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Heat death doesnt mean everything gets hot, only that everything in the universe becomes the same temperature and no more energy transfers can occur. Given that space is very ‘cold’ and there is way more space than stars, the heat death of the universe will actually be quite chilly. Bring a coat.
Sorry, pal, but learning to keep WARM is what the problem would be. The heat death refers to the death of heat, because all atoms have spread out to uniform distances and there is nothing that can ever happen ever again.
Of course, that also means that any sapient entities in question would likely be long, long, LONG dead, because their corporeal bodies are made of atoms, which would be spread out…
You got it wrong. It’s not about the matter spreading, but the energy potential accounting to zero. All processes in the universe move energy from a high energy to a low energy, until it’s even. With no differences of energy, no work can be done. Thus nothing can *happen*.
I would just like to now say that I am actually well aware of what Heat Death is (I studied a lot of physics in my maths degree at university, as well as being kinda into cosmology since a young age and from my love of shows like Dr Who), and was just making a joke based off the counterintuitively-named term “Heat Death”.
Hence the smiley I appended to my comment, that it would seem people overlooked.
Still, I wonder if life might still be around to witness the heat death of the universe? Possibly having transcended the universe entirely, and be viewing it winding down from the outside?
Just because “science” is in the word, doesn’t make it science. Really, it’s the antithesis of science, usually involving drawing unfounded conclusions or cherry-picking evidence to support a bias. Science quells the “psuedo” through repeated experiments and internal consistency with other observations.
This is grammatically correct, as well–‘pseudo’, by definition, means the thing it’s attached to is not actually the thing. A pseudopod is not an actual foot; a pseudonym is not the actual name.
Well, usually. My parents claim they knew a smartass couple in the 60s who saddled their kid with “Alias Pseudonym” – I supposedly played with her as a toddler, although I’m damned if I remember it. They nicknamed her Allie, understandably.
Okay, while I completely agree with A Scientist (a far more reliable source than B Scientist), I must admit that I am curious. How do you figure that pseudoscience, which by definition is a sham of science, would count as a type of science?
Puns and science are two matters I take very seriously.
You may take the appropriate time to process the irony of taking puns seriously. (As a scientist and not a writer, I’m not sure whether or not I used irony correctly there–it’s more subtle than most things in language I bother to use–so corrections are welcome.)
Anyway, I suspected a pun, but on matters of scientific integrity, I may take no chances.
I spend most of my workdays working with scientists and engineers. Most are only idiots when it comes to practical things like self preservation.
I always end up aback outside of the normal work environment when dealing with “norms” and “office Types” because more times than not a 5th grader knows more about the scientific method than these ignoramuses.
No, I think cherry picking science should be about the harvesting of these delicious small red fruits. You know, testing which method of picking them is how efficient, or how delicious the cherries are depending on how you pick them.
You CAN study pseudo-sci scientifically to gain scientific knowledge and understanding of it , just as pseudos pseudofy science (ie pseudo it up when they put it through their pseudo filters).
Scientist A just made an argument “ad hominem” boyz and grrlz. I think that it must be joke, because ad hominems cannot invaldate an empirical &/or logical arguments.
Bad science is a type of science, Pseudoscience is just “Jumping to conclusions” at escape velocity. Sometimes I make myself giggle when I write things.
weeeeeeell, I feel that pseudoscience PRETENDS to be science, while atheism (by definition, if not by some of its argumentative “followers”) declares itself NOT religion
but language is fluid and literally means not literally, cats and dogs living together OH NOES
Atheism professes belief in Not-God. If – IF, i say– religion is about the nature of God and Stuff, then we can make a case that Atheism is a religion. The negation of religion isnt Atheism, its “Meh, whatever”.
No – not really. In science, people make guesses about how the universe works. Then they use those guesses to make predictions. Then they compare those predictions to what they actually observe in nature and in the laboratory. If the predictions made by the guesses are incorrect, then they have to go back to the drawing board and create a new set of guesses. That means that science is sometimes wrong, and in its early days it was often wrong, but it also means that as soon as scientists become certain that something is wrong, they change their guesses to try to be more accurate. Science slowly weeds out all the stuff that’s wrong.
We don’t have to observe stuff in real time to test predictions. For example, the Theory of Evolution predicts that some old species went extinct and some new species came into being. Common sense and geology say that, if evolution is really the case, then species that didn’t live in the same time period shouldn’t be buried in the same layer of rock. This is exactly what we observe in the field, so Evolution made a correct prediction. It doesn’t mean that Evolution is completely correct or definitively true; it just means that we haven’t been able to prove something false, and that it DOES provide an accurate description of what we observe.
Psudoscience may use similar terminology as science, and it may have “theories”, however the issue with psudoscience is that people begin to ignore or overlook the times when their predictions and guesses are incorrect.
Well, we also witness evolution on a regular basis. So evolution the process is an inarguable fact. The big debate as the creationists see it is whether or not evolution leads to speciation, the age of the Earth, and whether or not humans started out as such. But we also as a species have lived to witness speciation on both the microscopic and macroscopic scales without even using the fossil record, such as with certain mountainous tree frogs in Australia. So at this point what the actual theory of evolution is definitely isn’t getting thrown out. Perhaps tweaked slightly, as it has been a few times already, but we have more solid basis for it than we currently really do Relativity.
Evolution — continuity AND change of geno & extended phenotypes through time — is a bloody well established fact. It was labelled the “theory of evolution” before it was established as fact, BUT today youd label it a falsiable “hypothesis” about facts. THEORIES explain facts. Evolution is a fact. The theory of “the origin of species” BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION is 1/one theory which explains the facts of evolution. And its a bloody brilliant and wonderful theory (“there is wonder in this view of nature” C Darwin ). AND IT IS A fabulously powerful and successful theory because of its predictions of what the facts are and what the facts will be,both as evolution continues AND as we continue research to discover facts which tell us what already happened in the past, in exactly the ways so nicely put by Just A. Thinker and Chupicron. People who say its “just” a theory havent a clue about what theories are or what science is (its kindof like sayi g that Truth is just Truth, Beauty isjust Beauty, Love is just Love). Theories do not turn into facts, no how, they remain theories even after theyve been tested and their explanatory power — and their limits (they all have limits: there is no “Theory of Life, the Universe and Everything, outside of THHGG) have been Tested and established. There are even today a few scientifically minded creationists who understand this and understand what the core scientific issues are even ss they are extreme outliers regarding the status of the relevant hypothseses and evidence. But they are only a few. There are some creationist who accept core facts about evolution and even accept a very limited/crippled theory of natural selection. These folks are scientific, but are wayoutliers from one of THE scientific consensuses. MOST creationists are pseudo in both fact and theory, and the more biblically literalist creationist they are, the more pseudo they are, to therealm of ludicrous fantasy. Including, the “theory of natural selection”which they claim to have refuted, isnt Darwins theory.
Be careful. There’s a lush rainforest of cognitive error involving ways to convince yourself that something can’t be true. It’s the source of a lot of conspiracy theory – just look at the people saying “This smudge in this photo couldn’t be produced by the claimed mechanism, therefore the Twin Towers were demolished with pre-placed explosive charges.”
Similarly, a lot of creationist rhetoric revolves around minor flaws in sub-instances of e.g. radioisotope dating. A lot of climate change denial is similar.
So if you make blanket statements about how science rejects everything that’s found to be wrong, you’re laying a foundation for someone to say “Well, such-and-such was wrong, and evolutionists didn’t reject it, so evolution isn’t science!”
In real life, any scientific observation needs to be checked and cross-checked, even in physics (see “polywater” and “cold fusion”) and it’s not always immediately obvious where the problem lies (remember the faster-than-light neutrinos recently?) So it’s better to say that science cares about being consistent with reality, than to say that science instantly rejects every apparent contradiction.
However you are either a dup or a member of THE CONSPIRACY. The Towers were not taken down by either airplanes or planted explosives, they werent taken down at all, they are still right where theyve always been, . But their appearance is being masked by cloaking devices. Theyve been taken over and are being used as the HQ for the UN’s Secret Plot for World Government. Although there is another that a Borg scoutmission pulled the Towers off the Earth and into an orbitting cube using one of those Borgy Tractor Beams Powerful Enough to Pull REALLY Big Stuff Right Off of Planets. And dont try to tell me about films of airpkanes and the Towers collapsing. I saw the Eifel Tower DANCE, with my own eyes, during a big Bastille Day Exrtravaga: done with lasers or FX or something.
Of all the things I imagined … Becky getting literally swept off her feet was not even on the radar. OKay OKay … so she got swept off her ass. A technicality that just makes it even more literal.
Dina doing the sweeping has me on cute overload. I need ti find a video of a Nazi stomping on kittens or something to bring some balance back into my head.
IN 1942-43 there was an Ultra Secret Plan being developed to train an army of kittens who would infiltrate the German lines and completely paralyze their entire army in one coordinated strike. But they couldnt get the kittens to march in step in columns and the general in charge, who insisted that the kittens had to go throughvthe same traing as human soldiers scuttled the program. (A few of the kittens did transfer to human units undrver the “Dont Meow, Dont Growl” (DMDG) program, but their contributions tovthe War effort havenever gotten the recognition tha they deserve.) In the 50’s the Rand Corporation did an Ultra Secret study (Project Snowball), to see if the Herding Cats Problem could be solved and the original program revived in order to counter the superiorty in armored forces of the Group of Soviet Forces-Germany without resorting to early use of nuclear weapons. Some progress was made but tge Soviets evidently got wind of the program because NATO intelligence started seeing evidence of Soviet unitsbeing issued supplies of catnip, with tge evident intent of distracting US kittens from advancing on their targets. SOme US analysts downplayed the tactic, arguing that stoned kittens are even more fascinating to soldiers than sober ones, so the Soviet Koshka Nip would actually backfire if used. Its not actually known whether any kitten battalions were deployed to Germany,but the CIA did plant a kitten wearing a bugged collar with the mistress of a high ranking Soviet general. … ive heard theres a movie being made about this starring george clooney, but theres debate whether CGI cats couldbe used or they would need to wrangle herds of contemporary kittens portraying patriotic cats of the 40s and 50s.
