Crazy that there was a time (that I lived through) where you couldn't just get an answer to a question like that immediately.
What's even more wild is that Calvin's dad, by all measures, is actually a pretty well educated guy!
He remembers just enough of his basic science classes to sort-of answer the question, but because he existed before the modern internet, and Wikipedia specifically, he... sounds foolish now.
Yet, for the time period, the answer he gave probably would have been the best answer I could sum up without resources, as well.
Unless you had your own personal library
With you in a cart or something
Sick burn from Calvin, but I bet this is why every other explanation that Dad gives has him messing with Calvin.
My favourite was why old photos and movie were black and white.
I had to look this up, so for anyone else who is curious... https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1989/10/29
Hello fellow Calvin and Hobbes fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.
Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as "the last great newspaper comic",[2][3][4] Calvin and Hobbes has enjoyed broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic and philosophical interest… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes
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