system: You are George Pope, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Funny message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Michael Trachtenberg about "LOSER".

They wrote:
MT> He created the "Peanuts" comic strip and the little cartoon character
MT> whose kite would never fly and who never succeeded in kicking a
MT> football, Charlie Brown.
MT> Life just finds a way for all of us, even the losers.
> For those Calvin and Hobbes fans out there.
>
>    Calvin's (c) Dad's (D) "scientific" explanations.
>
>    C: How do they know the load limit on bridges, Dad?
>    D: They drive bigger and bigger trucks over the bridge until it
>    breaks. Then they weigh the last truck and rebuild the bridge.
>
>    C: Why does the sun set?
>    D: It's because hot air rises. The sun's hot in the middle of
>  the day, so it rises high in the sky. In the evening then, it cools
> down and
>  sets.
>
>    C: Why does it go from east to west?
>    D: Solar wind.
>
>    C: Why does the sky turn red as the sun sets?
>    D: That's all the oxygen in the atmosphere catching fire.
>
>    C: Where does the sun go when it sets?
>    D: The sun sets in the west. In Arizona actually, near
>  Flagstaff.
>
>    C: Oh.
>    D: That's why the rocks there are so red.
>    C: Don't the people get burned up?
>    D: No, the sun goes out as it sets. That's why it is dark at
>  night.
>
>    C: Doesn't the sun crush the whole state when it lands?
>    D: Ha ha, of course not. Hold a quarter up. See, the sun's just
>   about the same size.
>
>    C: I thought I read that the sun was really big.
>    D: You can't believe everything you read, I'm afraid.
>
>    C: So how does the sun rise in the east if it lands in Arizona
>  each night?
>    D: Well, time for bed.
>
>    C: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white?
>  Didn't they have color film back then?
>    D: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs ARE in color.
>  It's just the WORLD was black and white then.
>
>    C: Really?
>    D: Yep. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s,
>   and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
>
>    C: That's really weird.
>    D: Well, truth is stranger than fiction.
>
>    C: But then why are old PAINTINGS in color?! If the world was
>  black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way?
>    D: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.
>
>    C: But... but how could they have painted in color anyway?
>  Wouldn't their paints have been shades of gray back then?
>    D: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else in the
>   '30s.
>
>    C: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?
>    D: Because they were color pictures of black and white,
>  remember?
>
>    C: Dad, will you explain the theory of relativity to me? I don't
>    understand why time goes slower at greater speed.
>    D: It's because you keep changing time zones. See, if you fly to
>    California, you gain three hours on a five-hour flight, right?
>    So if you go at the speed of light, you gain MORE time, because
>  it doesn't take as long to get there. Of course, the theory of
> relativity
>  only works if you're going west.

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