fables
Original: fables on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An adult with glasses sits beside a bed reading aloud from a large open book to a sleepy child.
Adult (reading): "AND, THANKS TO THIS INCREDIBLE SENSITIVITY, THEY WERE LATER ABLE TO USE HER TO DETECT GRAVITATIONAL WAVES."
Caption (below panel): Physicists have a different version of "The Princess and the Pea."
Votey:
Close-up of the same adult's face continuing to read.
Adult (reading): "Fortunately, the false results were only revealed after she died in space."
An adult with glasses sits beside a bed reading aloud from a large open book to a sleepy child.
Adult (reading): "AND, THANKS TO THIS INCREDIBLE SENSITIVITY, THEY WERE LATER ABLE TO USE HER TO DETECT GRAVITATIONAL WAVES."
Caption (below panel): Physicists have a different version of "The Princess and the Pea."
Votey:
Close-up of the same adult's face continuing to read.
Adult (reading): "Fortunately, the false results were only revealed after she died in space."
Alt text
A comic. In the main panel, a person wearing large round glasses sits at the bedside of a drowsy child, reading from a big open book. The reader says, "And, thanks to this incredible sensitivity, they were later able to use her to detect gravitational waves." A caption beneath reads: Physicists have a different version of "The Princess and the Pea." The joke reframes the fairy tale where a princess is proven real by feeling a pea under many mattresses into a scientific instrument story, treating the princess's extreme sensitivity as a gravitational-wave detector. The votey (a black-and-white sketch close-up of the reader's face) continues the bedtime story: "Fortunately, the false results were only revealed after she died in space."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.