Hmm, I definitely remember there was another Bug strip about ice having better traction, but now I just can’t find it. (Maybe some other reader can link to it?)
Anyway, I remember there you pointed out that, if ice had better traction, figure skating would be totally different. Also, there was no God-bug in it (IIRC), so the current one is still a different strip.
I was going to say something about ice melting and such but after fact checking some scientific papers it turns out that “Ice is really weird”.
Ice slipperiness is dependent on how the ice is formed, temperature and your footwear at the time.
Thanks for trying to look it up, but no, it was neither of those, I remember it mentioned that figure skating would be much different (and I seem to remember, but not distinctly, that Bug called it figure flailing or something of the like), with either Bug or Girl Bug stating that Russians were always very good at it.
My chemistry teacher once told me that God was a left-handed ice skater.
The left handed part was from the way atoms rotate, which was as if they were thrown by a left handed person.
The ice skater part has to do with a unique property of water. Matter has three states, solid, liquid, and gaseous. What state an item is in has to do with the temperature and the pressure. If pressure stays the same and you heat a solid enough, it becomes liquid, heat a liquid enough it becomes gaseous. If temperature remains the same and you compress a gas it becomes liquid, compress it further it becomes a solid. Water is the only thing that defies this. If you compress ice, it goes back to becoming a liquid. This is how you can ice skate. The blade of the skate puts a lot of pressure on a small area and thus it turns back into a liquid under the blade.
god-bug in the last panel is hilarious!
Hmm, I definitely remember there was another Bug strip about ice having better traction, but now I just can’t find it. (Maybe some other reader can link to it?)
Anyway, I remember there you pointed out that, if ice had better traction, figure skating would be totally different. Also, there was no God-bug in it (IIRC), so the current one is still a different strip.
I was going to say something about ice melting and such but after fact checking some scientific papers it turns out that “Ice is really weird”.
Ice slipperiness is dependent on how the ice is formed, temperature and your footwear at the time.
It’s not just ice that’s weird – water is weird, at least as a solid and liquid. AS aa gas, it’s pretty much normal.
Water is densest at 4°C, about 40°F. Normally, the colder a liquid, the denser it is. Water actually get LESS dense just above freezing!
Then when it freezes, it EXPANDS! Again, most liquids shrink when they freeze.
All of this is part of why there is life on Earth, and why NASA looks for water to look for life.
Just admit it. Ice is pretty cool. 😉
There is this one? https://www.bugmartini.com/comic/when-weather-takes-a-turn-for-the-verse/
Or this one: https://www.bugmartini.com/comic/letting-things-slide/
Thanks for trying to look it up, but no, it was neither of those, I remember it mentioned that figure skating would be much different (and I seem to remember, but not distinctly, that Bug called it figure flailing or something of the like), with either Bug or Girl Bug stating that Russians were always very good at it.
For those reading this at a later point, I have just realized it was a Sunday comic on Patreon.
No cartoonist in his right mind will have Jesus as a character and pass up the opportunity to make a “Christ” joke. You ever excel.
My chemistry teacher once told me that God was a left-handed ice skater.
The left handed part was from the way atoms rotate, which was as if they were thrown by a left handed person.
The ice skater part has to do with a unique property of water. Matter has three states, solid, liquid, and gaseous. What state an item is in has to do with the temperature and the pressure. If pressure stays the same and you heat a solid enough, it becomes liquid, heat a liquid enough it becomes gaseous. If temperature remains the same and you compress a gas it becomes liquid, compress it further it becomes a solid. Water is the only thing that defies this. If you compress ice, it goes back to becoming a liquid. This is how you can ice skate. The blade of the skate puts a lot of pressure on a small area and thus it turns back into a liquid under the blade.
Did anyone read all the way through this?
Yes, Ned, I did.
Ditto