The Hole Truth

Does this mean she's very holey? or wholly holey... very much the whole truth .. or hole truth..

This is my hole. There are many like it, but this one is mine

I absolutely love everything about this comic.

Leave it to Moray to make it weird.

My partner goes "have you seen QC today? the rule 34 folks are gonna have a field day with this one"

Several people mentioned Vsauce. Michael Stevens of Vsauce has a fantastic new podcast together with Hannah Fry, a British professor in mathematics and a science communicator. It's called The Rest Is Science. Two weeks ago they talked about exactly this: https://youtu.be/sgvKoGnBBd0?si=wmTZ6NvnoQaZwjEU&t=1623

Does this conversation mean that no-one has ever counted the number of holes on a "human standard" chassis? Or is the name false advertising???

just about fell out of my chair at "stop making this weird"!! lmfao

Humans have one hole, which is a mouth at one end and an anus at the other. Everything else is an invagination. Guess Liz isn’t into topology?

They're gonna bang. (I have decided this is now my opinion about any time Moray interacts with someone.)

"Just sticking with the body, you can get all the numbers you want. The orifices, for example.” “The orifices?” “Yes. How many holes does the body have?” I counted. “Eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth, ass: eight.” “You see? Another reason eight is a beautiful number. But I have nine! And with that ninth I bring you into the world, therefore nine is holier than eight! Or, if you like, take the anatomy of your menhir, which your authors are always talking about. Standing up during the day, lying down at night—your thing, too. No, don’t tell me what it does at night. The fact is that erect it works and prone it rests. So the vertical position is life, pointing sunward, and obelisks stand as trees stand, while the horizontal position and night are sleep, death." from Focault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco, 1988. The protagonist and his girlfriend are discussing the occult (technically, the Hermetic) meanings of the integers from one to ten and of the human body, from which the numbers are drawn. I am not sure why Eco omitted the pee-hole, in either gender.

Holy Moly 😱

For crying out loud! Moray asks *this* question, the same day Sam Starfall asks, "What exactly is a human?" Jeph needs to elevate the intellectual sophication of QC, and the best way to accomplish that, that I can see, is a crossover with Freefall.

Liz is going to get (more) irritated at this conversation. She will develop new topological proofs to prove herself correct (and specifically Moray wrong). Later, her work will lead to n-dimension topological applications in Alcubierre warp technology. And her Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 2050 will be a most unusual one.

Even if the ears are reckoned to be (sort of) connected to the sinus cavity, the urinary tract connects to a different internal space. So, minimum two, even for male-shaped persons.

Wait until she mentions she is FINALLY deemed "oral safe".

I think the new "cut to Steve eating cereal" is "cut to Liz and Moray discussing holes".

So, my ass is a hole, but a hole in the ground is a mere dimple. Ah, now I know. Finally!

Wouldn't it be six or seven in the first panel? I think the ears would count as two in "normal" logic? 2 ears + nose + mouth + poop + pee = 6, + baby = 7.

Moray was like: Oh, I can make this weird. Just hole my beer.

Reminds me of conversations with my college roommates. (For a while there, I was the only one who did not take hallucinogens. To be clear, what changed was I got different roommates.)

Topologically speaking baby making hardware, pores and urinary tracts aren't holes. It seems the most common interpretation is that humans have seven holes. There's the alimentary canal is one. Both nostrils are one extra. Then each eye has two tear ducts that are connected to the throat, which are commonly missed. That makes seven. In individuals with ruptured ear drums there can be be two more, making nine. Then those with piercings can have arbitrarily many holes.

Holey moley

There is a great song all about this by a guy called ukesnaile. https://share.google/U1aZpvWuQTIDkJ333

This comments section is the best thing I’ve read all week

As DGR Dave often says, "every hole is a chance for glory"

Topo-graphic.

Liz’s hair keeps getting cuter

🤣

Next comic: "Moray helps Liz explore her holes"

Aargh.

And that is how I found out I have a new kink...

I can only assume this came up because they're discussing the smut she's been reading

Ah yes, my kink.

Liz and Moray star in the new comedy Orifice Space.

Topologically the answer is 7 or 8, if you define a hole being large enough that you could pass through it without having to pass through a cell. Ears don't count because the eardrum blocks them. Same with pores and the urethra. Two nostrils, one mouth, four lacrimal ducts, one anus, which when flattened into two dimensions is a seven-holed object. But some people have a secret 8th hole, described here: https://kityates.substack.com/p/how-many-holes-does-the-human-body

Moray is a genus genius.