I don’t know but considering how long squids normally live, my guess from her looks is that she’s around 6 months old but then again humanoid squids might age slower.
Last I looked, squids have lifespans ranging from six months to five years, with larger species lasting longer. Cephalopods in general tend to run through their life cycle very quickly compared to vertebrates.
I hadn’t seen the emoticon for cleavage before now. Somehow, my life now feels both more and less complete. I thank you, both as a denizen of the internet and a chemistry teacher. I thank you…I think.
@Rycan Actually, check your numbers on that. Porn consumption by women is a significant part of the market right now. I want to say 20-30%, but I may be remembering incorrectly.
If they’re running towards you fast enough, they do. In which case, you might want to reinforce your house. Rabid shippers are worse than vampire zombies.
Vamp .. zom … wha???
No No No the R.A.W. specifically state that you can not apply more than one of any template type. Vampire and Zombie templates are of the Undead type. You could add elemental, planar, construct and size templates though as well as add a complimentary classes. ie Gargantuan Infernal Fire Zombie Ninja Pirate Spiders from space.
I dunno I think they could make it (as a shipper I might be biased) at least if Becky learns to be a little less outrageous and attention hogging for Dina’s sake. (Unless she can manage to draw attention to herself without also drawing some to Dina but that’s different.)
That said I don’t want them to jump right to dating though cause any relationship that does that is doomed. So I ship them as friends in hopes that it will become something more.
Optimistically, that might also be a tease that she’s getting re-matriculated. Reconciliation with her Helldad, some kind of scholarship arrangement we haven’t heard about, or something farther out like Rich Kid Billie might having enough interest and money to burn to cover a second tuition for a semester. Becky getting back in school would be the best of all worlds, yeah?
Maybe? Some schools are pretty loose about how late you can get in, especially if some kind of after-the-fact “transfer” was arranged with her old school in exchange for (say) avoiding a discrimination lawsuit. The school year’s still pretty young, and I can remember new faces arriving in mid-October – although that was back in the 80s.
And the school could claim all they did was notify the students parents of students of a breach of regulations – pre-marital hanky panky, which is not sexuality specific. The school did not kick out Becky, her father removed her.
They can and do. The students who attend have to sign some sort of honor code deal that says they understand they will be removed from the school if they violate the school’s moral code. Christian colleges aren’t like normal colleges. There was a big to-do a few years back when it was discovered one Southern Christian college still had a ban on interracial dating.
@ Lapin: You are correct, the school you are thinking of is Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC. They finally dropped the ban in 2000, but they still have a rigid code of conduct for their students: pre-marital sex and use of alcohol or drugs are grounds for immediate dismissal; no facial hair for men; students are not allowed to go to movie theaters; they can’t wear apparel from companies BJU objects to (ex. Abercrombie & Fitch); all lights on campus have to be out by midnight; and instead of spring break everyone attends a Bible conference together. Just participating in a demonstration for a cause that BJU objects to (ex. abortion or gay rights) is enough to get you kicked out. Basically, the kind of place Becky’s dad would want her to be.
They own the dorms, they set the contract rules. The unmarried are not a protected group, so pre-marital sex can be a cause for being evicted or transfered
@MeghanTheWorldEater: You have to understand that the Upstate of South Carolina is one of the most neo-conservative evangelical parts of the country, so that’s why Bob Jones has ~3,000 students. A friend of mine used to joke about students going to a school with the initials BJU when a BJ would get you kicked out of the U…
Radiometric dating is also when you’re able to tell how old you’re getting by how much closer to your own time period the music on the oldies radio station is becoming.
That is only a short time scale. I’m only fourty, but I’ve been hearing songs that came out when I was a teenager on the classic channels for…oh call it a decade give or take a few years. More if classic rock had started recognizing geek rock and assorted subflavors of metal as rock rather than banishing them to the late night programming blocks.
Im in a wierd age-zone in which my wife and i are usually (not always) the oldest people attending a concert OR the youngest. (At a blues festival my wife was convinced that she was the only woman without a tattoo.) The great exception was an awsome Dylan concert at a Single-A ballpark at which the crowd ranged from babes in arms (you know what i mean) to grandparents.
You’d be surprised how resilient radio can be. For starters, they have a parasitic relationship with cars, so every American sixteen-year-old and European eighteen-year-old has a radio. It also happens to be the best way to make popular music popular music (probably because of said parasitic relationship) so the great cabals responsible for making popular music have a vested interest in keeping it that way.
See, I was under the impression that by the time the whole “dubstep on a classic radio station” thing could be a possibility the last few generations will be oblivious to radio’s existence in favor of streaming music.
Brioni, wait a ‘bit’ and youll start to appreciate that the music in stores, waiting rooms, etc is the music of your youth: on the onehand, it confirms that youve survived long enough to be a catered to demographic,on the other hand you wont have to listen to gavno when yourout in public!
Actually it was supposed to be a jokey variant on a word that I’m not gonna repeat here as it’s almost always used in a horribly misogynistic way. Though I suppose that word could also apply to psychologically mean chicken farmers.
(Sees alt text and decides to follow it). My favorite are the sites claiming that carbon dating places dinosaur bones at 40000 years old and thus you can’t use it all. It’s like they researched radiometric dating and then cherry picked facts to make it sound useless.
You think the cherries at your local supermarket were harvested by some underpaid migrant workers? No, they lost that job to a roving band of bible-thumpers who did it for free.
My favourites are the ones who claim that fossils were invented by Satan in order to make people disbelieve Creationism. Like, back in the 1800s there were guys gound around smashing fossils with hammers in order to “save” people.
…And considering there were dudes in other parts of the world who were dynamiting their old dig sites to prevent their rivals from discovering any fossils that they might have missed, it’s surprising that there are many bones left that were found in that period.
To be fair, the “scientists” who were doing the discovering that day were probably just in it for the money and fame. The moment people realized “Hang on, these things are extinct!”, it was Jurassic Park all over, er, first?
I started the drinking to curb the violent impulses. I’m a happy drunk. Now I just stare at my coffee and remind myself that if I club them over the head with my coffee mug, I will ruin a perfectly good coffee mug and lose my coffee.
Yes. Youtube’s algorithm seems especially bad for suggesting “things you’re going to hate” when you’ve watched “stuff that rebuts things you’re going to hate”.
I prefer “demolishing YEC shit with basic observation and solid biblical reference”, but I have the advantage of being on the inside.
Dina is my favorite character, and this has to be my favorite strip of the whole series. I really DID ‘laugh out loud’ when I read that last panel..SO. MUCH. LOVE. <3
… that’s actually a really cool idea. Teach a class on ALL creation myths. I mean, that’s neat from a historic/anthropological basis alone. Kids could get some Shinto and Pagan and Hindu and Buddhist alongside their JudeoChristian.
Better than dropping science on her, though it would be kind of fun to see Dina challenge Becky to a rap battle as some kind of ritual
Or the olde fashioned slang that uses “science” to mean “boxing” but I can’t come up with anything clever for that. If anyone else wants to, by all means help yourself.
I am so fond of dina due to her awkwardness. I was like her when i was little. Only until about 2nd grade though because school beat it into me that i can’t like just one thing.
I wish schools would let you focus on what you enjoy more then force you to learn a lot of stuff you probably will never use.
I mean that are you smarter than a fifth grader kind of shows how much stuff we force kids to learn that we never use when we get older.
Absolutely love the last panel. I can not lie, I know Dina has it in her to surprise people, but when she does….wow, it’s a surprise. Looks like she sure has surprised Becky.
A start of a beautiful friendship. If opposites attract, Mr. Willis has outdone himself on this one.
I guess? I mean, the end goal is definitely to change Becky’s world view, but Dina is literally just stating facts. If I explain a chemical reaction to someone, I’m not trying to rock their world, just sharing knowledge.
Depends on your motivation. If the person you’re talking to has inaccurate beliefs about how chemistry works and you’re providing the information in hopes of changing those beliefs, you are absolutely proselytizing.
“Proselytize: to convert or attempt to convert someone from one religion, belief, or opinion to another.”
Nope. What Dina is doing here is attempting to change Becky’s worldview from a Creationist belief system to one that embraces scientific method and facts that can be proven through observation and experimentation. That’s still proselytizing, even though the tools she’s using and the new belief structure are both scientific in nature.
I am shocked and dismayed that I had to get this far down the page to find someone who posted what I would have posted if I’d been able to read the comic when it first came out last night.
Explaining the tools people use to come to their conclusions about the world around us? That’s a whole lot better than just about every evangelical anything else I’ve heard.
Sometimes it feels like preaching to explain evolution to a creationist. I have lots of experience with that as I’m a Christian who accepts evolution who also has lots of non-scientific Christian friends.
The religious have long pretended that science is itself a religion, so that they can call scientists hypocrites for “preaching” their science while simultaneously being unenthusiastic about creationism being put into schools. (Plus it makes it easier to dismiss science it you can convince yourself it’s not, well. science.)
That said, it’s certainly possible to be too pushy in trying to educate the people around you about science. Going door to door with it at 8:00 sunday morning, for example. Or starting a science inquisition and torturing anybody who disagrees with you, that’s also rude. But I don’t think Dina’s really crossed that line yet, not quite.
Up until the last panel, Dina wasn’t doing anything remotely pushy. But when you physically grab someone and yell “Away with you! I can save this one!”…I feel you may have crossed that line.
The one thing that atheists fail to understand about creationists is that theirs is a universe dominated by intelligent activities by warring factions rather than the uninterrupted flow of natural processes. In such an environment, assuming that any data is uncontaminated is potentially misleading.
