anything-2
Original: anything-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with orange hair: Do you think physics should make some intuitive sense or just predict the outcome of measurements?
Panel 2:
A man with dark hair and round glasses: I'm a simple person. I think physics should just predict what measurements it can, then label everything else "the enemy."
Panel 3:
The man with glasses: That way every time a new discovery is confirmed, the enemy suffers defeat.
Panel 4 (the two figures shown in silhouette against black):
The woman: But why? What does personifying the unknown as a foreign villain add?
The man: Several billion dollars of military research funding.
Votey:
A roughly sketched face (suggesting an angry or surprised figure) with a speech bubble: DRAT!
A woman with orange hair: Do you think physics should make some intuitive sense or just predict the outcome of measurements?
Panel 2:
A man with dark hair and round glasses: I'm a simple person. I think physics should just predict what measurements it can, then label everything else "the enemy."
Panel 3:
The man with glasses: That way every time a new discovery is confirmed, the enemy suffers defeat.
Panel 4 (the two figures shown in silhouette against black):
The woman: But why? What does personifying the unknown as a foreign villain add?
The man: Several billion dollars of military research funding.
Votey:
A roughly sketched face (suggesting an angry or surprised figure) with a speech bubble: DRAT!
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: An orange-haired woman asks a dark-haired man in round glasses, "Do you think physics should make some intuitive sense or just predict the outcome of measurements?" Panel 2: The man replies, "I'm a simple person. I think physics should just predict what measurements it can, then label everything else 'the enemy.'" Panel 3: A close-up of the man continuing, "That way every time a new discovery is confirmed, the enemy suffers defeat." Panel 4: The two now appear in silhouette against a black background. The woman asks, "But why? What does personifying the unknown as a foreign villain add?" The man answers, "Several billion dollars of military research funding." Votey (aftercomic): A crudely drawn face, looking angry or thwarted, exclaims in a speech bubble, "DRAT!" — as if the personified "enemy" of the unknown is reacting to its defeat.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.