In Google’s defense, most info you can find on the first page is legit. Loved the comic, and I hope whatever was being looked into in panel 3 was worth the dead critters.
I don’t think that is true for all cases. The curve of energy consumed by muscles to move loads over the muscles entire range of movement is non-linear e.g. if you double the load it takes IIRC, not 2x energy but 2.5x-3x energy. Likewise, at very light loads, the muscles burn more energy than necessary because they require a certain mimimal energy just to move themselves. So every muscle and every combination of muscles has a “sweet spot” of load where it uses the least energy (ususally measure in nutritional or kilo calories) per unit of weight moved. The sweet spot is seldom precieved as very “heavy” by individual doing the moving.
This was actually studied in quite detail by the military and NASA back in the 1950s and 1960s. For instance, its why different types of special forces body train to different muscle masses and distribution depending on their expected mission profiles. E.g. SEALS have short duration, in-out, high intensity with a heavy load mission and therefore body train for maximum strength at the expense of energy consumption. Green-Beret/Rangers/Recon have long duration missions of low intensity so they train to an body build primarily focused on endurance and moderate energy consumption (to preserve supplies.)
This information brought to you courtesy by the 12 grand I borrowed from Uncle Sam for a biology degree I never bleeping used in my career in the computer industry.
Whaddaya MEAN Cheetah’s don’t fart out of their eyes? Everyone knows that, it’s a scientific fact! As is the fact that gorilla’s are born knowing how to juggle!
You know, Wikipedia gets too much of a bad rap. For many (if not most) articles, it’s actually vey accurate. And if you don’t want the “stigma” of quoting directly from Wikipedia, just follow the source links.
Ok, sorry for being the dork who took the comic too seriously….
The Texas horned toad look like a miniature escapee from a Japanese monster movie, they bury themselves down vertically in sand by vibrating and they squirt blood from their eyes! It’s a trifecta of animal coolness! We loved them when I was a kid.
Prior to the internet, it was be fun telling people from distant parts about horned toads, jackalopes and armadillos and letting them figure out which was real. Of course, if your fast enough with your wikipedia edits, you can still keep the game going.
The damn fire ants have largely done them in. We actually have reserves for them run by rednecks who’ve taken a break from beating tree-hugging hippies to protect the little critters.
I don’t believe that cheetahs fart out of their eyes so much as they are able to expell jets of air from their eyes in order to slow down and at times to change direction by air jets from one eye and at the same time swinging their tail to the opposite side. Mother Nature is amazing.
I know exactly what you mean.
My school research always used to end more then ten Lab-rats… now it’s just killing my nerves because of all these “facts” in the internet…
I have a master’s degree in counterterrorism studies and not a day on social media goes by that I don’t get told to “turn in” my degree by some clot because the literal focus of my thesis contradicts something they heard on CNN between ads for Alpha King male enhancement.
Protip for people arguing online: real research is not done on your phone reading mommy blogs while taking a grumper.
In Google’s defense, most info you can find on the first page is legit. Loved the comic, and I hope whatever was being looked into in panel 3 was worth the dead critters.
Yes, when I was using Google to research the first world war, it apparently took place in the year Matt is a douche.
You know Bug should totally have a wikipedia page.
Like!
Agreed!
Several trips, pffffft. Who does that?? If it can all be carried from point A to point B in one trip, it will be
2nd Panel, as a Scientist, I will tell you making several trips is less efficient in both time and energy.
I don’t think that is true for all cases. The curve of energy consumed by muscles to move loads over the muscles entire range of movement is non-linear e.g. if you double the load it takes IIRC, not 2x energy but 2.5x-3x energy. Likewise, at very light loads, the muscles burn more energy than necessary because they require a certain mimimal energy just to move themselves. So every muscle and every combination of muscles has a “sweet spot” of load where it uses the least energy (ususally measure in nutritional or kilo calories) per unit of weight moved. The sweet spot is seldom precieved as very “heavy” by individual doing the moving.
This was actually studied in quite detail by the military and NASA back in the 1950s and 1960s. For instance, its why different types of special forces body train to different muscle masses and distribution depending on their expected mission profiles. E.g. SEALS have short duration, in-out, high intensity with a heavy load mission and therefore body train for maximum strength at the expense of energy consumption. Green-Beret/Rangers/Recon have long duration missions of low intensity so they train to an body build primarily focused on endurance and moderate energy consumption (to preserve supplies.)
This information brought to you courtesy by the 12 grand I borrowed from Uncle Sam for a biology degree I never bleeping used in my career in the computer industry.
Whaddaya MEAN Cheetah’s don’t fart out of their eyes? Everyone knows that, it’s a scientific fact! As is the fact that gorilla’s are born knowing how to juggle!
And we ALL know the validity of Wikipedia, so it must be true!
You know, Wikipedia gets too much of a bad rap. For many (if not most) articles, it’s actually vey accurate. And if you don’t want the “stigma” of quoting directly from Wikipedia, just follow the source links.
Ok, sorry for being the dork who took the comic too seriously….
I’ve got cheetah eye farts beat…
The Texas horned toad look like a miniature escapee from a Japanese monster movie, they bury themselves down vertically in sand by vibrating and they squirt blood from their eyes! It’s a trifecta of animal coolness! We loved them when I was a kid.
Prior to the internet, it was be fun telling people from distant parts about horned toads, jackalopes and armadillos and letting them figure out which was real. Of course, if your fast enough with your wikipedia edits, you can still keep the game going.
The damn fire ants have largely done them in. We actually have reserves for them run by rednecks who’ve taken a break from beating tree-hugging hippies to protect the little critters.
Okay, not sure why my previous comment got buried in the middle here as a seeming reply.
God Bless Texas!
Bon Jour, or sum like dat.
A scientist is only as good as the hernia he gives himself lugging around his reference books. Great strip as always.
Do scientists still reference books? I thought they just quoted each other as authorities. That’s what I get for thoughting.
I don’t know that about Cheetahs! Since I read it here, it must be true.
I don’t believe that cheetahs fart out of their eyes so much as they are able to expell jets of air from their eyes in order to slow down and at times to change direction by air jets from one eye and at the same time swinging their tail to the opposite side. Mother Nature is amazing.
“Science can’t move forward without heaps!”
-Prof. Farnsworth
Has noone rushed to Wikipedia to edit the information on cheetahs yet?
*checks cheetah’s wikipedia entry*
*edits*
*saves*
Ready! Now I’m a researcher too!
As much as Wikipedia “begs to differ” on occasion, the interwebs really has made it easier to get ignorant blowhards to STFU.
Praise Glob!
In the first panel, should there be a comma after “you” and before “research”? It seems weird not having one there.
You’re right. Ha! I’m not used to referring to “research” as a person. Will fix.
I know exactly what you mean.
My school research always used to end more then ten Lab-rats… now it’s just killing my nerves because of all these “facts” in the internet…
I have a master’s degree in counterterrorism studies and not a day on social media goes by that I don’t get told to “turn in” my degree by some clot because the literal focus of my thesis contradicts something they heard on CNN between ads for Alpha King male enhancement.
Protip for people arguing online: real research is not done on your phone reading mommy blogs while taking a grumper.