the-science-is-unsettled
Original: the-science-is-unsettled on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title above the panels: FUNTIME ACTIVITY: Thinking of ways well-established theories could be proven false.
Panel 1 (header banner: EVOLUTION):
A man standing in a rocky canyon/excavation site.
Man (left speech bubble): Why are all the sauropods in this stratum holding nylon stretchpants?
Man (right speech bubble): We can never tell the creationists... or the stretchpants community.
Panel 2 (header banner: THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS):
A man indoors.
Man: DAMMIT! My room keeps spontaneously cleaning itself, and I can never find where I put my keys!
Panel 3 (header banner: LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTIVISM):
A green alien stands with arms outstretched beside a flying saucer in a grassy landscape.
Alien: People of Earth! We come from the star you call Vega, representing a thousand civilizations, to tell you that it's pronounced "nuclear" not "nukular."
Votey:
Close-up of the green alien's face, now looming large.
Alien: Long story short, we're incinerating you.
Panel 1 (header banner: EVOLUTION):
A man standing in a rocky canyon/excavation site.
Man (left speech bubble): Why are all the sauropods in this stratum holding nylon stretchpants?
Man (right speech bubble): We can never tell the creationists... or the stretchpants community.
Panel 2 (header banner: THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS):
A man indoors.
Man: DAMMIT! My room keeps spontaneously cleaning itself, and I can never find where I put my keys!
Panel 3 (header banner: LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTIVISM):
A green alien stands with arms outstretched beside a flying saucer in a grassy landscape.
Alien: People of Earth! We come from the star you call Vega, representing a thousand civilizations, to tell you that it's pronounced "nuclear" not "nukular."
Votey:
Close-up of the green alien's face, now looming large.
Alien: Long story short, we're incinerating you.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic titled "FUNTIME ACTIVITY: Thinking of ways well-established theories could be proven false." Each panel imagines an absurd observation that would disprove a famous theory. Panel 1, labeled EVOLUTION: a man at a rocky dig site says, "Why are all the sauropods in this stratum holding nylon stretchpants?" then adds, "We can never tell the creationists... or the stretchpants community." Panel 2, labeled THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS: a man indoors complains, "DAMMIT! My room keeps spontaneously cleaning itself, and I can never find where I put my keys!" Panel 3, labeled LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTIVISM: a green alien stands beside a flying saucer announcing, "People of Earth! We come from the star you call Vega, representing a thousand civilizations, to tell you that it's pronounced 'nuclear' not 'nukular.'" The votey (bonus panel) shows a close-up of the alien's face declaring, "Long story short, we're incinerating you" — the punchline being that prescriptivist aliens have come across the galaxy just to correct human pronunciation and then destroy us.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.