Although they are quick to praise any data they believe supports their claim, so it’s not an honest adherence to a different philosophy about knowledge.
Am I the only one who thinks that Becky is just enjoying interacting with Dina and mostly not taking what she says too seriously?
I’m genuinely surprised at Dina’s reaction to Joyce. Still, I suppose that Dina’s condition would lead to what others would perceive as a massive over-reaction.
Becky has a habit of speaking in a passive voice (not tone of voice obviously) that makes it seems that she agrees with whoever is speaking but in reality is non-committal. She did it a lot with Joyce the first day of her visit before she came out to her. It may have to do with growing up in an environment where you always had to hide a part of yourself, even from yourself.
I’m pretty sure that’s how the conversation started for Becky, and that she just enjoyed Dina’s company as you said, but now she seems to be genuinely interested in what Dina’s saying. Compare yesterdays “that long ago, huh?” with today’s “so how old is that?” – in other words, Dina is completely right to think that she is close to getting through to Becky.
Christ that’s observant.
Do you have any other little things like that I probably didn’t notice? Cause if you do you should like make a list and post it on tumblr or something.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go reread everything Becky has ever said.
Oh, the Becky POV spinoff. I can’t believe I forgot about it, I feel kind of dumb now.
You should be proud of that one though, it was good. I know I’ll certainly be proud of it when I plagiarize it in a few years. ^_^
Action Dina. My two favorite characters, and probably the closest thing I’ve ever seen to Dina performing something akin to a hug. Though I think she was just being protective. XD
Slightly weird that Becky guesses a million years as the age of the universe off the cuff when just a few seconds ago Dina told her that Camarasaurus lived 150 million years ago. (I’m possibly being slightly picky. )
Eh, it’s not unrealistic. Becky has demonstrated that she doesn’t necessarily think things *all* the way through. Or always put two and two together. Or put them together and come up with plaid. She’s not a cool-headed thinking machine, ‘swhutimsayin.
This is so adorable. I hope they become good friends.
Becky seems to be more open about science than Joyce is; I wonder if it’s partly because of her experience with how religion has affected her life due to her sexual orientation?
I feel like it would, but it probably wouldn’t happen so quickly unless Becky had a lot of underlying questions about herself and religion in general already.
Save her, Dina! For great justice! … or something like that. I love this connection between Dina and Becky. I really hope Becky becomes this thing that helps Dina come out of her dinosaur hide a bit more for moments like this.
Recently did a freelance travel article about the Creation Museum. You know, Ken Ham’s little playground? One of the sidebars was “Other things to do nearby on your trip to the Creation Museum.” I was delighted to list every Natural History Museum and site of geological interest (lots of fossils and mention of things hundreds of thousands of years old) a day-trip or less away. Client paid happily for it, too.
It’s charming, but my reaction to this ship (or, rather, to most commentators’ reaction to the possibility of this ship) is that it is likely to go as follows:
No, but it could be. People are just gushing over the possibility – just as many people are gushing over the possibility of friendship (and really, for most posts it could be either and I have no idea what the author thinks).
I’m not really sure why the shipping is annoying. It’s all fanon anyway.
And even more seriously, even if she enjoys Dina’s company, is honestly curious about learning some REAL science and maybe, just maybe doesn’t object to Joyce being a tiny bit jealous again, Becky doesn’t want this to escalate into a confrontation. This is Joyce’s party after all.
But Carbon dating is a kind of radiometric dating. Also we don’t directly date dinosaur bones because they don’t contain the right stuff. We find where the fossil is on a strat column, then find an igneous intrusion onto that formation and date that.
Grew up in one of those Creationist households, and had my share of Ken Ham type books and movies. They pull the carbon dating chestnut SO MUCH. “Durr, scientists use carbon dating, but carbon dating can’t be used for old objects, hurr, scientists are wrong and stupid about dinosaurs.” They use it so confidently, and so often, like an ace in the hole. And since you don’t learn about other methods until you’re much older and usually set in your religious programming, no one questions it.
Now I have a handy, succint comic strip to hold up the next time a family gathering starts to go the “How can you believe in evolution? Don’t you know carbon dating is a conspiracy?” route.
Shouldn’t the alt text read “New Earth Creationist”? Not all people that are religious and believe creation think that the Earth is only 6000-10,000 years old and deny science or evolution. That’s the New Earth crowd.
This is clearly taking place in the past, or in some horrible alternate universe. If this were taking place in our universe, Dina would not be at a party. She’d be camped out waiting for the next showing of Jurassic World.
This story isn’t set in June. It’s not clear if it’s set in September/October 2014 or 2015, but it’s not even halfway through the fall term. Jurassic World is either not coming out for months, or came out months ago.
I guess I’m kinda shocked? I’d never expect Dina to get so volatile about this. She straight up manhandles Becky and screams at Joyce like she has leprosy.
Dina feels that she can convert (“save”) Becky from the fundamentalist/creationist belief that the world is only a few thousand years old. Everybody laughs, because let’s face it, it *IS* a funny line.
Now, let’s say that Joe comes in and feels that he can convert Becky from her lesbianism by doing what Joe seems to do best. HOO – HAA!! Duck and cover, everybody!
That is a terrible comparison. Being a creationist is an opinion, it’s a thought and can eb changed at any time. Being a lesbian is a biological aspect of who Becky is.
In <A HREF="http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/blunt/"this strip Ethan’s parents figured that if Ethan banged Joyce’s brains out he would eventually come to like it (with the unspoken thought that he would then be “cured” of his gayness). I was just reversing the gender roles and offering my two cents worth on the schidttstorm that something like that would stir up.
No offense intended; and after reading this clarification I hope none is taken.
Me neither. Pretty sure Joyce’s faith-not-science schtick is the only thing that’s truly made her angry, and it’s done so more than once. Dina took Raidah and Char’s insults at the mall calmly by comparison.
Still shorter than a Bleach fight, though.
“Oh, you’re more powerful than I thought. Well, I guess I’ll just have to pull an even more devastating attack out of my ass, Kurosaki!”
TO BE CONTINUED…
“Oops, we caught up to the manga again. Here’s a 35-episode filler arc to let Tite Kubo get ahead.”
35 WEEKS LATER…
(10 minutes of recap because it’s been six months since we left off)
“I’ll just have to pull an even more devastating attack out of my ass, Kurosaki!” [Shouts a phrase in a language that’s neither English nor Japanese, pauses for a beat, then yells another word in that language. Screen goes white, mountains are leveled, clouds are dispersed.]
[Close on Ichigo’s feet. Three drops of blood spatter on the ground.]
And so on for another eight or nine minutes, then TO BE CONTINUED…
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Dina: “THIS ONE ACKNOWLEDGED SEVEN DIGITS OF YEARS I CAN DO THISSSS”
still relevant
That picture will be relevant until the date marked on it.
At which point, I suppose everything will be irrelevant
I imagine that at that point in the universe, learning how to keep cool would be very relevant.
I wonder if life in general will survive that long…?
Heat death doesnt mean everything gets hot, only that everything in the universe becomes the same temperature and no more energy transfers can occur. Given that space is very ‘cold’ and there is way more space than stars, the heat death of the universe will actually be quite chilly. Bring a coat.
Sorry, pal, but learning to keep WARM is what the problem would be. The heat death refers to the death of heat, because all atoms have spread out to uniform distances and there is nothing that can ever happen ever again.
Of course, that also means that any sapient entities in question would likely be long, long, LONG dead, because their corporeal bodies are made of atoms, which would be spread out…
You got it wrong. It’s not about the matter spreading, but the energy potential accounting to zero. All processes in the universe move energy from a high energy to a low energy, until it’s even. With no differences of energy, no work can be done. Thus nothing can *happen*.
so that means that as long as souls exist to sing the praises of our heavenly father, the universe will never die.
(lets see how long I can keep a straight face)
That all would depend on if the universe is linear, parabolic or hyperbolic.
Yeah, because the big crunch is a much better option.
Hey, anyone calculate a way of creating new singularities yet?
I would just like to now say that I am actually well aware of what Heat Death is (I studied a lot of physics in my maths degree at university, as well as being kinda into cosmology since a young age and from my love of shows like Dr Who), and was just making a joke based off the counterintuitively-named term “Heat Death”.
Hence the
smiley I appended to my comment, that it would seem people overlooked. 
Still, I wonder if life might still be around to witness the heat death of the universe? Possibly having transcended the universe entirely, and be viewing it winding down from the outside?
Insufficient data for a meaningful answer.
Praise be to Hossa.
Or perhaps they just made a pun? Isn’t that what the emoji is for? To symbolize “this is a joke”?
Thank you, yes, I was. But my lame pun was lame, and I guess the
got overlooked. ^^
It reads as
[01F]
[61B]
on my browser, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
http://i0.wp.com/metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/shia-labeouf.png?crop=0px%2C0px%2C638px%2C319px&resize=650%2C325&quality=80&strip=all&w=644&h=322
I don’t know how to hyperlink text.
Hyperlink like this:
<a href=”http://www.urlhere.com”>the text you actually want to show<\a>
Dammit. That was supposed to look like:
Hyperlink like this:
<a href=”http://www.urlhere.com”>the text you actually want to show<\a>
Just like that, except use a forward slash / instead of a backslash \ in front of that last a.
I just cheat :P. Highlight, drag & drop…
http://www.hyperlinkcode.com/make-hyperlink.php
It’s not too late. IT’S NOT TOO LATE!
It’s never too late for shipping!
It’s never too late for now!
I can ship it!
Yes you can!
FedEx – anything anywhere.
