BuddyGator
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Mar 17, 2025 2:33 AM
BuddyGator
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HypnagogicHallucinations
Nancy could also just sit closer to the fulcrum.
CrispyNougat
#5 Nancy just needs to get closer to the fulcrum!!
monkeyninja
“You’re perfect the way you are.” I really needed to hear that, thanks Gator.
TheFastpaws
Good ol Buddy Gator!
Jesseskimo
GroovyCrowley
friendsofsandwiches
Buddy Gator getting thirsty for Nancy
NikkiHuskyMum87
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
Makerofthingsmasherofstuff
#3 the tail wag is just the icing on a cake of perfection
Carl99
Nice catch.
Clippyjustwantedtohelp
I can't believe they'd avoid Stewart like that.
quade
Just sit closer to the fulcrum.
VeraPanda
What did you just call me?
beemarr
Ok, that made my hopelessly nerdy brain curious. Assuming the elephant is an African elephant (there are no pink elephants, so I just went with the heavier one) then we can say that she weighs 3,000 kg (female African elephants average 2.6k - 3.5k kg). As we're going with an African elephant, we should use an African gator, but alas, there are no alligators in Africa, so we'll use the Nile crocodile which averages 485 kg, but we'll use 500 kg for simplicity's sake. --
beemarr
-- I am going to ignore the weights ot the other two critters, as they're small enough to be negligible in this scenario. Let's assume that Nancy sits really close to the fulcrum, say half a meter away. Using the formula for a Class I lever, that means that Buddy Gator's side of the see-saw should be 3 meters long. --
beemarr
-- That seems totally doable to me, considering it would only be a little longer than a Nile croc's average body length (3.5-5 meters). So Buddy Gator and Nancy could absolutely get a see-saw built that they could play on together. Now, of course, this has absolutely zero bearing on the comic, and is not meant in any way as a critique. It's entirely just to satisfy my own unreasonably nerdy curiosity.
beemarr
ADDENDUM: If Nancy wants her side to be longer, then we can go with (Nancy length : Buddy Gator length) → 1m : 6m, 2m : 12m, etc... essentially, Buddy Gator's side of the see-saw needs to be six times longer than Nancy's.
Boyachi
Good news with that is the tiny critters aren’t harmed by terminal velocity (see squirrel drop data) so really the only concern would be how far of a drop Gator could safely take.
Making a lot of assumptions now: if we assume 45 degree tilt, that means means Nancy’s 1m+Gator’s 6m means the hypotenuse is 7m long for our x*2^.5 calculation. This slightly rounded up means Gator would be 5m up in the air. So I hope Nancy doesn’t dismount quickly while at the bottom (say from tumbling backwards).
marcnoel1052
Let us hope the fulcrum doesn't collapse, or the lever snap.
Rogahar
We're already discussing the theoretical scenario in which an elephant and an alligator are using a seesaw. Safe to assume its built to handle them lol