dark-matter-2
Original: dark-matter-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Excited man (gray-haired, in a lab coat): HAHAHAHAHA! I'VE DISCOVERED A WAY TO DETECT DARK MATTER USING ELECTROMAGNETISM!
Second man (facing away, in a lab coat): WHAT?! HOW?!
Excited man: I GO ONLINE AND LOOK AT SCIENTISTS' OBSERVATIONS OF DARK MATTER.
Caption (below panel): So far, the Nobel Committee has not returned my calls.
Votey:
The excited man (sketched line-art style), with a speech bubble: I can also convert cola into sound waves.
Excited man (gray-haired, in a lab coat): HAHAHAHAHA! I'VE DISCOVERED A WAY TO DETECT DARK MATTER USING ELECTROMAGNETISM!
Second man (facing away, in a lab coat): WHAT?! HOW?!
Excited man: I GO ONLINE AND LOOK AT SCIENTISTS' OBSERVATIONS OF DARK MATTER.
Caption (below panel): So far, the Nobel Committee has not returned my calls.
Votey:
The excited man (sketched line-art style), with a speech bubble: I can also convert cola into sound waves.
Alt text
A gray-haired man in a lab coat grins maniacally and gestures at his chest, declaring 'HAHAHAHAHA! I've discovered a way to detect dark matter using electromagnetism!' A second man in a lab coat, seen from behind, asks 'What?! How?!' The first man explains: 'I go online and look at scientists' observations of dark matter.' A caption below reads: 'So far, the Nobel Committee has not returned my calls.' The joke is that he's claiming credit for a trivial, derivative 'method' that just relies on real scientists' work. In the votey aftercomic, drawn in loose black-and-white line art, the same man says: 'I can also convert cola into sound waves' (i.e., by drinking it and burping or talking).
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.