soup
Original: soup on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A row of identical yellow soup bowls sits on green grass against a blue sky. From one of the bowls, a speech bubble rises.
Voice from a bowl: "Yes, but WHY did the soup start at such low entropy?"
Caption (below panel): Sadly, bacterial cosmologists never survive long enough to understand their universe.
Votey:
Close-up on a single bowl of soup, drawn loosely. A speech bubble rises from the soup.
Voice from the soup: "It all began with a big boil."
A row of identical yellow soup bowls sits on green grass against a blue sky. From one of the bowls, a speech bubble rises.
Voice from a bowl: "Yes, but WHY did the soup start at such low entropy?"
Caption (below panel): Sadly, bacterial cosmologists never survive long enough to understand their universe.
Votey:
Close-up on a single bowl of soup, drawn loosely. A speech bubble rises from the soup.
Voice from the soup: "It all began with a big boil."
Alt text
Main comic: A single wide panel shows a row of identical yellow soup bowls lined up on green grass under a blue sky. A speech bubble emerges from one bowl, as if a microscopic inhabitant of the soup is speaking: "Yes, but WHY did the soup start at such low entropy?" The caption below reads: "Sadly, bacterial cosmologists never survive long enough to understand their universe." The joke casts the bowl of soup as a tiny universe whose microbial scientists ponder cosmology (the low-entropy beginning of their world) but die before solving it.
Votey: A loosely sketched close-up of one bowl of soup with a speech bubble rising from the liquid. The soup says: "It all began with a big boil." A pun on the Big Bang origin of the universe, with "big boil" as the soup's creation myth.
Votey: A loosely sketched close-up of one bowl of soup with a speech bubble rising from the liquid. The soup says: "It all began with a big boil." A pun on the Big Bang origin of the universe, with "big boil" as the soup's creation myth.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.