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How is it uphill both ways, though? It only seems uphill. From his point of view, the world is flat, but if you zoom out a bit, it appears to curve.
Essentially, he really isn’t going up a hill, he’s walking a flat plane. It would be hard, however, if his path was a spiral (of sorts), seeing as the gravity is the same all around the edges of the world.
If it was a spiral, he would be walking at an angle to the ‘ground’.
to make it uphill both ways you’d need two points of gravity, so that one is “under” the school and the other under his home… but then he would actually be weightless and could float anywhere he wanted…
ah, whatever, it’s probably just all inside Biff’s head anyway -_-’
My theory is that his little world is spinning, the the force of ‘gravity’ is duplicated by the centripical force (I know I spelled it wrong, so sue me.). kinda like those ‘UFO’ rides at the fairs. This is also the solution as to how there is gravity on the game Halo.
The image only moves once. He has to walk up the huge curve to get to school, the picture flips, and then he has to walk up the huge curve to get home.
the rate of rotation can be such that the amount of centripital force is identical to the force exerted by Earth’s gravity (if you consider the centripital forces Biff is under too great for him to be able to move, then tell me you are able to move under the gravitational forces being exerted on you by the giant ball of rock you’re sitting on). this is how we can acheive “artificial gravity” in a weightless environment like outer space. motion is measured in relative terms–depending on how you look at it, you can be considered to be in motion even when you are siting perfectly still because the earth is revolving around the sun. Biff is in motion realitive to the ground he’s walking on even though he may not be in motion relative to the point around which his world is revolving.
Back in my day we didn’t have no fancy new fangled “School busses”. I had to walk 14 miles in the snow, uphill, carrying all 17 of my OLDER siblings 7 days a week because when I was your age the communists made us go to school everyday of the year AND we had to eat mystery meat for lunch everday…and they didn’t offer chocolate milk. Only Commie juice!!
When my Grandad was growing up, they didn’t have school. He had to walk uphill both ways, butt nekkid & barefoot, in the snow, carrying his 17 brothers and sisters - for nothing! And he LIKED it!
It isn’t as bad as the hills in Redmond, Washington. Very steep hills. I would get off the bus with a heavy backpack and I’d have to climb up a hill every day I came home from school.
I did that for about 6 years and I’m glad I no longer do it.
I *literally* walked a mile and a half to highschool, with a huge uphill slope at some point both ways. No snow, but i still get old-man griping rights
If you think about it, if he’s going uphill both ways, then whenever we go anywhere here on earth, we are going downhill both ways. cause our earth curves inversely to Biff’s.
Mattz physics is wrong, it cant be a gravitational thing cause he would be weightless inside the thing. I don’t feel like explaining it cause I’m lazy, but if you look into it, or ask someone with some college level physics courses, you should be able to get the reasons. Also if its the centrifugal force (For anyone who remembers a highschool phsysics teacher saying its fake, its acctually not, but… well the reasons for that are complicated, but you can also ask a college professor about that too) then he is never walks up hill cause the the force would always be perpendicular to the surface. So either bAT L’s hamster wheel is right, or CynicalSavant is right. Given the nature of biffs world though, I dont think we should be considering this so deeply.
Lemme tell ya sonny, lemme set you straight
you kids today ain’t never had it rough
always had everything handed to ya on a silver plate
you lazy brats think nothins’ good enough
Well, no-one ever drove me to school when it was 90 degrees below
we had to walk butt naked, through forty miles of snow
worked in the coal mine 22 hours a day for just half a cent
had to sell my internal organs just to pay the rent
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
lemme tell ya somethin’, you whiny little snot
there’s somethin’ wrong with all you kids today
ya just don’t appreciate all the things ya got
we were hungry, broke, and miserable, and we liked it fine that way
well there was 73 of us, livin’ in a cardboard box
all I got for Christmas, was a lousy bag o’ rocks
every night for dinner, we got a big ol’ chunk o’ dirt
if we were really good we didn’t get dessert
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
didn’t have no telephone
didn’t have no fax machine
all we had was a couple cans and a crummy peice o’ string
didn’t have no swimmin’ pool when I was just a lad
a ( I couldn’t hear this part) tank was the closest thing we had
didn’t have no dental floss
had to use old rusty nails
didn’t have nintendo
we just ( didn’t hear this part either ) on snails
didn’t have no water bed(?)
had to sleep on broken glass
didn’t have no lawn mower
we used our teeth to cut the grass
what’s the matter now sonny
ya say ya don’t believe this junk
you think my story is wearin’ kinda thin
I’ll tell ya one thing
I never was such a disrespectful punk
back then we had a thing called discipline
my dad would whoop us every night til’ a quarter after twelve
then he’d get too tired
and he’d make us whoop ourselves
then he chopped me into into pieces
and played frisbee with my brain
and lemme tell ya junior
ya never heard me complain
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
June 25th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
I always wondered how my da managed to do that… now I know!
