Comments on: TOM THE DANCING BUG: Super-Fun-Pak Comix, Featuring Thrilling Post-Apocalyptic Adventures, and MORE!!

By: Wimpyboy

Wimpyboy — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:58:00 +0000

SORRY! That was me. I moved the table to vacuum the carpet.
Which, I might add, you’ve made an awful mess of.

By: Raymee

Raymee — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:46:00 +0000

Correct, my dear EvilTerran…, a mass of fudge has, over time, traveled through, and then out of, the astronomical body. Reasonably, gravitational forces tend to have placed the curvature-ish pile relatively below Uranus.

Now back to your Evil-doing…..

By: Stuart Smith

Stuart Smith — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 04:45:00 +0000

Since gravity bends space-time under relativity, a time machine could follow the curve of the gravity well backwards, allowing you to retain your current position relative to the nearest planetary body. Such a system seems quite practical, and far more plausible than the existance of time travel itself, so to my mind, problem solved.

Oh, heh… Someone else beat me to it. Oh well.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:53:00 +0000

Obviously, time travelers must makes leaps of exactly one year into the past or future, so that the Earth returns to the same point in its orbit and will be waiting for them when they arrive!

By: jaytkay

jaytkay — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:07:00 +0000

Uranus? I hardly knew her!!

By: miasm

miasm — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:09:00 +0000

Came for the gravity well, left with Uranus.

By: EvilTerran

EvilTerran — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:43:00 +0000

I’ve seen a fudge involving the local curvature of spacetime caused by mass… ie a time travel system where you tended to stay in place relative to the astronomical body that was affecting you most gravitationally. Seemed reasonable — I mean, if you’re gonna allow time travel…

By: Rock Hardwood

Rock Hardwood — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:02:00 +0000

Percival might be done for in this one, eh? Now that the elephant in the room, you know, the first several Dimensions, have now come into play, this whole notion of ‘easy’ time-travel will come to an end.

By: estragon_nyc

estragon_nyc — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:05:00 +0000

I fear the day is approaching when I start to identify with Superhero Fantasies for the Middle-Aged even more than I do with Louis Maltby! :-(

By: hypnosifl

hypnosifl — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:11:00 +0000

Wikipedia's time travel article has a discussion of this here. Technically, the whole idea of disappearing in one time and then reappearing at the "same place, but a different time" doesn't make sense anyway, because in relativity there is no unique location in the past (say, one day ago) that's the "same place" the Earth is now (that would seem to presuppose the idea of absolute space which doesn't exist in relativity). Probably the most scientifically "realistic" form of time travel would involve traveling through a wormhole, and in that case, where you appear in the past would depend on where the mouth of the wormhole happened to be located at that date.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:34:00 +0000

You’re not the only one. I’ve noticed that “Shut your pie hole, fatty. Where’s the men’s room? I’ve got the runs” has been used as a caption for at least one New Yorker cartoon.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:32:00 +0000

Yes sir, and in the morning you shall be sober, and I’d never want to join a club that…wait, let me start over.

By: Dan Hibiki

Dan Hibiki — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:27:00 +0000

Damn right it’s a big ass issue, you go forward a few thousand years and next thing you know you’re smashing face first in to Uranus!

By: Sagodjur

Sagodjur — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:25:00 +0000

The TARDIS deals with it by being both a time machine and a spaceship.

By: Jer_00

Jer_00 — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:20:00 +0000

Professor: “I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.”
Fry: “Oh. What’s it called now?”
Professor: “Urectum.”

By: MrJM

MrJM — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:01:00 +0000

And it sounds like another word for butt hole!

By: Ashen Victor

Ashen Victor — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:57:00 +0000

Why don`t sci-fi shows or movies never have to cope with the “Everything is moving in the universe” problem?
That´s a big ass problem.

By: BreakingDeadMen

BreakingDeadMen — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:43:00 +0000

I find him wholly unloveable.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:31:00 +0000

I love Dinkle!

By: Brian Hagen

Brian Hagen — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:30:00 +0000

I saw an identical cartoon about time travel (and universe moving) about 3 weeks ago.. from someone else. Of course.. now I can’t find it. (possibly because the universe moved)

By: petz79

petz79 — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:18:00 +0000

Yeah? Well, your mom never gets old!

No, wait…

Your mom’s Uranus never…

No… that’s not… I don’t know how…

Sorry, I’ll just go.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:10:00 +0000

Allow me to rephrase: Jokes about Uranus never get old.

Or at least they’ll never get old as long as Uranus is full of methane.

By: James Mason

James Mason — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:55:00 +0000

Uranus jokes never get old.