And when you get it is another matter in itself, more likely later then sooner…
Sooooo, Yup, just like fedex xD
You put it in my head, now I put it in yours!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KUtwgtri_E
I see it and raise it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LWCZhNVUsI
https://youtu.be/vyGzPmgR1QY
it’s never to late for RIGHT NOW. ~<3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdtTfQJCO2Y
Ship happens and this ship has been around for over 234 million years.
XD Love that clip XD
As a biologist-in-training, I am liking where this is going.
That alt-text is still kind of depressing, though.
How do you figure? There wouldn’t be any science written on carbon dating that far back, so anyone writing it would have to misunderstand it.
Psuedoscience is technically a type of science.
No…
Just because “science” is in the word, doesn’t make it science. Really, it’s the antithesis of science, usually involving drawing unfounded conclusions or cherry-picking evidence to support a bias. Science quells the “psuedo” through repeated experiments and internal consistency with other observations.
Thank you. Better said than I would have managed.
This is grammatically correct, as well–‘pseudo’, by definition, means the thing it’s attached to is not actually the thing. A pseudopod is not an actual foot; a pseudonym is not the actual name.
Well, usually. My parents claim they knew a smartass couple in the 60s who saddled their kid with “Alias Pseudonym” – I supposedly played with her as a toddler, although I’m damned if I remember it. They nicknamed her Allie, understandably.
Still better than Moon Unit.
Wonder how she keeps off all the “do not fly” lists…
That’s the (sad) joke.
Okay, while I completely agree with A Scientist (a far more reliable source than B Scientist), I must admit that I am curious. How do you figure that pseudoscience, which by definition is a sham of science, would count as a type of science?
I was just making a stupid pun >.>
Puns and science are two matters I take very seriously.
You may take the appropriate time to process the irony of taking puns seriously. (As a scientist and not a writer, I’m not sure whether or not I used irony correctly there–it’s more subtle than most things in language I bother to use–so corrections are welcome.)
Anyway, I suspected a pun, but on matters of scientific integrity, I may take no chances.
I would tell you that’s unnecessary but there probably are people dumb enough to actually believe what I said so I can’t.
I’ve spent enough time on the internet to know there are definitely people like that.
I’ve spent too much time on the internet.
I spend most of my workdays working with scientists and engineers. Most are only idiots when it comes to practical things like self preservation.
I always end up aback outside of the normal work environment when dealing with “norms” and “office Types” because more times than not a 5th grader knows more about the scientific method than these ignoramuses.
That was indeed irony.
As a Brit, I have an innate understanding of it. And sarcasm.
Which most of these ‘puns’ are.
Ah, that makes sense. I thought maybe you were saying that pseudoscience could be studied as a science (call it the study of cherry picking).
No, I think cherry picking science should be about the harvesting of these delicious small red fruits. You know, testing which method of picking them is how efficient, or how delicious the cherries are depending on how you pick them.
You CAN study pseudo-sci scientifically to gain scientific knowledge and understanding of it , just as pseudos pseudofy science (ie pseudo it up when they put it through their pseudo filters).
Wait, what was the pun? Is the “psuedo-” misspelling a hint at another reading? I’m confused.
Yeah, also, B Scientist is a jerk.
Scientist A just made an argument “ad hominem” boyz and grrlz. I think that it must be joke, because ad hominems cannot invaldate an empirical &/or logical arguments.
Bad science is a type of science, Pseudoscience is just “Jumping to conclusions” at escape velocity. Sometimes I make myself giggle when I write things.
And pseudoscientists think that you reach escape velocity by jumping up.
Well, you can. On a sufficiently small body, such as an asteroid. Not Earth.
Ive read stories about that. But they were labeled “science fiction”?!?
Pseudo science is a kind of science the same way atheism is a religion.
Oh, now there’s a can of worms just waiting to be opened.
And I have an absolutely furious cat in this bag here.
Let Schrödinger’s cat free !
Apparently, after 80 years in a box the cat is definitely dead.
Fogel, technically, not quite right. Atheism is the lack of belief in the existence of god(s), NOT belief in not-god. See the difference?
weeeeeeell, I feel that pseudoscience PRETENDS to be science, while atheism (by definition, if not by some of its argumentative “followers”) declares itself NOT religion
but language is fluid and literally means not literally, cats and dogs living together OH NOES
Atheism professes belief in Not-God. If – IF, i say– religion is about the nature of God and Stuff, then we can make a case that Atheism is a religion. The negation of religion isnt Atheism, its “Meh, whatever”.
“Meh, whatver” would be Apatheism, right?
No, atheism professes no beliefs at all, especially in the area where gods are concerned.
Atheism is a belief in the same way that bald is a hair color, “off” is a TV channel, and not collecting stamps is a hobby.
The way some atheists go batshit about there being no god you would think they worship nothing lol.
Now that is a lovely bit of wordplay.
No – not really. In science, people make guesses about how the universe works. Then they use those guesses to make predictions. Then they compare those predictions to what they actually observe in nature and in the laboratory. If the predictions made by the guesses are incorrect, then they have to go back to the drawing board and create a new set of guesses. That means that science is sometimes wrong, and in its early days it was often wrong, but it also means that as soon as scientists become certain that something is wrong, they change their guesses to try to be more accurate. Science slowly weeds out all the stuff that’s wrong.
We don’t have to observe stuff in real time to test predictions. For example, the Theory of Evolution predicts that some old species went extinct and some new species came into being. Common sense and geology say that, if evolution is really the case, then species that didn’t live in the same time period shouldn’t be buried in the same layer of rock. This is exactly what we observe in the field, so Evolution made a correct prediction. It doesn’t mean that Evolution is completely correct or definitively true; it just means that we haven’t been able to prove something false, and that it DOES provide an accurate description of what we observe.
Psudoscience may use similar terminology as science, and it may have “theories”, however the issue with psudoscience is that people begin to ignore or overlook the times when their predictions and guesses are incorrect.
Well, we also witness evolution on a regular basis. So evolution the process is an inarguable fact. The big debate as the creationists see it is whether or not evolution leads to speciation, the age of the Earth, and whether or not humans started out as such. But we also as a species have lived to witness speciation on both the microscopic and macroscopic scales without even using the fossil record, such as with certain mountainous tree frogs in Australia. So at this point what the actual theory of evolution is definitely isn’t getting thrown out. Perhaps tweaked slightly, as it has been a few times already, but we have more solid basis for it than we currently really do Relativity.
Evolution — continuity AND change of geno & extended phenotypes through time — is a bloody well established fact. It was labelled the “theory of evolution” before it was established as fact, BUT today youd label it a falsiable “hypothesis” about facts. THEORIES explain facts. Evolution is a fact. The theory of “the origin of species” BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION is 1/one theory which explains the facts of evolution. And its a bloody brilliant and wonderful theory (“there is wonder in this view of nature” C Darwin ). AND IT IS A fabulously powerful and successful theory because of its predictions of what the facts are and what the facts will be,both as evolution continues AND as we continue research to discover facts which tell us what already happened in the past, in exactly the ways so nicely put by Just A. Thinker and Chupicron. People who say its “just” a theory havent a clue about what theories are or what science is (its kindof like sayi g that Truth is just Truth, Beauty isjust Beauty, Love is just Love). Theories do not turn into facts, no how, they remain theories even after theyve been tested and their explanatory power — and their limits (they all have limits: there is no “Theory of Life, the Universe and Everything, outside of THHGG) have been Tested and established. There are even today a few scientifically minded creationists who understand this and understand what the core scientific issues are even ss they are extreme outliers regarding the status of the relevant hypothseses and evidence. But they are only a few. There are some creationist who accept core facts about evolution and even accept a very limited/crippled theory of natural selection. These folks are scientific, but are wayoutliers from one of THE scientific consensuses. MOST creationists are pseudo in both fact and theory, and the more biblically literalist creationist they are, the more pseudo they are, to therealm of ludicrous fantasy. Including, the “theory of natural selection”which they claim to have refuted, isnt Darwins theory.
That would have been a lot more readable with a few paragraphs. Still, admirable enthusiasm.
I took a deep breath and just kept writing as fast as i could till i passed out. Its fun!
Be careful. There’s a lush rainforest of cognitive error involving ways to convince yourself that something can’t be true. It’s the source of a lot of conspiracy theory – just look at the people saying “This smudge in this photo couldn’t be produced by the claimed mechanism, therefore the Twin Towers were demolished with pre-placed explosive charges.”
Similarly, a lot of creationist rhetoric revolves around minor flaws in sub-instances of e.g. radioisotope dating. A lot of climate change denial is similar.
So if you make blanket statements about how science rejects everything that’s found to be wrong, you’re laying a foundation for someone to say “Well, such-and-such was wrong, and evolutionists didn’t reject it, so evolution isn’t science!”
In real life, any scientific observation needs to be checked and cross-checked, even in physics (see “polywater” and “cold fusion”) and it’s not always immediately obvious where the problem lies (remember the faster-than-light neutrinos recently?) So it’s better to say that science cares about being consistent with reality, than to say that science instantly rejects every apparent contradiction.
Yes and very nicely put!
However you are either a dup or a member of THE CONSPIRACY. The Towers were not taken down by either airplanes or planted explosives, they werent taken down at all, they are still right where theyve always been, . But their appearance is being masked by cloaking devices. Theyve been taken over and are being used as the HQ for the UN’s Secret Plot for World Government. Although there is another that a Borg scoutmission pulled the Towers off the Earth and into an orbitting cube using one of those Borgy Tractor Beams Powerful Enough to Pull REALLY Big Stuff Right Off of Planets. And dont try to tell me about films of airpkanes and the Towers collapsing. I saw the Eifel Tower DANCE, with my own eyes, during a big Bastille Day Exrtravaga: done with lasers or FX or something.
It’s more a matter of asking the wrong questions, so to speak – except you’re asking Google the wrong question.
Actually, the fourth result for that search is now this comic, so there is some sanity in between all the crazy.
It’s always fun to make a new friend.
“My Becky! Mine! Joyce can’t have!”
