space girl comic
fact: anything you can completely cover with your thumb does not at all matter (i.e. literally everything if you stand back far enough). it’s called the jim lovell principle, and it’s definitely a real thing that i didn’t make up just now. ◑.◑
maybe this is why sedna never lets dini get more than a few steps away from her. (´ω｀*)
i did way more research on bunnies in space for this comic than i ever imagined myself doing.
turns out the second bunny in space was called zvezdochka. but the third bunny in space (and first bunny in orbit) never had its name or picture published, which is not only super disappointing on its own but also totally killed my original comic idea of having a whole photo album of pioneering space bunnies. damn it soviet union, all you had to do was give this bunny a name. was that really so hard?
does sedna actually change into her labcoat whenever she’s about to do science or does it just spontaneously appear on her when she does something ethically dubious?
honestly, after everything sedna’s made yuri do so far, memorising the tsiolkovsky rocket equation seems like a walk in the park.
subtle throwback to comic #11. it’s almost like i’m a genius and planned this all along (i didn’t).
maybe the reason sedna is always wearing the same hoodie is that it was the only one she could find with a matching miniature version.
poor yuri. too loyal for her own good. lucky she has some impressive english vocabulary and upper body strength for a bunny.
funny story: when i drew this comic i looked up reference images for cordless drills, and i’m still getting stupid cordless drill ads months later. seriously google, please leave me alone.
:3
i’m just gonna drop the whole quote here before y’all accuse me of plagiarism.
“some part of our being knows this is where we came from. we long to return. and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. we’re made of star stuff. we are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” – carl sagan (super smart science man)
calling a star exploding a “new” star and the birth of the universe “the big bang” is classic example of scientists naming things.
i’m sure you all learned at school that dinosaur means “terrible lizard”, despite them being neither. even worse is iguanadon, which means “iguana’s tooth”, because that’s what its discoverer thought he was looking at.
on the other hand there’s colymbosathon ecplecticos, which translates to “astounding swimmer with a large penis”. which is without a doubt the best dinosaur name. good job scientists!
hope i did the maths right here (thank god for wolfram alpha). i love ridiculous scale comparisons for supernovae, but there’s no beating the classic one by randall munroe (the xkcd guy):
“which of the following would be brighter:
a supernova, seen from as far away as the sun is from the earth, or
the detonation of a hydrogen bomb pressed against your eyeball?”
now i’m just waiting for some smartarse in the comments to point out that if you actually did magic a ball of tnt that large into existence it would just collapse under the weight of its own gravity and explode as a supernova anyway. shut up, it’s a thought exercise. don’t be that guy.