mood
Original: mood on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (lecturer at a podium, presenting to an audience):
Lecturer: Visual signals take the fewest steps, generally taking the longest time. They use up to 15 seconds to process.
Panel 2:
Lecturer: Sound is faster, but to convey a complete thought generally takes the longer time. Tones, words and images take time, but with visual stimulus.
Panel 3:
Lecturer: The other senses are slower still. Touch, you have to find the limbs and so forth. Taste, way to kill the mood. You must create a mood-killing sound first. Smell can deliver mood-cognition in under 10 milliseconds.
Panel 4:
Lecturer: After an extensive search of possible signaling devices, it is possible that its possible to accelerate the playback of these effects, to arrive at a recognizable signal in under 1 millisecond.
Panel 5 (an audience member raises a hand):
Audience member: Any questions?
Audience member: Couldn't you do something better than this 15th century tactic?
Panel 6 (lecturer at podium):
Lecturer: Sorry, folks. But this symposium is no longer sexy.
Votey:
[No text. A close-up illustration of a person's lower torso/hips from behind, wearing a dark grey skirt/jacket hiked up, exposing dark maroon underwear, with a long pointed object protruding from beneath the clothing.]
Lecturer: Visual signals take the fewest steps, generally taking the longest time. They use up to 15 seconds to process.
Panel 2:
Lecturer: Sound is faster, but to convey a complete thought generally takes the longer time. Tones, words and images take time, but with visual stimulus.
Panel 3:
Lecturer: The other senses are slower still. Touch, you have to find the limbs and so forth. Taste, way to kill the mood. You must create a mood-killing sound first. Smell can deliver mood-cognition in under 10 milliseconds.
Panel 4:
Lecturer: After an extensive search of possible signaling devices, it is possible that its possible to accelerate the playback of these effects, to arrive at a recognizable signal in under 1 millisecond.
Panel 5 (an audience member raises a hand):
Audience member: Any questions?
Audience member: Couldn't you do something better than this 15th century tactic?
Panel 6 (lecturer at podium):
Lecturer: Sorry, folks. But this symposium is no longer sexy.
Votey:
[No text. A close-up illustration of a person's lower torso/hips from behind, wearing a dark grey skirt/jacket hiked up, exposing dark maroon underwear, with a long pointed object protruding from beneath the clothing.]
Alt text
A six-panel Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic. A bald lecturer in a dark suit stands at a podium delivering a pseudo-scientific talk to an audience about how fast the different senses can convey a thought or mood. He claims visual signals take the longest (up to 15 seconds), sound is faster, and the other senses (touch, taste, smell) get progressively quicker, with smell delivering mood-cognition in under 10 milliseconds. He then proposes that, after extensive research, it may be possible to accelerate these effects to produce a recognizable signal in under one millisecond. An audience member raises a hand and asks whether he couldn't come up with something better than this dated tactic. In the final panel the deadpan lecturer concludes that the symposium is no longer sexy. The votey (bonus panel below) shows a close-up of a person's lower body from behind, wearing a dark grey garment hiked up to reveal dark maroon underwear, with a long pointed object jutting out from under the clothing.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.