I get the joke but I assume fastest is the eagle.

Well hence they will work out when the plant (or human in your example) is really starving.

I love how this chart is going to update every year.

So based on other comments here, the delicious recipe for brisket is:

1. Bathe the brisket in copious brine.
2. Place in an oven on low heat on timer for 300 years.
3. Ensure that during this time the brisket is pounded by gamma radiation continuously.

Panel 3 was pulled off so well, I actually felt a bit warm and fuzzy before panel 4.

Terry Pratchett is pretty much the Tolkien of flat earth literature.

Edit: give me 100 upvotes and that will satisfy me more than 2k on Reddit.

Edit 2: AWESOME!

From my elementary knowledge of chemistry:

I had to go looking for Mercury and Lead and sure enough they look about right.

Column 1 reacts with water so you bet that'll hurt. Hydrogen needs a boost to start reacting with oxygen so no naked flame is recommended.

Anything in column 7 are desperate to rip electrons away from molecules so yes, permanent damage to your tongue and mouth.

Uranium is alright if you lick it once. A guy ate uranium cake once on TV.

The 'Please reconsider' lot seem to be a good way to die a horrible death by radiation.

Tc I believe is technetium which is radioactive and emits gamma rays, perhaps not soluable so stays in your body and you become gamma-man.

I know we'd all like some scientific actualisation of Star Wars but I mean:

• They made noise in space 'cause that's fun.
• There was always gravity on pretty much any ship.
• I don't really recall any spacewalks so we don't see any instance of 'no gravity'
• There's hyperspace since lightyears is a bit of a long time.
• Stormtroopers seem very scientifically and inefficiently accurate

At this point I think the Star Wars movies (the oldies) pretty much ignored a fair bit of the science.

But if it was a death star literally put there in our universe, I think there would be a bit of structural considerations for gravity, but not huge due to it being quite hollow. Gravity is pretty strong when the sphere is entirely comprised of dense rock and no air. A mostly hollow sphere of air where air is something close to 1/1000 that of rock (yes, used the density of water lol) is not going to get much of a rollicking from gravity.

Edit: an interesting 'expose' on the moon landings claim one thing: why were the photos so relatively boring? Because they were real and that's all they could get for all the limited resources they had at the time.

This comic almost has an xkcd flavour to it.

It got on the news. They sacrificed their jobs for that at least.

What a fucking shit educator: 'Once a thief always a thief.' Humiliating a student in front of the class.

If I was the principal I would have them fired, or at least suspended.

I always love seeing this comic here and there and thinking back to the original infamous question posed by many commenters: "what's up with the eye not on their head?"