clown-power
Original: clown-power on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (diagram): TAKE CLOWN, ATTACH TO CEILING OF AIR-TIGHT TOWER.
Panel 2 (diagram): RAISE LEAD WEIGHTS TO HEIGHT OF CLOWN.
Panel 3 (diagram): ATTACH BALL TO CLOWN'S INFINITE HANDKERCHIEF.
Panel 4 (diagram): ATTACH SAME BALL TO PULLEY DROP.
Panel 5 (diagram): BALL DESCENDS. ROPE TURNS GENERATOR RUNG.
Panel 6 (diagram): ADDITIONAL ENERGY FROM FALLING HANDKERCHIEF EXCEEDS ENERGY LOST IN PROCESS.
Formula: E_in < E_out
Panel 7: A man in a suit and glasses presents to seated senators. Presenter: "THUS, INFINITE CLEAN ENERGY FOREVER. I CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN, SENATORS, FOR A MEASLY HUNDRED-MILLION."
Panel 8: A woman senator with dark hair, looking concerned. Senator: "BUT THE CLOWNS WILL NEVER GO ALONG WITH THIS!"
Panel 9: A pale-faced figure in a hooded cloak with clown-like white makeup and a red nose, beside the seated woman. Hooded figure: "YOU LEAVE THEM TO ME."
Votey:
A disheveled person leans over a desk/table working on something, looking exhausted, while another person looks down with a tired, strained expression. The leaning person, off to the side: "Jesus!" In the lower-left corner sits a small clown-like creature.
Panel 2 (diagram): RAISE LEAD WEIGHTS TO HEIGHT OF CLOWN.
Panel 3 (diagram): ATTACH BALL TO CLOWN'S INFINITE HANDKERCHIEF.
Panel 4 (diagram): ATTACH SAME BALL TO PULLEY DROP.
Panel 5 (diagram): BALL DESCENDS. ROPE TURNS GENERATOR RUNG.
Panel 6 (diagram): ADDITIONAL ENERGY FROM FALLING HANDKERCHIEF EXCEEDS ENERGY LOST IN PROCESS.
Formula: E_in < E_out
Panel 7: A man in a suit and glasses presents to seated senators. Presenter: "THUS, INFINITE CLEAN ENERGY FOREVER. I CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN, SENATORS, FOR A MEASLY HUNDRED-MILLION."
Panel 8: A woman senator with dark hair, looking concerned. Senator: "BUT THE CLOWNS WILL NEVER GO ALONG WITH THIS!"
Panel 9: A pale-faced figure in a hooded cloak with clown-like white makeup and a red nose, beside the seated woman. Hooded figure: "YOU LEAVE THEM TO ME."
Votey:
A disheveled person leans over a desk/table working on something, looking exhausted, while another person looks down with a tired, strained expression. The leaning person, off to the side: "Jesus!" In the lower-left corner sits a small clown-like creature.
Alt text
A nine-panel SMBC comic. The first six panels are technical engineering diagrams describing a perpetual-motion / free-energy scheme: (1) attach a clown to the ceiling of an air-tight tower, (2) raise lead weights to the clown's height, (3) attach a ball to the clown's 'infinite handkerchief,' (4) attach the same ball to a pulley drop, (5) the ball descends and the rope turns a generator rung, (6) 'additional energy from falling handkerchief exceeds energy lost in process,' shown with the equation E_in < E_out. In panel seven a bespectacled man in a suit pitches to seated senators: 'Thus, infinite clean energy forever. I can make it happen, senators, for a measly hundred-million.' In panel eight a worried woman senator replies, 'But the clowns will never go along with this!' In the final panel a sinister hooded figure with white clown makeup and a red nose leans in beside her and says, 'You leave them to me,' implying mob-style intimidation of clowns. Votey: a tired, disheveled person hunched over a desk works on something while an exhausted-looking onlooker reacts, 'Jesus!' A tiny clown creature sits in the corner.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.