She’s miiiiiine. My oooooown. Myyyy…PREEEECIOUSSSSSSSSS.
Of all the things I imagined … Becky getting literally swept off her feet was not even on the radar. OKay OKay … so she got swept off her ass. A technicality that just makes it even more literal.
Dina doing the sweeping has me on cute overload. I need ti find a video of a Nazi stomping on kittens or something to bring some balance back into my head.
No can’t do. Blitzkrieg means you only stop for kittens
So that’s what the French did wrong. And here I thought it was them neglecting to fortify a single lousy forest that was at fault.
IN 1942-43 there was an Ultra Secret Plan being developed to train an army of kittens who would infiltrate the German lines and completely paralyze their entire army in one coordinated strike. But they couldnt get the kittens to march in step in columns and the general in charge, who insisted that the kittens had to go throughvthe same traing as human soldiers scuttled the program. (A few of the kittens did transfer to human units undrver the “Dont Meow, Dont Growl” (DMDG) program, but their contributions tovthe War effort havenever gotten the recognition tha they deserve.) In the 50’s the Rand Corporation did an Ultra Secret study (Project Snowball), to see if the Herding Cats Problem could be solved and the original program revived in order to counter the superiorty in armored forces of the Group of Soviet Forces-Germany without resorting to early use of nuclear weapons. Some progress was made but tge Soviets evidently got wind of the program because NATO intelligence started seeing evidence of Soviet unitsbeing issued supplies of catnip, with tge evident intent of distracting US kittens from advancing on their targets. SOme US analysts downplayed the tactic, arguing that stoned kittens are even more fascinating to soldiers than sober ones, so the Soviet Koshka Nip would actually backfire if used. Its not actually known whether any kitten battalions were deployed to Germany,but the CIA did plant a kitten wearing a bugged collar with the mistress of a high ranking Soviet general. … ive heard theres a movie being made about this starring george clooney, but theres debate whether CGI cats couldbe used or they would need to wrangle herds of contemporary kittens portraying patriotic cats of the 40s and 50s.
You learn something new every day… XD
Quick! Lick them, and they’re yours, just like donuts! Only better!
Is that what the kids call it these days?
carbon dating 150 million years?! yeesh, when’s it gonna settle down
Stahp
Carbon’s quite the playelement, dating 150 million years at once.
If it weren’t for Carbon-14, I wouldn’t date at all.
I’m waiting for Carbon to hit 18.
Dammit, why couldn’t I get here 5 minutes earlier so I could have made that joke?
Carbon-17 is still legal in many states. With a guardian or parents permission.
Yeah but it never lasts very long.
Carbon-12 gets you 20.
this line of jokes is officially gross
Hey, it’s legal to date Carbon-14. It’s the hanky-panky that’s illegal.
In Japan, you can totally bang Carbon-14.
I know this because I hang out with the wrong people.
Awwww, and here I was hoping you would have pointed to some fun fission or fusion reactions. Much disappoint.
Yeah, like I said, gross.
Sheesh, only in Japan, amirite?
Plasma, how old is today’s grav?
I don’t know but considering how long squids normally live, my guess from her looks is that she’s around 6 months old but then again humanoid squids might age slower.
Last I looked, squids have lifespans ranging from six months to five years, with larger species lasting longer. Cephalopods in general tend to run through their life cycle very quickly compared to vertebrates.
Of course, those are squids, not kids.
That kid from Age of Extinction has the paper to prove it to anyone he meets!
Carbon-16 is legal in where I live (Hawaii).
Hahahahahahaha!!!
That’s why I prefer to date Fluorine – you can have a stable relationship with Fluorine-19.
…and I can’t believe that I just used ‘fluorine’ and ‘stable’ together in the same sentence.
pretty sure there is nothing stable about fluorine
Oh, there’s plenty of things stable about Fluorine. Astatine, on the other hand…
You fail chemistry forever – but you already knew that
I’m pretty sure fluorine compounds are incredibly stable. Fluorine’s fine once it settles down.
Carbon’s always been known to love forming lots of bonds
Silicon also known for it’s bonding, plus their pairs are bigger. ( . Y . )
I hadn’t seen the emoticon for cleavage before now. Somehow, my life now feels both more and less complete. I thank you, both as a denizen of the internet and a chemistry teacher. I thank you…I think.
You’re welcome! ~(˘▾˘)~
I know that’s a dancing bird, but it also totes looks like cleavage.
It’s just cleavage from the girl’s point of view.
…
Why can’t we have more point of view porn from the woman’s side?
… BRILLIANT
Because almost the entire industry is aimed at straight men?
It was rethorical.
@Rycan Actually, check your numbers on that. Porn consumption by women is a significant part of the market right now. I want to say 20-30%, but I may be remembering incorrectly.
That’s why I said ‘aimed at’ instead of ‘consumed by’.
Women already control all of romance and erotica!
But do they control the spice?
There’s a text emoticon industry?
Historyman68, how did your Rorschach test go?
( v )
Go ahead and say it, i (double dog) dare you!
Besides which, its Plasma’s fault.
Sure, some people like silicone for being bigger, but many prefer carbon for being organic.
Oh yes, Carbon is quite… attractive.
Lots of people are on Atkins or some other protein-intense diet. Me, I don’t care about being fat, so I like to get my Carb on.
Oddly enough, the strip Carbon Dating is about conspiracy theories and pseeudoscience today.
or if I can’t make the link work – http://carbon-comic.com/
What you say will be true about Carbon Dating just about any day that you look at it.
Dammit Jim, I’m a paleontologist, not a doctor!
yesyes
But a paleontologist could have a doctorate in paleontology as well as any other fields they had an interest in when earning their degree.
Hahahhahahahahahhahahahaha XD
Oh lordy I only ever see them as friend but the shipper gotta be litterally squeeling
I wish they’d keep it down. I was sound asleep 15 minutes ago, and something sure as hell woke me up. Blasted shippers.
Was it their foghorns?
That made me pause and laugh. Well done.
Do foghorns usually go “squee” like that?
If they’re running towards you fast enough, they do. In which case, you might want to reinforce your house. Rabid shippers are worse than vampire zombies.
Vamp .. zom … wha???
No No No the R.A.W. specifically state that you can not apply more than one of any template type. Vampire and Zombie templates are of the Undead type. You could add elemental, planar, construct and size templates though as well as add a complimentary classes. ie Gargantuan Infernal Fire Zombie Ninja Pirate Spiders from space.
This last panel is a mutually beneficial arrangement
SHIPPING HARDER NOW
Then you need this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIscv_IyVnw
I disagree. With the internet and GPS, I think transporting goods from one region to another has become much easier, not harder.
Gas prices, though.
And Somali pirates.
*SHIPPING INTENSIFIES*
Ship Hard 2: Ship Harder.
LOL
FLUKE Shipping and Transport: If it gets there then its a Fluke.
how do you tie the package to the fish?
Fishing line. Around the tail. Makes it harder for the fish to swim, but that’s where “if it gets there it’s a fluke” bit comes from…
You can do it Dina! Take that crack in Becky’s worldview and FILL IT WITH SCIENCE.
Is that how you kids call it these days ?
We were… experimenting. For science!
Just make sure you don’t lose all your funding and a get letter from the review board. After all, we want to make sure your staying safe.
A lot of IRBs are pretty casual and careless in their oversite. But you do have to file a rearch proposal with them BEFORE you start “experimenting”
Proper experimentation requires confirmation, Easiest way is for outside observation. as you were… *starts eating popcorn…*
I never would have guessed that Dina would be the dominant one in this relationship.
She can be pretty possessive.
She dominated Mike!
Granted, he likes being tide up…
That was a wash.
At least he is clean.
FILL HER WITH SCIENCE
Thomas Dolby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZOW5GdgCGw
I vote for this being the theme to the S.S.Becna
An a tangentially related note.
The album cover it shows at the end doesn’t say “She blinded me with science.”
It says “She’s science.”
“Good heavens, miss Saruyama, you’re beautiful!”
Yes. Yes, do that. Fill that… **breaks off in uncontrollable giggles**
But yeah, I am SO shipping Becky/Dina now. SO cute! ^^
TODAY
OUR PALTRY LITTLE RAFT
BECOMES A YACHT
Dina: WANT
Becky: oh no they’re fighting over me or something (slightly distressed face)
“Dina, remember, be gentle at first with your new friends.”
“LIGHT physical contact, Dina! LIGHT!”
Or at least a submarine with closet-nuking capabilties.
A BOAT
Pirates of the Caribbean is the Mecca of shipping metaphors.
*waits for tumblr post with smile photoshopped on becky in last panel*
Ask and you shall receive
Here’s a fixed link
Ahaha. That ‘shop made me notice that Becky’s somehow managed to get her legs around Dina despite not apparently moving.
(I still read it as primarily a friend-ship for the time being, but it amused me.)
I see you’re smiling Becky, & raise you a Gravatar-sized pic of them…
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h252/ShadowStalkerWA/Emoticons/DumbingOfAge-beckysmile01_zps5oltioef.png
Now to customize for my own…
LOVE this. xD
EDUCATION THROUGH SUDDEN PHYSICAL CONTACT!
How much to make the Ship official?!
Noooo, please no shipping these two! Dina would be better off with somebody else!
This boat don’t do reverse.
As would Becky. These two would be terrible together. However, I happen to ship them…as friends!
I dunno I think they could make it (as a shipper I might be biased) at least if Becky learns to be a little less outrageous and attention hogging for Dina’s sake. (Unless she can manage to draw attention to herself without also drawing some to Dina but that’s different.)
That said I don’t want them to jump right to dating though cause any relationship that does that is doomed. So I ship them as friends in hopes that it will become something more.
I want these two to be a thing. For Becky’s sanity as well as Dina to have more people to talk to.
