Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 25, 2016
Transcript:
Danae: Uh...why are you way out here in the woods, Jeffrey? Jeffrey: It's a safe area for my trans-dimensional teleporter. Danae: Ooo-kay...what does it do? Jeffrey: Sends you to other earths in parallel universes. Danae: Wait...there are other earths? Jeffrey: Yep...a lot of them, and each one is different from ours, depending on how things evolved. Some are similar, but others are very different. Danae: Oh? How different? Jeffrey: Well...the last one I went to is also having an election......But their candidates are sane and honorable, and everyone is good with whoever wins. TV: HI! Danae: EEK! TURN IT OFF!!
Thirdbase about 8 years ago
Makes you wonder who is running.
redwinger2015 about 8 years ago
If you dig a little, dirt aways piles up.. There is fertile dirt, sand, and rock. What kind of metaphor dirt are you digging up?
Wilde Bill about 8 years ago
She meets her evil twin. Ha ha.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 8 years ago
There’s a whole subcategory of science fiction called “alternative history”, starring the “butterfly effect”, in which some tiny event in the past occurred somewhat differently, altering the entire future. I wonder what we did wrong in this reality.
Dtroutma about 8 years ago
That would indicate the whole planet would be better off, and indicates he’s found a more peaceful one as well?
somebodyshort about 8 years ago
Jeffrey, do us all a favour and teleport Danae over to one of the other universes and forget to bring her back
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 8 years ago
Probabilities could lead to such worlds. Worlds that would not want us to move there.
Kymberleigh about 8 years ago
Jeffrey has watched too many episodes of the old sci-fi series “Sliders”.
Varnes about 8 years ago
Quantum theory assumes the presence of an infinite number of universes. Kinda like a spectrum…gradually different from the others, each one just slightly different….Remember when you almost got hit by that car? In another part of the spectrum you did…..Freaky, huh? But that is current science…
dadoctah about 8 years ago
I think we just discovered what universe Jill of the Mosquitoes came from.
gammaguy about 8 years ago
" But that is current science…".No, it’s not. It’s merely one hypothesis currently being discussed by scientists. It doesn’t become “science” unless and until it is demonstrated to be valid. (But that’s not possible. If there are parallel universes that don’t interact, then the non-interaction precludes any such demonstration. And if they do interact, then they’re not really separate.).In spite of my above reasoning, I did enjoy Larry Niven’s treatment of the subject in his short story “All the Myriad Ways”.
KenseidenXL about 8 years ago
The old Einstein-Rosen-Penkovsky Bridge.I guess no one ever watched Sliders….
wizodd about 8 years ago
Dark matter may well be an interaction between universes….
brain Les about 8 years ago
It used to be: “may the best candidate win”
Today it is more like, “may the worst candidate lose” and no one can really figure out which is the worst, so let us hope that the worst candidate will lose.
freewaydog about 8 years ago
I WANT THAT OTHER UNIVERSE!
freewaydog about 8 years ago
Alt uni Danae is just like her pajama-clad friend!
fuzzbucket Premium Member about 8 years ago
Is this the new Steve Wozniak? If he’s also got a touch of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (He won’t find that help in Danae) hell be a big winner!
ChukLitl Premium Member about 8 years ago
The extra dimensions needed to navigate the multiverse of possibilities are called choice & chance. If your universe sucks; make a choice, take a chance. You may need to shed a few folks who want to keep dragging you back to their “reality.”
shadyguy about 8 years ago
Good dig at the poor showing in this election!
vecours about 8 years ago
what does Kate Jeffrey Lars and Captain Eddie look likecould be fertile ground
tygrkhat40 about 8 years ago
All this talk of the possible existance of parallel universes (or dimensions) has been in the minds of comic book readers since Gardner Fox wrote the legendary “Flash of Two Worlds” in issue 123 of The Flash in 1961.
Ermine Notyours about 8 years ago
Bizzaro and Brewster Rocket both have teleportation themes today too.
Varnes about 8 years ago
resealable, I hope your cat is doing as well as Schrodinger’s…
Varnes about 8 years ago
vecours, is that a riddle?
Godfreydaniel about 8 years ago
The trouble with having a crisis on infinite Earths is that even if you kill a billion per second, you’ll never get rid of them all, because, you know, that infinity thing…..
vecours about 8 years ago
think of the fun with 2 of any of them
dabugger about 8 years ago
When the actual is really there.
Darth Stevious about 8 years ago
This Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal explains why our timeline is so screwy: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/history-is-weird
Dr_Fogg about 8 years ago
Robert Heinlein “The Number of the Beast” total number of worlds as six to the sixth power, to the sixth power.. 666
1953Baby about 8 years ago
And then there’s that old favorite by Jack Finney: time and Again" where the protagonist purposely goes back to change history to get rid of a present day dictator. . .or something. . .but, anyway, . . .Danae smiling?!? with a pink shirt yet. . .
Teto85 Premium Member about 8 years ago
I want to find the universe where humans shook off the fetters and shackles of religion about 3500 years ago.
ChessPirate about 8 years ago
This subject was also touched on in “Stargate SG-1”, my favorite sci-fi series of all time…
Varnes about 8 years ago
Nightgaunt, that’s the general idea…
vecours about 8 years ago
time and time againhttp://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2015/08/05
chain gang charlie about 8 years ago
I Refuse to get into a theological discussion!
vecours about 8 years ago
it was a long time ago next fridayhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadmarks
donrparty about 8 years ago
we left that planet long time ago!
californicated1 about 8 years ago
This sort of reminds me that the second season for “The Man In The High Castle” is coming out later this year.The first season was very good.