282 – A weighty comic

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  1. Philip says:

    Yup. Anti-matter has positive mass. And only a 100 mile radius? The explosive energy, assuming the subject weighs a mere 60 kilograms, would be as much as 200,000 Hiroshima bombings. Not everything in a 100 mile radius, but everything on the ENTIRE PLANET would be severely endangered.

    It would still have been 4000 times as weak as the Dinosaur-extinction meteor impact, though.

    Your length could also simply be a complex number.

  2. ljdarten says:

    Let’s not ev en get started on weights coming in as imaginary numbers.

  3. Sean says:

    A gram of antimatter has a mass of 1 gram, not a mass of -1 gram, not a mass of i grams.
    An anti-proton has the same mass as a proton.

  4. For the record, I thought this comic was both hilarious and well executed.

  5. Alex F says:

    This is why particles with negative masses are called “anorexions”. :)

  6. Jordi S says:

    Either that or you have imaginary height. ;)

  7. tuco says:

    That top zone is mislabeled… It should read “Yo mamma!”

  8. anonymous says:

    “Yo momma” always makes me think Yo-Yo Ma.

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