November 28th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
Uphill both ways - nice.
December 17th, 2006 at 1:11 am
The road from my house to the local store is uphill both ways. I’m almost certain.
January 6th, 2007 at 11:32 am
It all makes sense now…
January 13th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
B-but-but… Wouldn’t it be flat both ways? My head hurts…
January 13th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
if only it could be downhill…..
January 16th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
ah the wonders of abstract thinking
January 20th, 2007 at 5:34 am
Trippy.
January 21st, 2007 at 7:39 am
My siblings’ High School’s path is downhill at the beginning then uphill… so they go Downhill and uphill on the way back too =P…
January 24th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Could be downhill both ways too, just would be a real tiny planet.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:19 am
So Biff lives in one of them spinning space environments like Babylon 5?
January 30th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
How is it uphill both ways, though? It only seems uphill. From his point of view, the world is flat, but if you zoom out a bit, it appears to curve.
Essentially, he really isn’t going up a hill, he’s walking a flat plane. It would be hard, however, if his path was a spiral (of sorts), seeing as the gravity is the same all around the edges of the world.
If it was a spiral, he would be walking at an angle to the ‘ground’.
A circle? No.
XD too much physics
January 30th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Well his school is in the sky above his house… I’m not sure how much more “up” it could be.
January 31st, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Wow, if reading the image upside down didn’t hurt my head enough, my head just exploded after reading, or attempting to read, Mattz’s comment. Ouch.
February 16th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Um… speaking of physics…
to make it uphill both ways you’d need two points of gravity, so that one is “under” the school and the other under his home… but then he would actually be weightless and could float anywhere he wanted…
ah, whatever, it’s probably just all inside Biff’s head anyway -_-’
February 19th, 2007 at 11:06 am
He could just jump really high..
That saves the journey either way
Noodles x
February 21st, 2007 at 10:35 am
Maybe it’s a hamster wheel design so that he’s always at the bottom. That’s what I thought when I first read it.
February 25th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
My theory is that his little world is spinning, the the force of ‘gravity’ is duplicated by the centripical force (I know I spelled it wrong, so sue me.). kinda like those ‘UFO’ rides at the fairs. This is also the solution as to how there is gravity on the game Halo.
February 26th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
next thing to learn in school: writing backwards cursive!
lol it’s fun writing backwards cursive cuz i feel like davinci ^__^
March 26th, 2007 at 11:33 am
The image only moves once. He has to walk up the huge curve to get to school, the picture flips, and then he has to walk up the huge curve to get home.
April 9th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
My brain exploded. Would say more, but I’m picking up the pieces and stapling them back together.
April 9th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Well if it was centrifugal force, I doubt he’d be able to make much progress to anywhere.
Let just say it’s magic, kay?
April 10th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
the rate of rotation can be such that the amount of centripital force is identical to the force exerted by Earth’s gravity (if you consider the centripital forces Biff is under too great for him to be able to move, then tell me you are able to move under the gravitational forces being exerted on you by the giant ball of rock you’re sitting on). this is how we can acheive “artificial gravity” in a weightless environment like outer space. motion is measured in relative terms–depending on how you look at it, you can be considered to be in motion even when you are siting perfectly still because the earth is revolving around the sun. Biff is in motion realitive to the ground he’s walking on even though he may not be in motion relative to the point around which his world is revolving.
April 10th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
So he built his house on the curve last time? Foolish Biff. =P
April 11th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Back in my day we didn’t have no fancy new fangled “School busses”. I had to walk 14 miles in the snow, uphill, carrying all 17 of my OLDER siblings 7 days a week because when I was your age the communists made us go to school everyday of the year AND we had to eat mystery meat for lunch everday…and they didn’t offer chocolate milk. Only Commie juice!!
