Red and Rover by Brian Basset for March 15, 2025

Ruby is really quick with those conversions!

Six miles high… needs to be Eight Miles High.

the girl had swallowed a calculator! o_O

According to surveys, boys are more adept at math than girls. Guess the scientists never read this strip, LOL.

Ruby is a walking calculator.

Good morning, RnR fans and friends!

Love Rover’s reactions.

That new math is confusing!

She’s already a very calculating female.

Seems like Ruby is going to keep Red’s imagination in check. This should be interesting.

I mean 1,000,000 mm, yea 0.62 miles

I don’t like her. She’s not a fit for Red.

Ruby may be too smart for Red, lol!

What is childhood but fantasies?

The Estes logo on the box just gave me a pang of reminiscence.

Leave it to Ruby to bring Red back down to earth.

Six feet, maybe. Red, perhaps you should put the rocket on a shelf and admire it!

In my youth I would have used a C6-7, so probably a max altitude of around 1600 feet, depending on how heavy the rocket was. 2.6 oz should be the top for that motor. 15.30 Newtons and a total impulse of 10.00 Newton-seconds.

1 million divided by 5,280 feet is 190 miles, approximately.

I noticed that Ruby referred to the rocket as “she.” Good for her—head of her time for the era of this strip.

Hey Red, let’s talk about ‘league ’ and what’s in yours.

I’ve said it since ruby came into red’s life: he’s in way over his head…..

Marry that girl! She is going places with that mind.

Red is just trying to impress with a tiny bit of exaggeration… Ruby is smart ;)

if he dumped her I’d be saying “you dodged a bullet” …. she knows too much

…..out of mind……out of site!!!!

But did no one notice…. Ruby’s (Mr. Basset’s) 1st calculation was off… by a factor of 1,000! 1,000,000 feet is approximately 189.4 miles – NOT almost 190,000! The other calculations are reasonable estimates, though. People do still fact check what they read, don’t they?

I wonder if Red gets a future job estimating inauguration crowd sizes.

She reminds me of my Mother (was a bookkeeper in France, WWII) ….. she could total up a column of numbers and beat the adding machine ….. :)

A million feet is 189.394 miles. So, nearly 190 miles, not “nearly 190,000 miles”. (However, looking closely at the comic text she seems to be saying, “nearly 190.000 miles”.)

My daughter got her undergraduate in applied mathematics, her masters in chemistry and he doctorate in inorganic chemistry…

Ruby keeps it real.