June 15th, 2010
Mountain Time 179
That last panel was supposed to be people on the opposite side of the planet wondering why they were stuck 10 feet below ground, but I didn’t spin the Earth hard enough and landed on a lighthouse scene somewhere in the middle instead. Sorry.
Happy Tuesday! Today marks 490 years since Philip II declared William the Silent an outlaw. William has yet to comment.
June 15th, 2010 at 11:38 am
Both of the characters have nice hair. I want hair like that.
June 15th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
I don’t think solids float atop more dense solids.. that’s sort of why solids are different from fluids.. herrnn…
That little bird looks lonely :C
June 15th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
It’s more that both plates are floating atop the semi-solid asthenosphere, and when they collide and have nowhere else to go, the denser plate sinks and assimilates into the asthenosphere, while the other just continues to float.
For the bathtub-fun-time equivalent, float something like a baking sheet into a block of styrofoam.
In contrast, when two continental plates collide, they’re simply unable to sink, and instead bunch up and form big ol’ folded mountains. It’s interesting to note that such mountains go down just as far as they go up, but remain solid because their buoyancy kinda pushes the asthenosphere further down.
June 15th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
good thing they’re always mindful of their bouyancy
June 16th, 2010 at 1:16 am
Amen.
June 16th, 2010 at 9:11 am
hmm.. plausible. Applause.
June 16th, 2010 at 9:14 am
Mindfully buoyant…that’s a great name for a band.