Talk:1115: Sky

2012-10-06T18:01:00Z

99.89.196.91:

As anyone who readed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game_%28series%29 Ender's Game] know, "The enemy's gate is down". But it must be noted that mentioned gate was in a zero-gravity environment so the usual definition of down being the direction gravitation is pulling us was not applicable. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 08:09, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Furthermore, the last panel might be a reference to {{w|Nietzsche}}'s quote: "When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you".

Additionally, it might also allude to the law of gravity, as it operates in the realm of {{w|Cartoon physics}}. This interpretation would seem to match the 'perspective inversion' theme of the entire comic.[[Special:Contributions/123.237.156.4|123.237.156.4]] 08:14, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
I think the comment about a bottomless hole is misleading but I am not certain. the mass of the walls of the hole as well as surrounding matter would create a definite gravitational force, as would any gases or liquids that fill the hole. There would be a point (or possibly surface or line) depending on the composition and shape of whatever the bottomless hole is in as well as the contents and shape of the hole itself where the net gravitational force is zero, with all areas surrounding this point (surface or line) having gravitational forces pointing in the direction of the point/surface/line, unless the hole is in a body that extends in one direction off into infinity, in which case the mass of the entire system would be continually collapsing into a black hole as the mass of the body is infinite.

1115: Sky

2012-10-06T17:50:46Z

99.89.196.91: /* Explanation */ Momentum is a female dog. We would not drift off as we are currently moving at high speed, the only thing preventing inertia from hurling us off into space or the planet from orbit is gravity. Holding onto a mail ox would be no he

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| number = 1115
| date = October 1, 2012
| title = Sky
| image = sky.png
| imagesize =
| titletext = I dropped a bird and I didn't hear it hit bottom.
}}

==Explanation==
There is no set rule that says the ground is down. Yes, that is what most people think, but down can be any direction. [[Beret Guy]] handles this in his usual way, by defining down to be toward the sky. Forcing yourself to think in a different perspective changes a lot of things that are usually thought of as mundanities. Here we are challenged with the perspective that we live pulled (by Earth's gravity) towards a ceiling (land/oceans) hanging over a bottomless abyss (space seems to be limitless). If gravity (under no control of our own) were to fail we would fly helplessly off into the abyss. If a hole actually had no bottom, there would be no gravitational force towards its non-existing bottom.

==Transcript==
:[A woman approaches a guy in a white beret, who appears to be doing a handstand on the lawn.]
:Woman: What are you doing?
:Beret: Clinging to the ceiling of a bottomless abyss.

:[The woman walks past him.]
:Woman: You are very odd.

:[The woman towards a mailbox.]

:[As she passes the mailbox, she looks up.]

:[This panel appears to be upside down. The woman is clinging to the mailbox, and a woman with a ponytail approaches her.]
:Ponytail: What's wrong?
:Woman: I looked down.

==Trivia==
*This comic's official transcript actually refers to [[Ponytail]] as Ponytail.

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