mvp
Original: mvp on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A distraught old man with long white hair and a long white beard, set against a red background, gestures with one hand.
Old man: "ANOTHER BABY ANIMAL DIDN'T MAKE IT! HOW CAN IT BE THIS WAY?! THE FIRST GENERATION WAS FINE!"
Caption (below panel): The minimum viable population for most animals is well above Two of Each Kind.
Votey:
A round golden disc (like a sun or a cookie) hangs in a blue sky above white clouds. A speech bubble comes from off-panel at the lower left.
Voice from the sky: "WISH I'D BUILT AN AGENT-BASED MODEL FIRST."
Old man: "ANOTHER BABY ANIMAL DIDN'T MAKE IT! HOW CAN IT BE THIS WAY?! THE FIRST GENERATION WAS FINE!"
Caption (below panel): The minimum viable population for most animals is well above Two of Each Kind.
Votey:
A round golden disc (like a sun or a cookie) hangs in a blue sky above white clouds. A speech bubble comes from off-panel at the lower left.
Voice from the sky: "WISH I'D BUILT AN AGENT-BASED MODEL FIRST."
Alt text
A distraught old man with long white hair and a flowing white beard, drawn against a red background, throws up a hand and cries: "Another baby animal didn't make it! How can it be this way?! The first generation was fine!" The caption beneath reads: "The minimum viable population for most animals is well above Two of Each Kind." The joke: this is Noah after the Ark, realizing that saving only two of each species dooms them to inbreeding collapse. In the votey, a round golden disc (a sun, standing in for God) floats in a blue sky over white clouds, and a voice from the heavens says: "Wish I'd built an agent-based model first" — God lamenting he didn't run a population simulation before designing the flood.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.