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OK, Dgbrt, you clearly know more about the universe's curvature than I do. Now, would you be so kind as to actually explain that rather than play tug-of-war with the incomplete tags? [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.65|199.27.128.65]] 23:41, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
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Wow, that's a pretty cool spaceship. How does he leave? [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]<sup>&#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&#93;[[Category:Pages using the "citation needed" template]]</sup> 15:02, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
  
I took a shot at it. Good enough to remove the incomplete tag? [[User:LogicalOxymoron|LogicalOxymoron]] ([[User talk:LogicalOxymoron|talk]]) 23:22, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
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I feel like he isn't leaning back in horror in the last strip. I rather think that, since he's in a spaceship with no gravity, the angular momentum makes him turn a bit.
 
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[[Special:Contributions/162.158.222.45|162.158.222.45]] 22:38, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
Should it be noted that a normal boomerang (a weapon) is not supposed to return? Only a returning boomerang (a toy) returns. [[User:Tharkon|Tharkon]] ([[User talk:Tharkon|talk]]) 00:47, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
 
 
 
What do you call a boomerang that won't come back ?
 
... a stick. {{unsigned ip|141.101.99.217}}
 
 
 
Bonus strip: Just read the rightmost panels straight down. It still works. Literally. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.70|108.162.215.70]] 22:26, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
 
 
 
I always wondered what happened if you threw a boomerang in the USS Enterprise's Holodeck...[[User:Gunterkoenigsmann|Gunterkoenigsmann]] ([[User talk:Gunterkoenigsmann|talk]]) 11:58, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 
 
 
The title text does not mean the Big Crunch, but merely the fact, that a closed Universe is finite. It's like a surface of a sphere (2D analogy for a 3D world). If you go in one direction for a long time, you make a complete circle and return to the point where you started, but from the opposite direction - hence "the boomerang hits him in the back of the head". If it was a Big Crunch, the boomerang is not guaranteed to come from the back.
 
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.183.189|162.158.183.189]] 14:41, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
 

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Wow, that's a pretty cool spaceship. How does he leave? Me[citation needed] 15:02, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

I feel like he isn't leaning back in horror in the last strip. I rather think that, since he's in a spaceship with no gravity, the angular momentum makes him turn a bit. 162.158.222.45 22:38, 26 December 2023 (UTC)