perception-of-time
Original: perception-of-time on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A girl in a pink dress stands with arms outstretched beside a tree in a grassy field.
Girl: My God... I... I understand.
Panel 2: Close on a smiling red-haired woman.
Red-haired woman: Trees are like us, but they perceive time to be faster.
Panel 3: The red-haired woman, looking up.
Red-haired woman: If you live 10,000 years, a week is NOTHING! It's like a single hour to a human. And an hour to us is like a MINUTE to them!
Panel 4: The red-haired woman stands in a field, arms spread, talking toward a large tree.
Red-haired woman: You guys must find baseball really exciting.
Tree (small speech bubble): It's action-packed!
Votey:
The tree, with a small speech bubble.
Tree: Soccer is where I draw the line.
Girl: My God... I... I understand.
Panel 2: Close on a smiling red-haired woman.
Red-haired woman: Trees are like us, but they perceive time to be faster.
Panel 3: The red-haired woman, looking up.
Red-haired woman: If you live 10,000 years, a week is NOTHING! It's like a single hour to a human. And an hour to us is like a MINUTE to them!
Panel 4: The red-haired woman stands in a field, arms spread, talking toward a large tree.
Red-haired woman: You guys must find baseball really exciting.
Tree (small speech bubble): It's action-packed!
Votey:
The tree, with a small speech bubble.
Tree: Soccer is where I draw the line.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a girl in a pink dress stands with arms spread beside a tree, awestruck, saying "My God... I... I understand." Panel 2: a smiling red-haired woman explains, "Trees are like us, but they perceive time to be faster." Panel 3: she continues, "If you live 10,000 years, a week is NOTHING! It's like a single hour to a human. And an hour to us is like a MINUTE to them!" Panel 4: the red-haired woman stands in a field facing a large tree and says, "You guys must find baseball really exciting." The tree replies in a small bubble, "It's action-packed!" The joke: at a tree's compressed sense of time, even slow-paced baseball would feel fast and thrilling. Votey: the same tree adds, "Soccer is where I draw the line."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.