2012-03-07
Original: 2012-03-07 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption banner): CLARKE'S THIRD LAW: ANY SUFFICIENTLY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM MAGIC.
Panel 1 (scene): A group of people stand in a jungle clearing, one pointing up at an airplane flying overhead.
Man (pointing at the plane): IMPOSSIBLE!
Panel 2 (caption banner): COROLLARY TO CLARKE'S THIRD LAW: ANY SUFFICIENTLY UNADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM MAGIC.
Panel 2 (scene): Inside an airplane cabin. A bald, bearded man in a green shirt and glasses sits beside another passenger. Across the aisle, a boy in a blue shirt holds a small yellow wind-up chick toy, looking amazed.
Boy (holding the wind-up toy): YOU JUST WIND IT UP AND IT MOVES?! WHERE'S THE POWER SOURCE?
Votey:
A person holds a small wind-up chick toy in their hand, looking down at it.
Person: NEEDS MORE INTERNET.
Panel 1 (scene): A group of people stand in a jungle clearing, one pointing up at an airplane flying overhead.
Man (pointing at the plane): IMPOSSIBLE!
Panel 2 (caption banner): COROLLARY TO CLARKE'S THIRD LAW: ANY SUFFICIENTLY UNADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM MAGIC.
Panel 2 (scene): Inside an airplane cabin. A bald, bearded man in a green shirt and glasses sits beside another passenger. Across the aisle, a boy in a blue shirt holds a small yellow wind-up chick toy, looking amazed.
Boy (holding the wind-up toy): YOU JUST WIND IT UP AND IT MOVES?! WHERE'S THE POWER SOURCE?
Votey:
A person holds a small wind-up chick toy in their hand, looking down at it.
Person: NEEDS MORE INTERNET.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic about Clarke's Third Law. Panel one has an orange caption banner reading 'Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' Below, a group of people in a jungle clearing stare up at an airplane flying overhead; one points and shouts 'Impossible!' Panel two has a banner reading 'Corollary to Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently UNadvanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' Inside an airplane cabin, a boy holding a small yellow wind-up chick toy gapes in astonishment and asks, 'You just wind it up and it moves?! Where's the power source?' The joke flips Clarke's law: a child raised on electronics finds a simple mechanical wind-up toy as baffling as primitive people find an airplane. Votey: a person holds the wind-up chick toy and deadpans, 'Needs more internet.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.