | # | Reply

    Nooooo! But how will they possibly be able to do Sane Science without a Tesla coil?!?

  5. Shadowmehr
    April 11, 2020, 10:43 am | # | Reply

    I like how U.N.I.T.Y. says she has the problem “again”, which raises so many questions on how many times she’s set herself on fire before? Hopefully Remy has some spare arms that didn’t go into the Abomination, or she can put herself out before permanent damage to the structure of the limb in question.

    • Shadowmehr
      April 11, 2020, 10:44 am | # | Reply

      Oh, and the science hut going up in flames? That was always going to happen. I’m just glad they found a humorous way to do so.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 11, 2020, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

      And given Virginia’s response in the last panel, I have to wonder how many times she has seen Unity exhibit this phenomenon.

    • s854
      April 11, 2020, 7:50 pm | # | Reply

      Shadowmehr: From what we’ve seen, it only happens when Unity goes into a science lab. I think the last time was 2013-12-19.

      • s854
        April 11, 2020, 7:51 pm | # | Reply

        That is to say, http://skin-horse.com/comic/his-outbox/

        • Candace
          April 12, 2020, 1:46 am | # | Reply

          Oh, my, I had forgotten about that. Thanks for the reminder!

  6. Dr. Strangelobe
    April 11, 2020, 11:00 am | # | Reply

    Unity, FLAME ON!

  7. BMunro
    April 11, 2020, 1:01 pm | # | Reply

    Unity appears to be more flammable than a normal human being [1], which, given her fondness for explosions, seems odd. Perhaps it’s due to her using spare zombie limbs rather than fresher parts?

    [1] We are after all 60% water, and more than that for the parts which aren’t bones.

  8. Dewy
    April 11, 2020, 2:00 pm | # | Reply

    Sweetheart: Unity, what’s the ONE thing I keep telling you?
    Unity: FIRE BAD!
    Sweetheart: And?
    Unity: FIRE BAD!!
    Sweetheart: Well, that should stop you from doing it again…this week, at least.
    Unity: I made s’mores with my face!

    • Robert Nowall
      April 11, 2020, 4:23 pm | # | Reply

      “Fire bad!” —Frankenstein monster. “No, fire good!” —Tonto and Tarzan.

      • awgiedawgie
        April 11, 2020, 9:43 pm | # | Reply

        “Fire is cool!” – Beavis & Butthead

  9. 5-tons-of-flax
    April 12, 2020, 8:32 am | # | Reply

    Did the Fire Nation just attack again?

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