longitude
Original: longitude on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (speaking to a man): About 50 years before the marine chronometer was invented, sailors found a way to determine longitude at sea.
Panel 2:
Woman: By measuring the time between the sound and the flash, you can calculate the distance to a given station and figure out where you are.
Man: These were built?
(A lighthouse-like tower stands in the sea with a "BOOM!" emanating from it.)
Panel 3:
Woman: There was nearly a timeline where blackbeard the pirate invented hourly bombing explosion-based lighthouses in the middle of the sea.
(Blackbeard the pirate appears with a "BOOM!" beside him.)
Man: Ohhh.
Panel 4:
Man (alarmed): Why are you telling me this?
Woman (smiling): I want to encourage you to never read any history.
Votey:
Woman (continuing, to the man): Ignorance isn't bliss, but it beats the shit out of knowing stuff.
Woman (speaking to a man): About 50 years before the marine chronometer was invented, sailors found a way to determine longitude at sea.
Panel 2:
Woman: By measuring the time between the sound and the flash, you can calculate the distance to a given station and figure out where you are.
Man: These were built?
(A lighthouse-like tower stands in the sea with a "BOOM!" emanating from it.)
Panel 3:
Woman: There was nearly a timeline where blackbeard the pirate invented hourly bombing explosion-based lighthouses in the middle of the sea.
(Blackbeard the pirate appears with a "BOOM!" beside him.)
Man: Ohhh.
Panel 4:
Man (alarmed): Why are you telling me this?
Woman (smiling): I want to encourage you to never read any history.
Votey:
Woman (continuing, to the man): Ignorance isn't bliss, but it beats the shit out of knowing stuff.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A woman lectures a man about navigation history. She explains that about 50 years before the marine chronometer was invented, sailors found a way to determine longitude at sea by measuring the time between a sound and a flash to calculate distance from a station, shown as a lighthouse-like tower in the ocean emitting a "BOOM!" The man asks if these were really built. The woman says there was nearly a timeline where Blackbeard the pirate invented hourly bombing, explosion-based lighthouses in the middle of the sea, shown with Blackbeard and a "BOOM!" The man, looking alarmed, asks why she is telling him this. The woman smiles and says she wants to encourage him to never read any history. Votey panel: a close-up of the woman's smiling face as she adds, "Ignorance isn't bliss, but it beats the shit out of knowing stuff."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.