Editing Talk:942: Juggling

But if there was no gravity, the balls would have maintained the trajectory and (neglecting air resistance) velocity that they had when they left cueball's hands! -- mwburden [[Special:Contributions/99.129.248.32|99.129.248.32]] 23:17, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

:Very true! Please do consider reworking/replacing this explanation so it isn't so misleading! [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]])  23:22, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Added "or momentum" to the explanation.  -- mwburden [[Special:Contributions/70.91.188.49|70.91.188.49]] 13:03, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

But without momentum he wouldn't have been able to 'throw the balls up'. He must instead have placed them there, which he didn't because he can't reach. The only way to save physics I see is that there is something producing very high friction, slowing the balls down until they are trapped. But that's probably not what is happening in the comic. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.47|108.162.250.47]] 04:30, 9 August 2017 (UTC)



It doesn't look like Cueball's jumping to me--just reaching for the balls. [[Special:Contributions/96.234.173.28|96.234.173.28]] 08:45, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

:Nah I agree with the transcript. Both feet are noticeably higher than in the previous "standing" panels. And I can't picture anyone raising one leg weirdly like that if the other leg is planted on the ground - if he were looking to reach without jumping, he'd would be on tiptoes instead. [[User:Jerodast|- jerodast]] ([[User talk:Jerodast|talk]]) 13:18, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

I thought the joke was the book taught you how to levitate things, which Cueball finds useless since he wants to learn how to juggle. [[Special:Contributions/67.85.230.8|67.85.230.8]] 08:17, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

I've interpreted this as a joke on how juggling works (as in, what it always looks like) in 2D images. The title text makes a similar joke, in that throwing or dropping something in a 2D image will always make it look like the thing is floating. (Unless they add motion lines and such and such, but even then, "Why are there black lines in the air?") - Jeff

I don't think this explanation is right. I interpreted this joke like this: Cueball is so bad at juggling that the balls don't even fall after being thrown. Perhaps this joke is similar to the ones in the boomerang comics. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.212.206|108.162.212.206]] 22:18, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

I was thinking something like that, but instead maybe he just couldn't understand the next step? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.63|108.162.219.63]] 14:25, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

The trick is to use apples. I'm not sure it is a next step though. Perhaps a step back?
[[User:Weatherlawyer| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer|talk]]) 12:37, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

This same comic was in the five-minute comics in xkcd 940. Has anyone else noticed this? -Brittany


Clean Up

This comic is very disjointed and awkward. It's not incomplete it just... it needs work [[User:Lackadaisical|Lackadaisical]] ([[User talk:Lackadaisical|talk]]) 21:05, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
:This comment doesn't seem to mean anything. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.47.222|172.68.47.222]] 08:07, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
:Check timestamps my friend, although I just realized I made a mistake by saying "comic" when I meant "comic explanation," once upon a time this explanation read very poorly, those issues have since been taken care of by editing. [[User:Lackadaisical|Lackadaisical]] ([[User talk:Lackadaisical|talk]])

physics.exe has stopped working
:no, really [[User:An user who has no account yet|An user who has no account yet]] ([[User talk:An user who has no account yet|talk]]) 01:08, 11 September 2023 (UTC)