Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 20, 2013

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    ammittai_is_available  over 11 years ago

    Except that, invariably, his downloading the information from the drone worker is what will actually start the robot apocalypse.

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    Linguist  over 11 years ago

    Sic transit gloria munde !

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    Varnes  over 11 years ago

    Don’t get him riled, Jeffrey, you know those drones….

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    Tue Elung-Jensen  over 11 years ago

    Unless ofc it was in the bin due to acting like it was an apocalypse.

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    EDinWAState  over 11 years ago

    Or… was the Drone in the recycle bin because it’s brain was… wait for it… Abby Normal?

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    jack fairbanks  over 11 years ago

    shoulda got a mac!

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    pc368dude  over 11 years ago

    Not to worry: Having been one, I can safely say that the drones are just civil servants. They’ll be used until they break down and the world will be safe. I’ve long said that “welfare” is not a socialist thing, it’s a conservative thing. Attract all those who care and then drive them nuts.

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    emjaycee  over 11 years ago

    mundi.

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    emptc12  over 11 years ago

    There’s something I wonder: If a random person from the present were transported into the past, say a few hundred years, would his or her knowledge of events and science be useful to his survival? It’s a convention of speculative fiction that such a person would corrupt the time stream; or become fantastically rich; or at least a wizard in the employ of an ambitious king.. I’d say the average person has such a limited specific knowledge of such things that, even if brought before intelligent interrogators in the far past, what he said would have little value other than for entertainment. The average person (I am one!) remembers little of school history and less of practical technology. He would be able to explain the future in only the broadest terms. Probably it would be concluded, in disgust, that people from the far future are childish fools, much as Wells portrayed the Eloi..I know time travel in the sense it is portrayed in stories allows writers to make social commentaries, and is not technically possible. But think of yourself transported back to the time of Francis Bacon and how you could specifically clue him in to useful knowledge. I myself would feel inadequate in that regard.

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    Beleck3  over 11 years ago

    can’t wait to see how this plays out. wonder if Danae “helps” along the way. lol such a wonderful comic strip

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    sarah413 Premium Member over 11 years ago

    “Sorry Dave I won’t let you do that. I heard what you said.”

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    dabugger  over 11 years ago

    Ya forget, when you download some of what you have is being uploaded….its a risky risky….

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    puddlesplatt  over 11 years ago

    I…am not a Robot!

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    DavidGBA  over 11 years ago

    Hook him to internet, how could that go wrong?

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    thirdguy  over 11 years ago

    Resistance is futile…slaveboy!A robot with attitude! I love it!

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    JR6019  over 11 years ago

    Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

    On Monday, Gloria threw up in the subway.

    (This joke was a chapter title in a book I read about 25-30 years ago.)

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    jahoody  over 11 years ago

    @DANAPAULUS………..oooh, I didn’t see THAT coming!!!Now I feel nauseous.

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    LiveToSurf  over 11 years ago

    If he vanishes because he never existed then you cannot bring him back to download his hard drive and prevent an apocalypse. DOH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    tazz555  over 11 years ago

    But….that robot couldve started the whole thing.

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    The Life I Draw Upon  over 11 years ago

    If the robot disappears because you stopped the rising of the machines and therefore this robot will never exist, then how did you bring back a robot that never existed for you to bring back to prevent him from existing? Grandfather Paradox have you got a minute?

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    Potrzebie  over 11 years ago

    Notice how no programmer wants to talk about the Laws of Robotics? I guess they secretely want something to happen.

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    The Life I Draw Upon  over 11 years ago

    If you know the future, then you can not change it. If you can change the future, then you can not know it.

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    Zero-Gabriel  over 11 years ago

    And who helped kept the human race going…??Hint, the female-half of this idiot human specie…

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    bmonk  over 11 years ago

    Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois, (1947) had a balloonist end up on Krakatoa at that time. I don’t recall any Daleks appearing there.

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    palenoue  over 11 years ago

    In a science fiction story, how do you stop technology from destroying mankind? Give the author anti-depressants.

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    grouchycuss  over 11 years ago

    All he will do is split the timeline and open another universe at the cusp point.

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    Caddy57  over 11 years ago

    Ya gotta hate it when these brainy types mess with thigs that shouldn’t be messed with….at least Doctor Who knows when to back down and move on!

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    wrwallaceii  over 11 years ago

    Why can’t there be two time lords in the same place at the same time?

    That would be a paradox.

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