2014-04-24
Original: 2014-04-24 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Tom: I built a time machine and I used it to look back into the past. But I was only able to look back 20 minutes!
Woman: Tom? What? What's the matter?
Panel 2:
Woman: That's still pretty good!
Tom: You don't understand! It would only go back 20 minutes because beyond that there was no time to navigate. There's just... nothing there.
Panel 3:
Woman: How can that be? Reality started 20 minutes ago! It's the only explanation!
Panel 4:
Tom: I took video as I wound back time and look! Here we are talking, and then we suddenly stop talking and we get these blank stares. And then there's a huge burst of energy. And before that... nothing.
Panel 5:
Woman: Tom, time started 20 minutes ago. 20 minutes. Let me see that.
Panel 6:
Woman: Ah, here's your problem. You set it to take you *forward* in time, so it's 20 minutes in the *future*. Well...
Votey:
Woman (thought/text): Coooool...
(A woman's face with flame-like / wavy hair gazes upward in dreamy wonder.)
Tom: I built a time machine and I used it to look back into the past. But I was only able to look back 20 minutes!
Woman: Tom? What? What's the matter?
Panel 2:
Woman: That's still pretty good!
Tom: You don't understand! It would only go back 20 minutes because beyond that there was no time to navigate. There's just... nothing there.
Panel 3:
Woman: How can that be? Reality started 20 minutes ago! It's the only explanation!
Panel 4:
Tom: I took video as I wound back time and look! Here we are talking, and then we suddenly stop talking and we get these blank stares. And then there's a huge burst of energy. And before that... nothing.
Panel 5:
Woman: Tom, time started 20 minutes ago. 20 minutes. Let me see that.
Panel 6:
Woman: Ah, here's your problem. You set it to take you *forward* in time, so it's 20 minutes in the *future*. Well...
Votey:
Woman (thought/text): Coooool...
(A woman's face with flame-like / wavy hair gazes upward in dreamy wonder.)
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A man named Tom excitedly tells a woman he built a time machine but it could only look back 20 minutes into the past, because beyond that point there was nothing there. The woman is impressed at first, but Tom insists the lack of any further past means reality itself only began 20 minutes ago. He shows video footage wound back in time: the two of them talking, then suddenly stopping with blank stares, then a huge burst of energy, and before that, nothing. The woman, unconvinced, takes the device and inspects it, then says: 'Ah, here's your problem. You set it to take you FORWARD in time, so it's 20 minutes in the FUTURE. Well...' Votey panel: a close-up of the woman's face with wild flame-like hair, gazing upward in dreamy wonder, with the text 'Coooool...'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.