702: Snow Tracking
Snow Tracking |
Title text: I suppose thats more accurately a hare dryer. |
Explanation
Moose and Squirrel is a reference to the Rocky and Bullwinkle series of cartoons.
Longcat is a internet meme from pictures of cats all stretched out that make them look very tall (or long).
Mouse riding Bicycle is a reference to Ralph S. Mouse, a series of novels by Beverly Cleary.
The title text is a pun on the Rabbit with a hair dryer frame.
Legolas is a reference to the character by the same name in the Lord of the Rings trilogy of books and movies.
Knight is a chess reference as the tracks move just like the knight piece in chess.
The two "Kid with" frames are a reference to Calvin and Hobbes.
Prius is a reference to current events in which Toyota Prius's pedals have allegedly malfunctioned causing accidents. [1]
The final frame is the Higgs Boson which is an elementary particle which has recently been detected in the Large Hadron Collider.
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Transcript
- BACKYARD SNOW TRACKING GUIDE
- ((Each panel contains an overhead view of tracks through the snow, with a caption indicating the apparent source))
- [Standard paw prints through the snow]
- CAT
- [Large split-toe tracks and smaller rodent tracks]
- MOOSE AND SQUIRREL
- [Cat prints, but with more space between the pairs of prints]
- LONGCAT
- [Two similar careening tire tracks]
- MOUSE RIDING BICYCLE
- [Longer rodent tracks, with a large melted ring surrounding a point in the middle of the frame.]
- RABBIT STOPPING TO USE HAIR DRYER
- [No visible tracks]
- LEGOLAS
- [Single deep holes with cratering]
- BOBCAT ON POGO STICK
- [Round prints that suddenly turn to the right halfway into frame]
- KNIGHT
- [Human footprints up to a square melting pattern, turning into animal prints]
- KID WITH TRANSMOGRIFIER
- [Human footprints up to a rectangular melted area, which are then doubled to another rectangular area, which are then doubled again up to another rectangular area, which are then doubled...]
- KID WITH DUPLICATOR
- [Right curve on a road, with tire tracks careening out of frame]
- Out of Frame Garden Owner: MY VEGETABLE GARDEN!
- [A series of spiraling and outwardly traveling lines extend from a point in the middle of the frame.]
- HIGGS BOSON
Discussion
The title-text could also be a reference to Bugs Bunny, many episodes had such play-on-words as title. ("A witch's tangled hare", "A Feather in his Hare", "Compressed Hare", many more...) -- Gegueure (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
It could be mentioned that the Higgs signature shown is probably a Higgs->top anti-top/bottom anti-bottom->jet-jet signature, and most certainly not the clearest observed channel right now of Higgs->gamma gamma (as there is no neutral signature, which would be a track appearing some from the center, and there are clearly two jets to be seen). This is a difficult channel to observe, and is much more important in higher Higgs mass regions than the now observed, where b-bbar is present, but gamma gamma is much easyer to observe.85.164.251.29 13:11, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
Velociraptors are suspiciously missing from this comic... Just some random derp 19:18, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
I first thought of the Beverly Cleary mouse books too, but Ralph S. Mouse rode a motorcycle, not a bicycle. 162.158.74.106 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- Could it be a reference to Biker Mice From Mars? --141.101.105.31 08:05, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
I don't understand the knight tracks. They appear to move the same distance forward as they do to the side. Knights can't move like that.
- The knight didn't have much to orientate with, so his mental checkerboard could easily have overspun.141.101.77.232 17:31, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
The Knight Tracks panel represents a series of knight hops, rather than a single move. 162.158.107.121 21:29, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
The Higgs Boson frame is significantly different from all the others because it represents an image from a cloud chamber not tracks in snow. Brenda (talk) 09:15, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
Which was is the bicycle going? There is a way to figure it out. Someone help 23:27, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
The Prius isn't a reference to dodgy pedals, but the drivers being horrible themselves. As you can see here, the car VEERS off the road. It does not brake, nor speed up.
- Maybe. But one of the issues with the sticking pedals was that the brakes wouldn't slow the car down. I think the timing of this suggests the brake pedal explanation. L-Space Traveler (talk) 09:09, 25 October 2022 (UTC)