Oh no, do I ship it?

topologically, a human is a 7-holed donut with 8 openings (mouth, anus, two nostrils, four lacrimal ducts)

Does the average human have more door or wheels?

That’s the hole point Liz

Moray is one of the very few people who could go into an Amigara Fault hole and come out the other side none the worse for wear.

I am not touching this with a ten foot pole. Nope, not even an eleven foot pole.

Moray continues to do her best, Liz continues to be a gremlin, holes continue to be weird. ~<3

I once put my head down a little skunk's hole And the little skunk said "Upon my soul, take it out, take it out, take it out, remove it" I didn't take it out so the little skunk said "If you don't take it out, you'll wish you were dead, take it out, take it out, take it out, remove it" (A summer camp song from when I was like 10 years old)

Ears aren’t really holes so much as indentations as they don’t go anywhere. Or rather, if they’re holes then so is the belly button (which at least did once go somewhere and is just closed now).

Making things more weird is my hobby.

Holey... whatever.

DRR DRR DRR

BookBeard? Is there a character named Moses in QC? Because HOLY MOSES...

Anything is a hole if you poke hard enough

Holy Android, Batman!

All of the holes.

I mean atoms have empty space between them. Do those spaces count?

Wouldn't the ears count as two?

Related: A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no control at the other. By this definition, people could be diagrammatically simplified to a toroid. Maybe this is why so many people are interested in toroidal foods like bagels and doughnuts.

A human is essentially a stretched out doughnut. Just one long hole.

Undiscussed: teeth all sit in holes that have a physical channel to the tooth roots and into the bone. It's one of the reasons tooth infections are so dangerous. There's no epithelial barrier down there, it goes right to the bone.

Durr durrr durr.

Cubetown exists for "holistic research", after all. Moray is just doing her job. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4858

That's a stoned conversation if I've ever heard one. And yes, I could hear it.

Unrelated I really want a map of Cubetown...

Six years and 15 million views ago, I assume half the comments will reference this: "V-Sauce, Michael here... Humans have seven natural holes."

Why is it always about HOLES with humans? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3265

Vsauce did a video on this. It's seven.

cubetown time cubetown time

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall

'As the Holy Book says in the Book Of Holes, chapter one: "And they knew not their holes, from an ass, on de ground."' - Firesign Theater

i’m ruined by the Junji Itō reference

Waiting for God-hole

The breathing/eating and hearing and pooping holes are all linked, but the pee hole is separate.

Down the rabbit hole.

For the purposes of the argument, I'm choosing to define "hole" as something you can stick a a Q-Tip in without causing immediate damage. Note I said "can" and not "should".

Orifice Politics!

Moray goes into her Amigara Fault hole and comes out exactly the same and excited to tell everyone about her trip through the hole.

Sweat glands don't count? I mean, without them, why would I need Axe Body Spray? (Answer: Nobody needs Axe Body Spray.)

As many holes as possible, huh?

What about piercings?

When a gremlin cajoles Her to make some new holes That's A Moray! When Liz says that it's weird That her holes just appeared That's A Moray!

Seven; mouth, two nostrils, and four tear ducts (on average) which all link up and exit through the anus. This is counting true holes only. Things like your urethra, ears, belly button, and indeed pores, are all blind holes which do not have an exit.

My God, it’s full of holes

i feel we missed a hole lot of backstory for this conversation...

Time for another NSFW post, Jeph

Isn't there a Matt Parker video about this?

Jeph no! Do not tempt the monsterfuckers!

Always appreciate a Junji Itoh joke 😃

Oddly enough this isn't the first time I've heard someone ask how many holes humans have

If you ever had to use a netti pot to clear out your mucus, which is a lot like Moray, you’ll figure out the nose is indeed one hole.

Wow. Have we ever seen Moray look annoyed before?

The mouth and butt holes are really just two openings on the same tube. We are a complicated tube.

The reddit post for this one is going to be wild

Hol(e)y Moray

that is quite something

Topologically speaking, humans have seven natural holes. A hole is a through hole, and you only count it once, not each end of it, so the number of holes is the number of orifices minus one. We won't count anything smaller than tear ducts, because then the question has no meaningful answer; you have millions of pores, and at a small enough scale, holes don't even exist; it's just all space between molecules. So, the seven holes, minus the anus (as the exit of all the others) are the mouth, two nostrils, and four tear ducts (your tear ducts branch into an upper and lower for each eye). Ears aren't holes, the eardrum seals them so they're just pits. Urethra isn't a hole, urine comes from hydration in your blood, not any through passage from your digestive system.

This holds a mirror to my ADHD conversations.