space girl comic
i really need to stop trying to explain complex relativity concepts in like two panels. i can barely fit the text.
interestingly the guy who speculated about the existence of vulcan wasn’t just any random astronmer. it was urbain le verrier, who used the exact same method to predict the existence of neptune based on the orbit of uranus in 1846. so statistically speaking when he said “there might be a planet here”, until then he was right 100% of the time.
“magnetic tornado” sounds like the kind of technobabble you’d hear in an old star trek episode or a netflix original sci-fi movie.
wait, i hope no one from netflix is reading this. they might start getting ideas. O.O
if i ever apply to go to mercury as an astronaut, my resume will just say ‘i lived in australia’.
i remember how crazy it was when water ice was discovered on mercury back in 2012. it’s funny how a hundred years ago many people assumed the other planets must be full of water and life just like earth, but then we developed telescopes and spacecraft and found dead barren wastelands instead, but then we looked closer and found ice and organic molecules and other signs that the planets aren’t as different from our world as we thought.
hey, astronomy comics! remember those?
apparently i’m committing to doing a series of comics like the moon ones at the beginning of sedna about all 8 planets, so we’re starting it off with nobody’s favourite planet, mercury. before you all roll your collective eyes though, i promise there’s a whole bunch of interesting stuff about mercury, so hopefully by the end of this little comic series you’ll all gain at least some appreciation for this particular ball of rock in space.
well, this is definitely the nerdiest comic i’ve ever done. sorry to everyone who’s just here for the cute drawings.
this is a really counterintuitive concept, because “travelling through time” is the exact opposite of what it is in a time travel movie. if you travel quickly trough time, you actually get to the future slower (from your perspective).
if you want to “time travel” to the future, you need to move slowly through time (by moving really fast through space, like neutrinos) so that everything else ages much faster than you.
yeah i know it’s confusing. blame einstein, not me.
fun fact: if you lie around in your room all day, you’ve technically moved further than someone who ran a marathon from east to west in the same time, relative to the centre of the earth.
unfortunately, fitness apps don’t seem to understand this for some strange reason.
according to my 100%-accurate-definitely-not-flawed understanding of causality, every mistake you’ve ever made is actually the big bang’s fault.
i love drawing ako. she’s about 50 million times easier to draw than actual mars rovers (no offense percy, but you’re just so stupidly complicated).
hey, does anyone else feel an unbearable urge to go watch wall-e for some reason, or just me…?
great scott! it’s a 5-panel comic! is that even legal?
the history of mars rovers is way too interesting to compress into one tiny comic strip (and yet i tried anyway), so i hope you all go on a wikipedia/youtube binge to learn all the juicy details. the fact that we humans have put multiple science vehicles on another freaking planet is absolutely ridiculous, and i hope we can eventually one-up ourselves and land actual people on mars, ideally some time within the next 2-3 million years. [glares at nasa]
also, i’m officially sick of drawing rovers now. they are actually the worst.
did i create this entire comic just as an excuse to draw sedna taking ako for a walk? no!
maybe.
okay yeah.
confession: i’m really hoping one day sedna gets enough readers for me to justify selling merch… because i kinda want my own ako. remote-controlled and everything.