2013-10-17
Original: 2013-10-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An older person with gray hair and glasses (excited): OH MY GOD! I FIGURED OUT A WAY TO PERFORM ANY CALCULATION THAT CAN BE DONE ON A COMPUTER, USING ONLY YOUR HANDS!
[Below the panel, a computer keyboard sits on a desk, viewed from above.]
Votey:
[A close-up of a person's face, sweating with wide strained eyes, holding their hands up near their head.]
Caption: SO MUCH POWER.
An older person with gray hair and glasses (excited): OH MY GOD! I FIGURED OUT A WAY TO PERFORM ANY CALCULATION THAT CAN BE DONE ON A COMPUTER, USING ONLY YOUR HANDS!
[Below the panel, a computer keyboard sits on a desk, viewed from above.]
Votey:
[A close-up of a person's face, sweating with wide strained eyes, holding their hands up near their head.]
Caption: SO MUCH POWER.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. In the main panel, an older dark-skinned person with curly gray hair and glasses leans toward a younger person with greenish-blonde hair (seen from behind), exclaiming with wild excitement: "Oh my god! I figured out a way to perform any calculation that can be done on a computer, using only your hands!" Below the panel, drawn as if outside the comic, sits an ordinary computer keyboard on a desk — the visual punchline: typing on a keyboard already does exactly that, so the 'discovery' is just using a computer. The votey aftercomic shows a sweaty, wide-eyed close-up of a person raising their trembling hands beside their face, overwhelmed, with the caption "So much power."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.