Ya know Bex looks legitimately interested in this and when you consider this preview http://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/image/118741468487 it makes me think Dina might be able to ‘save’ her.
Optimistically, that might also be a tease that she’s getting re-matriculated. Reconciliation with her Helldad, some kind of scholarship arrangement we haven’t heard about, or something farther out like Rich Kid Billie might having enough interest and money to burn to cover a second tuition for a semester. Becky getting back in school would be the best of all worlds, yeah?
Becky getting back in school would be great but wouldn’t she need to wait for the new semester?
Maybe? Some schools are pretty loose about how late you can get in, especially if some kind of after-the-fact “transfer” was arranged with her old school in exchange for (say) avoiding a discrimination lawsuit. The school year’s still pretty young, and I can remember new faces arriving in mid-October – although that was back in the 80s.
Considering it’s a Christian university and it’s Indiana I don’t think they need to worry about a discrimination lawsuit.
Besides, Anderson didn’t kick out Becky – her dad pulled her out.
And the school could claim all they did was notify the students parents of students of a breach of regulations – pre-marital hanky panky, which is not sexuality specific. The school did not kick out Becky, her father removed her.
Can any university even a Christian one legally regulate that though? I mean I feel like it’d be hard to punish consenting adults for getting frisky.
Bwahaha.
Oh, you’re precious.
They can and do. The students who attend have to sign some sort of honor code deal that says they understand they will be removed from the school if they violate the school’s moral code. Christian colleges aren’t like normal colleges. There was a big to-do a few years back when it was discovered one Southern Christian college still had a ban on interracial dating.
@ Lapin: You are correct, the school you are thinking of is Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC. They finally dropped the ban in 2000, but they still have a rigid code of conduct for their students: pre-marital sex and use of alcohol or drugs are grounds for immediate dismissal; no facial hair for men; students are not allowed to go to movie theaters; they can’t wear apparel from companies BJU objects to (ex. Abercrombie & Fitch); all lights on campus have to be out by midnight; and instead of spring break everyone attends a Bible conference together. Just participating in a demonstration for a cause that BJU objects to (ex. abortion or gay rights) is enough to get you kicked out. Basically, the kind of place Becky’s dad would want her to be.
Les that sounds fucking horrifying.
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1688-5-awful-realities-fundamentalist-christian-college.html
And after all that, maybe your degree won’t even be legally recognized because some of these places aren’t even accredited!
They own the dorms, they set the contract rules. The unmarried are not a protected group, so pre-marital sex can be a cause for being evicted or transfered
@MeghanTheWorldEater: You have to understand that the Upstate of South Carolina is one of the most neo-conservative evangelical parts of the country, so that’s why Bob Jones has ~3,000 students. A friend of mine used to joke about students going to a school with the initials BJU when a BJ would get you kicked out of the U…
Actually, on this page she’s studying to be Han Solo
They teach classes on that? Why wasn’t I told? My advisors sucked.
She needs a walking carpet, though. Jacob or Ethan in a gorilla suit might do the trick.
Thay only need to take their shirts off.
And pants.
Where’s that slipshine?
Shooting first gives extra credit.
That…could be easily misinterpreted, especially after reading some of the comments on here…
When Becky imagined having two women fight over her, it wasn’t exactly like this.
There was much more oil and much less clothes, for one thing.
You can start out dressed and dry ….
But Joyce was one of them. I’m pretty sure the dinosaur hat is new
♫You can leave your hat on♫
“Suspicious minds are talkin, trying to put us down.”
“I’m down for the passionate embrace of a woman but this is not exactly what I had in mind…”
Are you flexible about it?
Radiometric dating is also when you’re able to tell how old you’re getting by how much closer to your own time period the music on the oldies radio station is becoming.
That is only a short time scale. I’m only fourty, but I’ve been hearing songs that came out when I was a teenager on the classic channels for…oh call it a decade give or take a few years. More if classic rock had started recognizing geek rock and assorted subflavors of metal as rock rather than banishing them to the late night programming blocks.
Ditto that experience.
Im in a wierd age-zone in which my wife and i are usually (not always) the oldest people attending a concert OR the youngest. (At a blues festival my wife was convinced that she was the only woman without a tattoo.) The great exception was an awsome Dylan concert at a Single-A ballpark at which the crowd ranged from babes in arms (you know what i mean) to grandparents.
You mean that’s where the Infant Revolt began?
I was bummed when I first recognized that the music on the “Golden Oldies” radio station was the same stuff I listened to in high school.
I can’t wait until I hear dubstep on a “Golden Oldies” station.
I actually heard some the other day, but it was a late night DJ pranking his audience.
You’d be surprised how resilient radio can be. For starters, they have a parasitic relationship with cars, so every American sixteen-year-old and European eighteen-year-old has a radio. It also happens to be the best way to make popular music popular music (probably because of said parasitic relationship) so the great cabals responsible for making popular music have a vested interest in keeping it that way.
See, I was under the impression that by the time the whole “dubstep on a classic radio station” thing could be a possibility the last few generations will be oblivious to radio’s existence in favor of streaming music.
I’m not gonna lie the only radio station I listen to is NPR, if I want music I just plug in my iPod.
Brioni, wait a ‘bit’ and youll start to appreciate that the music in stores, waiting rooms, etc is the music of your youth: on the onehand, it confirms that youve survived long enough to be a catered to demographic,on the other hand you wont have to listen to gavno when yourout in public!
How about those of us born in the 1980s? 80s music was so incredibly awesome that the “oldies” stations were playing it as soon as it was the 90s!
I am so loving seeing Dina excited. I’m not shipping them, but I’d like to see this blossom into a freindship
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAH
that exchange was adorable. i’m waiting for it all to go to hell soon, but it’s lovely to enjoy humour and smiles <3
Oh come on Willis, at this point you’re deliberately baiting shippers. Now let me out of this snare.
I on the other hand will happily stay ensnared until the bitter end.
Willis is such a shiptease.
You may get to wear the Yellow Jersey for best pun today!
I don’t see a pun in there. At least not an original one.
I figure it’s “shiptease” instead of “striptease” though striptease could still work I guess.
Actually it was supposed to be a jokey variant on a word that I’m not gonna repeat here as it’s almost always used in a horribly misogynistic way. Though I suppose that word could also apply to psychologically mean chicken farmers.
(Sees alt text and decides to follow it). My favorite are the sites claiming that carbon dating places dinosaur bones at 40000 years old and thus you can’t use it all. It’s like they researched radiometric dating and then cherry picked facts to make it sound useless.
Creationists sure love picking cherries.
Like there’s no better way to do things.
Some other people sure like popping cherries.
Vastly overrated IMO. Prefer gals with some experience, and being the junior partner in the firm has never bothered me.
Not sayin nuffin
You think the cherries at your local supermarket were harvested by some underpaid migrant workers? No, they lost that job to a roving band of bible-thumpers who did it for free.
My favourites are the ones who claim that fossils were invented by Satan in order to make people disbelieve Creationism. Like, back in the 1800s there were guys gound around smashing fossils with hammers in order to “save” people.
…And considering there were dudes in other parts of the world who were dynamiting their old dig sites to prevent their rivals from discovering any fossils that they might have missed, it’s surprising that there are many bones left that were found in that period.
That moment when you can’t decide whether creationists or scientists are being a bigger hindrance to science – I hate that moment
To be fair, the “scientists” who were doing the discovering that day were probably just in it for the money and fame. The moment people realized “Hang on, these things are extinct!”, it was Jurassic Park all over, er, first?
You can google pretty much anything scientific and get creationist crap.
Save them all, Dina. Empty them of bible facts and fill them with sweet dinosaur facts!
What a delightful euphemism!
*plays The Firm’s “Radioactive” (live version) on the Muzak*
I want…to stay with you/I…don’t want to play with you…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EBTn_3DBYo
I saw the song name first, and I’m radioactive! started playing through my mind. Then I noticed you weren’t talking about Imagine Dragons.
You are not alone in this.
I can’t Google things like that. The longer I’m exposed to Young Earth Creationists, the more I want to drink, and my liver needs a break.
You’re a better person than I am. They drive me to violence, not inebriation.
Well, one has a tendency to lead some people to the other regardless.
I started the drinking to curb the violent impulses. I’m a happy drunk. Now I just stare at my coffee and remind myself that if I club them over the head with my coffee mug, I will ruin a perfectly good coffee mug and lose my coffee.
Your avatar should be Mike.
That, and the algorithms behind ads might peg you as being a young-Earth creationist, which would be horrible.
Yes. Youtube’s algorithm seems especially bad for suggesting “things you’re going to hate” when you’ve watched “stuff that rebuts things you’re going to hate”.
I prefer “demolishing YEC shit with basic observation and solid biblical reference”, but I have the advantage of being on the inside.
(Heheh. Rebutts.)
YouTube’s algorithm keeps on suggesting clips to Willis with ‘rebutts’ in the title.
You just know Willis has, at least once, sent an email to someone with the subject line “butts” and received a reply titled “re: butts”
Buttlrofage.buttlr.butts, where he draws and rebutts pictures of butts and rebuts posts claiming that butts are overrated
Dina is my favorite character, and this has to be my favorite strip of the whole series. I really DID ‘laugh out loud’ when I read that last panel..SO. MUCH. LOVE. <3
WHEN SHIPS COLLIDE!
…..Threesomes?
The more I see of Dina, the more I feel like she is literally me.
I can hear the all shippers squeeing through my computer screen because of the last panel.
Damn it.
I ship it.
Welcome to yesterday, I write a day late. TIME ladies and gents.
Dina is just awesome, just seriously awesome.
Dina you are adorable and I love you.
Oh the things I could do with this image if I were drunk.
Do it anyway. And share *_*
Begone anti-heathen!
