2013-03-11
Original: 2013-03-11 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (top, red banner): MY FANTASIES BEFORE STUDYING PHYSICS
A blue alien crew member: CAPTAIN! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!
The captain (a man with orange hair, on the bridge of a spaceship): FIRE A PLASMA BURST, THEN EVASIVE MANEUVERS WHILE WE READY THE SPACE-MARINES.
Panel 2 (bottom, red banner): MY FANTASIES AFTER STUDYING PHYSICS
The blue alien crew member: CAPTAIN! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK! THE SHIP IS SHAPED LIKE AN INFINITELY THIN ELLIPTICAL RING WITH AN ECCENTRICITY OF 0.271812, WHOSE GRAVITATIO[nal...] (speech is cut off)
The captain (now clutching his head in distress): AAAH! AAAAAH! AAAAH!
Votey:
A handwritten note reading: PHYSICS DICK MOVE #628318
Below it, an equation: e = e/10
A blue alien crew member: CAPTAIN! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!
The captain (a man with orange hair, on the bridge of a spaceship): FIRE A PLASMA BURST, THEN EVASIVE MANEUVERS WHILE WE READY THE SPACE-MARINES.
Panel 2 (bottom, red banner): MY FANTASIES AFTER STUDYING PHYSICS
The blue alien crew member: CAPTAIN! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK! THE SHIP IS SHAPED LIKE AN INFINITELY THIN ELLIPTICAL RING WITH AN ECCENTRICITY OF 0.271812, WHOSE GRAVITATIO[nal...] (speech is cut off)
The captain (now clutching his head in distress): AAAH! AAAAAH! AAAAH!
Votey:
A handwritten note reading: PHYSICS DICK MOVE #628318
Below it, an equation: e = e/10
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic contrasting space-battle fantasies before and after studying physics. Top panel, banner "MY FANTASIES BEFORE STUDYING PHYSICS": on a starship bridge, a blue alien shouts "Captain! We're under attack!" and the orange-haired captain coolly orders, "Fire a plasma burst, then evasive maneuvers while we ready the space-marines." Bottom panel, banner "MY FANTASIES AFTER STUDYING PHYSICS": the same alien now drowns the captain in jargon, "Captain! We're under attack! The ship is shaped like an infinitely thin elliptical ring with an eccentricity of 0.271812, whose gravitatio..." (cut off). The captain clutches his head and screams "Aaah! Aaaaah! Aaaah!", overwhelmed by the physics detail. Votey: a handwritten note reads "Physics dick move #628318" above the equation e = e/10 (a joke pun where the variable e equals one-tenth of e, an absurd/impossible statement).
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.