Undah Dah Sea

@Sean: I think it’s the opposite…are we sure he has a mouth? Dude is a complete asshole.

Mad Marie

You dreamt about going down there, but that was a big mistake. ;-)

Maurice Post

Bubbles's hair looks particularly nice today.

Graydon Armstrong

A cloaca, just like any other snake.

OldGoat

My father once told my sister and I that people are just "animated tubes". We thought it was funny at the time...

Kiva Catalina

Regarding the underwater dwellers that have thus far deigned to make contact, the population codenamed BLUE HADES are barely tolerating humanity as it is. As pollution and acidifcation increase they becomes increasingly likely to once again 'wipe the slate'. According to the The Laundry series by Stross

jeff fearnow

I ❤️ Bubbles so freaking much.

jeff fearnow

We are also tubes.

Larry

Oh look, two of my kid’s hyperfixations (QC and deep sea - and they even rhyme!) in one comic 😁

Elizabeth Wallace

Are we sure that Voldemort has an anus, though? Canonically, that is - I'm sure there's plenty of fanfic that explores the subject.

Sean Kinlin

Lord Voldemort, having no nose, is toplogically equivalent to a donut. Most humans, having a mouth and two nostrils, are not.

Stephen Wells

And we get a rare topology joke for no extra charge! When converting a donut or coffee cup to its canonical toroid, the discussion of whether the space between the molecules is not resurrected out of sociomathematical courtesy. The question of whether the animal alimentary canal takes precedence and all other perforations are, in fact, inward continuous deformations bounded by inter-molecular distances is the equivalent discussion. For humans, at least (and probably cetaceans), the nasopharangeal complex probably cannot be finessed as easily without specifying the state of the mouth and eyelids.

Mike O'Dell

Wait until Beeps meets The Director... Also, that was a quality joke, Bubbles, A+

enchantedsleeper

”The seaweed is always greener in somebody else’s lake.”

Mad Marie

Tube worms as opposed to boot worms: https://www.richardscarry.com/lowly-worm

Jon Guyer

If the shadowy organizations find out about this they’re all going to be in hot water.

Summer Sudbrink

that’s why THEY imploded the submarine.

Mad Marie

I though Bubble’s joke was very deep.

Summer Sudbrink

I mean technically they’re two-tubed worms.

Gary Walker

Substandard puns are also an issue.

hollowsoul

No joke, it's more likely there are advanced lifeforms under the sea than it is that they're elsewhere nearby (in the Sol system, either in space or inside a planet or moon.) The UFO videos the U.S. Navy put out, those generally took place over open water.

darklion

Tube Worms have been known to become Ear Worms. Side effects include being light in your head, and dead on your feet.

hollowsoul

Just one more year and then you'd be happy...

PostRetroism

It’s Hot Vent Summer!

Sleepy John

I mean, the artist blurb about tube worms isn't wrong, at least not as much as it should be o_O

jimfromtx

Methinks Beeps has a titanic problem...

Leak

Whoah, another crazy day...

YsabetJustYsabet

Chemosynthetic life is any organisms which can execute chemosynthesis

Carin Maja Brooks

With all of these comics mentioning the deep ocean, I've been waiting to see some sort of reference to OceanGate, so understandable.

Carin Maja Brooks

When I read the caption in my advance-notice email I assumed the comic would be *about* Cubetown!

When my physiology prof pointed that out to us, I was vaguely horrified. He later described our bodies as a doughnut, stretched out from top to bottom

They are called Tube Worms because they evolved on the London Underground. They can usually be found winding their way down on Baker Street.

hollowsoul

Should it be chemo synthesis not synthetic? Or are there AIs that just like to hang out by hydrothermal vents to get power? Is that what the director used to do?

Primarch359

The shadowy organizations are actually all just Cubetown, and they aren't keeping secrets intentionally. They just haven't had a Librarian yet

Carin Maja Brooks

I admire your restraint in not making a darker joke about deep oceanography because I know I would not be capable of it

Aaron

Bubbles just had to vent a little.

Sleepy John

Same

Andrew Mitchell

We're all just tubes when you think about it.

Dean Reilly

I love me a good hydrothermal vent joke

Bagge

In my youth (last millennium), "meth" was the methylated spirits used to pre-heat the vapourizer of a Primus stove!

Charles Hirst

Oh god I have always loved Bubbles but this is next level awesome!

SilverbackRon

Hah. I spent all day on meth today, my first day with the extended release formula. It was weirdly calming. I guess I do have ADHD.

Elf Sternberg

Reminds me of a conversation I had with a young man outside my apartment today. Your standard "You know they're putting stuff in the Big Pharma drugs to control us, right? That's why I only do natural shit like meth..."

Yelling Bird

https://www.science.org/content/article/secret-sex-lives-tubeworms

KCkittysnores

Here ya go: The Secret Sex Lives of Tube-Worms. https://www.science.org/content/article/secret-sex-lives-tubeworms

KCkittysnores

Dames do it, gents do it, even tube worms at deep-sea vents do it!

Merle Blue

I could tell you, but there are some evil organizations that would take me away to their Hydrothermal undersea gulag

Jeff Gedney

It was an excellent joke, Bubbs. It's just that it forced me to ponder how red-tipped tube worms clustered around hydrothermal vents do it, and I decided I don't want to know.

OldGoat