2009-04-22
Original: 2009-04-22 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner (yellow header): SCIENCE MOTIVATION
THE FIRST PERSON TO DISCOVER A FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTY OF THE UNIVERSE CAN ALSO BE THE FIRST ONE TO MOON IT
Panel 1: A man with glasses and a mustache stands in front of a chalkboard. On the chalkboard is written the time-dependent Schrodinger equation: i h-bar d/dt Psi(r,t) = -h-bar^2/2m grad-squared Psi(r,t) + V(r) Psi(r,t). The man has pulled down the back of his pants, baring his buttocks toward the equation.
Man: TAKE IT! YEAH, TAKE IT!
Sound effect near his rear: slap-a slap-a slap-a
Votey:
A simple line-drawing panel showing a round full moon in a night sky over a wavy horizon (water/clouds).
Voice (from off-panel, in a speech bubble): WHY DO THEY ALWAYS DO THAT?
THE FIRST PERSON TO DISCOVER A FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTY OF THE UNIVERSE CAN ALSO BE THE FIRST ONE TO MOON IT
Panel 1: A man with glasses and a mustache stands in front of a chalkboard. On the chalkboard is written the time-dependent Schrodinger equation: i h-bar d/dt Psi(r,t) = -h-bar^2/2m grad-squared Psi(r,t) + V(r) Psi(r,t). The man has pulled down the back of his pants, baring his buttocks toward the equation.
Man: TAKE IT! YEAH, TAKE IT!
Sound effect near his rear: slap-a slap-a slap-a
Votey:
A simple line-drawing panel showing a round full moon in a night sky over a wavy horizon (water/clouds).
Voice (from off-panel, in a speech bubble): WHY DO THEY ALWAYS DO THAT?
Alt text
A yellow banner titled SCIENCE MOTIVATION reads: "The first person to discover a fundamental property of the universe can also be the first one to moon it." In the panel below, a man with glasses and a mustache stands before a chalkboard displaying the Schrodinger equation. He has yanked down the back of his pants to bare his buttocks at the equation, shouting "Take it! Yeah, take it!" with a "slap-a slap-a slap-a" sound effect. The joke puns on "moon it" (mooning) versus discovering a fundamental property. Votey aftercomic: a plain drawing of a full moon in the night sky over water, with an off-panel voice asking, "Why do they always do that?" implying even the literal Moon gets mooned.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.