2014-06-02
Original: 2014-06-02 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption): HUMPTY DUMPTY SAT ON A WALL
(Image: an egg-shaped figure sitting glumly on a brick wall.)
Panel 2 (caption): HIS HEIGHT WAS AT Y AND HIS MASS WASN'T SMALL
W = 5x8 N
Y = 10...
Panel 3 (caption): OFF OF THE WALL HE UNHAPPILY FELL,
(Image: the egg falling from the wall.)
Panel 4 (caption): AND DIMINISHED HIS Y IN THE GRAVITY WELL.
mgY = ½ M mv²
√(2gY) = v₃
14 m/s = v₃
Panel 5 (caption): ALL THE KING'S THERMODYNAMICISTS SAID
(Image: robed scholars/monks gesturing.)
Panel 6 (caption): THAT HUMPTY WAS SCREWED BY THE SECOND GREAT LAW.
(Image: a cracked egg figure.)
Panel 7 (caption): ALL THE KING'S HORSES AND ALL THE KING'S MEN
(Image: armored knights/soldiers.)
Panel 8 (caption): LACKED THE E TO PUT HUMPTY TOGETHER AGAIN.
(Image: a broken egg face.)
Panel 9 (caption): BUT DON'T CRY FOR HUMPTY OR HUMPTY'S BIG SPILL,
(Image: a small glowing white egg shape against darkness.)
Panel 10 (caption): HE'S JUST GONE WHERE THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE WILL.
(Image: black/empty panel.)
Votey:
Thought bubble: SLOWLY, IMPERCEPTIBLY, SMBC BECAME EXCLUSIVELY ABOUT RUINED FAIRY TALES.
(Image: a smiling man with a wry expression.)
(Image: an egg-shaped figure sitting glumly on a brick wall.)
Panel 2 (caption): HIS HEIGHT WAS AT Y AND HIS MASS WASN'T SMALL
W = 5x8 N
Y = 10...
Panel 3 (caption): OFF OF THE WALL HE UNHAPPILY FELL,
(Image: the egg falling from the wall.)
Panel 4 (caption): AND DIMINISHED HIS Y IN THE GRAVITY WELL.
mgY = ½ M mv²
√(2gY) = v₃
14 m/s = v₃
Panel 5 (caption): ALL THE KING'S THERMODYNAMICISTS SAID
(Image: robed scholars/monks gesturing.)
Panel 6 (caption): THAT HUMPTY WAS SCREWED BY THE SECOND GREAT LAW.
(Image: a cracked egg figure.)
Panel 7 (caption): ALL THE KING'S HORSES AND ALL THE KING'S MEN
(Image: armored knights/soldiers.)
Panel 8 (caption): LACKED THE E TO PUT HUMPTY TOGETHER AGAIN.
(Image: a broken egg face.)
Panel 9 (caption): BUT DON'T CRY FOR HUMPTY OR HUMPTY'S BIG SPILL,
(Image: a small glowing white egg shape against darkness.)
Panel 10 (caption): HE'S JUST GONE WHERE THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE WILL.
(Image: black/empty panel.)
Votey:
Thought bubble: SLOWLY, IMPERCEPTIBLY, SMBC BECAME EXCLUSIVELY ABOUT RUINED FAIRY TALES.
(Image: a smiling man with a wry expression.)
Alt text
A tall ten-panel SMBC comic retelling Humpty Dumpty as a thermodynamics poem, with physics equations scribbled beside the verses. Captions read: 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall' (an egg sits glumly on a brick wall); 'His height was at Y and his mass wasn't small' (notes W=5x8 N, Y=10); 'Off of the wall he unhappily fell' (the egg falling); 'And diminished his Y in the gravity well' (equations mgY = ½ M mv², √(2gY)=v₃, 14 m/s = v₃); 'All the king's thermodynamicists said' (robed scholars gesture); 'That Humpty was screwed by the second great law' (a cracked egg); 'All the king's horses and all the king's men' (armored soldiers); 'Lacked the E to put Humpty together again' (a broken egg face); 'But don't cry for Humpty or Humpty's big spill' (a faint glowing egg shape in darkness); 'He's just gone where the rest of the universe will' (a black, empty panel signifying heat death). Votey: a smiling man thinks, 'Slowly, imperceptibly, SMBC became exclusively about ruined fairy tales.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.