fossils
Original: fossils on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (top banner): 1 MILLION YEARS AGO
The scene shows two small green aliens standing on the surface of the Moon, looking up at the Earth in space.
First alien: "WE NEED TO KEEP THIS PLANET FROM HAVING TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED LIFE WHEN WE RETURN TO COLONIZE IT LATER."
Second alien: "HMM... WHAT IF WE PUT ABUNDANT ENERGY RESOURCES UNDERGROUND, BUT MAKE IT SO THAT BURNING THEM RELEASES GASSES THAT EVENTUALLY COOK THE PLANET?"
First alien: "HA!"
Votey:
A simple cartoon creature with two large eyes on stalks and an open mouth.
Off-panel voice (speech bubble): "Comedy gold!"
The scene shows two small green aliens standing on the surface of the Moon, looking up at the Earth in space.
First alien: "WE NEED TO KEEP THIS PLANET FROM HAVING TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED LIFE WHEN WE RETURN TO COLONIZE IT LATER."
Second alien: "HMM... WHAT IF WE PUT ABUNDANT ENERGY RESOURCES UNDERGROUND, BUT MAKE IT SO THAT BURNING THEM RELEASES GASSES THAT EVENTUALLY COOK THE PLANET?"
First alien: "HA!"
Votey:
A simple cartoon creature with two large eyes on stalks and an open mouth.
Off-panel voice (speech bubble): "Comedy gold!"
Alt text
Main comic: A single wide panel with a banner reading '1 MILLION YEARS AGO.' Two tiny green aliens stand on the gray surface of the Moon, gazing up at the blue-and-green Earth hanging in black space. The first alien says they need to keep Earth from developing technologically advanced life before the aliens return to colonize it. The second alien suggests: what if they bury abundant energy resources underground, but rig it so that burning those resources releases gases that eventually cook the planet? The first alien laughs, 'HA!' The joke implies aliens engineered fossil fuels and climate change as a long-game sabotage of human civilization.
Votey: A simple doodled creature with two big stalk-eyes and an open mouth reacts to a speech bubble that reads 'Comedy gold!'
Votey: A simple doodled creature with two big stalk-eyes and an open mouth reacts to a speech bubble that reads 'Comedy gold!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.