2010-05-01
Original: 2010-05-01 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic (single panel):
Three bearded men dressed in primitive robes/animal-skin clothing stand together. One man in the foreground is crouched, attempting to start a fire by rubbing sticks together.
A man with red hair and a red beard (speech bubble, upper left): "PFF! GIVE UP. THERE'LL NEVER BE A SUSTAINED FIRE REACTION."
A man with brown hair and beard on the right (speech bubble): "FIRE IS ALWAYS 'FIFTY YEARS AWAY.' TRUTH IS, YOU CAN'T RUB THE STICKS TOGETHER FAST ENOUGH."
Caption below panel: "Early fusion skeptics."
Votey:
Title banner across top: "500 YEARS FROM NOW"
A person (speech bubble): "PFF... TIME TRAVEL IS ALWAYS 50 YEARS AWAY."
Three bearded men dressed in primitive robes/animal-skin clothing stand together. One man in the foreground is crouched, attempting to start a fire by rubbing sticks together.
A man with red hair and a red beard (speech bubble, upper left): "PFF! GIVE UP. THERE'LL NEVER BE A SUSTAINED FIRE REACTION."
A man with brown hair and beard on the right (speech bubble): "FIRE IS ALWAYS 'FIFTY YEARS AWAY.' TRUTH IS, YOU CAN'T RUB THE STICKS TOGETHER FAST ENOUGH."
Caption below panel: "Early fusion skeptics."
Votey:
Title banner across top: "500 YEARS FROM NOW"
A person (speech bubble): "PFF... TIME TRAVEL IS ALWAYS 50 YEARS AWAY."
Alt text
A single-panel comic shows three bearded prehistoric men in animal-skin clothing. One crouches in the foreground trying to make fire by rubbing two sticks together. A red-bearded man scoffs, 'Pff! Give up. There'll never be a sustained fire reaction.' A brown-bearded man on the right adds, 'Fire is always "fifty years away." Truth is, you can't rub the sticks together fast enough.' A caption reads: 'Early fusion skeptics.' The joke parodies perpetual skepticism about nuclear fusion (always supposedly fifty years away) by transposing it onto cavemen doubting that fire will ever work. The votey aftercomic, captioned '500 YEARS FROM NOW,' shows a person saying, 'Pff... time travel is always 50 years away,' extending the same skeptical-prediction joke to a future technology.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.