solar
Original: solar on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A presenter in a suit with blond hair stands at a podium before a large audience, gesturing toward a vast solar installation in a desert.
Presenter: "And so you see, we have assembled MILLIONS of absorbent, black solar panels across the Sahara, visible from space as a novel approach to solving climate change."
Panel 2: An audience member (a woman with red hair) responds.
Audience member: "That's nice but when are you going to build out transmission lines?"
Panel 3: A man in a hard hat and suit (an engineer/foreman) looks unimpressed.
Engineer: "Transmission lines?"
Panel 4: Two audience members in bed at night look worried/sleepless. The engineer with the hard hat appears again, glaring.
Panel 5 (wide bottom panel): A view of the Earth from space showing Europe, Africa, and the Sahara. Spelled out across the Sahara desert in giant black solar panels are the words: "ALIENS PLEASE HELP".
Votey:
A simple black-and-white drawing of a person with a long head looking deadpan, next to a speech bubble.
Person: "Nah"
Presenter: "And so you see, we have assembled MILLIONS of absorbent, black solar panels across the Sahara, visible from space as a novel approach to solving climate change."
Panel 2: An audience member (a woman with red hair) responds.
Audience member: "That's nice but when are you going to build out transmission lines?"
Panel 3: A man in a hard hat and suit (an engineer/foreman) looks unimpressed.
Engineer: "Transmission lines?"
Panel 4: Two audience members in bed at night look worried/sleepless. The engineer with the hard hat appears again, glaring.
Panel 5 (wide bottom panel): A view of the Earth from space showing Europe, Africa, and the Sahara. Spelled out across the Sahara desert in giant black solar panels are the words: "ALIENS PLEASE HELP".
Votey:
A simple black-and-white drawing of a person with a long head looking deadpan, next to a speech bubble.
Person: "Nah"
Alt text
Five-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A blond presenter at a podium addresses a crowd, gesturing at a huge desert solar farm: "And so you see, we have assembled MILLIONS of absorbent, black solar panels across the Sahara, visible from space as a novel approach to solving climate change." Panel 2: A red-haired audience member asks, "That's nice but when are you going to build out transmission lines?" Panel 3: A man in a hard hat repeats flatly, "Transmission lines?" Panel 4: People lie awake worried in bed while the hard-hatted man glares. Panel 5 (wide): A view of Earth from space, and the millions of black solar panels across the Sahara actually spell out the words "ALIENS PLEASE HELP" — revealing the array is a distress signal because the climate problem can't be solved as promised. Votey: A deadpan long-headed figure replies to an implied offer of alien help with a single word in a speech bubble: "Nah."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.