Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for January 17, 2024

The discovery that the expanding universe is accelerating is the final nail in the coffin of the “big crunch” theory. The jury is still out on what the end will be.

The story is told that some while back an astronomer gave a public talk on the history and future of our solar system. After the talk, and obviously rather upset woman approached the astronomer and asked him, “You said that the sun would eventually expand and swallow the Earth. Was that in five million years or five billion?” The astronomer replied, “Five billion years, ma’am.” “Oh, thank goodness!” the woman exclaimed…

Definitely go with the mousse, Opus.

Penguins have hair?

I will always choose the mousse au chocolat when given the choice.

You can go with the mousse til the End of Time, Ope!

I completly agree on the subject of the Super Bowl, who cares? Almost as boring as golf or cricket.

This comic is probably from the "Soft, warm, fuzzies, era.

In the long run we are all dead.

— John Maynard Keynes

The universe will die of entropy. The death of potential energy.

The Earth will go in about 3 to v5 billion years.

I refer you to the great words of Alfred E. Newman……..Don’t pretend you don’t know them.

No mousse!

I ain’t worried ‘bout the big crunch. It’s the 2024 election that frightens me.

From “Annie Hall”:

Doctor Flicker: Why are you depressed, Alvy?

Alvy’s Mom: Tell Dr. Flicker.

[Young Alvy sits, his head down – his mother answers for him]

Alvy’s Mom: It’s something he read.

Doctor Flicker: Something he read, huh?

Alvy at 9: [his head still down] The universe is expanding.

Doctor Flicker: The universe is expanding?

Alvy at 9: Well, the universe is everything, and if it’s expanding, someday it will break apart and that would be the end of everything!

Alvy’s Mom: What is that your business?

[she turns back to the doctor]

Alvy’s Mom: He stopped doing his homework!

Alvy at 9: What’s the point?

Alvy’s Mom: What has the universe got to do with it? You’re here in Brooklyn! Brooklyn is not expanding!

Doctor Flicker: It won’t be expanding for billions of years yet, Alvy. And we’ve gotta try to enjoy ourselves while we’re here! Huh? Huh? Huh? [laughs]

Yup. The French existentialists showed how this is the only logically consistent response.

Without God, all human life as well as every individual life will eventually be destroyed.

If there is no God and no life beyond the grave, then life itself has no objective meaning, value, or purpose.

It is impossible to live consistently and happily with an atheistic worldview.

John Adams: Mark me, Franklin… if we give in on this issue, posterity will never forgive us.

Dr. Benjamin Franklin: That’s probably true, but we won’t hear a thing, we’ll be long gone.

(From the musical “1776.”)

Mousse

The current theory has the universe expanding at an accelerating rate into infinity. Star dust we were and Star dust we will become might be a more appropriate metaphor

Don’t sweat the petty stuff, but petting the sweaty stuff is ok

No mousse, mousse, mess.

What does messy hair matter amid the existential angst of the Scientific Nihilist?

Go back to ‘normal’ Opus.

What do I think about the hair? Penguins don’t have hair, that’s what I think. You need feather mousse.