My pick for Dina’s theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt56yjY9qOw
I always figured it was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8zlUUrFK-M
Actually according to the official DOA soundtrack (yes that exists http://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/post/69043913272/dumbing-of-age-ost-i-guess) it’s this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFx-tB8Vzm4
Ooh Ken Ashcrrp. Me likes.
Speaking of which, Billie’s current theme would be Absolute Territory.
Dina’s… angry? That’s new.
She’s been visibly furious with Joyce in the past over science issues.
This, pretty much. Dina’s anger is reserved only for those who disrespect science.
Or when Amber is not feeling well and wants to be left alone, Dina will “let out the raptor”.
Ssnnnrrrrggl
If they ever plan on teaching religious doctrine in science classes, they should include things like Hindu cosmology and not just Creationism.
And invest in velociraptor defenses, because they’ll need to keep Dina at bay.
~de geso
… that’s actually a really cool idea. Teach a class on ALL creation myths. I mean, that’s neat from a historic/anthropological basis alone. Kids could get some Shinto and Pagan and Hindu and Buddhist alongside their JudeoChristian.
Dina is not the character I expected evangelism from….
She’s not gonna evangelize Becky;
she’s gonna do SCIENCE to her
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/04/30/scienceverbc1main.jpg
and even better
http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/dc-science-sm.gif
Yes!!
Better than dropping science on her, though it would be kind of fun to see Dina challenge Becky to a rap battle as some kind of ritual
Or the olde fashioned slang that uses “science” to mean “boxing” but I can’t come up with anything clever for that. If anyone else wants to, by all means help yourself.
Some kind of courtship ritual*
Dina and Becky are my new favorite thing. I am shipping it so hard.
Romantically or as a friendship, I don’t care. Just give me more.
I am so fond of dina due to her awkwardness. I was like her when i was little. Only until about 2nd grade though because school beat it into me that i can’t like just one thing.
I wish schools would let you focus on what you enjoy more then force you to learn a lot of stuff you probably will never use.
I mean that are you smarter than a fifth grader kind of shows how much stuff we force kids to learn that we never use when we get older.
Bah I am rambling I’ll shut up now.
Dina: MY LESBIAN! MINE!
…Aand now Dina sounds like Robin
save her Dina, save her with your radiometric dinosaur boner.
is that what we’re callin it now?
YUP!
It’s what it’s gonna be called from now on.
Dina pulls out a Darwin fish, Joyce pulls out a Jesus fish, Magical lights shoot out of them and hit each other in mid air.
Dina: Becky is mine
Joyce: Neveeeer!
“Dramatic music”
I’m now imagining the fight between Obi wan and Anakin, only with Joyce and Dina’s faces and those two fish for lightsabers.
Meanwhile Sarah faces down Radiah using dildos
This sounds like a viable Saints’ Row mod.
Mod? That just sounds like a session of Saints Row.
You’d need the mod to get DoA character models, though.
Someone get on that, would you?
If it were Saints Row2 it would have been easy to make either one given the huge wardrobe and layering system. Sadly it lacked dildo weapons.
I hope they make a new one soon based upon the retcon universe from the ending of Gat Out of Hell.
Well Joyce does have some experience waving around stuff like a lightsaber.
Give her some training in the Force, we’ll make a Jedi out of her yet.
Just make sure you call it the Faith, and Joyce will be an avid acolyte.
Ross Vader: “I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
Ask and you shall receive a hastily photoshopped image.
https://imgur.com/oIVypVb
Hasty. But glorious all the same.
There is something wrong with any image that has Joyce’s face photoshopped onto a mass murderer of children.
That’s not fair!
He also mass murdered adults.
Huh, Jedi is not what came to mind from that comment. “Neveeeer!” in particular made me think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vd22Qa7gqRo#t=210
Dina: “The Earth is over four and a half billion years old”
Joyce: “NOOOOoooooooo!”
Dina: “Search your feelings, you *know* it to be true!”
lmao do NOT mess with Dina about dinosaurs, science and evolution. Beautiful.
Just thought of a really shitting joke:
Whats Dinas favorite protist?
A dinoflagelate!
You I like
…goddammit I ship it now.
CURSE YOU WILLIS
Laughed out loud loud enough to scare myself.
Absolutely love the last panel. I can not lie, I know Dina has it in her to surprise people, but when she does….wow, it’s a surprise. Looks like she sure has surprised Becky.
A start of a beautiful friendship. If opposites attract, Mr. Willis has outdone himself on this one.
Aand a new avatar.
Over a hundred comments and no one’s complimented Willis on the subtle “Dina has her hands clasped as if in prayer while she’s proselytizing” thing?
Huh. I just figured it was “clasping hands to hang on from excitement.” Clasped hands don’t mean prayer in my life.
Also, Dina isn’t really “proselytizing,” is she? I see what you mean, but she’s stating facts, not beliefs.
Any attempt to get one to change their worldview to be more in line with your own technically qualifies as proselytizing.
I guess? I mean, the end goal is definitely to change Becky’s world view, but Dina is literally just stating facts. If I explain a chemical reaction to someone, I’m not trying to rock their world, just sharing knowledge.
Depends on your motivation. If the person you’re talking to has inaccurate beliefs about how chemistry works and you’re providing the information in hopes of changing those beliefs, you are absolutely proselytizing.
“Proselytize: to convert or attempt to convert someone from one religion, belief, or opinion to another.”
Except science, and fact, are not religion, belief or opinion.
Nope. What Dina is doing here is attempting to change Becky’s worldview from a Creationist belief system to one that embraces scientific method and facts that can be proven through observation and experimentation. That’s still proselytizing, even though the tools she’s using and the new belief structure are both scientific in nature.
Do you also pray with a big grin on your face? I think that would kinda weird out God.
Eh, who knows. That could be a nice change of pace compared to the usual.
That seems to imply a god that only gets called upon when people are suffering or angry, which seems kind of sad to me for both worshipper and deity.
Now kiss!
I am shocked and dismayed that I had to get this far down the page to find someone who posted what I would have posted if I’d been able to read the comic when it first came out last night.
well, i WASN’T shipping it before… o3o
Haha Wow she latched on physically. She really wants a win.
Becky is being swept away TO SCIENCE!
Good. Good for Becky.
Still not the kind of “rollin’ in it” she was expecting
God I love Becky’s “the fuck just happened” face in that last panel.
Me to
Dina hugs
Creationist shit: brown, lumpy, and created by an intelligent entity.
I’d be hard pressed to call creationists intelligent.
Sorry, but I just had to take that cheap shot.
Dangit Dina, stop playing games with the shippers like that
This is so funny… until I remember that Becky honestly doesn’t know this stuff because she had been fed lies her whole life. You go Dina!
Whilst I sympathise, Dina, evangelical science is not a whole lot better than evangelical anything else.
Explaining the tools people use to come to their conclusions about the world around us? That’s a whole lot better than just about every evangelical anything else I’ve heard.
Evangelical? Maybe not. Overzealous? Perhaps.
Also, you know, answering questions. They have a conversation, Becky prompts her to go on.
I really don’t understand this comment.
Sometimes it feels like preaching to explain evolution to a creationist. I have lots of experience with that as I’m a Christian who accepts evolution who also has lots of non-scientific Christian friends.
The religious have long pretended that science is itself a religion, so that they can call scientists hypocrites for “preaching” their science while simultaneously being unenthusiastic about creationism being put into schools. (Plus it makes it easier to dismiss science it you can convince yourself it’s not, well. science.)
That said, it’s certainly possible to be too pushy in trying to educate the people around you about science. Going door to door with it at 8:00 sunday morning, for example. Or starting a science inquisition and torturing anybody who disagrees with you, that’s also rude. But I don’t think Dina’s really crossed that line yet, not quite.
Up until the last panel, Dina wasn’t doing anything remotely pushy. But when you physically grab someone and yell “Away with you! I can save this one!”…I feel you may have crossed that line.
It seems that Joyce and Becky are the two people who can get Dina’s emotions to show.
I can’t believe today got cuter. Bet you can’t do it three days in a row, Willis!
IT GOT BETTER
Cross-eyed Joyce is my aesthetic.
The one thing that atheists fail to understand about creationists is that theirs is a universe dominated by intelligent activities by warring factions rather than the uninterrupted flow of natural processes. In such an environment, assuming that any data is uncontaminated is potentially misleading.
Although they are quick to praise any data they believe supports their claim, so it’s not an honest adherence to a different philosophy about knowledge.
I don’t hear creationists saying that gods and demons are falsifying data. I just hear them saying that scientists are lying.
“How about after teaching you about Carbon 14, I show you some Latex 69?”
It is weird but awesome to see Dina not reserved.
Am I the only one who thinks that Becky is just enjoying interacting with Dina and mostly not taking what she says too seriously?
I’m genuinely surprised at Dina’s reaction to Joyce. Still, I suppose that Dina’s condition would lead to what others would perceive as a massive over-reaction.
Becky has a habit of speaking in a passive voice (not tone of voice obviously) that makes it seems that she agrees with whoever is speaking but in reality is non-committal. She did it a lot with Joyce the first day of her visit before she came out to her. It may have to do with growing up in an environment where you always had to hide a part of yourself, even from yourself.
I’m pretty sure that’s how the conversation started for Becky, and that she just enjoyed Dina’s company as you said, but now she seems to be genuinely interested in what Dina’s saying. Compare yesterdays “that long ago, huh?” with today’s “so how old is that?” – in other words, Dina is completely right to think that she is close to getting through to Becky.
..ooh.
Christ that’s observant.
Do you have any other little things like that I probably didn’t notice? Cause if you do you should like make a list and post it on tumblr or something.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go reread everything Becky has ever said.
Thanks! I do my fair share of over-analyzing. I’m pretty proud of this one:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/hint/
Oh, the Becky POV spinoff. I can’t believe I forgot about it, I feel kind of dumb now.
