2010-03-08
Original: 2010-03-08 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title/caption (top): ASTRONOMY FUNDING IS IMPORTANT. BECAUSE... ONE DAY...
Panel 1: An asteroid streaks through space, motion lines trailing behind it against a starfield.
Panel 2: The asteroid continues hurtling across space, now farther along with long motion streaks.
Panel 3: The large asteroid looms in the foreground at left; tiny planet Earth is visible in the distance at right.
Panel 4: View through/near an observatory. A telescope sits atop a building labeled ASTRONOMY DEPARTMENT. The fiery, glowing asteroid (orange, yellow, and red trail) is visible filling the sky in the upper left.
Panel 5: Two scientists in lab coats stand by the telescope, both smiling.
Scientist at the telescope: EXACTLY WHERE WE PREDICTED!
Man with reddish hair and glasses: YES!
Panel 6: A massive fiery explosion against a starfield, with chunks of debris flying outward.
Text in explosion: BOOM!
Votey: A handwritten note that reads:
"Dear Internet
Yes, you can hear "boom!" in space.
It's in star wars.
Star Wars."
Panel 1: An asteroid streaks through space, motion lines trailing behind it against a starfield.
Panel 2: The asteroid continues hurtling across space, now farther along with long motion streaks.
Panel 3: The large asteroid looms in the foreground at left; tiny planet Earth is visible in the distance at right.
Panel 4: View through/near an observatory. A telescope sits atop a building labeled ASTRONOMY DEPARTMENT. The fiery, glowing asteroid (orange, yellow, and red trail) is visible filling the sky in the upper left.
Panel 5: Two scientists in lab coats stand by the telescope, both smiling.
Scientist at the telescope: EXACTLY WHERE WE PREDICTED!
Man with reddish hair and glasses: YES!
Panel 6: A massive fiery explosion against a starfield, with chunks of debris flying outward.
Text in explosion: BOOM!
Votey: A handwritten note that reads:
"Dear Internet
Yes, you can hear "boom!" in space.
It's in star wars.
Star Wars."
Alt text
A six-panel vertical SMBC comic captioned "Astronomy funding is important. Because... one day...". The first three panels show an asteroid hurtling through a starry space toward a tiny distant Earth. In panel four, the now-fiery asteroid fills the sky above an observatory telescope mounted on a building labeled "Astronomy Department." In panel five, two smiling lab-coated scientists stand at the telescope; one exclaims "Exactly where we predicted!" and the red-haired bespectacled man replies "Yes!" The final panel is a huge fiery explosion in space with the word "BOOM!". The joke: astronomers proudly confirm their accurate prediction of the asteroid impact that destroys Earth. Votey aftercomic: a handwritten note reading "Dear Internet, Yes, you can hear \"boom!\" in space. It's in star wars. Star Wars." jokingly defending the sound of the explosion in the vacuum of space.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.