2012-09-05
Original: 2012-09-05 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic (a hand-drawn mock calculation with a bar chart):
T = TIME SAVED BY USING SELF-FLUSHING TOILET = 0.5 seconds per use
P = NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITH ACCESS TO SELF-FLUSHING TOILETS = 1.5e9 people
U = USES OF SELF FLUSHING TOILET PER DAY PER USER = 1.5 uses/day·user
T·U·P ≈ 37 years saved per day
(T·U·P)30 ≈ 1110 years saved per month
Bar chart below:
Tall red bar labeled: TIME SAVED MONTHLY BY TOILET EFFICIENCY
Short red bar labeled: YOUR MAXIMUM LIFESPAN
Votey:
A bearded man lies in bed, smiling smugly, with a thought bubble: "THERE. CYNICAL POOP JOKE FIXES PREACHY OPTIMISTIC COMIC."
T = TIME SAVED BY USING SELF-FLUSHING TOILET = 0.5 seconds per use
P = NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITH ACCESS TO SELF-FLUSHING TOILETS = 1.5e9 people
U = USES OF SELF FLUSHING TOILET PER DAY PER USER = 1.5 uses/day·user
T·U·P ≈ 37 years saved per day
(T·U·P)30 ≈ 1110 years saved per month
Bar chart below:
Tall red bar labeled: TIME SAVED MONTHLY BY TOILET EFFICIENCY
Short red bar labeled: YOUR MAXIMUM LIFESPAN
Votey:
A bearded man lies in bed, smiling smugly, with a thought bubble: "THERE. CYNICAL POOP JOKE FIXES PREACHY OPTIMISTIC COMIC."
Alt text
A hand-drawn comic styled as a math calculation. It defines T = time saved by using a self-flushing toilet = 0.5 seconds per use; P = number of people with access to self-flushing toilets = 1.5e9 people; U = uses per day per user = 1.5. It concludes T·U·P is about 37 years saved per day, and times 30 is about 1110 years saved per month. Below is a bar chart with a very tall red bar labeled 'TIME SAVED MONTHLY BY TOILET EFFICIENCY' dwarfing a tiny red bar labeled 'YOUR MAXIMUM LIFESPAN' — the optimistic point being that toilet efficiency collectively saves far more time than any one person could ever live. The votey shows a bearded man lying in bed smiling smugly, thinking, 'There. Cynical poop joke fixes preachy optimistic comic.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.