If you’ve gotten fan mail back, it’s my fault. I failed to keep my PO box paid up, and I know some people got mail back. I’m really sorry! Feel free to send stuff along to the new address: Dana Simpson PO Box 6347 Santa Barbara, CA 93160-6347 Again, I’m really sorry for the inconvenience! […]
So the Today Show had Amazon.com list some summer reading books for young reluctant readers. I’m #8! I’m almost more excited that Breaking Cat News, by my friend Georgia Dunn, is #2. Go Georgia! Go kitties! Read more →
It had been a little while since I actually won an award, though I’ve been nominated a few times. This time, kids did the voting! Phoebe was voted “Bravest Hero” (For The Magic Storm) at the Kids’ Comics Awards, at the Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival. (Which, by the way, I should attend some time. […]
I’ll be returning to C&P Coffee Co. in West Seattle, for Words West Literary’s kids’ night. I’ll be reading some selections from various “Phoebe and Her Unicorn” books. It’ll be me and Suzanne Selfors. Last time it was fun! Starts at 6. Read more →
One child, anyway. A little girl named Katy, in Massachussetts. She wrote a letter to her local paper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, asking them to please pick up ‘Phoebe and Her Unicorn.’ Not only did they, but they let her ask me some interview questions. And she really nailed it. Read about it here! […]
Did you catch the reveal of Max’s parents in this week’s strips? I’ve actually known all along that Max has lesbian parents. I’ve been waiting for years for it to come up organically. And it actually did in the forthcoming Phoebe and Her Unicorn In: The Magic Storm, which is due out in October. So […]
SLJ’s Brigid Alverson interviewed me for a great article about LGBTQ representation in comics. I’m quoted in the article, but I said a lot more, and apparently it was interesting enough that she also published the whole interview. Read more →
Nope. A teensy, tiny fraction of the gravitational force that keeps pulling the stars in the galaxy towards the center — i.e. what makes it spin in a circle — goes to various factors that end up letting the various bodies either drift outwards or spiral inwards, depending on various factors — and there’s no stable configuration where it will do neither. At some point, even if our galaxy doesn’t collide with another, each and every thing contained in it will either be absorbed by the black hole at the center — which will, in turn, evaporate due to Hawking radiation or some fancy physics thing — or be flung out into deep space, to slowly disintegrate as all matter eventually will, leaving the universe cold and dark and physically incapable of supporting any life whatsoever.
Technically, a galaxy could qualify as a perpetual motion machine… on a mortal timescale, at least.
On a mortal timescale? If it has appreciable gravity, it’s motion is perpetual, until it meets another body with appreciable gravity.
There’s no such thing as a perpetual motion machine on a human timescale. Either it runs forever or it runs for what amounts to only a very long time.
What definition of the word “machine” does a galaxy qualify for?
Nope. A teensy, tiny fraction of the gravitational force that keeps pulling the stars in the galaxy towards the center — i.e. what makes it spin in a circle — goes to various factors that end up letting the various bodies either drift outwards or spiral inwards, depending on various factors — and there’s no stable configuration where it will do neither. At some point, even if our galaxy doesn’t collide with another, each and every thing contained in it will either be absorbed by the black hole at the center — which will, in turn, evaporate due to Hawking radiation or some fancy physics thing — or be flung out into deep space, to slowly disintegrate as all matter eventually will, leaving the universe cold and dark and physically incapable of supporting any life whatsoever.
More like Dali in Millicent’s case
I had to google it to get the joke…”coach class” on an airplane.