April 29th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
When I was your age…
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:41 pm
When my Grandad was growing up, they didn’t have school. He had to walk uphill both ways, butt nekkid & barefoot, in the snow, carrying his 17 brothers and sisters - for nothing! And he LIKED it!
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Hell, that looks like a typical day at my school. They don’t call us the “Hilltoppers” for nothing…
May 29th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Getting up would be a pain, but going down looks like it would be fun.
June 29th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
It isn’t as bad as the hills in Redmond, Washington. Very steep hills. I would get off the bus with a heavy backpack and I’d have to climb up a hill every day I came home from school.
I did that for about 6 years and I’m glad I no longer do it.
July 8th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
When I Was Your Age…
(YAY FOR WEIRD AL!)
August 1st, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Mattz killed me with physics….
I agree, Malachite Dragon. Go Weird Al indeed.
It all makes sense now….
August 20th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Hey! The high school near me is Park View! How weird.
August 25th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
I *literally* walked a mile and a half to highschool, with a huge uphill slope at some point both ways. No snow, but i still get old-man griping rights
October 12th, 2007 at 1:47 am
If you think about it, if he’s going uphill both ways, then whenever we go anywhere here on earth, we are going downhill both ways. cause our earth curves inversely to Biff’s.
October 26th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Mattz physics is wrong, it cant be a gravitational thing cause he would be weightless inside the thing. I don’t feel like explaining it cause I’m lazy, but if you look into it, or ask someone with some college level physics courses, you should be able to get the reasons. Also if its the centrifugal force (For anyone who remembers a highschool phsysics teacher saying its fake, its acctually not, but… well the reasons for that are complicated, but you can also ask a college professor about that too) then he is never walks up hill cause the the force would always be perpendicular to the surface. So either bAT L’s hamster wheel is right, or CynicalSavant is right. Given the nature of biffs world though, I dont think we should be considering this so deeply.
November 10th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
just how old is biff?
December 23rd, 2007 at 4:32 pm
…
Babylon 5 reference~
Happy~
February 17th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Lyrics to Weird Al’s “When I was your age.”
Lemme tell ya sonny, lemme set you straight
you kids today ain’t never had it rough
always had everything handed to ya on a silver plate
you lazy brats think nothins’ good enough
Well, no-one ever drove me to school when it was 90 degrees below
we had to walk butt naked, through forty miles of snow
worked in the coal mine 22 hours a day for just half a cent
had to sell my internal organs just to pay the rent
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
lemme tell ya somethin’, you whiny little snot
there’s somethin’ wrong with all you kids today
ya just don’t appreciate all the things ya got
we were hungry, broke, and miserable, and we liked it fine that way
well there was 73 of us, livin’ in a cardboard box
all I got for Christmas, was a lousy bag o’ rocks
every night for dinner, we got a big ol’ chunk o’ dirt
if we were really good we didn’t get dessert
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
didn’t have no telephone
didn’t have no fax machine
all we had was a couple cans and a crummy peice o’ string
didn’t have no swimmin’ pool when I was just a lad
a ( I couldn’t hear this part) tank was the closest thing we had
didn’t have no dental floss
had to use old rusty nails
didn’t have nintendo
we just ( didn’t hear this part either ) on snails
didn’t have no water bed(?)
had to sleep on broken glass
didn’t have no lawn mower
we used our teeth to cut the grass
what’s the matter now sonny
ya say ya don’t believe this junk
you think my story is wearin’ kinda thin
I’ll tell ya one thing
I never was such a disrespectful punk
back then we had a thing called discipline
my dad would whoop us every night til’ a quarter after twelve
then he’d get too tired
and he’d make us whoop ourselves
then he chopped me into into pieces
and played frisbee with my brain
and lemme tell ya junior
ya never heard me complain
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
when I was your age
find this vid at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kB78hM_lkI
April 8th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
well my friends its a good comment obviously mocking the old cliche of the “back in my day” speeches we all know and love
you guys are over thinking it i mean seriously applying physics to biffs world?????
people in the last few comics hes been cut in half electricuted and lit on fire
this man is above and beyond the laws of our world
in other words
biff is THE man
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I must agree with the above statement. You are over thinking it. It’s a comic. Laugh and enjoy it.