gaia
Original: gaia on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with glasses (dark hair, green top): Have you heard of the Gaia hypothesis? The idea that Earth is a giant self-regulating organism?
Panel 2:
Woman with short orange hair (yellow top): Yeah, I don't buy it. If Earth is self-regulating and alive, why hasn't it produced an immune response against humanity?
Panel 3:
Woman with glasses: What if it just acts on time scales that are hard for us to understand?
Panel 4:
Woman with glasses: Like, what does your body do when you catch a cold?
Woman with orange hair: It gets a fever.
Panel 5:
Woman with orange hair: But Earth isn't getting a... oh hell.
Panel 6:
Woman with glasses: We can only hope Earth sneezes on Mars before it's too late.
Votey:
Close-up of a thumb pressing down on a small white surgical/dust face mask. A speech bubble points off-panel reading: "Back off."
Woman with glasses (dark hair, green top): Have you heard of the Gaia hypothesis? The idea that Earth is a giant self-regulating organism?
Panel 2:
Woman with short orange hair (yellow top): Yeah, I don't buy it. If Earth is self-regulating and alive, why hasn't it produced an immune response against humanity?
Panel 3:
Woman with glasses: What if it just acts on time scales that are hard for us to understand?
Panel 4:
Woman with glasses: Like, what does your body do when you catch a cold?
Woman with orange hair: It gets a fever.
Panel 5:
Woman with orange hair: But Earth isn't getting a... oh hell.
Panel 6:
Woman with glasses: We can only hope Earth sneezes on Mars before it's too late.
Votey:
Close-up of a thumb pressing down on a small white surgical/dust face mask. A speech bubble points off-panel reading: "Back off."
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. Two women talk against a starry night sky: one with dark skin, glasses, and dark hair in a bun (green top), and one with light skin and short orange hair (yellow top). Panel 1, glasses woman: "Have you heard of the Gaia hypothesis? The idea that Earth is a giant self-regulating organism?" Panel 2, orange-hair woman: "Yeah, I don't buy it. If Earth is self-regulating and alive, why hasn't it produced an immune response against humanity?" Panel 3, glasses woman: "What if it just acts on time scales that are hard for us to understand?" Panel 4, glasses woman: "Like, what does your body do when you catch a cold?" Orange-hair woman: "It gets a fever." Panel 5, orange-hair woman, dawning realization: "But Earth isn't getting a... oh hell." (implying global warming is Earth's fever response to humanity). Panel 6, glasses woman: "We can only hope Earth sneezes on Mars before it's too late." Votey aftercomic: a close-up of a thumb pressing down on a small white face mask, with a speech bubble from off-panel saying "Back off." - the mask being treated as a captured germ to be silenced.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.