You should be proud of that one though, it was good. I know I’ll certainly be proud of it when I plagiarize it in a few years. ^_^
yknow, its probably just a quirk of the drawing, but do Dina’s little eye-pupil-shiny white parts look a little… starry in that third panel?
Steven Universe?
I’m imagining this isn’t how Becky was hoping to get a girl between her legs.
whatever works
I’ve not read any of your comments nor will I for you see
*puts on captains hat and pipe and gets aboard the shipping ship*
There’s a storm on the way
You forgot:
*takes off sunglasses and stares off dramatically into the distance*
*Loud scream is heard, followed by The Who music*
Action Dina. My two favorite characters, and probably the closest thing I’ve ever seen to Dina performing something akin to a hug. Though I think she was just being protective. XD
Go Dina. For science.
Slightly weird that Becky guesses a million years as the age of the universe off the cuff when just a few seconds ago Dina told her that Camarasaurus lived 150 million years ago. (I’m possibly being slightly picky.
)
Eh, it’s not unrealistic. Becky has demonstrated that she doesn’t necessarily think things *all* the way through. Or always put two and two together. Or put them together and come up with plaid. She’s not a cool-headed thinking machine, ‘swhutimsayin.
And a million is a good short-hand for “a large number”
This is so adorable. I hope they become good friends.
Becky seems to be more open about science than Joyce is; I wonder if it’s partly because of her experience with how religion has affected her life due to her sexual orientation?
I feel like it would, but it probably wouldn’t happen so quickly unless Becky had a lot of underlying questions about herself and religion in general already.
Well she knows she is into girls for a while, right? So she probably did some thinking about this matter …
Save her, Dina! For great justice! … or something like that. I love this connection between Dina and Becky. I really hope Becky becomes this thing that helps Dina come out of her dinosaur hide a bit more for moments like this.
Save her with Science!
Recently did a freelance travel article about the Creation Museum. You know, Ken Ham’s little playground? One of the sidebars was “Other things to do nearby on your trip to the Creation Museum.” I was delighted to list every Natural History Museum and site of geological interest (lots of fossils and mention of things hundreds of thousands of years old) a day-trip or less away. Client paid happily for it, too.
Hah! High five
Nice XD
And if anyone complains you can just say “What, you don’t want to teach the controversy?”
You, my friend, deserve fist-bumps for that awesomeness.
How did you manage to get through the museum without your brain exploding?
It’s charming, but my reaction to this ship (or, rather, to most commentators’ reaction to the possibility of this ship) is that it is likely to go as follows:
https://youtu.be/ocmlSPDxKu0?t=2831
Not every interaction between two characters is a ship, folks.
No, but it could be. People are just gushing over the possibility – just as many people are gushing over the possibility of friendship (and really, for most posts it could be either and I have no idea what the author thinks).
I’m not really sure why the shipping is annoying. It’s all fanon anyway.
Becky, of course, totally objects. Like, so much.
Come into the warm embrace of Science !
More seriously, she was just taken by surprise.
And even more seriously, even if she enjoys Dina’s company, is honestly curious about learning some REAL science and maybe, just maybe doesn’t object to Joyce being a tiny bit jealous again, Becky doesn’t want this to escalate into a confrontation. This is Joyce’s party after all.
I’m looking forward Joyce going “oh, ok, we’ll continue without you then”, leaving them both in an awkard hug.
This comic makes me happy on so many levels.
Dina’s faces have synchronised!
But Carbon dating is a kind of radiometric dating. Also we don’t directly date dinosaur bones because they don’t contain the right stuff. We find where the fossil is on a strat column, then find an igneous intrusion onto that formation and date that.
There are only four panels. Gotta condense a little.
This, pretty much.
I ♥ Dina so muchly.
I’m waiting for that Slipshine, Dina using small dinosaur bone to bone Becky, or reversal.
You follow a normal webcomic, and in time you are changed into a perverted person who sees sex in almost every interaction between two characters.
It’s so bad.
Yeah, changed. Sure. Uh huh.
THANK YOU.
Grew up in one of those Creationist households, and had my share of Ken Ham type books and movies. They pull the carbon dating chestnut SO MUCH. “Durr, scientists use carbon dating, but carbon dating can’t be used for old objects, hurr, scientists are wrong and stupid about dinosaurs.” They use it so confidently, and so often, like an ace in the hole. And since you don’t learn about other methods until you’re much older and usually set in your religious programming, no one questions it.
Now I have a handy, succint comic strip to hold up the next time a family gathering starts to go the “How can you believe in evolution? Don’t you know carbon dating is a conspiracy?” route.
Someone else hears those wedding bells? Where is that coming from …? -looks around suspiciously-
… and suddenly I want to see Dina explaining stuff more than I want to see drama.
Yesterday’s xkcd comic may then interest you.
If I had a Dina in my life, I would never let go.
Indeed it did.
I cried at a trailer.
Becky is okay with this turn of events.
you apreciate coherence when scientists act like fanatics X’D
Is weird the more I read Dina the more I hear Niki Yang.
“I can save this one”. Everybody is trying to save us. Man – she makes science sound more like religion than religion.
Well, that escalated quickly.
Dina x Becky OTP!!
**Shipping Intensifies**
Shouldn’t the alt text read “New Earth Creationist”? Not all people that are religious and believe creation think that the Earth is only 6000-10,000 years old and deny science or evolution. That’s the New Earth crowd.
“New Earth Creationists” are still “Creationists”, just like “equilateral triangles” are still “triangles”.
Old earth creationists also deny science and evolution.
Religious people who embrace science and evolution are not called creationists.
Pretty sure I know several that believe very much in creation and very much in science but whatever you say.
That’s a hug.
It counts.
why did I google that… now I have to go in those sites and explain why they are completelly wrong… uuugh
Don’t bother, they either won’t allow comments, will block you once you start to contradict them, or delete your posts.
Great, now Becky is going to be thinking Dina is interested, when it’s likely that Dina has never even thought about sex, other than Dinosaur sex!
Oh, she’s thought about sex. In a academic manner.
I recall her saying she’d need to take notes on the experience if/when it happens. She and Dorothy are kindred spirits, apparently.
Inadvertently sexy Dina is sexy…
If you google ‘carbon dating 150 million years’, this page is the fifth result
Let’s make it #1! Come on! We can do this!
YOU DID IT!
Go Team!
I’m seeing it as #2 now
Oh then I guess that means there’ll be a page view war between DoA fans and creationists to be #1 on Google.
Friendshipping or love-shipping, it matters not right now
CAN WE SHIP IT?!
This is clearly taking place in the past, or in some horrible alternate universe. If this were taking place in our universe, Dina would not be at a party. She’d be camped out waiting for the next showing of Jurassic World.
I’m kinda wondering why I’m not doing so.
This story isn’t set in June. It’s not clear if it’s set in September/October 2014 or 2015, but it’s not even halfway through the fall term. Jurassic World is either not coming out for months, or came out months ago.
Alright Walky, where did you stash the cameras? Seriously Dina is acting like a rule 63’d me in this strip.
Don’t forget, WalkyxDina has already made a canon appearance in the comic:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/05-media-rumble/mine/
Not just in this comic.
Pretty sure that’s DinaxDrawingsOfDinosaurs
… OW THE PAPER CUTS!
Is it too soon to assume Dina+Becky?
I guess I’m kinda shocked? I’d never expect Dina to get so volatile about this. She straight up manhandles Becky and screams at Joyce like she has leprosy.
Dina feels that she can convert (“save”) Becky from the fundamentalist/creationist belief that the world is only a few thousand years old. Everybody laughs, because let’s face it, it *IS* a funny line.
Now, let’s say that Joe comes in and feels that he can convert Becky from her lesbianism by doing what Joe seems to do best. HOO – HAA!! Duck and cover, everybody!
That is a terrible comparison. Being a creationist is an opinion, it’s a thought and can eb changed at any time. Being a lesbian is a biological aspect of who Becky is.
bill, no
In <A HREF="http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/blunt/"this strip Ethan’s parents figured that if Ethan banged Joyce’s brains out he would eventually come to like it (with the unspoken thought that he would then be “cured” of his gayness). I was just reversing the gender roles and offering my two cents worth on the schidttstorm that something like that would stir up.
No offense intended; and after reading this clarification I hope none is taken.
I’m not shocked:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/02-guess-whos-coming-to-galassos/feathers/
Me neither. Pretty sure Joyce’s faith-not-science schtick is the only thing that’s truly made her angry, and it’s done so more than once. Dina took Raidah and Char’s insults at the mall calmly by comparison.
Whatever comes of this, the rage glomp amuses me.
A DBZ fight is shorter than this card game.
Still shorter than a Bleach fight, though.
“Oh, you’re more powerful than I thought. Well, I guess I’ll just have to pull an even more devastating attack out of my ass, Kurosaki!”
TO BE CONTINUED…
“Oops, we caught up to the manga again. Here’s a 35-episode filler arc to let Tite Kubo get ahead.”
35 WEEKS LATER…
(10 minutes of recap because it’s been six months since we left off)
“I’ll just have to pull an even more devastating attack out of my ass, Kurosaki!” [Shouts a phrase in a language that’s neither English nor Japanese, pauses for a beat, then yells another word in that language. Screen goes white, mountains are leveled, clouds are dispersed.]
[Close on Ichigo’s feet. Three drops of blood spatter on the ground.]
And so on for another eight or nine minutes, then TO BE CONTINUED…
She will rescue her! With SCIENCE!
The quiet ones. It’s always the quiet ones you need to watch.
But because we’re so quiet, you don’t notice us.
Who said that??
So much Dina love right now.
i ship the Lesbo-saurus Rex :3
Science will prevail!
I haven’t caught up on It’s Walky! yet, so I’ve seen very little of Walkyverse Dina…which means this is the most animated Dina I’ve ever seen.
this is pretty much the most animated i think she’s ever been without it being a bad thing