2014-05-28

A three-panel comic. Panel 1: A girl with long brown hair tells a friend, "Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies,' there's a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead." The friend, with short hair, replies excitedly, "Wait, really? You say it and instantaneously, millions of miles away, many a fairy DIES?" Panel 2: The long-haired girl says, "Horrible, isn't it?" The short-haired friend, eyes lighting up, exclaims, "THIS IS HUGE." Panel 3: A news broadcast graphic reading "NEWZNET" announces "SOON... 12 YEAR OLD OVERTURNS EINSTEIN'S PHYSICS," with a chyron: "PROPOSES FAIRY-KILLING AS METHOD OF SUPERLUMINAL COMMUNICATION." The joke: instant fairy-death across vast distances would mean faster-than-light information transfer. Votey: The short-haired girl, grinning, says "The 0s are the dead" while gesturing at a screen showing binary code (0110 1000 / 0110 1001) — she's encoding messages by killing fairies, where each dead fairy is a 0.