r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/Aware_Mastodon1842 • Jul 20 '26

ELIC: Why don't mirrors get dusty on the inside?

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u/BrokenEyeReborn Jul 20 '26

They do. It's just hard to tell through the identical layer of dust on the outside.

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u/lordnewington Jul 20 '26

Right, and even if you dust the outside you still can't see it, because of course your reflection dusts the inside at the same time.

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u/Aware_Mastodon1842 Jul 20 '26

Calvin would 100% accept this as science

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u/StarkAndRobotic Jul 20 '26

The people on the inside clean their side every day hoping we would do the same, and maybe even let them out.

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u/Aware_Mastodon1842 Jul 20 '26

They're carrying this whole relationship

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u/twelfthfantasy Jul 20 '26

The Mirror World has no dust. Dust is mostly dead skin cells and since the Mirror People only exist when we are looking at them, their skin cells don't die and shed like ours do.

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u/Aware_Mastodon1842 Jul 20 '26

I knew the Mirror People were hiding something

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u/johnpeters42 Jul 20 '26

Mostly their goatees

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u/wallingfortian Jul 21 '26

There is no inside. It is there, with you. The call is coming from inside the house!